Archive for the 'Connie’s Blog'

Book giveaway: Battleship: A Daring Heiress, A Teenage Jockey, and America’s Horse

SORRY – WE ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH OUR EMAIL – WE WILL ANNOUNCE A WINNER FROM THURSDAY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!   Hey folks – we have a copy of Battleship to give away today. Just email us by 3 pm today with your name, phone and address, and with the subject line of...
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Jon reviews: The House at the End of Hope Street

    Jon Katz reviews The House at the End of Hope Street. here.  Tweet

Available in August: Grandma Moses Holiday cards

Wow! We found a distributor that is offering boxed Grandma Moses holiday cards this fall. These are going to fly off of our shelves, so please, please, please, if you think you’re going to want some, pre-order them by emailing us or calling us at 518-677-2515! Horse and Sleigh by Grandma...
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Beautiful cards for Mom (and lots of gift ideas, too)

Check out our great selection of Mother’s Day cards! Tweet

Pre-School BookWorms Book Club – Free to All

Do you know a preschool age child and want to read to them more? The Cambridge Elementary School and Battenkill Books are happy to announce that they are continuing to offer the FREE Cambridge Bookworm Preschool Book Club. The Bookworm Club is a free book lending program available to families...
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Creative Nonfiction Book Club: Shakespeare Saved My Life: 10 Years in Solitary with the Bard (5/16/13)

Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:30 – 7:30 pm Battenkill Books FREE Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been before — supermax solitary confinement. In this unwelcoming...
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