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SUMMARY:Leah Angstman (Out Front the Following Sea) Author Talk and Signing at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents Leah Angstman discussing the book Out Front the Following Sea. This event will be moderated by Nancy Burns-Fusaro from the Westerly Sun. \nAbout the Book\nOut Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman’s survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild\, heresy is publicly punishable\, and being independent is worse than scorned—it is a death sentence. At the onset of King William’s War between French and English settlers in 1689 New England\, Ruth Miner is accused of witchcraft for the murder of her parents and must flee the brutality of her town. She stows away on the ship of the only other person who knows her innocence: an audacious sailor—Owen—bound to her by years of attraction\, friendship\, and shared secrets. But when Owen’s French ancestry finds him at odds with a violent English commander\, the turmoil becomes life-or-death for the sailor\, the headstrong Ruth\, and the cast of Quakers\, Pequot Indians\, soldiers\, highwaymen\, and townsfolk dragged into the fray. Now Ruth must choose between sending Owen to the gallows or keeping her own neck from the noose. \nAbout the Author\nLeah Angstman is a historian and transplanted Michigander. Her writing has been a finalist for the Saluda River Prize\, Cowles Book Prize\, Able Muse Book Award\, Bevel Summers Fiction Prize\, and Chaucer Book Award\, and has appeared in Publishers Weekly\, L.A. Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Nashville Review\, Slice\, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief for Alternating Current and vice chair for a Colorado historical commission.
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SUMMARY:Kay Tobler Liss (The Last Resort: A Novel) Author Talk at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 15th at 6:00 PM at Bank Square Books for an author talk and Q&A with Kay Tobler Liss for her book The Last Resort! \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.
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SUMMARY:Paul Dunion (Wisdom: Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate) Author Talk at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Paul Dunion for the new book\, Wisdom: 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:John Patrick Green (InvestiGators) Author Talk and Book Signing at Savoy Bookshop & Café
DESCRIPTION:Savoy Bookshop & Café presents a storytime with John Patrick Green for the new book\, InvestiGators: Braver and Boulder! \nAbout the Book\nJohn Patrick Green’s goofy graphic novel series follows the super spy alligator duo the InvestiGators as they travel through the sewers and fight the forces of evil. \nMANGO and BRASH are the INVESTIGATORS:\nsewer-loving agents of S.U.I.T.* and scourge of supervillains everywhere! \nMeet Mango and Brash\, the super spy alligator duo in John Patrick Green’s goofy graphic novel series InvestiGators. These gumshoe gators travel through the sewers and fight the forces of evil with their Very Exciting Spy Technology and never-failing method of toilet-based traveling. Can the two follow the clues\, crack the cases\, and catch the criminals in the jaws of justice? Find out in the fifth installment of this fun\, laugh-out-loud gator sleuth series for kids. \n*Special Undercover Investigation Teams \nAbout John Patrick Green\nJohn Patrick Green is a human with the human job of making books about animals with human jobs\, such as Hippopotamister\, Kitten Construction Company\, and InvestiGators. John is definitely not just a bunch of animals wearing a human suit pretending to have a human job. He is also the artist and co-creator of the graphic novel series Teen Boat!\, with writer Dave Roman. John lives in Brooklyn in an apartment that doesn’t allow animals other than the ones living in his head.
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SUMMARY:Thomas Bardenwerper (Mona Passage) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Thomas Bardenwerper for the new book\, Mona Passage. \nAbout the Book\nMona Passage is the story of two neighbors in San Juan\, Puerto Rico: Galán Betances\, a Cuban emigrant\, and Pat McAllister\, a young Coast Guard officer. During long evenings spent together talking on their Calle Luna rooftop\, a deep friendship develops based on shared traumas and a common desire to heal. When Galán learns that his sister\, Gabriela\, is going to be committed to a mental health facility in Cuba\, he plans her escape to Puerto Rico. Pat\, whose Coast Guard cutter patrols the Mona Passage for drug traffickers and migrants\, warns Galán that such a journey will be treacherous—perhaps fatal. Aware of the dangers but determined for Gabriela to live a full life\, Galán hands over all the money he has to a Dominican smuggler based out of a San Juan nightclub\, and Gabriela begins her terrifying journey. \nKnowing that his cutter may be all that separates Galán and Gabriela—and haunted by the human suffering he has witnessed at sea—Pat must decide. Will he remain true to his oath\, as his older brother had done in Iraq? Or will he risk his own future—and perhaps his freedom—for his closest friend? \nOn a moonless night\, two armed vessels converge in the Mona Passage\, and three lives change forever. \nAbout Thomas Bardenwerper\nThomas “Buddy” Bardenwerper served five years in the US Coast Guard aboard cutters homeported in Maine and Puerto Rico. He participated in humanitarian and law enforcement missions from the Gulf of Maine to the Caribbean Basin. After being medically retired for Type 1 diabetes in 2018\, Bardenwerper began a joint degree program at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Upon graduation in 2022\, Bardenwerper will be moving to Miami with his wife and daughter. “Mona Passage” is his first novel.
