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SUMMARY:Jane Yolen Storytime and Birthday Celebration at Bank Square Books!
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author storytime and birthday celebration for the bestselling author Jane Yolen!\nDuring this fun event we will hear from Jane and listen to storytime picks from the author!\nA collection of books by Jane will be available for sale. We hope you join us! \nAbout Jane Yolen’s Books\nJane Yolen is the author or editor of more than 350 books\, including the The Devil’s Arithmetic\, the Nebula Award−winning short story “Sister Emily’s Lightship”\, the novelette “Lost Girls”\, Owl Moon\, The Emperor and the Kite\, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. \nAbout Jane Yolen\nJane Yolen’s books and stories and poems have won the Caldecott Medal\, two Nebula Awards\, two Christopher Medals\, three World Fantasy Awards\, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards\, two Golden Kite Awards\, the Jewish Book Award and the Massachusetts Center for the Book award. She has also won the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Grand Master Award\, and the Science Fiction Poetry Associations Grand Master Award (the three together she calls the Trifecta). Plus she has won both the Association of Jewish Libraries Award and the Catholic Libraries Medal. Also the DuGrummond Medal and the Kerlan Award\, and the Ann Izard story-telling award at least three times. Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates for her body of work\, so–she jokingly says–you could call her Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Yolen though she can’t set a leg. However\, she does warn about winning too many awards as one of them set her good coat on fire. If you meet her\, you can ask about that!
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SUMMARY:Courtney McInvale Reardon (Civil War Ghosts of Connecticut) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Courtney Mcinvale Reardon for the new book\, Civil War Ghosts of Connecticut. \nAbout the Book\nFollow the haunting tales of Connecticut’s role in America’s Civil War through the eyes of those who fought in it. From Generals Mansfield and Lyon to Privates Tarbox and Brooks\, discover the harrowing tales of grizzled soldiers – in this world and beyond – fighting against countrymen and brothers. Explore the tales of the segregated ranks like the Irish and Colored Regiments as well as the abolitionists and provisions suppliers\, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Colt. The stories of these people’s lives carry on through the hauntings and ghost stories that now permeate throughout the countryside\, collected and retold by author\, tour guide\, and psychic medium Courtney McInvale who visited and researched countless battle sites\, prisons\, museums\, and historic homesteads to present this haunted history of Connecticut. More than just ghost stories told during the Victorian era – although some of those are certainly included – Civil War Ghosts of Connecticut paints a colorful\, but sobering\, landscape of the deadliest time in American history. \nAbout Courtney Mcinvale\nCourtney McInvale Reardon is the founder of Seaside Shadows based out of Mystic\, Connecticut and offering walking tours and boat tours throughout the southern New England region. She is a licensed tour guide\, published author and actual descendant of accused witches. She is a Connecticut native and Courtney spent 5 years in DC after completing her studies at Catholic University of America and the University College Dublin where she studied abroad\, majoring in International Relations. After earning her degree\, she worked for the FBI as an analyst — having been influenced by her time interning at NCIS for the Cold Case Homicide Unit– She then spent 2 years in Vermont working for Dept of Homeland Security and honing her investigative skills. Courtney also spent many months in Ireland in study and visiting\, a place rich with histories and hauntings alike! She avidly studies histories of Celtic cultures\, specifically Ireland and Scotland\, specializing in rebellions. Her love for rebellion history dates to the studies of the American Civil War that began in childhood. Her father\, a history major at the University of Georgia\, had Courtney memorize the names of Civil War Generals by photograph before she turned seven. She lost many ancestors to the Civil War on both sides and researching and writing about War between the States seemed to be her destiny. Courtney is an empathic spirit medium — able to feel\, see and communicate with spirits. She has frequently had experiences involving the paranormal. In Courtney’s childhood home in central Connecticut\, in a town called East Hampton numerous paranormal occurrences happened. The events were so extreme that the Warren family came to investigate and exorcise the house during her teenage years there. Due to her haunting past\, and ability to see and communicate with spirit\, she has always taken an interest in the unknown and has now put her sensitivities\, investigative skills\, love of history\, and writing aspirations to work. Courtney is also a realist amongst all things and believes no tour or book can be complete without corroborating information. Each book and tour she creates is inundated with historical facts to corroborate all the haunting occurrences surrounding the topic. This is Courtney’s third book for Arcadia Publishing and the History Press – the other two: Haunted Mystic (2014)\, Revolutionary War Ghosts of Connecticut (2016) and Courtney has been featured as a historian and medium on Travel Channel’s Portals to Hell and as a medium on Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures. She hosts paranormal investigations and historical site fundraisers annually. Courtney loves spending time with her husband\, Marty\, her loving pets\, her sisters and wee niece & goddaughter. She is a sucker for a good period drama or true crime documentary and in free time can be found listening to classic rock or 90’s pop and watching and obsessing over Outlander or Vikings.
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SUMMARY:Andrea Pitzer (Icebound) in Conversation with Julian Sancton Virtual Author Talk and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Andrea Pitzer for the new book\, Icebound. Andrea will be in conversation with author Julian Sancton. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\nIn the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice\, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival. \nThe human story has always been one of perseverance—often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen\, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and\, on their third polar exploration\, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears\, gnawing hunger\, and endless winter. \nIn Icebound\, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration—a time of hope\, adventure\, and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers. At the story’s center is William Barents\, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to chart a path through the deepest\, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both tragedy and glory. Journalist Pitzer did extensive research\, learning how to use four-hundred-year-old navigation equipment\, setting out on three Arctic expeditions to retrace Barents’s steps\, and visiting replicas of Barents’s ship and cabin. \n“A resonant meditation on human ingenuity\, resilience\, and hope” (The New Yorker)\, Pitzer’s reenactment of Barents’s ill-fated journey shows us how the human body can function at twenty degrees below\, the history of mutiny\, the art of celestial navigation\, and the intricacies of building shelters. But above all\, it gives us a firsthand glimpse into the true nature of courage. \nAbout Andrea Pitzer\nAndrea Pitzer is the author of ICEBOUND: SHIPWRECKED AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD\, the story of William Barents’ three voyages to the Arctic in the 1590s. Published by Scribner in January 2021\, ICEBOUND was featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and received a starred review from Booklist. Her second book\, ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS (Little\, Brown\, 2017)\, covers the wrenching story of mass civilian detention from the 1890s to the present. It received a starred review from Kirkus and was named a top history book of the year by Smithsonian Magazine. Her first book\, THE SECRET HISTORY OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV (Pegasus\, 2013)\, received starred reviews from Kirkus\, Booklist\, and Library Journal. \nAndrea’s writing has appeared many places in print and online\, from the Washington Post\, the New York Review of Books\, Outside\, the Daily Beast\, GQ\, Vox\, Slate\, and USA Today to Longreads\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, and McSweeney’s. She founded Nieman Storyboard\, the narrative nonfiction site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. \nFind her on Twitter at @andreapitzer\, like her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/andreapitzerauthor/\, and visit her website at http://www.andreapitzer.com. \nAbout Julian Sancton\nJulian Sancton has been an editor at Vanity Fair\, Esquire\, and Departures\, and written for such publications as The New Yorker\, Wired\, and Playboy. He has reported from every continent\, including Antarctica\, which he first visited while researching his book\, Madhouse at the End of the Earth.
