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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wellington Rollins (The Three Graces of Pearl Street) Author Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Elizabeth Wellington Rollins for her new book\, The Three Graces of Pearl Street. Elizabeth will be in conversation with Tanya Edwards.\nUnable to attend this event\, but still want a signed copy? Purchase the book below and specify your signing and personalization request in the order comments and we will do our best to accommodate the request. \nTICKETS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. \nGet Tickets \nAbout the Book \nIn this wise and warm debut novel\, an Italian American grandmother\, daughter\, and granddaughter all named after the Roman myth of The Three Graces find their lives—and their secrets—colliding when\, after years apart\, they come to live under the same roof. \nGraziella\, the ninety-six-year-old matriarch and former nun\, spends her days running the parish’s food kitchen\, convinced it is her responsibility to keep everyone fed in their working-class New York neighborhood. Her daughter\, Grace\, a respected psychology professor\, appears accomplished and composed\, yet finds herself unmoored as her personal life falters. Ella—Graziella’s granddaughter and Grace’s daughter—is weary of defending her vegan diet and anti-capitalistic lifestyle; blind to her own brilliance\, she longs\, above all\, for a place to belong. Living together again\, the three Graces reckon with the distances that have shaped them\, and with what it means\, at last\, to be fully known. \nExquisitely written and populated by unforgettable characters\, The Three Graces of Pearl Street explores the delicate balance between tradition and modernity\, and the quiet courage it takes to move through the world with true grace. \nAbout the Author \nElizabeth Wellington Rollins is a writer and award-winning copywriter. She grew up outside of New York City and graduated from Davidson College. Her work has appeared in the BBC\, Condé Nast Traveler\, The Week\, Travel + Leisure\, and Vogue. She lives in Vermont with her family. \nAbout Tanya Edwards \nTanya Edwards is an award-winning writer and editor with bylines at BBC Travel\, Rand McNally Road Atlas\, CNN\, Boston Globe\, Eater\, Glamour\, Yahoo\, Allure\, Refinery29\, and many more.
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SUMMARY:Sara Christiansen Jeffs (A Trillion Facets of Light) Author Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Sara Christensen Jeffs for the book\, A Trillion Facets of Light. \nRegister \nAbout the Book \nFor anyone ready to believe they are enough. \nIn A Trillion Facets of Light\, Sara Christiansen Jeffs offers a tender and transformative journey toward self-love and authentic living. Blending poetic prose\, personal narrative\, and gentle affirmations\, this collection speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever struggled with perfectionism\, self-doubt\, or the fear of not being enough. \nWith honesty and grace\, Jeffs challenges the cultural narrative of constant striving and invites readers to soften\, to listen inward\, and to remember their inherent worth. Each page serves as both a mirror and a balm—a reminder that healing is not linear\, that growth can be gentle\, and that our imperfections are what make us whole. \nA Trillion Facets of Light is a sanctuary of compassion and courage. For readers seeking renewal\, resilience\, and the quiet strength to live authentically\, these words will illuminate the path back home to themselves. \nAbout the Author \nSara Christiansen Jeffs is a writer\, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach\, and Holistic Health Practitioner from Connecticut\, USA. Her work centers on healing\, self-compassion\, and the profound courage it takes to love yourself fully. Believing deeply in the infinite worth of every person\, she writes to remind readers that healing is always possible\, authenticity is a form of beauty\, and no one is ever truly alone. When she’s not writing\, Sara can be found nurturing her clients’ wellbeing\, exploring nature\, or reflecting on the quiet miracles of everyday life.
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SUMMARY:Edgar Garcia (Cantares) James Merrill Fellow Reading
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and The James Merrill House present an author talk and reading with fellow\, Edgar Garcia. \nRegister \nAbout the Book \nPoems and micro-essays intertwine in this poetically attuned adaptation of the mid-sixteenth century Nahuatl-language Cantares Mexicanos \nCantares is a multipart engagement with the poetics and history of the colonial and Indigenous Americas\, oscillating between poetry and essay in a structure of repetitions derived from Mesoamerican poetics. Edgar Garcia reimagines the Cantares Mexicanos\, a sixteenth-century anthology of Nahuatl songs from Central Mexico\, and brings these songs to life not just as historical documents\, but as music\, to give presence of thought to their historical layers and complexities. His adaptations evoke the sound and texture of the sixteenth century\, blending Indigenous and Baroque traditions\, exploring themes of translation\, adaptation\, race\, and historical memory. The collection moves between poetry and scholarship—between poems and micro-essays. The essays provide commentary and historical context about the colonial soundscape of Central Mexico. At the same time\, the poems emphasize the songs’ sonic\, spiritual\, and poetic dimensions. \nThe Cantares emerge from a time of cultural collision—after the arrival of the Castilians but still rooted in older\, Indigenous worldviews. These songs are not nostalgic or idealized; they reflect crisis\, survival\, and creativity. Garcia’s work draws inspiration from the Popol Vuh\, the K’iche’ Maya creation story\, which begins in colonial darkness and still insists on the possibility of light. Through these adaptations\, Cantares becomes a meditation on history\, imagination\, and the power of art to endure and create in the face of loss. \nAbout the Author \nEdgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books\, 2019); Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography\, Hieroglyphs\, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press\, 2020); Infinite Regress (collaborative work with Eamon Ore-Giron\, Bom Dia Books\, 2021); Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press\, 2022); and Cantares (Wesleyan University Press\, 2026). He is faculty in the department of English at the University of Chicago where he is also affiliated with the Program in Creative Writing.
