In Baltimore

The Baltimore Book Festival, featuring dozens of authors and booksellers, will be held next week in the city's Mt. Vernon neighborhood. Hours are 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 26, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 27 and 28 along the 600 block of North Charles Street.The roster of authors includes Bishop T.D. Jakes, Naomi Wolf, Walter Mosley, Daniel Mark Epstein, Omar Tyree, Ron Suskind and Sweet Potato Queen Jill Connor Browne among others.For details and event schedule, click wwwbaltimorebookfestival.com

In Washington

The 2008 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 27 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets (rain or shine). The event is free and open to the public.The festival will feature more than 70 award-winning authors, poets and illustrators.Authors at the festival will sign copies of their works for festival-goers, and children can meet storybook and television characters.For details, call (888) 714-4696 or visit www.loc.gov/bookfest.

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The Book Nook will sell gently used books from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 20. The shop is located in the former Red Lion Country Club on Country Club Road in Red Lion. A supply of old Red Lion yearbooks will be available. Donations of good, clean used books will be accepted during the sale. All proceeds benefit the Kaltreider-Benfer Library.

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On Sept. 10, 2001, Alissa Torres was nearly eight months pregnant with her first child. Her husband, Eddie Torres, a Colombian immigrant who worked his way up from being a delivery boy, began a job as a currency broker for Cantor Fitzgerald at the World Trade Center.

Alissa became a widow the next day.

Seven years later, she has written a 210-page graphic memoir, or as she calls it, "an adult, literary comic book," about her marriage and first year as a widow and single mother. "American Widow" (Villard, $22) is illustrated by Sungyoon Choi.

Click here to read more about her book.

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York County resident Brian Keene will sign copies of his new four-issue "Devil Slayer" comic from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 6 at Comix Connection-York at the West Manchester Mall.

Keene, two-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, is the author of "Jobs in Hell" and "The Rising." His most recent novel, "Ghost Walk," was released July 29.

To learn more about Keene, click here.

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An 800-word Harry Potter prequel is one of 13 card-sized works to be sold at a charity auction in London.

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Allyson A.W. Lyga will show how comics foster literacy and model graphic-novel lessons connected to national and state standards at 7 p.m. May 15 at Dillsburg Area Public Library, 17 S. Baltimore St., in Dillsburg.

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Sometimes, as much as we hate it, we have to part with our books.

What else can we do when there just isn't enough shelf space for all our recent purchases?

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Have you just finished reading a book you couldn't put down, or one that kept putting you to sleep?

We want to hear about it, good or bad.

Send your book review to gfogal@ydr.com and we will post it here.

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A student's view of comics and a professor's view of graphic novels will be the last two programs in Dillsburg Library's "Comics From the Classics to the Graphix" series.

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