Celebrate reading with us! Save the date: June 25th, from 3-4:30pm. As part of the Read 25 in 2025 challenge, Gretchen Rubin is partnering with Bookshop.org and local bookstores to host a nationwide gathering on Wednesday, June 25th, for a special 25-minute silent reading experience, followed by lively discussions about the books that captivate us.

Join Gretchen for a reading at the Spring Kind HeARTs Coalition evening this Thursday, May 29th from 6:30-8:30pm at the Bedford Hills train station. Enjoy pieces from authors and community members in support of women’s empowerment and purchase signed books from authors who have donated to their empowerment book shop. All proceeds support Girls Inc. Westchester and National Women’s Law Project. $5 at the door, walk-ins welcome.

LOVED this family drama by Allison Larkin, a Somers NY native. After years away, a young woman returns to her family home in Somers to face her family drama and demons. A sweet collection of characters join you in this story of the found family - the friends and characters in your world that make up YOUR PEOPLE. Super fun to have it set locally. Grab a copy for the perfect weekend read. - Gretchen

Join us on June 21st from 4-6pm during the Katonah Art Walk with author Heather Clark signing her newest novel “The Scrapbook”. Pre-order your copy now!

“From the award-winning author of Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clark's own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death.”

Gorgeous small pocket notes for Dad to throw in his briefcase or hiking pack. Support Dad’s creative side.

Don’t forget your favorite teachers. Grab them some seeds and a planter. Some pens. A book or journal. A gift card. Whatever you think they love. We’ve got some fun choices that everyone would love to receive.

Love, love these new watercolor journals. Throw them in your beach bag for on the go watercolor journaling. Beautiful linen covers and a great high quality watercolor paper make them the perfect summer travel book and keepsake of your memories. Available in a variety of sizes.

If you like Sci fi-horror-murder mystery-Minecraft-escape room vibes…this one’s for you. Not my usual read, but I had to know what happened and kept going. What a story! Get your new horror read right here. - Gretchen

It’s Dad’s turn June 15th. Come grab a good treat, a book, some art supplies, some fun for Dad to thank him for all he does for you.

Whether it’s a book or a new pen or just a thank you note and a gift card, thank your teachers! While you’re shopping, think of all of those snow days, late starts, vacation days that the kids were home with you and double whatever thank you you were thinking of. We do gift cards that cover books and supplies and COFFEE and treats - consider grabbing one for them along with a new plant kit or a journal or some art supplies.

Loving this fabulous drawing book full of ideas, prompts and little lessons to help you create and get your creativity going daily. Whether you’re sketching a part of your normal day or taking time to make a travel journal - this is an excellent guide.

From twenty-two-year naval and marine veteran Montel Williams comes a page-turning history of how one World War II aircraft carrier’s crew defied all odds, redefining the very meaning of what it means to struggle, persevere and survive.

“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.