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Foodie Book Club: All Consuming

Join Penny and the Foodie Book Club on October 21st at 1pm to discuss “All Consuming, why we eat the way we eat now.” “Our tastes have been radically refashioned, painstakingly engineered in the depths of food factories, and hacked by craveable Instagram recipes. They’ve been pulled into supermarket aisles and seduced by Michelin stars, transfixed by Top Chefs and shaped by fads. A deep dive into the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and demographic forces that have reshaped our relationship with food, All Consuming questions how our tastes have been shaped—and how much they are, in fact, our own.”

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These Fleeting Shadows Book Club

Join Sara on October 31st at 2pm for a discussion of “These Fleeting Shadows.” “The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an inheritance that will leave Helen Vaughan either rich...or dead.”…

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Circle of Days

Release date: Tuesday, September 23rd. Email or text us at 914.334.8019 to pre-order your copy! Circle of Days, by Ken Follet. From the bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.

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Bedford Playhouse Author Talk

Author Talk with Marty Ross-Dolen at the Bedford Playhouse. Wednesday, September 24th at 7pm.

In 1960, six years before Marty Ross-Dolen was born, her maternal grandparents were killed in an airline disaster involving the collision of two commercial jets over New York City. They were traveling from Columbus, Ohio, to seek placement for their family’s iconic magazine, Highlights for Children, on the newsstands. Their daughter—Marty’s mother—was fourteen years old at the time. This genre-bending memoir tells Marty’s story of being raised by a mother in protracted mourning.

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Romantasy book club: Swordheart

Join Hannah and her crew for the Romantasy book club - next discussion September 27th at 12:30pm: Swordheart.

The delightful charm of The Princess Bridemeets the delicious bodyguard romance of From Blood and Ash in this cozy fantasy romance from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher.”

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Greeny La-Roo

Join author Taylor Ganis Saturday night from 3-7pm during the Art Walk for a meet & greet and signing. Simple steps for helping kids to understand and help the environment.

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Art Walk! September 20

Join us in town this Saturday, September 20th from 3-7pm for the Katonah Art Walk. All through town enjoy art and music and community. We will have Kind HeArts Coalition with an environmental workshop upstairs (all ages), author Taylor Ganis of Greeny La-Roo, and Adelaide Black with her adorable crochet animals on the porch.

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Pocket Bear

Sweet and serious, as many of her books are, Katherine Applegate touches gently on the topics of war injuries and political refugees, but within the context of stuffed animals that come to life and look out for each other. If you loved the One and Only Ivan or others in the series, grab this next great read too.

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Action & Adventure book club: The Secret of Secrets

Join Gretchen on October 16 at 7pm to discuss this thriller. This is the perfect book to read as a couple or tell your fella about! We’d love some coed book club discussions.

The world’s most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.

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Trash & Sass Book Club: Everyone is Lying to You

Join Gretchen for the next Trash & Sass book club October 15 at 6:30pm. “From the bestselling author of THE SICILIAN INHERITANCE and the creator of the UNDER THE INFLUENCE podcast comes an explosive #tradwife thriller about two estranged friends, a sudden disappearance and murder, and the truly shocking revelation that everyone is lying to you about something...”

Please RSVP below and let us know you’re coming!

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Key Chains

New key chains from Emily Woods in stock! They’re just the best - sparkles included.

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Grow Kits

This mint is thriving! Love, love our starter grow kits. And of course the cutest little add ons like this lizard hanger. Come see what you want to grow!

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Classics Book Club: Frankenstein

Join Spenser on October 11th at 2pm for our Classics book club: Frankenstein.

Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the gothic novel's enduring

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Non-fiction book club “Into the Ice”

Join Spenser for his non-fiction book club on September 27th at 2pm for a discussion of “Into the Ice.”

Only a few hundred vessels have ever transited the Northwest Passage, and substantially fewer have done so in a fiberglass-hulled boat like Polar Sun. But Mark was determined to return to the Arctic, where he cut his teeth as a young climber, and in the process investigate one of the great mysteries of exploration: What really happened to Sir John Franklin and his entire 128-man crew, which disappeared into these ice-strewn waters 175 years ago?

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The Secret of Secrets

A NEW Dan Brown comes out tomorrow. “The Secret of Secrets” by the author of “The Da Vinci Code” does not disappoint! Fast paced, pulls you right in, and takes you to explore new concepts in human consciousness and history. Loving it!

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Coffee Ice Cream

Back to Fall means coffee ice cream time. Pair your favorite foods for ultimate happiness. Made with a vanilla ice cream base and real espresso. Tastyyyyyy!

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Foodie Book Club: Food Person

Join Penny and the Foodie Crew for a discussion of “Food Person” on September 16 at 1pm. “For fans of Alison Espach's The Wedding People and Dolly Alderton's Good Material, a delectable comedy of manners about cooking, ambition, and friendship set in the food world as a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook for a famous (and famously chaotic) Hollywood starlet.“

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