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SUMMARY:Kay Tobler Liss (The Last Resort: A Novel) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Kay Tobler Liss for the new book\, The Last Resort: A Novel. \nAbout the Book\nA Manhattan corporate attorney\, with career and marriage in turmoil\, drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together\, he meets a surfer\, a fisherman\, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land threatened with development\, a fight that eventually endangers her life. The tension between past and present comes alive as he finds new meaning in life through the natural world and social justice for a long-oppressed race of people. The novel takes place on the eastern end of Long Island\, the ancestral home of the Montauks\, a Native American tribe. Historical characters come to life in a battle to preserve their land. \nAbout Kay Tobler Liss\nAs a writer and editor\, Kay Tobler Liss worked for newspapers and magazines in New York and Maine for many decades\, including Sunstorm Arts\, House and Hamptons Magazine\, and was managing editor of The Shelter Island Reporter. Liss studied Literature at Bard College and Environmental Studies at Southampton College and taught courses in both fields in New York and Maine. She lived in Montauk\, New York for 13 years and now lives in Maine.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/kay-tobler-liss-the-last-resort-a-novel-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
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SUMMARY:Paul Dunion (Wisdom: Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Paul Dunion for the new book\, Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate. \nAbout the Book\nIt may be time to let go of the naivete that our technological devices will magically reveal the nature of absolute truth\, or that some alluring formula will serve our need for immediate gratification and penetrate life’s mysteries. We seem to have forgotten that it is by the light of wisdom that we begin to understand who we are and make some sense of the journey we call life. \nWisdom – Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate tells a story of what it means to apprentice to the unknown. It offers a strong plea – stop trying to get life right and allow life to get you right. \nSuch an allowance happens over time as the ego comes to know defeat and the illusion of its sovereignty. The wisdom path must be walked with curiosity and honesty\, letting ourselves admit that we are employing some form of bypass that can allegedly circumvent life’s unpredictability and insecurity. Apprentices become increasingly informed by letting go of what is out of their control and learning to find the courage to address what is in their control. The reader learns what it means to remain a student of life\, less enamored with being impressive\, and as the need to perform and achieve atrophy\, gains a devout receptivity to all that fate desires to teach. Wisdom is a verb. It is the apprenticing in a constant state of inquiry. \nAbout Paul Dunion\nOften described as an eclectic mystic\, Paul’s tagline is “making peace with mystery.” His legacy of being a Celtic storyteller has gifted him as a writer and muse. He brings his 40-year background as a psychological healer and philosopher to examining in his blogs and books the kinds of life choices that can yield the wisdom path. \nHe has received high praise from Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards for his previous book Seekers as well as a Reader’s Favorite 5-Star Review for his newly-released Wisdom\, focusing on what it means to see life as offering an Initiation\, guiding and challenging us to find our way to our own depths.
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SUMMARY:A Journey to the Future with authors Kathryn Hulick and Kelly Weinersmith Virtual Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present a Journey to the Future author talk and Q&A with authors Kathryn Hulick (Welcome to the Future) and Kelly Weinersmith (Soonish). \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nThe New York Times bestseller Soonish and the newly released kids’ book Welcome to the Future both take readers on a journey through technologies that may transform our world. The authors of these two futuristic titles will talk about the future and answer your questions in an event that is perfect for families. Older teens and adults will love the humor and insightful visions of Soonish\, created by Kelly Weinersmith\, a biologist who studies parasites\, and her husband Zach Weinersmith\, who is a cartoonist and the creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Comics. Kids and teens in middle school and high school will enjoy the fascinating technology and deep questions posed by Welcome to the Future\, written by Kathryn Hulick and illustrated by Marci Wolski. \nAbout Welcome to the Future\nHave you ever wondered what the future may look like? In this book\, you’ll explore 10 ways technology could alter our way of life. The challenge for you is to decide which changes you want for yourself and the world. \nIn the future\, will we teleport from place to place\, keep dinosaurs as pets\, or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth? In this book\, you’ll meet the scientists working to bring science fiction to life and learn how soon we might have amazing new technology. You’ll also delve deep into questions about right and wrong. Just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should. How can we build the best possible future for everyone on Earth? \nAbout Soonish\nFrom a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal\, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies — from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing\nWhat will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the hold-up? \nIn this smart and funny book\, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and noted researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what’s coming next — from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters. By weaving their own research\, interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen\, and Zach’s trademark comics\, the Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed\, how they would work\, and what is standing in their way. New technologies are almost never the work of isolated geniuses with a neat idea. A given future technology may need any number of intermediate technologies to develop first\, and many of these critical advances may appear to be irrelevant when they are first discovered. The journey to progress is full of strange detours and blind alleys that tell us so much about the human mind and the march of civilization. \nTo this end\, Soonish investigates ten different emerging fields\, from programmable matter to augmented reality\, from space elevators to robotic construction\, to show us the amazing world we will have\, you know\, soonish. \nAbout Kathryn Hulick\nKathryn Hulick is an author\, freelance writer\, and former Peace Corps volunteer. She writes regularly for Science News for Students and Muse magazine. Her books cover topics such as video games\, artificial intelligence\, dinosaurs\, and more. STRANGE BUT TRUE (Quarto\, 2019) explores the science behind paranormal mysteries. Hulick’s favorite part of writing about science is getting to speak with researchers in many different fields. Once\, she spoke with an expert on parallel universes while he was shoveling snow from his driveway. Another time\, she called a biologist who was out in the field in Africa\, watching a herd of elephants. In addition to writing\, she enjoys hiking\, gardening\, painting and reading. Hulick lives in Massachusetts with her husband\, son and dog. \nAbout Kelly Weinersmith\nDr. Kelly Weinersmith received her PhD in Ecology at the University of California Davis\, and is an adjunct faculty member in the BioSciences department at Rice University. Kelly studies parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts\, and her research has been featured in The Atlantic\, National Geographic\, BBC World\, Science\, and Nature. When she isn’t studying Nature’s creepiest wonders\, Kelly is writing books with her husband\, Zach Weinersmith (creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Comics). Their first book\, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything\, was a NYTimes Bestseller. Their next book is about the future of humans in space\, and will be published through Penguin Press.
