Where else in Saratoga County can you find a vast selection of books related to the local area AND support a good cause with each purchase? Brookside Museum’s Gift Shop carries over 50 books – all related to the Saratoga County area, and each purchase helps support education programs for thousands of regional children.
The gift shop is open during museum hours. Items in our shop include unique gift items, candles, cards, kitchen linens, original art work by local artists, and books of local historical interest. Purchases made in the Brookside Museum Gift Shop help support the museum’s educational mission.
Visit the Holiday Shoppe from mid-November through late December, where you will find hundreds of locally crafted items.
The most popular feature of our gift shop is our large collection of books. Below is a list of all the titles we carry. Click here for an order form.
BOOKS FOR KIDS
When the Chenoo Howls: Native American Tales of Terror by Joseph and James Bruchac $10.95
Nate the Great: and the Hungry Book Club by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat & Mitchell Sharmat $12.95
Roberto Walks Home by Ezra Jack Keats $15.99
Blizzards by Lorraine Jean Hopping $3.99
Floods!, by Lorraine Jean Hopping $3.99
Lightning!, by Lorraine Jean Hopping $3.99
Practice Makes Perfect by Rosemary Wells $3.99
Volcano by Lorraine Jean Hopping $3.99
The Germ Busters by Rosemary Wells $3.99
Racoon’s Last Race by Joe & Jim Bruchac $16.99
Old Time Halloween Stickers, by Carol Belancer Grafiton $1.00
Very Scary Witch Story, by Joanne Barkan $3.95
The Sour Lemon Tree, by S. Annette Evans $ 8.99
My Sleep-Tight Bible Stories, by Jean Syswerda $7.99
Abraham Lincoln Activity Book, by Dianna Zouerlias $1.50
Abraham Lincoln Stickers, by A. G. Smith $1.50
HISTORY BOOKS
The Saratoga Reader, by Field Horne $29.95
A Village Hospital 1928 Through 1953, by Beverly W. Moore $10.95
Lost Industries of the Kaydeross Valley, by Timothy Starr $46.95/ $34.95
The Ballston Terminal Railroad And Its Successors, by Timothy Starr $34.95
Great Inventors of New York’s Capital District, by Timothy Starr $19.99
Lord, Please Don’t Take Me In August, by Myra B. Young Armstead $19.95
The Mohawk Colored Giants of Schenectady, by Frank M. Keetz $8.95
Leading Industrial Pursuits, reprinted by Tim Starr, $11.95
Invented in Ballston Spa, by Tim Starr $29.95
Invented in Saratoga County, by Tim Starr $29.95
The Paper Bag King: A Biography of George West, by Tim Starr $15.95
The Mosher Furnace, by C. Donald Carpenter
The First Respectable House, by Field Horne $19.95
Early Railroads of New York Capital District, by Timothy Starr $24.95
The Fire Observation Towers of New York State, by Paul Laskey $19.95
Lost Industries of Saratoga County, by Timothy Starr $19.99
Saratoga County at Work, by David Chapin Weeks
First Resorts, by Jon Sterngass
Kanatsiohareke, by Tom Porter $25.oo
LOCAL ACTIVITIES
Hoofing It: 8 Historic Walking Tours, by the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation $13
Yankee Home Hints , by Earl Proulx $26.95
Making Bentwood Trellises $ 19.95
Morning View Farms Harvest Cookbook, by Rob & Cindy Pastore $11.95
Secrets of the Craft Show, by Robert M. Secreti Jr.
Scat and Tracks, by James C. Halfpenny
HISTORICAL NOVELS
Hop City Road House, by P. K. Kelley $10
Hop City’s Yankee Lady, by P.K. Kelley $12.95
Hop city Balls Town Patriots, by P.K.Kelley
Finding Goliath and Fred: A Novel of Saratoga 1777, by Sandra E. McBride $12.95
COMMUNITY STORIES
In Our Own Words: The Story of Saratoga County $24.95/$34.95
Story Quilt: Poems of A Place (Galway), by The People Who Live Here $18.75
Saratoga Lives, by Michael Hare $18.95
Malta Memories, by Teri Ulrich $15
Ballston Spa: Streetscapes Through Time, by Paul and Marilyn Pastore $20
New York State Ghosts, by David J. Pitkin
Stillwater: Images of America by Linda Sanders $21.99
Ballston Spa: Legacies Unlimited by Ann Hauprich $49.95
Round Lake: Little Village in the Grove by Hesson, Rogowski & Comfort $19.95
Burnt Hills Veterinary Tails, by Penny Heritage $20
The Fire Observation Towers of New York State, by Paul Laskey $19.95
Strength Without Compromise, by Teri P. Gay $30.00
They Live On, by Patricia A. Nugent $14.95
We Danced Before Time, by Robert Secreti $7.99
Around Ballston Lake, By Katherine Q. Biddy $19.99
In A Pleasant Alone, By Dr. Hollis A. Palmer
Malta, by Ruth Weed Roering $19.99
Clifton Park, by John L. Scherer $21.99
Around Burnt Hills, by Katherine W. Briddy $19.99
Ballston Spa Legacies Unlimited, by Ann Hauprich, Antonio Bucca, Maurice Christopher Morley $35.00
Hard Road to Freedom, by James Diver Horton and Lois E. Horton $22.00
Dublin Revisited, $20.00