Explore the “great contradiction” between principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the failures to end slavery and avoid Indian removal with a respected historian and award-winning author.

The Bookstock Festival of Words returns to Woodstock with programs around the village. The library will host Master Class workshops and Poetry readings. 

Set in New York City in alternating time periods – the 1950s and the early 2000s – Pollock’s Last Lover is the engrossing tale of two women whose lives collide as they contend with the art and legacy of the brilliant, tragic painter Jackson Pollock.

Love & Other Monsters, a new novel by Emily Franklin, is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters — both those on the page and those who walk among us.