Join Bedford 2030 for their Community Read this February. Award winning author Florence Williams will discuss her book “The Nature Fix” at the Katonah Library on February 15th at 6pm.

Save the Date! The Art event of the year is coming up. Art Show: Bedford. Preview Party: January 27th, Exhibition & Sale: January 28/29 and February 3-5.

Join us for an hour of watercolor and community. Next Paint Break — January 18th from 1-2pm.

Purchase your ticket today for Jerry Pinkney and The Power of Change Through Children’s Literature, a panel discussion and reception to commemorate Jerry Pinkney’s legacy in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. Saturday, January 14, 2023. Panel Discussion and Performance: 5:00 – 7:00 PM | Reception: 7:00 – 8:00 PM

The perfect post holiday read. A flowing river of family. Of secrets and darkness and light. Of family stories and lies and alliances. Of sibling truths and relationships and the ebb and flow of family through the years. A lovely patterning of characters and relationships and dissection of one’s place in their larger family structure.

An amazingly well written piece of time and place with a perfectly crafted side of crazy. A slow and sticky summer feeling. That summer when time rolls slow and life gets away from you. When your best friend or your teenage crush and you hide away from the world dreaming of the future or talking about life with a capital L, or trying to fill the time with something more. Wanting more. And then it gets away from you. You make bad choices or do something not quite right and the secret of it is the one thing that lives in your memory forever. Have you been there? Are you picturing that thing? - then this story is for you. “Now is Not the Time to Panic” by Kevin Wilson

Obviously as a bookstore AND a coffee shop, we hire book lovers. Our staff covet stories, collect favorites, indulge in cover art discussions, and trade books with each other. Each staff member has a favorite genre and we all share our tastes and style.

The squealing when I open boxes usually tells me when I’ve hit the right purchase for the store shelves — and when I see the staff making piles of their own in the back to take home for Christmas gifts I KNOW I’ve found the perfect things for customers. Here are some of their favorites this year.

My favorite part of Christmas is the stockings. I live for tiny treats tucked in a stocking. Stationery, toys, candy, art supplies, pens, all of it. I shop for the store based on this affinity for little bits, so people always comment that they find all of their stocking stuffers here.

Book Club Book for January — choices

I know everyone shouts “buy local” “shop local” but for small businesses it’s everything to have your support. So I took the day to shop Pound Ridge with my bestie.

A former influencer decides to undergo a controversial new surgery to undo her years of filler and plastic surgery in search of rebirth and regain her loss of innocence.

Why we support Westchester Land Trust:

In a time when climate change is at the forefront of everyone’s minds, adding our local land preservation organization to the list seems like the perfect fit. Not only does the Land Trust preserve the local character of our town by creating open spaces in perpetuity, but allows for public access to nature trails and preserved areas for walking and learning…