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SUMMARY:Spencer Quinn (It's a Wonderful Woof) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Spencer Quinn for the latest book in the Chet & Bernie Mystery Series\, It’s a Wonderful Woof. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. \nAbout the Book\nSpencer Quinn’s It’s a Wonderful Woof presents a holiday adventure for Chet the dog\, “the most lovable narrator in crime fiction” (Boston Globe)\, and his human partner\, PI Bernie Little. \nHoliday time in the Valley\, and in the holiday spirit—despite the dismal shape of the finances at the Little Detective Agency—Bernie refers a potential client to Victor Klovsky\, a fellow private eye. It’s also true that the case—promising lots of online research but little action—doesn’t appeal to Bernie\, while it seems perfect for Victor\, who is not cut out for rough stuff. But Victor disappears in a rough-stuff way\, and when he doesn’t show up at his mom’s to light the Hanukkah candles\, she hires Chet and Bernie to find him. \nThey soon discover that Victor’s client has also vanished. The trail leads to the ruins of a mission called Nuestra Señora de los Saguaros\, dating back to the earliest Spanish explorers. Some very dangerous people are interested in the old mission. Does some dusty archive hold the secret of a previously unknown art treasure\, possibly buried for centuries? What does the Flight into Egypt—when Mary\, Joseph and the baby Jesus fled Herod—have to do with saguaros\, the Sonoran desert cactus? \nNo one is better than Chet at nosing out buried secrets\, but before he can\, he and Bernie are forced to take flight themselves\, chased through a Christmas Eve blizzard by a murderous foe who loves art all too much. \nAbout Spencer Quinn\nSpencer Quinn is the pen name for Peter Abrahams\, the Edgar-winning\, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series\, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling Bowser and Birdie series for middle-grade readers. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife Diana and dog Pearl.
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SUMMARY:Beatriz Williams (The Wicked Widow) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with bestselling author Beatriz Williams to discuss her latest book in the Wicked City series\, The Wicked Widow. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. \nGin Kelly\, the wicked redhead\, is back! Readers will delight in next installment of the Wicked City series by New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams. \nJune 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva “Gin” Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall\, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York’s most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime\, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket—and Anson’s mortal enemy—turns up murdered at a society funeral\, and their short-lived honeymoon bliss goes up in a spectacular blaze that sends Anson back undercover…and into the jaws of a trap from which not even Gin can rescue him. As violence explodes around her\, Gin must summon all her considerable moxie to trace the tentacles of this sinister organization back to their shocking source\, and face down a legendary American family at a rigged game it has no intention of losing. \nJune 1998. When Ella Dommerich’s ninetysomething society queen aunt Julie ropes her into digging up dirt on Senator (and Presidential candidate) Franklin Hardcastle in order to settle old family scores\, she couldn’t be less enthusiastic. Pregnant Ella’s recently ditched her unfaithful husband and settled into cozy—if complicated—domesticity with her almost-too-good-to-be-true musician boyfriend\, Hector. But then the Hardcastle secrets lead to a web of shady dealings Ella’s uncovered in her job as a financial analyst\, and the bodies start to tumble out of the venerable woodwork. With the help of her ex-husband and her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper\, Ella digs up more than mere dirt…only to discover herself standing alone between a legendarily ruthless family and the prize it’s sought for generations. \nWhat ugly secrets lurk in the opulent enclaves—and bank accounts–of America’s richest families? And can two determined women from two different generations thwart the murderous legacy of the demon liquor? \nAbout the Author\nBeatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels\, including Her Last Flight\, The Summer Wives\, and The Golden Hour\, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle\, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore\, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/beatriz-williams-the-wicked-widow-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ross Douthat (The Deep Places) Virtual Author Talk and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat for his memoir\, The Deep Places. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nIn this vulnerable\, insightful memoir\, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist\, exploring the limits of modern medicine\, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into\, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. \n“A powerful memoir about our fragile hopes in the face of chronic illness.”—Kate Bowler\, bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason \nIn the summer of 2015\, Ross Douthat was moving his family\, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife\, from Washington\, D.C.\, to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless\, crippled\, wracked with pain–a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno\, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC definitions does not actually exist: the chronic form of Lyme disease\, a hotly contested condition that devastates the lives of tens of thousands of people but has no official recognition–and no medically approved cure. \nFrom a rural dream house that now felt like a prison\, Douthat’s search for help takes him off the map of official medicine\, into territory where cranks and conspiracies abound and patients are forced to take control of their own treatment and experiment on themselves. Slowly\, against his instincts and assumptions\, he realizes that many of the cranks and weirdos are right\, that many supposed “hypochondriacs” are victims of an indifferent medical establishment\, and that all kinds of unexpected experiences and revelations lurk beneath the surface of normal existence\, in the places underneath. \nThe Deep Places is a story about what happens when you are terribly sick and realize that even the doctors who are willing to treat you can only do so much. Along the way\, Douthat describes his struggle back toward health with wit and candor\, portraying sickness as the most terrible of gifts. It teaches you to appreciate the grace of ordinary life by taking that life away from you. It reveals the deep strangeness of the world\, the possibility that the reasonable people might be wrong\, and the necessity of figuring out things for yourself. And it proves\, day by dreadful day\, that you are stronger than you ever imagined\, and that even in the depths there is always hope. \nAbout the Author\nRoss Douthat has been an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since 2009. Previously\, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Decadent Society\, To Change the Church\, Bad Religion\, and Privilege\, and a co-author\, with Reihan Salam\, of Grand New Party. He is the film critic for National Review. He lives with his wife and four children in New Haven\, Connecticut.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/ross-douthat-the-deep-places-virtual-author-talk-and-qa/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Mike Urban (Unique Eats and Eateries of Connecticut) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Mike Urban for the release of the new book Unique Eats and Eateries of Connecticut. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. \nAbout the Book\nFrom hot dogs to haute cuisine\, Connecticut boasts an impressive array of tempting delicacies for every taste and budget. Hot\, buttered lobster rolls\, steamed cheeseburgers\, and coal-fired New Haven-style pizza are just a few of the delights that await adventurous foodies in the Nutmeg State. With Unique Eats and Eateries of Connecticut as your guide\, you’ll find a new place to try on every page and get the stories behind the food too. Bask in the warmth of the Connecticut shore at Abbott’s Lobster in the Rough\, where three generations of the Mears family slow steam and serve lobsters on sunny picnic tables along the waterfront. Find out why O’Rourke’s Diner in Middletown was supported by its community and the Wesleyan students who love it after a devastating fire threatened to put them out of business in 2006. Get a taste of Yale life at the high-ceilinged Union League Café\, where Chef Jean-Pierre Vuillermet wows diners with his ever-changing French brasserie menu. And if you love reading and eating\, be sure to learn about the free books with your meal at Traveller Restaurant. Local writer Mike Urban takes you on a tour around this culinary wonderland to explore eats and eateries that are both familiar and exotic. Come along on this fascinating tour of Connecticut’s most unique\, unusual\, and enjoyable food spots where there’s a delightful culinary revelation around every corner. \nAbout Mike Urban\nMike Urban is an award-winning food and travel writer and the author of four books on New England cuisine: Clam Shacks\, Lobster Shacks\, The New England Diner Cookbook and The New England Seafood Markets Cookbook. He is a regular writer for Yankee magazine\, contributing more than 25 food articles over the past six years. A 30-year resident of Connecticut\, Mike lives with his wife in the seaside town of Old Saybrook\, where the Connecticut River meets Long Island Sound.