Meet Ken Butcher\, of Hendersonville\, author of Middle of the Air\, on Friday\, October 9th at 7\:00 p.m. for a reading and autographing. This is a great book that both Joyce and Allen have enjoyed\, and we’re excited to present this new author to our customers. Says Allen\: “A truck loaded with nuclear fuel for a secret government program vanishes without a trace from an I-40 truck stop near the Appalachian Trail\; a diversely-talented multi-generational family (including a precocious five-year-old girl) is harassed on suspicion of terrorism – and what\, if anything\, does the staff of a downtown chocolate shop have to do with all this? Kenneth Butcher has written a marvelously skewed adventure full of characters good\, evil\, brilliant and incompetent\, in a setting recognizable to anyone who lives around here. It’s a hoot from start to finish.”
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T225053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091016T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091017T010000Z UID:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/poetry-reading-cathy-smith-bowers URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/poetry-reading-cathy-smith-bowers SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Cathy Smith Bowers DESCRIPTION:City Lights will host a poetry reading with Cathy Smith Bowers on Friday\, October 16th at 7\:00 p.m. The reading is a special event organized by local poet Cherie Dorondo of Cullowhee. Bowers’ new collection is entitled The Candle I Hold Up to See You and has just been published by Iris Press. Bowers lives in South Carolina and teaches at Queens University in Charlotte and at Wofford College in Spartanburg.
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For a link to Cathy Smith Bowers' poems\, click here\:
http\://www.irisbooks.com/bowers/bowers_port.htm
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T225053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091020T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T010000Z UID:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/horace-kepharts-long-lost-novel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/horace-kepharts-long-lost-novel SUMMARY:Horace Kephart's Long-Lost Novel DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T225053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091023T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091024T010000Z UID:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/climate-change-subject-new-book-and-presentation-wcus-rob-young URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/climate-change-subject-new-book-and-presentation-wcus-rob-young SUMMARY:Climate Change Subject of New Book and Presentation by WCU's Rob Young DESCRIPTION:WCU geoscientist Rob Young and Duke environmental scientist Orrin Pilkey will be at the store on Friday\, October 23rd at 7\:00 p.m. for a program based on their new book\, entitled The Rising Sea. The book\, which was prominently featured in a recent Sylva Herald story\, documents rising global sea levels and projects their impact for people around the world. The book\, published by Island Press\, is an accessible treatment of the subject\, aimed at the general public. The authors’ program at City Lights will be based on their research for The Rising Sea and will incorporate a general discussion of global climate change and the challenges it poses for nations around the world.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120517T225053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091024T193000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091024T213000Z UID:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/cleveland-jones-to-autograph-novel-about-growing-barker%E2%80%99s-creek URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.citylightsnc.com/event/cleveland-jones-to-autograph-novel-about-growing-barker%E2%80%99s-creek SUMMARY:Cleveland Jones to Autograph Novel about Growing up on Barker’s Creek DESCRIPTION:Cleveland Jones will be at the store on Saturday\, October 24th from 3\:30 to 5\:30 p.m. to autograph his new novel\, The Firescalds\: Road to the Sky. The book is in part a fictionalized account of his family’s life growing up on a farm in Jackson County’s Barker’s Creek community in the 1950s.
Mr. Jones will be available to talk with customers and autograph copies. This is a drop-in event\, so please come anytime during the two hours he’ll be here\, visiting from his current home in Virginia.
Bestselling novelist Silas House returns to City Lights for a special weeknight event on Monday\, October 26th at 7\:00 p.m. to read from his new novel for young adults\, entitled Eli the Good. The book is his first novel in five years\, and House calls it his best. His previous books include bestsellers The Coal Tattoo\, A Parchment of Leaves\, and Clay’s Quilt.
His new book looks at the summer of 1976 through the eyes of a 10 -year-old boy whose world is framed by his father’s experience in Vietnam and by his complicated relationships with his family and his best friend. Like all of the best young adult literature\, Eli the Good will appeal to adult readers\, as well. Attending a reading by Silas House is always a pleasure\, and we hope we’ll see you there. If you can’t attend but would like to reserve an autographed copy of the book\, please give us a call at 586-9499.
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