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SUMMARY:Sasha Graham's 'Magic of Tarot' with Tarot Readings at Savoy Bookshop & Café
DESCRIPTION:Savoy Bookshop & Café presents tarot readings with Sasha Graham author of the new book\, The Magic of Tarot. You can receive a free tarot reading with the purchase of The Magic of Tarot! \nAbout The Magic of Tarot\nBring Enchantment and Luminous Energy into Your Readings\nTarot is more than a card trick. It’s a chance to empower your intuition\, dive into your dreams\, and get to the heart of the matter. The Magic of Tarot is a fantastic guide to creating your own marvelous and magical practice. With her irresistible charm and straightforward guidance\, Sasha Graham shows you how to craft a divine\, sparkling destiny using spreads\, exercises\, spells\, and prompts. \nThe Magic of Tarot opens your eyes to a richer\, more enlightened style of divination. Sasha encourages you to flex your intuitive muscles\, confidently use tarot magic and rituals\, and perform readings for other people. She also walks you through every card meaning\, introduces you to dream and shadow work\, helps you interpret colors\, numbers\, and patterns\, and so much more. This book lets you fearlessly jump in and enjoy magical experiences that you’ll never forget. \nAbout Sasha Graham\nSasha Graham is the bestselling author of over ten books and tarot kits\, including 365 Tarot Spreads\, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot\, and Dark Wood Tarot. She teaches tarot classes and produces tarot events at New York City’s premier cultural institutions\, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sasha has appeared on film\, television\, radio\, and in the New York Times. Visit her at SashaGraham.com.
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SUMMARY:Judy Benson & Roxanne Steed (Earth and Sky) Author Talk and Q&A at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Judy Benson and illustrator Rozanne Steed for the new book\, Earth & Sky: Nature Meditations in Word and Watercolor. \nAbout the Book\nBrief essays and beautiful paintings that present insights into the wonders of nature. \nAbout the Author\nJudy Benson has been the communications coordinator at Connecticut Sea Grant and editor of its award-winning biannual magazine Wrack Lines since 2017. Before that she worked as a reporter and editor at several Connecticut newspapers\, concluding her daily journalism career as the health and environment reporter at The Day of New London. She earned both her bachelor’s degree in journalism and a Master of Science in natural resources from the University of Connecticut. In addition to writing articles for Wrack Lines\, her creative non-fiction essays and opinion pieces have been published in Appalachia\, Connecticut Woodlands\, Connecticut Hearst newspapers\, The Connecticut Mirror and The Day. She lives with her husband in southeastern Connecticut\, a part of the world they love for its many public open spaces\, shoreline and easy access to great camping spots throughout New England.\nRoxanne Steed is a painter of well-loved places\, a traveler\, gardener\, nature lover and teacher. She began painting in her younger years\, trying out watercolors\, pastels\, oil and acrylics and savoring them all. Throughout her years as a Navy wife\, she found opportunities for great training in each of the many places she and her family lived. Formal study at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme\, CT; The Art League School in Alexandria\, VA; and Watts Atelier in Encinitas\, CA\, gave her a classical foundation. Roxanne focused on oil painting for 20 years before being drawn back to the natural beauty of watercolors in 2013. She teaches in that medium and her biggest thrill is watching her students discover and grow their love of painting. While her home\, studio and main teaching venue is in southeastern Connecticut\, she also leads artist workshops in the U.S. and abroad.