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/mike-urban-unique-eats-and-eateries-of-connecticut-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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SUMMARY:Armando Lucas Correa (In Search of Emma) Virtual Author Talk and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Armando Lucas Correa for her new book In Search of Emma. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nRevised and updated with a new introduction by the author—and available in English for the first time—the moving story of a man who always wanted to be a father and the long emotional road to making his dream come true. \nBorn in Cuba and raised in the USA\, Armando Lucas Correa epitomized the American dream. He had everything he wanted: an incredible job as the editor of People magazine\, meeting and interviewing glamorous celebrities; a steady partner; and a comfortable life filled with travel. But with the new millennium\, he realized something vital was missing. A child. \nIn the years before gay marriage was widespread and legal across the nation\, the road to parenthood was difficult for gay couples. Though his family would not be traditional\, Correa was undaunted. Every setback\, each emotional challenge was fuel that drove him to fulfill his dream. Exhaustively researching the possibilities\, Correa eventually chose surrogacy—a long\, arduous\, and expensive method involving seemingly endless tests\, paperwork\, and difficult decisions. But with the help of science\, a lot of patience\, an egg donor\, a gestational mother\, and the unconditional support of her partner and family\, Correa’s dream finally came true with the birth of his beloved daughter\, Emma. \nIn Search of Emma is an inspiring and beautiful story of love\, family\, and fatherhood that reminds us of that\, despite the odds\, we must never stop fighting to achieve our dreams. Completely revised and updated to reflect his growing family. \nAbout the Author\nArmando Lucas Correa nació en Guantánamo\, Cuba. En 1991 llegó a Miami\, donde trabajó como periodista en El Nuevo Herald. Luego\, en 1997\, se mudó a Nueva York y fue contratado como escritor para la recién inaugurada People en Español\, de Time Inc.\, donde desde 2007 es el director editorial. Actualmente vive en Nueva York.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/armando-lucas-correa-in-search-of-emma-virtual-author-talk-and-qa/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Ada Ferrer (Cuba: An American History) Virtual Author Talk and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Ada Ferrer for her new book Cuba: An American History. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nAn epic\, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. \nIn 1961\, at the height of the Cold War\, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba\, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century\, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016\, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021\, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile\, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island\, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy\, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. \nNow\, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious and moving chronicle written for a moment that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries\, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation\, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization\, of slavery and freedom\, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. \nAlong the way\, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising\, often troubled intimacy between the two countries\, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This\, then\, is a story that will give American readers unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and\, in so doing\, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba. \nFilled with rousing stories and characters\, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba\, Spain\, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. \nAbout the Author\nAda Ferrer is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University\, where she has taught since 1995. She is the author of Insurgent Cuba: Race\, Nation\, and Revolution\, 1868–1898\, winner of the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman in any field of history\, and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution\, which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University as well as multiple prizes from the American Historical Association. Born in Cuba and raised in the United States\, she has been traveling to and conducting research on the island since 1990.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/ada-ferrer-cuba-an-american-history-virtual-author-talk-and-qa/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T193000
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SUMMARY:Read of The Day with emily m. danforth (Plain Bad Heroines) at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents a Read of The Day author talk and Q&A with emily m. danforth for the paperback release of Plain Bad Heroines. danforth will be in conversation with Rick Koster\, arts & culture writer for The Day. Read of The Day is an event partnership series brought to you by Bank Square Books and The Day. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. \nAbout the Book\nThe award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling\, sapphic love\, and the rebellious female spirit. \n“A delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire . . . deliciously ghoulish.” —Ron Charles\, Washington Post \nOur story begins in 1902\, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara\, two impressionable students\, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane\, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary\, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard\, the setting of their wildest happiness and\, ultimately\, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them\, the victims of a swarm of stinging\, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later\, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property\, each in a most troubling way. \nOver a century later\, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer\, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo\, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again\, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming\, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. \nA story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period-inspired illustrations\, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting\, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny\, spellbinding\, and wonderfully luxuriant read. \nAbout emily m. danforth\nemily m. danforth is the author of the highly acclaimed young adult novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lives with her wife and two terrible dogs in Rhode Island. Plain Bad Heroines is her first adult novel.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/read-of-the-day-with-emily-m-danforth-plain-bad-heroines-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gregory Maguire (The Brides of Maracoor) and Christopher Moore Virtual Author Talk and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join multi-million-copy bestselling author Gregory McGuire as he discusses The Brides of Maracoor\, the first book in a new Wicked spin-off series\, with New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore – in partnership with independent booksellers across the U.S. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nCopies of The Brides of Maracoor purchased through the event will come with a signed bookplate while supplies last. \nAbout the Book\n25 years after the global sensation Wicked first flew into our lives\, New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s first book in a new spin-off sequel series\, Another Day\, is landing on October 12\, 2021: THE BRIDES OF MARACOOR. Featuring the brilliant imagination that made Wicked into the multimillion-copy-bestselling novel\, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical\, and cultural phenomenon we know today\, THE BRIDES OF MARACOOR welcomes Elphaba’s granddaughter and a few familiar faces from Oz—all in a fantastically new setting filled with a new and compelling cast of characters. Gregory’s storytelling consistently inspires raves from critics who have found his novels “mystical and filled with wonder” (People Magazine)\, “inventive” (BuzzFeed)\, and imbued with a “fresh perspective” (Entertainment Weekly). In THE BRIDES OF MARACOOR\, he combines all these elements and more to produce this highly anticipated and supremely entertaining read. \nAbout Gregory McGuire\nGregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of The Brides of Maracoor; A Wild Winter Swan; Hiddensee; After Alice; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror Mirror; and the Wicked Years\, a series that includes Wicked—the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name—Son of a Witch\, A Lion Among Men\, and Out of Oz. Maguire has lectured on art\, literature\, and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family in New England and in France. https://gregorymaguire.com/. \nAbout Christopher Moore\nChristopher Moore is the author of sixteen previous novels\, including Noir\, Secondhand Souls\, Sacré Bleu\, Fool\, and Lamb. He lives in San Francisco\, California. https://www.chrismoore.com/
