Operation Paperback will hold its annual fundraiser during Manchester Township's Summer Fun Festival.
The used book sale is from 3 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 2 at Cousler Park at Church and Greenbriar roads. There also will be silent auction items and sponsorship boxes.
Funds are used for postage and packaging to send books to U.S. military personnel throughout the world.
For details call 854-6620.
Patriot Press has announced that "Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia," by Gettysburg author Jessica James, has won a gold medal for Best Regional Fiction in the Indie Book Awards contest and was a finalist in the Historical Fiction category. The book also garnered a silver medal for Best Regional Fiction in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Signed copies of "Shades of Gray" can be purchased from James through her Web site www.jessicajamesbooks.com.
The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society will celebrate its 27th Annual Book Sale with great bargains on some 75,000 used books.
The sale will be held Aug. 13-16 at 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. at 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster,
Home-cooked food will also be available. All proceeds support the historical society.
While you're there, stop in the museum to see "Decorated and Plain: A Mennonite and Amish Sampler," a display of Pennsylvania German arts in handcrafted furniture, fraktur, needlework and other artifacts.
For details, contact David Sauder at 717-393-9745 or usedbooks@lmhs.org.
Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" is the 1927 novel that the recent Oscar-winning film "There Will Be Blood" is loosely based upon.
Probably the most obvious difference is that, in "Oil!", the main character is "Bunny," the son of the book's central oil man, J. Arnold Ross.
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The Book Files tells the story behind the book. This week’s featured book is James Joyce’s “The Dubliners.” Upcoming are Jerzy Kosinski’s “The Steps” and Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham.”
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Those of you of a certain age (and you know who you are) who are members of AARP will want to check out Borders’ latest promotion.
Just go to www.borders.com and click on “Exclusive offer for AARP members.”
You can save from 10 to 35 percent on books purchased both online and at the store. And if you’re not a member, they will sign you up on the spot.
Occasionally getting older has its advantages.
Readers would rather curl up with a printed book than go online or read an e-book, a new Random House/Zogby poll finds.
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Ervin R. Stutzman, author of " Emma: A Widow among the Amish," will speak at Metzler Mennonite Church in Ephrata at 7 p.m. June 2 in a free program sponsored by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's latest book, "Days of Infamy," written with historian William Forstchen, debuted at No. 11 on the New York Times Fiction Best-seller list this week.
This comes on the heels of the success of Gingrich’s non-fiction work, "Real Change: From the World that Fails to the World that Works," which spent 12 weeks on the NY Times Non-Fiction Best-seller list.
Gingrich joins the ranks of only a handful of authors who made the fiction and non-fiction list in the same year.
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