Published June 27, 2009, 11:56 PM EST

by JO-ANN GREENE, Books Editor

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Life is a journey, more specifically a train trip, Paul E. Gottfried says in his new memoir. Don't look for anything fast, flashy or foreign like the Orient Express or even the Broadway Limited coming down the track. The Strasburg Rail Road is the modest metaphor Gottfried uses for his......

Published June 27, 2009, 11:55 PM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - The Hole in the Wall Puppet Theatre has been entertaining local children for nearly 20 years. Now two women involved in the theater's development hope to entertain children with a new picture book they've published to benefit the theater. "Mason's Adventure: A Timothy Churchmou......

Published June 27, 2009, 11:53 PM EST

by LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - This Fourth of July, appreciate American freedom and the brave warriors who fought to secure it with these military accounts from the new-book shelf at the Lancaster Public Library.1    A MORE UNBENDING BATTLE: THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS' STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN W......

Published June 27, 2009, 11:52 PM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - For a unique beach read, consider this "tasteful" book: "Good Time Cookin' " by The Vacation Girls. The cookbook will debut at Lancaster's First Friday event July 3, at Apron Strings Gourmet Shop & Bistro, 25 W. King St. It includes 200 easy-to-prepare recipes ju......

Published June 26, 2009, 6:11 PM EST

by KELSEY WEITZEL, 18, Freestyle

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - REVIEW: BookWhen I first dove into "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt, I expected something more … well … interesting. That's basically the only way to put it.The book is about a gro......

Published June 24, 2009, 1:14 AM EST

by PATRICK BURNS

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Spurned by his 40th consecutive job interviewer, Daniel Seddiqui last year may have heard the ghost of Jack Kerouac calling.Like the famous author who chronicled his trips across 1950s America, Seddiqui embarked on a mission in September to write a book about working 50 jobs in 50 states i......

Published June 20, 2009, 11:57 PM EST

by JO-ANN GREENE, Books Editor

MORGANTOWN - Church history and family heartbreak can be read in every variation of buggy, black bumper and bonnet in the Plain community. Author Ken Yoder Reed was a Lebanon County teen in the late 1960s, when "our pastor and a few other pastors left the Lancaster Mennonite Conference," he said i......

Published June 20, 2009, 11:56 PM EST

by JO-ANN GREENE, Books Editor

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Growing up, Catherine Grace Cline wants nothing more than to escape her small-town life. And she does, moving from Ringgold, Ga., to Atlanta. But she finds she can go home again, and even want to stay there for good. While the narrator of Susan Gregg Gilmore's "Looking for Salvation at......

Published June 12, 2009, 8:16 PM EST

by KELSEY WEITZEL, 18, Freestyle

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - REVIEW: BookEver wish you had a time machine? How about better luck in the romance department? What do you get if you combine both wishes? You get "The History of Lucy's Love Life in Ten and a Half Chapters" by Deborah Wright.......

Published June 9, 2009, 1:08 AM EST

by DIANA MARTIN

LANCASTER, Pa. - While his parents pushed a cart full of hundreds of history books and novels, Will Jackson, 5, preferred to read rather than shop at the annual public library used book sale that began Monday at the Franklin & Marshall College Alumni Sports and Fitness Center."I read most of the w......