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/gregory-maguire-the-brides-of-maracoor-and-christopher-moore-virtual-author-talk-and-qa/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Tom Verde (In a Class All Their Own) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Tom Verde to discuss his book\, In a Class All Their Own: Unique and Historic Boats of New England. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\nEach boat has a story to tell and this book features nearly forty profiles of classic/unique boats\, drawn from articles written for the Westerly Sun newspaper during the summers of 2014 and 2015. Explore not only the histories of the individual vessels\, but of their classes and designers\, as well as their relationships to the environs in which they sailed\, raced\, cruised and\, in some case\, still operate as working vessels. These stories include the fabled history of the catboat; the first fiberglass sailing yacht; a NY ferry boat repurposed as a houseboat; the oldest working fishing boat in Stonington\, CT; racing rivalries in the Sound; the French love affair with American boat designs; and the Jazz Age era of luxury yachting\, among others. \nAbout the Author\nTom Verde is a freelance journalist who writes for the New York Times\, National Public Radio\, AramcoWorld magazine\, the New London Day\, and the Westerly Sun. On his first solo sail\, on the Charles River in Boston\, he ran aground\, collided with the Longfellow Bridge\, and generally enjoyed himself. He lives in Pawcatuck\, Connecticut.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/tom-verde-in-a-class-all-their-own-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
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SUMMARY:Terence Hawkins (Rage of Achilles) Author Signing at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents a weekend book signing with Terence Hawkins for the release of the new book Rage of Achilles. \nAbout the Book\nIn his first book\, The Rage of Achilles\, Terence Hawkins imagines an Iliad that really happened. Informed by the brutal realities of Bronze Age warfare and Julian Jaynes’ theory of the bicameral mind–now a basis for HBO’s Westworld–the novel depicts real men and women struggling in the end of a decade-long war\, their gods dwindling into hallucinations and half-heard commands as the modern consciousness is suddenly and painfully born. Emily Hauser\, author of For the Most Beautiful\, said: “Terence Hawkins’ ‘The Rage of Achilles’ . . . is Greek myth red in tooth and claw. Visceral and to-the-point\, it grabs you and doesn’t let go.” Tom Perrotta\, author of Little Children and The Leftovers\, called it “a rare thing–a genuinely fresh take on a classic text.” \nAbout Terence Hawkins\nTerence Hawkins grew up in a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania. His home county\, which the state police call Fayette Nam\, is the setting for Philipp Meyer’s American Rust and the original Night of the Living Dead. His grandfathers and several uncles were coal miners. He graduated from Yale\, where he was publisher of the Yale Daily News. He attended the University of Wisconsin Law School and returned to New Haven in 1985 to practice as a trial lawyer. \nIn 2011\, Hawkins became the founding Director of the Yale Writers’ Conference\, which he ran until 2015. In 2014\, he started the Company of Writers\, which offers workshops and manuscript services to writers at all levels of experience. \nThe Rage of Achilles is Hawkins’ first novel.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/terence-hawkins-rage-of-achilles-author-signing-at-bank-square-books/
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SUMMARY:Read of The Day with Mark Rubinstein (The Storytellers) with Bank Square Books and The Day
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents a Read of The Day author talk and Q&A with Mark Rubinstein for the release of the new book The Storytellers. Rubinstein will be in conversation with Rick Koster\, arts & culture writer for The Day. Read of The Day is an event partnership series brought to you by Bank Square Books and The Day. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\nHave you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself\, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years\, Mark Rubinstein\, physician\, psychiatrist\, and mystery and thriller writer\, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post. \nCollected here are interviews with forty-seven accomplished authors\, including Michael Connelly\, Ken Follett\, Meg Gardiner\, Dennis Lehane\, Laura Lippman\, and Don Winslow. These are their personal stories in their own words\, much of the material never before published. How do these writers’ life experiences color their art? Find out their thoughts\, their inspirations\, their candid opinions. Learn more about your favorite authors\, how they work and who they truly are. \nAbout Mark Rubinstein\nMark Rubinstein’s high-octane thrillers Mad Dog House (2012) and its sequel\, Mad Dog Justice (2014)\, were both finalists for the Foreword Book of the Year Award. His novella The Foot Soldier won the silver award in the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Awards competition in the Popular Fiction category. His novella Return to Sandara (2014)\, won the gold IPPY Award for Suspense/Fiction. The Lovers’ Tango won the gold medal in Popular Fiction at the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards. He now writes fiction and nonfiction\, has been a contributor to the Huffington Post\, was a contributor to Psychology Today\, contributes columns to Literary Hub’s Crime Reads\, and is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books. Visit his website at www.MarkRubinstein-Author.com.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/read-of-the-day-with-mark-rubinstein-the-storytellers-with-bank-square-books-and-the-day/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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SUMMARY:Military Writers Society Author Signing at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents a book signing with Valerie Ormond\, Kathleen Rodgers\, Jack Woodville London and Robin Hutton for their books Believing in Horses\, Too\, The Flying Cutterbucks\, Shades of the Deep Blue Sea\, and Sgt. Reckless and more! \nAbout Valerie Ormond\nValerie Ormond is a former Naval intelligence officer\, a freelance writer\, and a contributor to 5 Must Know Secrets for Today’s College Girl. She is the author of Believing in Horses\, which won the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for Young Adult Books\, the Gold Medal for Children’s Literature in the Stars and Flags Book Awards\, and the Parent Tested Parent Approved Best Product and Official Winners Seal of Approval. She lives in Bowie\, Maryland. \nAbout Kathleen Rodgers\nBorn and raised in Clovis\, New Mexico\, Kathleen M. Rodgers is a novelist whose stories and essays have appeared in Family Circle Magazine\, Military Times\, and in anthologies published by McGraw-Hill\, University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books\, Health Communications\, Inc.\, AMG Publishers\, and Press 53. In 2014\, Rodgers was named a Distinguished Alumna from Tarrant County College/NE Campus. Three of her aviation poems from the book Because I Fly (McGraw-Hill) were featured in an exhibit at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island\, NY. In 2017\, the Clovis Municipal School Foundation in Clovis\, NM awarded her the Purple Pride Hall of Honor Award under the “Sports and Entertainment” category. Rodgers is also the author of the award-winning novel\, The Final Salute\, featured in USA Today\, The Associated Press\, and Military Times. She and her husband\, Tom\, a retired USAF fighter pilot/commercial airline pilot\, reside in a suburb of North Texas with two rescue dogs. After raising two sons\, she became a grandmother and is at work on her fifth novel. \nAbout Jack Woodville London\nJack Woodville London is the author of four novels\, including the acclaimed novel\, French Letters: Children of a Good War\, winner of the 2018 Gold Medal for Book of the Year in war and military fiction. He also wrote A Novel Approach\, a non-fiction book on the craft of writing\, is co-author of Texas Pattern Jury Charges\, and author of more than thirty articles on history\, literature\, travel\, law and art. \nJack studied the craft of fiction at the Academy of Fiction\, St. Céré\, France and at Oxford University. His writing career began with his appointment as managing editor during law school of the University of Texas International Law Journal.\nIn addition to writing\, Jack teaches the craft to others. He is Director of Writing Education for Military Writers Society of America and regularly conducts writing programs for beginning writers\, especially veterans. Jack lives in Austin\, Texas. Visit with him at jackwlondon.com \nAbout Robin Hutton\nRobin Hutton is a Los Angeles-based writer who has been researching the life of Reckless for more than eight years and is currently the president of Angels Without Wings\, Inc.\, the 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that spearheaded the development and dedication of a national monument to Sergeant Reckless. She lives in Camarillo\, CA. Visit her website: www.sgtreckless.com.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/military-writers-society-author-signing-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210907T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210907T193000
