Published November 3, 2009, 10:23 AM EST

by BERNARD HARRIS

LANCASTER, Pa. - Central Market is more than a building. It is more than a place where shoppers can buy food.Under the massive wooden trusses of the old market house is the intersection of Lancaster's past and present. It is the meeting place of the city and the countryside. It is where cultures old an......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:56 PM EST

by JO-ANN GREENE, Books Editor

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Wally Lamb's last book was aptly described as a "tour de force." His new book is less tour than joy ride, nostalgia trip, holiday excursion. "Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story" reveals a writer readers never glimpsed in his first two novels, "She&#......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:55 PM EST

by ANNE KOENIG, Living Editor

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - The promotional material for Sen. Jean Carnahan's new book emphasizes that her life was "irrevocably changed the day her husband, Gov. Mel Carnahan, of Missouri, and their son, Randy, were killed in a plane crash," in October 2000. A month later, she made the decision to step i......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:54 PM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - In "A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit," Fox News personality Mike Huckabee decries Christmas commercialism, harkening back to his own humble Christmases past to illustrate what really matters: family, friendship and faith. The former Arkansas......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:53 PM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Andrew Carroll has edited several books of war correspondence, and would-be contributors often ask him what he is looking for in a letter. "Overall I'm partial to correspondences that accentuate the individual human drama within the vast sweep of history," he replies. Such ......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:52 PM EST

by LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - We're not the first people to live in challenging times, as shown by these books on history from the new-book shelf at the Lancaster Public Library.1    THE THIRTY YEARS WAR: EUROPE'S TRAGEDY, by Peter H. Wilson. Conflicts in Europe from 1618-1648 are know......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:51 PM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Closing the book with a concert, exhibit at LJCCThe culmination of the One Book, One Community reading campaign featuring Geraldine Brooks' "People of the Book" will be celebrated with a concert, exhibit and demonstration at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at ......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:50 PM EST

by MARTHA NUSSBAUM, N.Y. Times News Service

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Prudence Lemokouno lived in a village in Cameroon. After she had been in labor for three days, a well-meaning birth attendant jumped up and down on her belly, rupturing her uterus. Her family paid a man to take her to the hospital, 75 miles away. There, after an openly contemptuous doctor held ou......

Published October 31, 2009, 11:49 PM EST

by NEELY TUCKER, Washington Post

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - In bookstores now, Arthur Dent is hitchhiking through the galaxy again, Dracula glides through the London fog once more, and Winnie the Pooh is back to toddling around the Hundred Acre Wood. This would not be remarkable were it not for the fact that the authors who created these literary icons ......

Published October 31, 2009, 5:01 AM EST

by KELSEY WEITZEL, 18, Freestyle

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - BOOK REVIEWI am saying it here, I'm a fan of Angelina Jolie. I think she's a kind, funny, interesting, beautiful and all-around amazing person.When she was younger, she earned a reputation for being a bad girl who partied a lot, ......