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Hanover YWCA is accepting used books for its annual used book sale Nov. 6, 7 and 8. Books can be brought to the YW at 23 W. Chestnut St. and placed in the "book box" located in front of the building. Please no encyclopedias, Readers Digest condensed books or magazines. Books should be in good condition and placed in bags or boxes.

To read five chapters of David Hewson's seventh novel featuring Detective Nic Costa, "Dante's Numbers," click here.

and that definitely applies to book lovers.

The following Web sites offer used books for purchase or exchange, some for as little as the postage to ship them.

Check them out, and if you know of any others, please let us know.

www.bookmooch.com

www.bookins.com

www.swaptree.com

www.paperbackswap.com

Heather Mosko of New Freedom has written "Lake Meade," a mystery-romance. The novel was published as the winner of the Timeless Love contest by Oak Tree Press. The paperback is $12.95 and is available at amazon.com and barnesand noble.com.

Mosko, a homemaker, is working on her next novel. To find out more about her book, visit www.heathermosko.com.

Here is a review from reader Nancy Duncan:

Just like "Rebecca."

I mean that in the best sense. In "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield, we get a classic gothic novel, full of ghosts, haunted mansions and dark secrets. Setterfield has taken lessons from DuMaurier and the Bronte sisters.

From the Associated Press:

Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake has died at the age of 75.

Westlake's wife, Abigail, tells The New York Times the author collapsed as he headed to a New Year's Eve dinner while on vacation in Mexico. His wife says he apparently had a heart attack.

that books make great gifts, but now we can listen to famous authors tell us why.

This just in from the Associated Press:

Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes -- Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee -- died Sunday of pulmonary failure. He was 83.

York County native Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner, Sneaky Pie Brown, have written a new mystery, "Santa Clawed," which will be released Nov. 4.

To read the first chapter, click here.

I've been a fan of English mystery writer Ruth Rendell since devouring one of her books lent to me by a friend years ago, "A Demon in My View." It is one of Rendell's excellent psychological thrillers. She also writes more conventional mysteries starring Inspector Wexford.

That was an unexpected find in Laura Lippman's "What the Dead Know."

By BETH VRABEL
For the York Sunday News

What do a literature professor, a bookstore owner and a former librarian have in common? In addition to knowing a thing or two about books, they are often asked for recommendations from other readers.

Here are some favorite titles, recommended by those who've made a career out of knowing what constitutes good reading.

Our readers are: Colbey Emmerson Reid, York College assistant professor of modern
literature; Irene Ritson, owner of Recycled Reader Used Bookstore in York; and Suzy Hershey, former Village Library librarian and member of two local book clubs.

From short stories to fill up a free afternoon to fine literature to come back to again and again, here are some titles to add to your collection, and a few gift ideas for other readers in your life. Their picks:

Speaking of summer reads, here are the top book-related searches on Yahoo!

Barnes&Noble.com has added three new features to its Barnes & Noble Studio multimedia site that are well worth a look.

In Guest Books, found out what writers read as authors talk about their top three favorite books. David Sedaris is featured this week.

5 Books selects five titles that will help readers sharpen their skills on a particular topic. Read all about wine.

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.”

Visit http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-studio/videos-podcasts/index.asp?.

I couldn't take the peer pressure any more. I succumbed. I gave in to desire.

I've been struggling to find time to read. So, when my mom passed "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town" to me a few weeks ago, I was a little hesitant to accept.

I haven't read much of John Grisham, and I have stacks of other books I'm dying to delve into.
But, she is the woman who read to me night after night well into middle school and planted the reading seed in my soul, so I borrowed it.

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.

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?

Since this is my first blogging attempt, I thought I'd make a list of authors I'd recommend. Most of them are mystery or suspense writers whose books I've read for the mystery discussion group I attend at Borders.

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.

While my husband watches basketball on television, my nose is in a book.

But now I’ve discovered that we literary types can get hyped with a March Madness of our own.

“The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon.

Michael Chabon’s writing grabs the reader from the start of this unusual whodunit, set in a fictional Jewish settlement in Alaska.
“In the street the wind shakes rain from the flaps of its overcoat,” he writes in describing a typical day in Sitka, the district where Jews fled when the state of Israel failed in 1948. It seems to be always gray, raining or snowing as detective Meyer Landsman tries to solve a murder.

Like many mysteries, the story begins with the discovery of a body, this time in the hotel where Landsman has been living lately.

Here is a review from one of our readers, Pamela Sowers:

I would like to share a book that I read and could not put it down until who done it in the end. The book is "The Blue Zone" by Andrew Gross.

By JOSEPH MALDONADO
For the Daily Record/Sunday News

A book is like a warm quilt comprised of many threads, colors, textures and images. And like any quilt, a book takes tremendous know-how to transform it from an idea to something people curl up with in their favorite chair.

In May, the literary group Pennwriters will host its 21st annual conference, “A Writer’s smorgasbord.” The three-day event will feature scores of publishing experts, including many pub
lished authors.

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.

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.

Here's a review from Daily Record/Sunday News staffer Pam White:

"Interred With Their Bones" by Jennifer Lee Carrell

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
William Shakespeare

Over the years, groups and individuals ranging from true scholars to cult-like conspiracy theorists have questioned whether William Shakespeare was truly the author of the great works attributed to him.

They cite clues found in his plays and sonnets, in letters of the time, and the social structure of Elizabethan England, as evidence to support their contentions.

Likewise, there are those who have spent vast sums of time and money searching for long-lost Shakespearean manuscripts.

It is these two threads that author Jennifer Lee Carrell twined together to make "Interred With Their Bones" a gripping, action-packed mystery.

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.