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SUMMARY:James Benn (Road of Bones) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with James Benn for the release of the new book Road of Bones. Benn will be in conversation with Rick Koster\, arts & culture writer for The Day. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\nBilly Boyle is sent to the heart of the USSR to solve a double-murder at a critical turning point in the war in this latest installment of critically acclaimed James R. Benn’s WWII mystery series. \nIt’s September 1944\, and the US is poised to launch Operation Frantic\, a shuttle-bombing mission to be conducted by American aircraft based in Great Britain\, southern Italy\, and three Soviet airfields in the Ukraine. Tensions are already high between the American and Russian allies when two intelligence agents–one Soviet\, one American–are found dead at Poltava\, one of the Ukrainian bases. Billy is brought in to investigate\, and this time he’s paired\, at the insistence of the Soviets\, with a KGB agent who has his own political and personal agenda. \nIn the course of an investigation that quickly spirals out of control\, Billy is aided by the Night Witches\, a daring regiment of young Soviet women flying at night at very low altitudes\, bombing hundreds of German installations. \nIt’s a turning point in the war\, and allied efforts hang by a thread. Unless Billy and his KGB partner can solve the murders in an atmosphere of mutual distrust\, Operation Frantic is doomed. \nAbout James Benn\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\, splits his time between the Gulf Coast of Florida and Connecticut with his wife\, Deborah Mandel.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/james-benn-road-of-bones-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210902T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk and Q&A with Nancy Marie Brown (The Real Valkyrie)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Nancy Marie Brown for her new book The Real Valkyrie. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\n“A complex\, important\, and delightful addition to women’s history.” —Pamela D. Toler\, author of Women Warriors: An Unexpected History \nIn 2017\, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka\, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology\, history\, and literature to imagine her life and times\, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined. \nBrown uses science to link the Birka warrior\, whom she names Hervor\, to Viking trading towns and to their great trade route east to Byzantium and beyond. She imagines her life intersecting with larger-than-life but real women\, including Queen Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings\, the Viking leader known as The Red Girl\, and Queen Olga of Kyiv. Hervor’s short\, dramatic life shows that much of what we have taken as truth about women in the Viking Age is based not on data\, but on nineteenth-century Victorian biases. Rather than holding the household keys\, Viking women in history\, law\, saga\, poetry\, and myth carry weapons. These women brag\, “As heroes we were widely known—with keen spears we cut blood from bone.” In this compelling narrative Brown brings the world of those valkyries and shield-maids to vivid life. \nAbout the Author\nNancy Marie Brown is the author of highly praised books of nonfiction\, including Song of the Vikings. She is fluent in Icelandic and spends her summers in Iceland. She has deep ties to the Scandinavian cultural institutions in the U.S. Brown lives in East Burke\, Vermont.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-author-talk-and-qa-with-nancy-marie-brown-the-real-valkyrie/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210831T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210831T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Alyssa Maxwell (Murder at Wakehurst)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Alyssa Maxwell for the release of the her book Murder at Wakehurst. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nIn the autumnal chill of Newport\, Rhode Island\, at the close of the nineteenth century\, journalist Emma Cross discovers an instance of cold-blooded murder on the grounds of a mansion… \nFollowing the death of her uncle\, Cornelius Vanderbilt\, in September 1899\, a somber Emma is in no mood for one of Newport’s extravagant parties. But to keep Vanderbilt’s reckless son Neily out of trouble\, she agrees to accompany him to an Elizabethan fete on the lavish grounds of Wakehurst\, the Ochre Point “cottage” modeled after an English palace\, owned by Anglophile James Van Alen. \nHeld in Wakehurst’s English-style gardens\, the festivities will include a swordplay demonstration\, an archery competition\, scenes from Shakespeare’s plays\, and even a joust. As Emma wanders the grounds distracted by grief\, she overhears a fierce argument between a man and a woman behind a tall hedge. As the joust begins\, she’s drawn by the barking of Van Alen’s dogs and finds a man on the ground\, an arrow through his chest. \nThe victim is one of the 400’s most influential members\, Judge Clayton Schuyler. Could one of the countless criminals he’d imprisoned over the years have returned to seek revenge–or could one of his own family members have targeted him? With the help of her beau Derrick Andrews and Detective Jesse Whyte\, Emma begins to learn the judge was not the straight arrow he appeared to be. As their investigation leads them in ever-widening circles\, Emma will have to score a bull’s eye to stop the killer from taking another life… \nAbout Alyssa Maxwell\nAlyssa Maxwell began a love affair with the city of Newport years ago. Time and again the colonial neighborhoods and grand mansions drew her to return\, and on one of those later visits she met the man who would become her husband. Always a lover of history\, Maxwell found that marrying into a large\, generations–old Newport family opened up an exciting new world of historical discovery. Today\, she and her husband reside in Florida\, but part of her heart remains firmly in that small New England city of great historical significance. For more info please visit www.alyssamaxwell.com.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-author-talk-alyssa-maxwell-murder-at-wakehurst/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational
ORGANIZER;CN="Bank Square Books":MAILTO:assistant@banksquarebooks.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210831T180000
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SUMMARY:Beth Turley (The Flyers) Author Talk and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Beth Turley for the release of the new book The Flyers! \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\nFour strangers meet in the big city and learn to embrace new experiences while keeping the best parts of home with them in this Bold Type­–driven middle grade—from the author of The Last Tree Town and If This Were a Story. \nWith the arrival of a glossy\, cream-colored envelope in the mail\, Elena Martinez’s dreams come true: she’s been chosen for the Spread Your Wings Magazine’s Young Flyers program—a week-long summer internship where she’ll get to learn the ins and outs of working for the most popular teen magazine. She heads to New York City\, anxious to get away from her best friend\, Summer\, who is suddenly spending so much time with another girl from school and being so secretive about it. \nOnce there Elena meets her fellow Young Flyers: Harlow\, who can get to the bottom of any story\, Whitney\, who has spot-on fashion sense\, and Cailin\, a social media star with thousands of followers and an eye for photography. \nAs the four new friends explore the city that never sleeps\, each girl brings a piece of home\, and a few secrets\, with them and learns that no one’s life is as glossy as it may appear. But with courage\, teamwork\, and lots of passion\, there’s no stopping a Flyer. \nAbout Beth Turley\nBeth Turley is a graduate of the MFA in creative and professional writing program at Western Connecticut State University. She lives and writes in southeastern Connecticut\, where the leaves changing color feels like magic and the water is never too far away. She is the author of If This Were a Story\, The Last Tree Town\, and The Flyers. Visit her on Twitter @Beth_Turley.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/beth-turley-the-flyers-author-talk-and-qa/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210826T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210826T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Kira Jane Buxton (Feral Creatures)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an virtual author talk and Q&A with Kira Jane Buxton for the release of the new book Feral Creatures. Kira will be in conversation with Bank Square and Savoy owner\, Annie Philbrick. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\nIn this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom\, the animal kingdom’s “favorite apocalyptic hero”is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity\, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic (Helen Macdonald). \nOnce upon an apocalypse\, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T. . . . \nWhen the world last checked-in with its favorite Cheeto addict\, the planet had been overrun by flesh-hungry beasts\, and nature had started re-claiming her territory from humankind. S.T.