Book club meetings at Osondu

Osondu Booksellers hold several book club meetings over the course of a month.

• In July the Women’s Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. July 13.

• The Nonfiction Club meets at 7 p.m., July 20, and will be discussing North to North by Alvah Simon.

• On July 28 the All Gender All Genre Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. to discuss the book Tender Graces by Kathryn Magendie. Magendie will attend and will discuss and answer questions about the book.

• Additional literary meetings include the Mountain Writers Alive group, which meets at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month.

• Teen writers from Haywood County will read selections from their work at 6 p.m. on July 16.

For more information visit www.osondubooksellers.com or call 828.456.8062.

Lincoln’s ancestry discussed at Sylva bookstore

John McKinsey, author of The Lincoln Secret, which is a work of fiction, will be at City Lights in Sylva at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 16, to present a program based on his research into Abraham Lincoln’s ancestry and a possible North Carolina link.

Was Abraham Enloe, rather than Thomas Lincoln, really Lincoln’s father? McKinsey’s book is a contemporary mystery with historical elements, and McKinsey conducted extensive research into the Lincoln family history.

The Lincoln Secret is a modern-day, mystery-adventure novel featuring real historical mysteries about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. One of the central mysteries about Lincoln involves his origin and who his father really was. He may have been fathered not by Thomas Lincoln in Kentucky but by Abraham Enloe in North Carolina.

For more information call City Lights at 828.586.9499.