Saratoga Reads!
2017 Reading Season

Barnes & Noble’s mission is to operate the best omni-channel specialty retail business in America, helping both our customers and booksellers reach their aspirations, while being a credit to the communities we serve. Barnes & Noble is committed to partnering with for-profit and non-profit organizations that focus their core businesses on higher learning, literacy and the arts. Our partnerships foster community good will.

The mission of the Friends is to support the programs, staff, and facilities of the public library. We are a not-for-profit community organization dedicated to providing funds and volunteer services that the library itself may be unable to provide.

Hamlet & Ghost bar serves high-quality craft cocktails and New American small plates in the historic setting of downtown Saratoga Springs, New York. Come see us at Hamlet & Ghost for craft cocktails, pleasing bites, and a relaxing ambiance, seasoned with speakeasy influence and modern style.

Northshire Bookstore is a family-owned, independent bookstore, with two locations - one in Manchester Center, Vermont, and the other in Saratoga Springs, New York. We believe strongly in the triple bottom line - people, planet & profits - because we recognize that business occurs in the context of community. We work hard to enrich our communities as we strive to thrive in the dynamic world of bookselling.

Our mission, supported by the Saratoga Springs community, is for every student to experience a personal connection to learning which will serve them for a lifetime. Each student’s innate desire to learn will be fostered through access to: challenging and relevant learning experiences; appropriately designed learning environments; skilled instructors who are trained to utilize innovative instructional strategies.

The award winning museum presents changing exhibitions, public programs, and serves hundreds of researchers annually on three floors of a historic 1870s gambling casino, designated a National Historic Landmark. The museum cares for 15,000 artifacts and a photographic archive of some 325,000 images of Saratoga Springs. Its mission is to foster public education and chronicle the story of Saratoga Springs history by operating the History Museum, conducting programs, and collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting materials that document the city of Saratoga Springs’s social, political, economic, geological, and cultural history.

Founded more than a century ago and located in Saratoga Springs, New York, on a beautiful 890-acre campus, Skidmore is a highly regarded liberal arts college known for its creative approaches to just about everything. The college’s core belief: creative thought matters.