Great Staff, Award-Winning Displays Make Bookstore a Sylvan Institution
The City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina, takes its name from the same source as San Francisco's City Lights -- the eponymous Charlie Chaplin movie. But instead of a city of 800,000 on the bay, Sylva's City Lights is in a rural town of 2,500 between the Great Smokies and the Balsams, two mountain ranges in the highest part of the southern Appalachians. And rather than beat poetry, owner Joyce Moore made the store's specialty the literature of the Appalachian region.
There is still time to nominate titles for three upcoming Book Sense Picks lists: the September Book Sense Picks, Fall Children's Book Sense Picks, and the Banned Books Top Ten. The deadline for nominations for all three lists is Friday, July 9.
Due to the Fourth of July holiday next week, booksellers using the ABA file upload method or the manual entry method have until 3:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday, July 7, to report to the Book Sense Bestseller Lists. For stores reporting through Nielsen BookScan, the reporting deadline is 11:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, July 6.