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SUMMARY:Jayne Pillemer (Still Mine) Author Signing at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents a weekend book signing with Jayne Pillemer for the release of the new book Still Mine. \nAbout the Book\nWhat will I do if I don’t have you? \nAre you still mine? \nOur hands around a cup of hot chocolate\, sweet and warm. Our boots splashing in puddles. The song you sing to me when the sun comes up. This is how we say “I love you” every day. \nBut what happens when the person you love is gone? Your heart hurts and you miss them\, but even though your eyes can’t see them anymore and your arms can’t hug them\, they are still there\, still yours to love . . . just in a different way. \nJane Pillemer’s lyrical story and Sheryl Murray’s sweet illustrations offer gentle comfort and reassurance to anyone who has experienced loss that you still carry those you love with you in the smallest things—and in your heart—forever. \nAbout the Author\nJayne Pillemer is a writer and former children’s book editor. Still Mine is her first book. She loves to make her Grandma Helen’s old recipes and drink hot chocolate like they used to do together on sleepovers. Jayne lives in Westchester\, NY\, with her husband\, children\, and a heart full of love for people who are still hers. \nSheryl Murray always had her nose in a book and her head in the clouds as a kid. Her sister Sheila and her own imagination were her very best friends\, and they spent many happy hours creating their own world together. Now she finds incredible joy and hope in helping bring stories to life for other kids through her artwork. Please visit Sheryl at www.sherylmurray.com.
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SUMMARY:Andrea Steele (Zen: The Anatomy of the Perfect Crime) Author Signing at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author signing with Andrea Steele for the new book\, Zen: The Anatomy of the Perfect Crime. \nAbout the Book\nSwiss equestrian William “Zen” Griegg skyrockets to the top of the European show jumping circuit. As he sets his sights on the 2000 Olympic Games\, his beloved horse Tiger is abducted en route to a competition in the United States.\nZen’s father\, Sigmund Griegg\, again teams with American Alana Eastwood to solve an international mystery that leads them from a secret tunnel in the Owl Mountains of Poland\, through the art galleries of Zürich\, to the Hamilton Farm Equestrian Center in Gladstone\, New Jersey. \nGriegg and Eastwood uncover an ingenious plot to pull off the perfect crime. The ransom for the safe return of the horse: Lost treasure from World War II that only a handful of people know to exist. \nAs the clock ticks to reunite Zen with Tiger in time to compete in the Olympic trials\, Griegg and Eastwood use the origins of social media to unnerve the abductors and unravel their complex crime.\nThe story’s fiery climax leaves readers to reflect that\, one day\, we all dine at a banquet table of past actions where karma dishes out our last meal. \nAdvanced Praise for Zen\n“Zen takes the reader on a perfect 20-meter circle of international equestrian intrigue… saddle up for a ride through worlds dangerous and delightful in Zen…” —L.A. Sokolowski\, The Original Equinista™\nFacebook * Instagram * LinkedIn * Twitter\n• • • • •\n“A full-bodied read that is delightfully mercurial and intriguing. It’s an excellent probe into the world of art smuggling that adds just enough history to be thoroughly absorbing without requiring any background in the art world. Likewise\, no knowledge of horses is needed to appreciate the exciting world of international show jumping—the plot is grounded in an absorbing mystery that will captivate a broad audience…One of the best conclusions to a story that I’ve seen\, lately.”\n—Diane Donovan\, Donovan Literary Services\, Midwest Book Review \nAbout Andrea Steele\nAndrea Wilson Steele was born in England\, and lived in Canada as a child before her family emigrated to the United States and settled in Connecticut. An accountant by profession\, she was an officer in two insurance-related businesses during her corporate career. \nA life-long equestrian\, she teamed with horse trainer\, Mark Russell\, to write Lessons in Lightness: The Art of Educating the Horse\, published by the Lyons Press in 2004. \nIn 2008\, Andrea founded the video production company\, Advanced Equine Studies\, to produce a series of college-level DVDs and online learning experiences for equestrians and equine caregivers worldwide. Advanced Equine Studies received the prestigious Best Educational Program award at New York City’s EQUUS Film Festival in 2015 and 2016. \nIn 2019 Mouse Hole Farm Press was founded. Her first novel in the Griegg/Eastwood Mysteries\, The Trap\, launched to critical acclaim in 2020. The series continues with book two\, Zen. Watch for book three\, Otobang’s Gift\, in the future. \nAndrea lives on a horse farm in rural Connecticut with her husband\, horses\, and dogs.
