An evening with the author of “Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World.” John Vaillant’s book is an unsparing account of the rapacious Alberta Sands fire, fueled by an overheated atmosphere, dry forest and omnipresent petroleum products, that consumed the town of Fort McMurray at the heart of Canada’s oil industry. The story brings the global crisis of carbon emissions and climate change into urgent relief.

Bud Werner Library, Off the Beaten Path Bookstore, Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp., Routt County Wildfire Mitigation Council, The Tiger Book Club, Paul & Chresta Brinkman, and Yampa Valley Sustainability Council invite you for an evening with prize-winning author John Vaillant talking about Fire Weather, his true story from a hotter world.