Starry and Restless is a page-turning story of three reporters whose curiosity, grit, and ambition expanded the possibilities for women and meaningful work. The writer will discuss the ways these pioneering women changed how we see the world and the role of journalism with Jeff Sharlet.

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.

Ben Mezrich takes readers deep inside the weird, wild, and cutthroat world of competitive chess—where genius meets ambition, and every move could be your last.

Peter Lindenfeld’s daughter, Naomi, will present stories about her father and how his experience as a refugee affected his life.

A wise and warm debut novel about an Italian American grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter all named after the Roman myth of the Three Graces.

Warren Leach, an award-winning landscape designer, will highlight woody and herbaceous plants with good foliage color, architectural structure, and multi-seasonal interest that can be used in a diversity of ways to complement flowers in a mixed border.

Gavin Van Horn, executive editor, and Heather Swan, poetry editor, selected essays and poetry for Sensoria to call attention to the wondrous ways in which humans and other-than-human beings experience and perceive the world.