\, the intrepid crow\, alongside his bloodhound-bestie Dennis\, had set about saving pets that had become trapped in their homes after humanity went the way of the dodo. \nThat is\, dear reader\, until S.T. stumbled upon something so rare—and so precious—that he vowed to do everything in his power to safeguard what could\, quite literally\, be humanity’s last hope for survival. But in a wild world plagued by prejudiced animals\, feather-raising environments\, new threats so terrifying they make zombies look like baby bunnies\, and a horrendous dearth of cheesy snacks\, what’s a crow to do? \nWhy\, wing it on another big-hearted\, death-defying adventure\, that’s what! Joined by a fabulous new cast of animal characters\, S.T. faces many new challenges plus his biggest one yet: parenthood. \nAbout Kira Jane Buxton\nKira Jane Buxton’s debut novel\, Hollow Kingdom\, was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor\, the Audie Awards\, and the Washington State Book Awards\, and was named a best book of 2019 by NPR\, Book Riot\, and Good Housekeeping. She spends her time with three cats\, a dog\, two crows\, a charm of hummingbirds\, five Steller’s jays\, two dark-eyed juncos\, two squirrels\, and a husband.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-book-talk-kira-jane-buxton-feral-creatures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210824T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Beth Powning (The Sister's Tale)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Beth Powning for the new book The Sister’s Tale. Beth will be in conversation with Annie Philbrick\, owner of Bank Square and Savoy. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nA novel of orphans and widows\, terror and hope\, and the relationships that hold us together when things fall apart. \nWith murder dominating the news\, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the case of a British home child whose bad luck has turned worse. Mortified that she must purchase the girl in a pauper auction to save her from the lechery of wealthy townsmen\, Josephine Galloway finds herself suddenly the proprietor of a boarding house kept afloat by the sweat and tears of a curious and not completely compatible collection of women\, including this English teenager\, Flora Salford. Flora’s place in her new “family” cannot be complete until she rescues the missing person in her life\, the only one who understands the trials she has come through and fresh horrors met since they were separated years before. \nReconnecting with characters of Beth Powning’s beloved The Sea Captain’s Wife\, The Sister’sTale is a story of women finding their way\, together\, through terrible circumstances they could neither predict nor avoid\, but will stop at nothing to overcome. \nAbout Beth Powning\nBETH POWNING’s previous books include the bestselling novels The Hatbox Letters\, The Sea Captain’s Wife\, and most recently A Measure of Light\, a Globe and Mail Best Book and winner of the inaugural New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction. Her works of memoir include Seeds of Another Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature\, Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss\, and Edge Seasons: A Mid-Life Year. In 2010\, Beth was awarded New Brunswick’s Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for High Achievement in English-Language Literary Arts. She lives on a 300-acre farm near Sussex\, New Brunswick\, with her husband\, the renowned sculptor Peter Powning.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-author-talk-beth-powning-the-sisters-tale/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210819T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Megan Collins (The Family Plot)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Megan Collins for the release of the new book The Family Plot. Megan will be in conversation with Megan Miranda. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nCopies of The Family Plot purchased through the event will come with a signed bookplate while supplies last. \nAbout the Book\nWhen a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch\, horrifying secrets are exposed upon the discovery of another body in his grave in this chilling novel from the author of Behind the Red Door and The Winter Sister. \nAt twenty-six\, Dahlia Lighthouse remains haunted by her upbringing. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents\, she has been unable to move beyond the disappearance of her twin brother\, Andy\, when they were sixteen. \nAfter several years away and following her father’s death\, Dahlia returns to the house where the family soon makes a gruesome discovery: buried in their father’s plot is another body—Andy’s\, his skull split open with an ax. \nDahlia is quick to blame Andy’s murder on the serial killer who terrorized the island for decades\, while the rest of the Lighthouses react to the revelation in unsettling ways. Her brother\, Charlie\, pours his energy into creating a family memorial museum\, highlighting their research into the lives of famous murder victims; her sister\, Tate\, forges ahead with her popular dioramas portraying crime scenes; and their mother affects a cheerfully domestic facade\, becoming unrecognizable as the woman who performed murder reenactments for her children. As Dahlia grapples with her own grief and horror\, she realizes that her eccentric family\, and the mansion itself\, may hold the answers to what happened to her twin. \nAbout Megan Collins\nMegan Collins is the author of Behind the Red Door and The Winter Sister. She has taught creative writing for many years at both the high school and college level and is the managing editor of 3Elements Literary Review. She lives in Connecticut. \nAbout Megan Miranda\nMegan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls\, The Perfect Stranger\, The Last House Guest\, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick\, and The Girl from Widow Hills. She has also written several books for young adults\, including Come Find Me\, Fragments of the Lost\, and The Safest Lies. She grew up in New Jersey\, graduated from MIT\, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Follow @MeganLMiranda on Twitter and Instagram\, @AuthorMeganMiranda on Facebook\, or visit MeganMiranda.com.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-author-talk-megan-collins-the-family-plot/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210817T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Emily Adrian (The Second Season)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Emily Adrian for the new book The Second Season. Emily will be in conversation with Rufi Thorpe (The Knockout Queen). \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nRuth Devon starred for Georgetown Basketball back in college — until she injured her knee\, married her coach\, and found a new career calling games on the radio. Twenty years later\, Ruth and her now-ex-husband\, Lester\, are two of the most famous faces in sports media. When Lester decides to retire from the announcers’ booth\, Ruth goes after his job. If she gets it\, she will be the first woman to call NBA games on national television. \nFor now\, Ruth is reporting from the sideline of the NBA finals\, immersed in the high-pressure spectacle of the post-season. But in a deserted locker room at halftime\, Ruth makes a discovery that shatters her vision of her future. Instantly\, she is torn between the two things she has always wanted most: the game and motherhood. \nWith warmth and incisive observation\, Adrian brings to life the obsessions\, emotions\, and drama of fandom. The Second Season asks why\, how\, and whom we watch\, while offering a rich and complicated account of motherhood\, marriage\, and ambition. Adrian’s character study of Ruth Devon illuminates a beautiful basketball mind — and the struggle of a woman who claims authority in a male-dominated world. \nAbout the Authors\nEmily Adrian is the author of two critically acclaimed young adult novels\, Like It Never Happened and The Foreseeable Future. Everything Here Is under Control is her first adult novel. She lives in New Haven\, Connecticut\, with her husband\, her son\, and their dog\, Hank. \nRufi Thorpe received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009. She is the author of Dear Fang\, with Love and The Girls from Corona del Mar\, which was long listed for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize and for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. A native of California\, she currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and sons.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-author-talk-emily-adrian-the-second-season/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210812T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210812T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Read of the Day with Steven Rowley (The Guncle)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and The Day present a Read of the Day event with Steven Rowley for the new book\, The Guncle.\nThis event is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. \nPatrick\, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP\, for short)\, has always loved his niece\, Maisie\, and nephew\, Grant. That is\, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits\, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children\, no matter how adorable\, Patrick is\, honestly\, overwhelmed. \nSo when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own\, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules” ready to go\, Patrick has no idea what to expect\, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love\, a somewhat-stalled acting career\, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting–even if temporary–isn’t solved with treats and jokes\, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility\, and the realization that\, sometimes\, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human. \nWith the humor and heart we’ve come to expect from bestselling author Steven Rowley\, The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love\, patience\, and family in even the most trying of times. \nAbout the Author\nSteven Rowley is the author of The Editor and the national bestseller Lily and the Octopus\, which has been translated into nineteen languages. He has worked as a freelance writer\, newspaper columnist\, and screenwriter. Originally from Portland\, Maine\, Rowley is a graduate of Emerson College. He lives in Palm Springs\, California.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-author-talk-read-of-the-day-with-steven-rowley-the-guncle/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational