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SUMMARY:Alisa Dumond (When Newport Calls You Home) Weekend Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an weekend book signing with Alisa Dumond for the book\, When Newport Calls You Home. \nRegister \nAbout the Book \nHe left Newport\, Rhode Island\, chasing the future. She stayed behind protecting the place she loved. \nTen years later\, home gives them one more chance. Theo Callahan never expected to return to Newport. After leaving a decade earlier\, his career carried him from New York to Boston\, where he built a reputation transforming waterfront communities. Now he is back to oversee Harbor View\, a redevelopment project that could reshape the coastal city he once called home. \nLilia Bennett never left. After loss reshaped her life\, she poured everything she had into building Coastal Charters and creating a future rooted in Newport’s people and traditions. When Theo’s plans put them on opposite sides of the city’s future\, old feelings return and professional ambitions collide with the memories neither of them has forgotten.\nA heartfelt second-chance romance about love\, home\, and finding the courage to choose what matters most. \nAbout the Author \nAlisa Dumond is the author of the Coastal Escape Series\, contemporary romance novels set against the coastline of Newport\, Rhode Island. Her stories blend second chances\, emotional connections\, coastal settings\, and the idea that home can sometimes lead us back to the people we were meant to find. A Rhode Island author\, Alisa has always loved the Ocean State’s beaches and waterfront communities\, and Newport is especially meaningful to her because it is where she met her husband. She enjoys summers at the beach\, time with her family\, beach walks\, and a good sunset over the water.
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Clarvoe (Piano Piano) Author Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Jennifer Clarvoe for her book\, Piano Piano. \nAbout the Book \nIn Piano Piano\, Clarvoe crafts a luminous meditation on time\, loss\, and the enduring power of art to transform grief into grace. These poems move with the deliberate tempo their title suggests – piano piano\, slowly\, gently – through landscapes both intimate and archaeological\, from a father’s final breaths to ancient curse tablets unearthed in Turkish soil. With exquisite attention to craft\, Clarvoe weaves together the personal and the timeless: a bee working alongside the poet at her window\, fragments of pottery that carry the “added failure” of ancient repairs\, and Lumière’s first flickering films. Her voice finds profound beauty in broken things – fibroid infarctions become odes\, torn fieldbook pages become elegies. This collection reveals how memory and art preserve what matters most: the music falling “slantwise / like the gold ray / of the Annunciation” that accompanied a father’s final season. Piano Piano is a masterwork of formal innovation and emotional precision. \nAbout the Author \nJennifer Clarvoe is the author of two books of poetry: Invisible Tender (Fordham\, 2000)\, and Counter-Amores (University of Chicago\, 2011). Her awards and fellowships include the Kate Tufts Prize\, the Poets Out Loud Prize for Invisible Tender\, a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference\, a residency at the James Merrill House\, and the Rome Prize in Literature. She taught literature and creative writing at Kenyon College for many years. She lives in Somerville\, MA\, with her husband\, Tony Sigel. \nRSVP
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SUMMARY:Giant Cuttlefish author Visit at Mystic Aquarium
DESCRIPTION:Stop in the Gift Store during your visit to Mystic Aquarium to meet author Elaine M. Alexander signing her new book Giant Cuttlefish: Chameleon of the Sea! Also be sure to check out our new Flamboyant Cuttlefish in the Main Gallery! Free with General Admission. Books available for purchase. \nMore Information
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/giant-cuttlefish-author-visit-at-mystic-aquarium/
LOCATION:Mystic Aquarium\, 55 Coogan Blvd\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355
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SUMMARY:David Borges (UConn Basketball: An Illustrated Timeline) Author Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with David Borges for the book\, UConn Basketball: An Illustrated Timeline. \nRSVP \nAbout the Book \nWith six national championships under three different head coaches in one 26-year span\, UConn basketball has been the most successful men’s program of the 21st century. No program has won more national titles in that span. No program has won more Big East championships\, even though the Huskies were out of the league for seven seasons. And when UConn won back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024\, it became the first program to repeat in 17 years\, and just the third to do so since the UCLA dynasties of the late 1960s/early 1970s. UConn has spawned a Hall of Fame player in Ray Allen and a coach in Jim Calhoun. No doubt\, Dan Hurley will be enshrined in Springfield someday\, as well. Since Calhoun took over the program in 1986\, the Huskies have had 17 NBA Draft lottery picks\, 24 first-round selections and 40 overall . . . and counting. UConn’s success has shown no signs of slowing down under Hurley. But Husky history dates back much further. From its time as a regional power in the Yankee Conference to its days of dominance in the Big East\, UConn has had remarkable success-sprinkled in with the occasional spectacular failure. All the championship teams\, All-American players\, dynamic personalities\, and iconic games and moments that have helped turned little Storrs\, Connecticut\, into The Basketball Capital of the Word are chronicled in this book by longtime UConn men’s basketball beat writer David Borges. \nAbout the Author \nDavid Borges has covered the UConn men’s basketball team as a beat writer for the New Haven Register and Hearst Connecticut Media since 2007. In that span\, he’s covered four national championships and five Final Four teams. Prior to that\, he covered the 2004 Boston Red Sox team that snapped an 86-year World Series championship drought. Borges\, a Rhode Island native who has lived in Connecticut for nearly two decades with his wife and two children\, has won multiple awards covering UConn\, including the National Sports Media Association’s Connecticut Sportswriter of the Year in 2019.