Join the Yankee Bookshop and NWPL to celebrate the launch of Higher Magic by local author Courtney Floyd!

Join us for a conversation with Gesine Bullock-Prado about her new cookbook, My Harvest Kitchen: 100+ Recipes to Savor the Seasons.

L. Annette Binder will read from her memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, an account of her mother's struggle with dementia. The author turns to mythology, poetry, science, and history in her quest to find meaning, community, and beauty as her mother’s cognition declines.

Join the Yankee Bookshop and NWPL for an evening of thought-provoking conversation with  BethMallow and Doug Teschner, authors of Beyond the Politics of Contempt: Practical Steps to Build Positive Relationships in Divided Times.

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.