“The Girl Who Was Too Big for the Page” is a sweet story about a young girl who worries she’s too tall to stay in her own story. Taller than her friends, she tries to figure out how to “fit” on the page. Themes of acceptance and friendship throughout.

Gardening gifts and seed kits. Give them a little something to keep them company in their next home. Great as teacher gifts too!

Grad gifts for artists. Specialty paints and beautiful brush sets and papers and sketch books. Encourage that creativity.

Join Queer & Now May 25th. RSVP to @queerandnowspcialclub on Instagram to hold a spot. “The way we dress can show or hide who we are; make us fit in, make us stand out, or make our own community. Yet "lesbian fashion" has been strangely overlooked. What secrets can it reveal about the lives and status of queer women through the ages?…

Join Penny June 10 at 1pm for our Foodie and travel book club. “From Erin French, owner of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining destination, a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal, and finding a community to lift her up
Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad’s diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This singular memoir―a classic American story―invites readers to Erin's corner of her beloved Maine to share the real person behind the “girl from Freedom” fairytale, and the not-so-picture-perfect struggles that have taken every ounce of her strength to overcome, and that make Erin’s life triumphant.”

May 31st at 2pm. Join Spenser for a discussion of “The Moviegoer.” “Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young man’s search for meaning amid a shallow consumerist landscape.
Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, fills his days with movies and casual sex. His life offers him nothing worth retaining; what he treasures are scenes from The Third Man or Stagecoach, not the personal experiences he knows other people hold dear. On the cusp of turning thirty, however, something changes: At Mardi Gras, he embarks on a quest for some form of authentic experience. The consequences of Binx’s quest, on both himself and his unstable cousin Kate, prove outrageous, absurd, moving, and indelible.”

We LOVE the summer vibes of a candy store - ice cream parlor. Come see what penny candy we’ve got or grab the perfect ice cream treat.

We LOVE the summer vibes of a candy store - ice cream parlor. Come see what penny candy we’ve got or grab the perfect ice cream treat.

Join Kind HeARTs Coalition for their Spring 2025 project celebratory reception and reading in honor of their writers and supporters who have rallied to promote body positivity and female empowerment. Thursday, May 29th, doors open at 6:30pm. Bedford Hills train Station. No RSVP required. Tickets $5 at the door. Enjoy a lively reading by acclaimed writers and invited community members, and browse their Empowerment Library of signed books donated by supporting authors. All proceeds benefit @girlsincewestchester and @nationalwomenslawcenter.

If a museum about you had a gift shop, what would you see in the window? Join us to paint your own sweet storefront featuring the mementos of your life. All materials are provided for this beginner-friendly watercolor project. May 17, 2025, Katonah Reading Room, 19 Edgemont Rd. Katonah, NY 10536. Contact us at (626) 840-1347 or email creativeoutletne@gmail.com. Registration Fee: $50.00. If registering more than for more than one person, please submit a separate registration for each participant. Register HERE.

This Thursday, May 15th at 7pm at the Bedford Playhouse. In Rewrite the Mother Code, Dr. Gertrude Lyons challenges limiting beliefs and expands the definition of motherhood. She blurs the lines that restrict women to narrow roles, inviting readers to embrace the truth that all women mother, and that mother energy is accessible to everyone, including men. This book celebrates motherhood by reintroducing spirituality and community, empowering women as the ultimate creators. The event will be moderated by Barri Leiner Grant, with books available for sale and signing. Buy event tickets HERE.

A Midsummer’s Night Dream discussion with Ava. June 20 at 1pm. “A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.”

May 25 at 12pm with Erika. “Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. Under the influence of Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, where he is able to indulge his desires while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only Dorian's picture bears the traces of his decadence.

A knowing account of a secret life and an analysis of the darker side of late Victorian society. The Picture of Dorian Gray offers a disturbing portrait of an individual coming face to face with the reality of his soul. Shocking in its suggestion of unspeakable sin, this novel was later used as evidence against Wilde when he was tried for indecency in 1895.”

Romantasy book club May 31 at 12:30pm. “When the gold-dusted court invitation arrives at Suraya Saab’s forge, she believes it’s a joke. Nobles might seek her skills as a bladesmith, but she has no qualifications as a potential bride for the crown prince. Still, the invitation is the chance at adventure, and the means to finally visit the capital city her late mother loved.”

Give the gift of time. Come grab some puzzle books or other tools to start a new hobby.

Make your own bouquet of these super fun AND useful soap flowers. Just add water and they go from pretty petals to bubbles!

Books and vases and soap flowers and fun things to make people happy.

Gorgeous containers, cute mugs, hand towels, candles, vases.

Lavender sugar, lavender salt scrub, lavender lotion, lavender incense. Perfect, purple, good smelling vibes.