ORGANIZER;CN="Bank Square Books":MAILTO:assistant@banksquarebooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210811T183000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk at Bank Square Books: Nicholas Checker (The Saga of Marathon)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Nicholas Checker for his new book The Saga of Marathon. Nick will be joined by special guests Amby Burfoot\, and musician Rick Spencer. Light refreshments will also be offered. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. \nAbout the Book\nThe teenage son of a hetaera (woman of pleasure)\, Pheidippides and his beautiful young mother are not recognized as citizens of ancient Athens. Yet he is enchanted with the essence of the grand city-state and all the promise it holds. His short daily runs are on mere delivery errands\, but he aspires to one day be among the elite foot couriers who run up to fifty miles on vital missions of state. When an impending invasion from faraway Persia\, the world’s most powerful empire–led by a temperamental tyrant bent on destroying democracy–threatens Athens and the entire land of squabbling Greek city-states\, Pheidippides must undertake a grueling solitary trek to outrun enemy ships heading for his beloved city. Chased by assassins over a distance more than four times his usual runs\, can he save Athens and its fledgling democratic ideals…and at what cost? \nAbout Nicholas Checker\nNicholas Checker has two more published novels through another traditional publication company: Scratch and Druids\, Oak Tree Press\, CA; a stream of short stories that includes Shenandoah Magazine at Washington & Lee University; and an impressive number of independent films including the award winning short\, The Curse of Micah Rood\, starring former sitcom star\, Ron Palillo from the old Welcome Back Kotter TV series; and stage plays Elegy for an Icon — regarding the controversial John Mason Statue and the Pequot War — first performed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater; and his musical stage play\, Run to Elysia (music by Rick Spencer)\, also first performed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater … the very work from which Checker adapted The Saga of Marathon. \nSpecial guest speaker will be Mystic’s own Amby Burfoot — former Boston Marathon winner (protege of Mystic’s Johnny Kelley\, Boston Marathon winner and whose statue graces downtown Mystic); Amby has also gone to Greece and run the very same Marathon course as the legendary Pheidippides; and is the retired executive editor of Runner’s World Magazine; Amby is now a freelance writer with several books out and is still running. \nAlso included at the event will be songwriter & musician\, Rick Spencer who wrote the music & lyrics for the stage play written by Nicholas Checker\, Run to Elysia which premiered some years ago at the Eugene O’Neill Theater in Waterford. Checker adapted The Saga of Marathon novel from this play. Spencer will play and sing songs from Run to Elysia as the crowd files into the book store and is getting seated … and will also provide a soft instrumental backdrop to portions of Checker’s dramatic readings from his book. For further information on Rick Spencer\, visit: http://www.catfeather.com/
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/author-talk-at-bank-square-books-nicholas-checker-the-saga-of-marathon/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Chevy Stevens (Dark Roads)
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present an author talk and Q&A with Chevy Stevens for the new book Dark Roads. Chevy will be in conversation with fellow thriller writer Jennifer Hillier. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\n“Chevy Stevens is a brilliant and unique talent and Dark Roads is an instant classic. My hat’s off to her.” ― C. J. Box\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Range \nThe Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast\, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For decades\, young women traveling the road have gone missing. Motorists and hitchhikers\, those passing through or living in one of the small towns scattered along the region\, have fallen prey time and again. And no killer or abductor who has stalked the highway has ever been brought to justice. \nHailey McBride calls Cold Creek home. Her father taught her to respect nature\, how to live and survive off the land\, and to never travel the highway alone. Now he’s gone\, leaving her a teenage orphan in the care of her aunt whose police officer husband uses his badge as a means to bully and control Hailey. Overwhelmed by grief and forbidden to work\, socialize\, or date\, Hailey vanishes into the mountainous terrain\, hoping everyone will believe she’s left town. Rumors spread that she was taken by the highway killer―who’s claimed another victim over the summer. \nOne year later\, Beth Chevalier arrives in Cold Creek\, where her sister Amber lived―and where she was murdered. Estranged from her parents and seeking closure\, Beth takes a waitressing job at the local diner\, just as Amber did\, desperate to understand what happened to her and why. But Beth’s search for answers puts a target on her back―and threatens to reveal the truth behind Hailey’s disappearance… \nAbout Chevy Stevens\nCHEVY STEVENS lives on Vancouver Island with her husband and daughter. When she isn’t working on her next book\, she’s hiking with her two dogs on her favorite mountain trails and spending time with her family. Chevy’s current obsessions are vintage Airstreams\, Hollywood memoirs\, all things mid-century modern\, and stand-up comedians–not necessarily in that order. Her books\, including Still Missing\, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel\, have been published in more than thirty countries. \nAbout Jennifer Hillier\nJENNIFER HILLIER was born and raised in Toronto\, Canada\, lived in the Seattle area for years\, and has just moved back to Toronto with her husband and son. Jennifer is the author of Wonderland\, Creep\, and Jar of Hearts.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/virtual-author-talk-chevy-stevens-dark-roads/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Educational
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SUMMARY:Heather Webb (Three Words for Goodbye) In-Person Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Heather Webb for the release of the new book Three Words for Goodbye. \nThis event is free\, but registration is requested. Registration details are at the bottom of this page. \nAbout the Book\n“From Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb\, the bestselling authors of Meet Me in Monaco comes a coming-of-age novel set in pre-WWII Europe\, perfect for fans of Jennifer Robson\, Beatriz Williams\, and Kate Quinn. \nThree cities\, two sisters\, one chance to correct the past . . . \nNew York\, 1937: When estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers learn their grandmother is dying\, they agree to fulfill her last wish: to travel across Europe—together. They are to deliver three letters\, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn’t seen since traveling to Europe forty years earlier; a journey inspired by famed reporter\, Nellie Bly. \nClara\, ever-dutiful\, sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock\, but it’s also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes the opportunity to develop her ambitions to report on the growing threat of Hitler’s Nazi party and Mussolini’s control in Italy. \nConstantly at odds with each other as they explore the luxurious Queen Mary\, the Orient Express\, and the sights of Paris and Venice\,\, Clara and Madeleine wonder if they can fulfil Violet’s wish\, until a shocking truth about their family brings them closer together. But as they reach Vienna to deliver the final letter\, old grudges threaten their reconciliation again. As political tensions rise\, and Europe feels increasingly volatile\, the pair are glad to head home on the Hindenburg\, where fate will play its hand in the final stage of their journey. \nAbout the Authors\nHeather Webb is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of The Last Ship Home\, The Phantom’s Apprentice\, Rodin’s Lover\, and Becoming Josephine. Heather is also a freelance editor\, and teaches craft courses at a local college. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages\, worldwide. She lives in Connecticut with her family and one feisty rabbit. \nHazel Gaynor is a freelance writer and author whose work has appeared throughout the media in Ireland and the United Kingdom. She is a features writer for the national Irish writing website Writing.ie and she also writes a popular guest blog Carry on Writing. She received the 2012 Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award for emerging writers. Originally from Yorkshire\, England\, Hazel now lives in Ireland with her husband\, two young children\, and an accident-prone cat.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/heather-webb-three-words-for-goodbye-in-person-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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