{"id":185580,"date":"2025-10-02T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:51:10","slug":"local-author-butch-makis-book-signing-at-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185580\/","title":{"rendered":"Local author Butch Maki&#8217;s book signing at library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for the Transcript&#8217;s daily newsletter and get essential news each day.<\/p>\n<p>Local author Butch Maki will host a public book signing for his novel \u201cBikini Beach\u201d on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. at the New Ipswich Library, 6 Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBikini Beach,\u201d a two-time national award winner and Amazon bestseller, moves between the battlefields of Vietnam and the challenges of homecoming, blending humor, resilience and transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote \u2018Bikini Beach\u2019 to honor the people and places that shaped us,\u201d Maki said. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to share the book with neighbors and friends at our hometown library.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free. A limited number of copies will be available for purchase, and attendees may bring previously purchased copies for signing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LedgerVector.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10691\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Join your neighbors and subscribe!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Award-winning coverage on breaking news and today\u2019s top stories in and around the Monadnock region. Food, arts, sports \u2013 it\u2019s all here. You\u2019ll have unlimited access to our stories, our e-edition, newly-added archival stories, audio and more!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/monadnock-logo-white.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10693\" style=\"width:220px\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhat to Read Next\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTagged: <a href=\"https:\/\/ledgertranscript.com\/tag\/new-ipswich-nh\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Ipswich NH<\/a>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for the Transcript&#8217;s daily newsletter and get essential news each day. Local author Butch Maki will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134,1347,118519],"class_list":{"0":"post-185580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-new-ipswich-nh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}