05/12/2026
UPCOMING EVENTS
&
SUMMER HOURS
June 2 at 7 pm at the Bedford Playhouse
Eve Plumb Author Talk
"Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond"
It's finally time for Jan! Jan! Jan!
As Jan Brady, America’s most memorable middle child on the beloved TV sitcom, The Brady Bunch, Eve Plumb has been an enduring icon of American pop culture for over 60 years. Now in an engaging, intimate memoir, HAPPINESS INCLUDED, she shares the behind-the-scenes story of her colorful and impressively versatile Hollywood career and revelatory recollections of her off-camera life along the way—complete with many photos from her private archives. Books will be available for sale and signing at the event or pick up a copy from Booksy in advance.
Tickets required and are going fast! bedfordplayhouse.org/purchase/1194482 (https://bedfordplayhouse.org/purchase/1194482/)
June 5 at The Katonah Library at 6 pm
Lauren Acampora Book Launch
"The Animal Room"
Join award-winning local author Lauren Acampora in conversation with Ann Leary, to celebrate the launch of Lauren's new book, The Animal Room.
The novel is a set of linked stories spotlighting human-animal relations and tensions that threaten to fracture a suburban New England community—as featured in The Best American Short Stories 2025.
Lauren Acampora is the author of The Animal Room, as well as three other books of fiction: The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp, and The Hundred Waters. Her work has won or been nominated for the GLCA New Writers Award, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Story Prize, and the New England Book Award, and she’s been named an Artist Fellow in Fiction by The New York Foundation for the Arts.
Registration required:
katonah.librarycalendar.com/event/lauren-doyle-book-launch-9033
June 20 at 12 noon in the Booksy Garden
Author Talk & Garden Party Celebration
for Soon Wiley's latest book
"Cece Downing's Start Over Summer"
This will be a ticketed event so email [email protected] to be sent an invite.
Join us in the Booksy Garden for an author talk, oyster shucking, and a champagne toast for the release of Cece Downing.
A witty, heartfelt novel about a young woman who leaves everything behind to work on an oyster farm in a small New England town. Recently fired from her dependable career as an actuary, and recovering from a messy breakup with her fiancé, thirty-two-year-old Cece Downing is holed up for the summer in New London, Connecticut, without a plan. Mounting financial debts soon force Cece to take the first job opportunity that comes her way—one she’s wholly unsuited for—as a deckhand on an oyster boat.
Surprisingly, Cece finds herself loving the job: working with her hands, breathing the fresh sea air, and learning the ins and outs of oyster farming. And despite her overbearing mother’s pleas to get a “real” job and reunite with her wealthy fiancé, Cece plunges headlong into an ill-advised romance with her neighbor, a handsome shipyard worker named Morgan.
When a proposal to expand the oyster farm throws the community into an uproar, pitting wealthy waterfront owners against blue collar workers, Cece finds herself caught in the middle. And as a family crisis forces her to reevaluate her reckless choices Cece must come to terms with what she’s willing to sacrifice for the life she wants to live.
SUMMER HOURS
We're going to try this out for May and June but if I miss the shop too much we'll switch back. PS if you see lights on or the door is open just pop in.
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday 10 am to 4 pm
Monday & Tuesday CLOSED
Wednesday 10 am to 3 pm
Indie Bookstore Day was amazing!
Thank you for loving books as much as we love you!
Here's a snap of 3 of the hundreds of happy bibliophiles that stopped by on April 26th
