Join Our Book Club!
Our book club meets on the last Tuesday of every month at 6 PM. It’s a great chance to connect with fellow book lovers and dive into lively discussions about our latest read. Everyone is welcome—come join the fun!

About the Book:

Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after a woman mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail.In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie's disappearance may not be accidental. Heartwood is a "gem of a thousand facets--suspenseful, transporting, tender, and ultimately soul-mending," (Megan Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning) that tells the story of a lost hiker's odyssey and is a moving rendering of each character's interior journey. The mystery inspires larger questions about the many ways in which we get lost, and how we are found. At its core, Heartwood is an "unputdownable" (Real Simple) and redemptive novel, written with both enormous literary ambition and love.

Join us for a special book signing with award-winning journalist and author Christopher Mele!

On Thursday, June 4th from 3–5 PM, come meet Chris and celebrate the release of his gripping new novel, The Truth Is in the Ashes.

In the quiet Adirondack village of Goodwill, an arsonist is on the prowl. Newsman Alex Provetto is pulled into investigating the suspicious fires, but personal and professional entanglements threaten to derail his quest for the truth. As he digs deeper, the danger grows—not just to his scoop, but to his reputation, his career, and even his life.

More than a small-town mystery, The Truth Is in the Ashes is a compelling exploration of trust, packed with twists and surprises that linger long after the final page. This is the second book in Mele’s popular North Country mystery series.

A veteran journalist with 40 years of experience—including time as a reporter and editor in the Adirondacks—Christopher Mele now serves as an editor at The New York Times. His novels draw on “fictional realism,” blending realistic procedures and outcomes with vivid settings, lively characters, humor, and unexpected plot turns. This latest story is inspired by real-life events from the former Lake Placid Club Resort decades ago.

The Truth Is in the Ashes follows Mele’s acclaimed first novel, Goodwill’s Secrets (2024), which won a 2025 Silver Award from the Milford Readers and Writers Festival and was a finalist in the Best Thriller Book Awards.

Don’t miss this chance to meet the author, get your copies of both books signed, and hear firsthand about the real Adirondack roots behind these page-turning mysteries. Both titles will be available for purchase at the event.

Join Our Book Club!
Our book club meets on the last Tuesday of every month at 6 PM. It’s a great chance to connect with fellow book lovers and dive into lively discussions about our latest read. Everyone is welcome—come join the fun!

About The Book:

Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance.
But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Colette's four-year-old sister, Liliane, disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Liliane's body was found floating in the Seine--but the bracelet was nowhere to be found.
Seventy years later, Colette--who has "redistributed" $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizations--has done her best to put her tragic past behind her, but her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston. If Colette can discover where it has been all this time--and who owns it now--she may finally learn the truth about what happened to her sister. But she isn't the only one for whom the bracelet holds answers, and when someone from her childhood lays claim to the diamonds, she's forced to confront the ghosts of her past as never before. Against all odds, there may still be a chance to bring a murderer to justice--but first, Colette will have to summon the courage to open her own battered heart.

Join Us for a Special Book Signing with Julie Cook 📚✨

Date: Saturday , August 22📅 Time: 11am-1pm 🕒 Location: The Book Nook 📍

About the Author Julie Cook writes about food and music—then remembers she’s writing a romance novel and cuts most of that out. 🍝🎶 A South Carolina native, she traded sunny Southern California for Rochester, New York (which, she quickly learned, is south of nothing but Canada). ❄️ She lives there with her husband, three kids, and dog, thriving in summer, surviving winter, and writing in the quiet hours before dawn. 🌅 Find her on Instagram and tell her your favorite Sandra Brown novel, sports documentary, New Yorker cartoon, or SNL sketch.

About the Book For fans of Tessa Bailey comes a steamy debut sports romance… 🔥⛷️

Olympic downhill skier Kit Schuster has dominated the slopes since she was two-and-a-half. 🏅 With a decade of titles, records, and grueling travel behind her, she keeps her eyes fixed forward—on the course and in life. But a younger rival is closing in fast. To cement her legacy before the 2026 Winter Games in Cortina, Italy, Kit makes a bold move: she’ll compete in the new Olympic event of ski mountaineering. She has less than a year to master it. 🏔️

Enter Asher McClendon—daring ski mountaineer, rock climber, and social-media thrill-seeker who grew up scaling Yosemite’s walls and now skis down some of the world’s most remote peaks. 🧗‍♂️ He agrees to coach the legend at his Lake Tahoe home mostly for the paycheck… until Kit arrives and moves into his guest cabin.

Far from groomed European pistes, Kit’s rigid routine collides with Asher’s high-risk training style and his tight-knit crew of climbers. Snowball fights, rock climbs, and stolen moments quickly melt her laser focus. ❄️❤️ As their chemistry ignites, everything in Kit’s carefully planned life veers off course. With the Games looming, both must decide what they’re willing to risk for love—even if it costs them their careers.

Come meet Julie Cook, grab a signed copy of this sizzling sports romance, and chat about books, skiing, or that perfect SNL sketch! 📖⛷️ Books will be available for purchase on site. We can’t wait to see you there! 🎉