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City Lights Bookstore is in Sylva, North Carolina, a small Main Street town tucked in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains. Our goal is to share the literature of the Southern Appalachian region with the world, and the world of books with our community.

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« Week of October 18, 2009 »
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18	19	20 Horace Kephart's Long-Lost Novel Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm n/a	21	22	23 Climate Change Subject of New Book and Presentation by WCU's Rob Young Start: 7:00 pm End: 9:00 pm 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.	24 Cleveland Jones to Autograph Novel about Growing up on Barker’s Creek Start: 3:30 pm End: 5:30 pm 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.