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SUMMARY:Adam Wallenta (Punk Taco) Storytime and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP for this event at BankSquareBooks.com/events\nBank Square Books presents an story-time and signing with Adam Wallenta for middle grade book\, Punk Taco. \nAbout the Book\nAcross the galaxy\, an evil\, tyrannical king has enslaved citizens from countless planets using them as soldiers in his quest for domination. When one young refugee is displaced from his family\, Punk Taco and his band of misfits befriend him and vow to reunite their new friend with his loved ones. With a mysterious alien race\, they join forces to battle the mad king and spread peace\, love\, and unity across the cosmos. \nAbout the Authors\nAdam Wallenta is a publisher\, writer\, illustrator\, editor\, teacher\, emcee and father. He founded Adam Wallenta Entertainment to help bring new independent creator owned projects to life. Adam has illustrated over fifty children’s books\, numerous comics\, graphic novels and illustrated album art for Rock n Roll Hall of Fame musicians such as Public Enemy & Lloyd Price among many others. \nMakana Wallenta is just your typical 14-year-old that loves to write stories and draw pictures with his dad. When he’s not coming up with ideas for new silly comic book characters or playing Lego or superheroes\, he’s practicing piano or reading a good book.
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SUMMARY:Sharon Dukett (The Shutdown List) Weekend Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP for this event at BankSquareBooks.com/events\nBank Square Books presents a weekend book signing with Sharon Dukett for her book The Shutdown List. \nAbout the Book\nTwo years earlier\, Anita’s life was shattered when her adult son was killed in a fire. \nNow\, her husband has vanished after leading climate activists in a protest\, and she learns she is in danger too. She cuts all her electronic ties and begins a perilous search for him\, despite their rocky marriage\, unaware he has kept a crucial secret from her. \nAbout the Author\nSharon Dukett is an award-winning author who writes thrillers and memoirs. Her novel\, The Shutdown List\, won 1st Runner-up for an Eric Hoffer Award in Mystery/Crime and her memoir\, No Rules: A Memoir\, won a gold medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in Memoirs. She is a member of Sisters in Crime\, International Thriller Writers\, Mystery Writers of America\, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. She worked in information technology as a consultant\, programmer and project manager in the private sector\, and as a deputy director in government. Sharon lives in central Connecticut with her husband\, within driving distance of her children and grandchildren.
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SUMMARY:Weijia Pan (Motherlands) Author Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP for this event at BankSquareBooks.com/events\nBank Square Books and The James Merrill House present an author talk and signing with fellow\, Weijia Pan for his book\, Motherlands. \nAbout the Book\nChosen by Louise Glück for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, this engrossing debut interrogates history\, identity\, and the power of poetry to elucidate both. \nMotherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time\, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist China and an eventual move to the United States\, laying bare cultural and linguistic tensions in both historical and modern settings. He cites Chinese laborers toiling in American factories—an echo of the brutalities endured by those who constructed the Transatlantic Railroad—and speaks to anxieties around belonging\, assimilation\, and identity. “If I forget one character a day\,” he writes. “I will have forgotten Chinese / by the end of 2042.” \nIn these attentive\, imaginative poems\, Weijia Pan questions the artist’s duty—his duty—as a chronicler of truth\, especially through issues of displacement and global injustice. What can the poet do but observe? And yet\, in unpacking ancestral traumas connected to Maoist China and modern-day bigotry exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic\, he still finds himself turning to art as a way to understand both the self and the world at large. Through elegant juxtapositions\, Pan crafts an emotional world that is at once regional and universal—Li Bai and Du Fu sit alongside Glenn Gould and Sviatoslav Richter\, pepper used to bless new roads is repurposed in the mace used against protesters\, two languages compete on a single tongue. Lyrical and visionary\, this collection embodies poetry’s capacity to ground us\, teach us\, and change us. \nAbout the Author\nWeijia Pan is the author of Motherlands\, selected by Louise Glück for the 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. A poet and translator from Shanghai\, China\, his work has appeared in AGNI\, Boulevard\, Cincinnati Review\, Copper Nickel\, and Poetry Daily. He received an MFA from the University of Houston and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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