YOU'RE INVITED: BOOK LAUNCH FOR IMAGINE A WOMAN BY DOROTHY NEAGLE

Thank you for joining us to celebrate the launch of Dorothy Neagle’s new book Imagine a Woman, described as "an invitation to savor mystery and clarity," and "a fierce and generous statement on motherhood, girlhood, and personhood that cools and burns." The launch party will include a reading and Q&A with the author, along with cake, fizzy drinks, and a special guest!

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Capitalism reading group is a book club that wants to understand the system we all live in. To think about how that system controls our desires, motivations and the world around us. Led by Austin Furnas of Boxing Day Cafe and community member Dena Verhoff in association with Picture Book and HudCo in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

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Join us to celebrate the publication of Rory Mulligan’s debut monograph, Freddie, a body of black and white photographs that spans more than a decade of the artist’s work. "A beautiful meditation born out of unrequited love, willful engagements and wanderings. Freddie is an instant classic" —Deana Lawson

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The next PB Book Club pick is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, the unhinged story of a tradwife influencer who wakes up in the 1800s.

Join Sara of Picture Book, and friend-of-the-bookstore Stephanie for a casual discussion. The book is available to pick up in person at the shop Monday-Friday 9-5, on our website, and as an audiobook.

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This Thursday, May 7th, local community bookstore, Picture Book, will be hosting a pop-up table right outside Community Nursery School’s famous red door during pick-up! 

The owner of Picture Book, Sara, is a CNS parent alum and will be bringing a table full of amazing children's books for sale. She is also donating 10% of the proceeds from this event back to CNS, so think of it as a fundraiser where you get to take home the best books!

Sara plans to be outside of CNS for the 11:30, 11:45, 1:15 and 2PM pickup times, weather permitting.

Picture Book, your favorite local bookshop, and Boxing Day Café, your favorite Australian pop-up café in the Rivertowns will be open Saturday morning to delight you with new books to browse and brilliant beverages to enjoy. Join our mailing list to make sure you know which Saturday to join us each month.

Picture Book, your favorite local bookshop, and Boxing Day Café, your favorite Australian pop-up café in the Rivertowns will be open Saturday morning to delight you with new books to browse and brilliant beverages to enjoy. Join our mailing list to make sure you know which Saturday to join us each month.

The next PB Book Club pick is The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration”—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love.

Join Sara of Picture Book, and friend-of-the-bookstore Stephanie for a casual discussion. The book is available to pick up in person at the shop Monday-Friday 9-5, on our website, and as an audiobook.

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Capitalism reading group is a book club that wants to understand the system we all live in. To think about how that system controls our desires, motivations and the world around us. Led by Austin Furnas of Boxing Day Cafe and community member Dena Verhoff in association with Picture Book and HudCo in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Please join us for a fundraiser supporting Beth Macy for Congress hosted by Charlotte Bismuth & Elizabeth Grey in the HudCo atrium on Friday, March 13, 4:30-6:30pm.

Donations made through Act Blue serve as your ticket to the event, and all ticketed guests will receive a copy of her acclaimed book Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America. Additional books, including Dope Sick, available for purchase at Picture Book

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Joyful Workshop with Psychiatrist and author Dr. Jennifer Reid. Join us at Joyful Dermatology for an interactive evening inspired by Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations by Dr. Jennifer Reid, board-certified psychiatrist and creator of the A Mind of Her Own podcast and Substack.

Through engaging exercises, Dr. Reid will guide us in exploring the expectations that drive so much of women’s guilt and how we can begin to let them go.

We will also be joined by Dr. Luyi Kathy Zhang, hypnotist and palliative care physician, who will lead a guided hypnosis experience designed to help quiet the subconscious programming of guilt and to enhance self-compassion. 

Expect a lively evening of insight, connection, and a few guilty pleasures along the way.

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Our next book club pick is The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai.

Join Sara of Picture Book, and friend-of-the-bookstore Stephanie for a casual discussion in Mar ch. Cheese and wine provided!

The book is available to pick up in person at the shop Monday-Friday 9-5, on our website, and as an audiobook. Click image for more details.

Picture Book, your favorite local bookshop, and Boxing Day Café, your favorite Australian pop-up café in the Rivertowns will be open Saturday morning to delight you with new books to browse and brilliant beverages to enjoy. Join our mailing list to make sure you know which Saturday to join us each month.

Join us forour second Rivertowns for Reproductive Rights Book Club at Picture Book to discuss Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair.

Open to all. 11a–3p. Discover jewelry, treats, and handcrafted goods from some of our favorite makers—because shopping local is our love language.

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Picture Book, your favorite local bookshop, and Boxing Day Café, your favorite Australian pop-up café in the Rivertowns will be open Saturday morning to delight you with new books to browse and brilliant beverages to enjoy. Join our mailing list to make sure you know which Saturday to join us each month.

Join us at the upcoming Anine Bing pop-up featuring new arrivals with complimentary wine & bubbles.

Hosted by VIP Manager & Stylist Jackie Collins

HudCo’s in-house shops Picture Book and Boxing Day Café will be open for the event as well as the beautiful Fourteen August Jewelry

Picture Book, your favorite local bookshop, and Boxing Day Café, your favorite Australian pop-up café in the Rivertowns will be open Saturday morning to delight you with new books to browse and brilliant beverages to enjoy. Join our mailing list to make sure you know which Saturday to join us each month.

Our next book club pick is Heart the Lover by Lily King

In the fall of her senior year of college, our narrator meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.

Join Sara of Picture Book, and friend-of-the-bookstore Stephanie for a casual discussion on Wednesday January 21st 8-9:30 pm. Cheese and wine provided!

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Join feature guest author Pam Grossman, the Terry Gross of witches (host of The Witch Wave podcast, and author of Magic Maker), Jess Galen (Bloomy Cheese & Provisions), author and artist Frances Denny for a sensory-rich, wintry reset hosted by Sarah Epps & Sandra Dawn of Revery, a women’s network for seasonal sensual living. Picture Book is proving books for the event including Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity by Pam Grossman and Major Arcana by Frances F. Denny. Click image for more details.

Think vintage for the holidays! Wickers Creek, known for their gorgeous markets at the Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Park is coming inside to HudCo for the holidays. You’ll find wonderful antique and vintage goods, as well as new unique gifts for everyone on your list. Picture Book will have an expanded selection right at the entrance of HudCo with special books for all ages. Don’t forget to check in with NewFriends for on site babysitting options!

Picture Book and Boxing Day Cafe are open for a perfect shopping Saturday during the first inaugural Merry Festa, Dobbs Ferry! It's a great day of supporting our local businesses and community of Dobbs Ferry, NY capped off by the tree lighting on Cedar & Main. At 145 Palisade Street you'll find Picture Book and Boxing Day Cafe, artist Jessica Miller, and The Floral Society Holiday Shoppe.

Our next book club pick is The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

"Flournoy has delivered a future classic—the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time." — Harper's Bazaar

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.

Join Sara of Picture Book, and friend-of-the-bookstore Stephanie for a casual discussion on Tuesday September 16h 8-9:30 pm. Cheese and wine provided!

The book is available to pick up in person at the shop Monday-Friday 9-5, on our website, and as an audiobook.