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/david-borges-uconn-basketball-an-illustrated-timeline-author-talk-and-signing/
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SUMMARY:Jason Allison (The Killing Yards) Author Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Jason Allison for his book\, The Killing Yards. Jason will be in conversation with Tessa Wegert. \nRSVP \nAbout the Book \nThis gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. \nNew York\, 1993. Jimmy Lettner\, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck\, runs Manhattan’s hottest nightspot\, Abattoir. Reformed by his time in prison\, all he wants is to run a clean club. But that’s not possible in a city rife with corruption. \nJimmy doesn’t know it\, but his right-hand man\, Serge Thanakis\, is operating an ecstasy ring that’s drawing the wrong kind of attention. Jealous industry rivals will do anything to shut Abattoir down\, and the new mayor presses the NYPD to clean up the city’s darkest corners. As Jimmy’s troubles mount\, temptations from his past call to him. \nMeanwhile\, Ben Hopkins\, a straight-edge rookie cop on the hunt for a fast-track ticket to detective\, turns his attention to Abattoir. He has something to prove—to his father and to himself. But he’s not prepared for undercover work. The club scene devours Ben\, along with his ability to tell right from wrong. \nAs the war for Abattoir escalates\, bodies drop\, drawing more heat from city officials. The competition threatens Jimmy’s only surviving daughter\, a revelation about his past threatens his future\, and he questions how long his reign as NYC’s nightclub king can last. But through it all\, the dance floor stays packed—and Jimmy will do anything to keep his crown. \nAbout the Author \nA native New Yorker\, Jason Allison spent two decades with the NYPD\, mostly as a detective. He now resides in Massachusetts with his wife and their Golden Retriever. The Killing Yards is his first novel. \nAbout Tessa Wegert \nTessa Wegert is the critically acclaimed author of the Shana Merchant Mysteries\, as well as the North Country series. Her books have received numerous starred reviews and have been featured on PBS and NPR Radio. A former journalist and copywriter\, Tessa grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut.
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SUMMARY:James Benn (The Ninth Circle) Author Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with James Benn for the book\, The Ninth Circle. \nRegister \nAbout the Book \nTo solve a double murder in Cuba\, US Army Captain Billy Boyle will need to build unlikely alliances with Havana’s underworld and British intelligence\, including Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming\, whose naval wartime service would later inspire the James Bond novels. \nThis installment of James R. Benn’s fan-favorite\, critically-acclaimed WWII mystery series marks 20 years of Billy Boyle\, an Irish American cop from Boston thrust onto the staff of his “uncle” Ike Eisenhower for sensitive overseas military investigations. \nJanuary\, 1945: If US Army Captain Billy Boyle thinks a summons to Havana will give him a chance to sip a cold Hatuey under the Caribbean sun\, the fantasy is dead on arrival. Within hours of landing\, Billy and his partner-in-crime-solving\, Lieutenant Piotr Kazimierz\, are assigned to investigate the murder of a Navy intelligence officer. But as the men wait for an informant at a beachside bar\, a bomb goes off\, and they narrowly escape with their lives. Then the informant—a Cuban taxi driver named Hector Díaz—is found dead outside his apartment. What did Hector know? And who was so desperate to silence him? \nThrust into a double-murder investigation\, Billy and Kaz team up with the brass at the British Legation in Havana\, including none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming\, to gather intel from sources inside Havana’s criminal underworld. Their search takes them from Havana’s Chinatown to the Gran Casino Nacional\, where notorious gangster Meyer Lansky offers his services if it means defeating the suspected common enemy—the Sicherheitsdienst\, the intelligence wing of the Nazi military—and finding out what sort of intelligence they are so hell-bent on keeping top-secret at this late stage in the war. \nAbout the Author \nJames R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut\, Billy Boyle\, was selected as a Top Five Book of the Year by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee\, A Blind Goddess was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, The Rest Is Silence was a Barry Award nominee\, and The Devouring was a Macavity Award nominee. Benn\, a former librarian\, lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife\, Deborah Mandel.
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