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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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LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Downtown Mystic
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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.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/courtney-mcinvale-reardon-civil-war-ghosts-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: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/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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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.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/paul-dunion-wisdom-apprenticing-to-the-unknown-and-befriending-fate-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Downtown Mystic
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SUMMARY:Sean Guidera (Ethan the Raindrop) Author Signing at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:About the Book\nEthan is a young raindrop living a very content life floating in a cloud with his brothers and sisters. But a trip over the big blue ocean brings a huge event that changes his life forever. Alerted by his brother that they are needed on the ground\, young Ethan is afraid of what may be in store for him. \n“What I will be? Where I will go?” asks Ethan. \nHis brother kindly replies\, “Whether a drop of rain or a flake of snow\, you’ll be what you’ll be\, and when you know\, you’ll know.” \nNervous and anxious\, Ethan begins an incredible journey down into the vastness of the world. He discovers that even though he doesn’t always have complete control over what happens\, he always ends up where he’s supposed to be. \nFor fans of Pat Zietlow Miller and Kate Messner\, Ethan the Raindrop: Away from Home and Back Again is an exciting tale about finding your place in the world. \nAbout Sean Guidera\nSean Patrick Guidera graduated with a degree in interpersonal communication from the University of Delaware. An avid writer of poetry\, short stories\, and children’s books\, he was born in New Jersey and lived in Colorado for five years after finishing college. His other work can be found at www.spgwrites.com. \nHe currently lives in Charleston\, South Carolina.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/sean-guidera-ethan-the-raindrop-author-signing-at-bank-square-books/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Authors,Downtown Mystic
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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.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/spencer-quinn-its-a-wonderful-woof-author-talk-and-qa-at-bank-square-books/
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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/
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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.
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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/
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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/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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: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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SUMMARY:Bank Square Books: Heather Webb (Three Words for Goodbye) Author Talk and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Heather Webb and Hazel Gaynor 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. \nRegister
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/bank-square-books-heather-webb-three-words-for-goodbye-author-talk-and-qa/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Veselka presents THE GREAT OFFSHORE GROUNDS
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present a virtual author talk and Q&A with Vanessa Veselka\, author of The Great Offshore Grounds. This event is free and open to the public\, but you will need to register to join the Crowdcast Stream. \nAbout the Book\nA wildly original\, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies–national\, individual\, and collective–that drive and define us. \nOn the day of their estranged father’s wedding\, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle\, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats\, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except\, instead of money\, what their father gives them is information–a name–which both reveals a stunning family secret and compels them to come to grips with it. In the face of their new reality\, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another\, as well as their definitions of freedom. \nMoving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North\, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds\, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve\, linguistic vitality\, and undeniable tenderness. \nAbout the Author\nVANESSA VESELKA is the author of the novel Zazen\, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA\, and her nonfiction in GQ\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, The Atavist\, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been\, at various times\, a teenage runaway\, a sex worker\, a union organizer\, an independent record label owner\, a train hopper\, a waitress\, and a mother. She lives in Portland\, OR. \nREGISTER HERE
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Veselka presents THE GREAT OFFSHORE GROUNDS
DESCRIPTION:Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present a virtual author talk and Q&A with Vanessa Veselka\, author of The Great Offshore Grounds. This event is free and open to the public\, but you will need to register to join the Crowdcast Stream. \nAbout the Book\nA wildly original\, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies–national\, individual\, and collective–that drive and define us. \nOn the day of their estranged father’s wedding\, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle\, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats\, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs. Except\, instead of money\, what their father gives them is information–a name–which both reveals a stunning family secret and compels them to come to grips with it. In the face of their new reality\, the sisters and their adopted brother each set out on journeys that will test their faith in one another\, as well as their definitions of freedom. \nMoving from Seattle’s underground to the docks of the Far North\, from the hideaways of the southern swamps to the storied reaches of the Great Offshore Grounds\, Vanessa Veselka spins a tale with boundless verve\, linguistic vitality\, and undeniable tenderness. \nAbout the Author\nVANESSA VESELKA is the author of the novel Zazen\, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA\, and her nonfiction in GQ\, The Atlantic\, Smithsonian\, The Atavist\, and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism. She has been\, at various times\, a teenage runaway\, a sex worker\, a union organizer\, an independent record label owner\, a train hopper\, a waitress\, and a mother. She lives in Portland\, OR. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/vanessa-veselka-presents-the-great-offshore-grounds/
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SUMMARY:Honor Book Day at Bank Square Books
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 6th\, from 12:00pm – 5:00pm at Bank Square Books \nHonor a friend or loved one by purchasing a book during the 18th annual Honor Book Sale. All titles purchased will be donated to the Mystic & Noank Library’s collection featuring your very own\, personalized bookplate. This is a wonderful way to support the library and a beloved local bookstore while honoring a special someone.
URL:https://thisismystic.com/event/honor-book-day-at-bank-square-books-2/
LOCATION:Bank Square Books\, 80 Stonington Road Suite 8\, Mystic\, CT\, 06355\, United States
CATEGORIES:Benefits,Community,Downtown Mystic,Fundraiser,Library,Shopping/Sales
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