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.”