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08/05/2026

Join us this Friday 8/7 at 6pm Let's be sane together!

07/31/2026

Join our Book Club in collab with intuitively wild {ritual for the modern realm} 8/20 6:30 pm! with the author! Stefan Merrill Block

07/30/2026

Find an "island of sanity" at the bookstore! Join us 6pm on Friday August 7th for our Summah Salon! an evening of new literature, poetry, and visual art with Stephanie Davies, whose new book Surviving a Patriarchy on Steroids helps us find “islands of sanity” in an insane world; poet and meditation guide Jacinta Lanz whose new book On Our Way/En Nuestro Camino is a bilingual work that lives at the intersections of language, body, and breath; Hudson Valley award-winning poet and writing mentor Janlori Goldman who’ll read from Bread from a Stranger’s Oven; and visual artist, Nancy Ostrovsky, a “pioneer of performance painting” who in addition to being an artist who has exhibited all over the world, designed the cover art for Stephanie’s new book Surviving a Patriarchy on Steroids. Come thru! Let's be sane together

07/20/2026

Join us this Friday!!! July 24, 2026, from 6-7:00 PM to celebrate the publication of:

Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi

Author of The Stars Are Not Yet Bells who will be discussing her new book!

About the Book: Hannah Lillith Assadi’s lyrical novel Paradiso 17 follows Sufien, a Palestinian man whose life is forever fractured by exile after fleeing his home during the 1948 Nakba. His restless journey spans decades and continents, from Kuwait and Italy to New York and Arizona, propelled by a constant search for belonging, profound loss, and the bittersweet memory of home. Moving in reverse-chronological order, this hauntingly beautiful narrative weaves together Sufi mysticism, unexpected love, and the vivid, light-filled secrets of a resilient life fully lived.

Praise for Paradiso 17

“Generations are captured here, loss and pain and miraculous attempt at renewal. A beautiful work.” —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All-Stars

Take back your time! Come be with us at the bookstore! Light refreshments! Meaningful conversations!

07/08/2026

Meet Finch! Our first reader for Kids Read to Kids! that's him at 9, and now at 12! Kids Read to Kids will be every Sunday in July at 10:15 AM.

In a bid to help us fill July with unlikely moments of uplift and joy in a world we all know needs it, we’re launching our Kids Read to Kids series, Sunday Mornings at 10:15 AM. The first one is this Sunday July 12th.

Finch, whom I first met three years ago when he slipped a note with a smiley face on it onto Blue Heron Books’ front counter that read: “Big jobs $10 and small jobs $5. Call my mom” is now going to be our first Kids Read to Kids reader.

Here’s his bio that he wrote himself:

Hi, my name is Finch. I have been working at Blue Heron Books for 3 years now.

I am twelve years old and I love reading, fishing, basketball, and gaming.

Currently, I'm knee-deep in Jurassic Park and it's great! I first started my passion for fishing when I was at Lake George and my grandfather started to teach me how to fish. I recently started to get interested in basketball. I have lived in High Falls my entire life and was overjoyed to see a bookstore in the town for the first time.

So, please, bring ya kids ages 3-7, or whatever, it’s o.k. bring all the kids if they’re around those ages and Finch is going to share a story (or a few) from our shelves. It’s free!

The Kids Read to Kids Dates for July are: 7/12, 7/19, and 7/26, 10:15 AM.

07/07/2026

Loving Arrangements: Stories About Modern Living and Loving

Sunday, July 12, 2026
4:00 PM 5:30 PM

Please Join editor Nan Bauer-Maglin and contributors, Mindy Lewis, Ronald E. Hellman, and Vicki Breitbart, for an afternoon of candid and insightful conversations about their new book, Loving Arrangements: Stories About Modern Living and Loving (Rutgers UP, June 2026).

Love songs and Hollywood romances make it all sound so simple: you find your soul mate, move in together, get married, never stray from the path of monogamy, and live happily ever after. But real life tends to be more complicated. Many couples pursue alternative living arrangements, and some even pursue alternative loving arrangements.

Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood, the twenty-nine personal essays in this collection offer a variety of perspectives and experiences with nontraditional relationships and forms of cohabitation. The contributors include married couples who live in separate cities and single people who find companionship through communes and cohousing. These essays also present varied outlooks on the practice and ethics of having multiple partners, with some embracing large polycules while others opt for “monogamish” relationships. Everyone has a different story to tell, from close friends living together to form a chosen family, to couples navigating the shifting boundaries of their relationship as one partner begins a gender transition. With contributors across generations and representing the full ethnic and cultural diversity of the United States, Loving Arrangements demonstrates the myriad ways that we live and love today.

06/16/2026

Saturday, June 20, 2026
6:00 PM 7:00 PM

Celebrate Pride with us! with Susan Rukeyser author of BAD WORDS: Feminist, Q***r & otherwise Radical (World Split Open Press, 2025) a collection of short work, which inspired the Desert Split Open Mic to encourage and amplify literary work that is feminist, q***r, or “otherwise” radical…AND …The Worst Kind of Girl (Red Light Lit Press, 2025) Rukeyser’s literary/LGBTQ+ novel set in the California desert and Connecticut. It takes its questions from her own experience, coming out as LGBTQ+ at midlife, and the internal reckoning that followed.

Susan Rukeyser lives in Joshua Tree, California, but for a while, a long time ago, she had a used bookstore in Kingston, New York. Her new novel is The Worst Kind of Girl (Red Light Lit Press, 2025). She created the Desert Split Open literary event series to amplify work that is feminist, q***r, or “otherwise” radical. Susan’s own work on these themes is collected in Bad Words, published by World Split Open Press, her imprint for select, bold titles, including Feckless C**t: A Feminist Anthology, which features several contributors from the Hudson Valley.

Susan will be in conversation with featured Hudson Valley Writers and contributors to Rukeyser’s anthology Feckless C**t— Tina Barry, Jana Martin, and Nina Shengold. Susan Rukeyser Tina Barry

06/09/2026

Join us for our first ever YA event 6/13 this Saturday 5PM – Did someone say Extra Credit?! Calling all middle-school and high-schoolers! And your teachers! Join us for a Tell Me Every Lie, re-boot! Ellen Hagen and David Flores are back and ready to discuss this story, a young adult romance that takes place during the summer at a luxury resort based on Mohonk Mountain House! Beginning with a web of lies the story explores themes of honesty, identity, and whether love can survive the lies we tell others and often ourselves. Join us, too, to learn about writing process and writing in the YA (young adult) genre.

05/26/2026

Stay legible. Join us Sunday June 7th at 4pm to support debut novelist, extraordinary new book. Take part in the conversation about the paradoxes of history; writing process; and how language has the power to both erase and articulate our lives. Here is a summary of the novel:

First Rule of Fire by Rebecca Gopoian explores how history can never truly be erased, no matter how hard we try to deny or forget. Told in interwoven narratives, the novel explores the lives of three characters as they seek safety, love, and belonging. The story begins with Jivan in Eastern Turkey, 1914, at the start of the Armenian Genocide, and follows the young teen through years of upheaval as the life he knows falls apart. The second thread depicts a day in the life of Araxie, Jivan’s future wife, a new mother grateful to have made it to America, eager to love and be loved, but haunted by her past. Lastly, there is Miriam, the half-Armenian, half-Jewish future grandchild of Jivan and Araxie, stumbling into puberty and attempting to navigate middle school in 1980s New Jersey, while her family’s unspoken history lingers. At times dark and painful, the novel also portrays the hopeful and awkward moments of life, whether in the midst of war or the relative safety of American suburbia – having a crush, being fourteen, searching for your place, and finding your way. See you at the bookstore :) -Jean

05/20/2026

Hiiii, giving a shout-out to our pals at Ulster Literacy Assiciation! On June 14, 2026, ULA will host an intimate literary conversation featuring local mystery authors Alyson Gaylin, Carol Goodman, and Wendy Corsi Staub, moderated by James Conrad, co-owner of The Golden Notebook. The event will take place at the home of Kristin Wenger and is limited to 40 guests. Tickets are $50 per person, with proceeds supporting ULA’s adult literacy programs in Ulster County. Please consider attending or donating to ULA if you can; much love and peace -Jean

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