January 2007

New Fiction

• Jane and the Barque of Frailty - Stephanie Barron
  
• Next - Michael Crichton
  
• New Mercies - Sandra Dallas
  
• The Persian Pickle Club - Sandra Dallas
  
• The Boleyn Inheritance - Phillippa Gregory
  
• Always Say Goodbye: a Lew Fonesca Mystery - Stuart M. Kaminsky
  
• Brother Odd - Dean Koontz
  
• Sweet Revenge - the Fifth in the Revenge of the Sisterhood series - Fern Michaels
  
• Rumpole and the Reign of Terror - John Mortimer

New Non-Fiction

• George III America's Last King - Jeremy Black
  
• Blue Book Used Car Guide 1992-2006 Used Car & Truck
  
• Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand - Benita Eisler
  
• Frommer's Canada
  
• What's Toxic, What's Not - Dr. Gary Ginsbers and Brian Toal, M.S.P.H.
  
• The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach - James A. Baker, III and Lee H. Hamilton
  
• Pushcart Prize XXXI Best of the Small Presses - edited by Bill HendersonStardust Lost: The Triumph, tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America - Stephan Kanfer
  
• New Orleans City Guide - Lonely Planet
  
• T. S. Eliot - Craig Raine
  
• The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder - Daniel Stashower
  
• The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell - Luca Turin
  

New Audios

All CDs unless noted

• The Last Templar - Raymond Khoury

New DVD's

• Devil Wears Prada
  
• Inconvenient Truth
  
• The Jewel in the Crown
  
• Little Miss Sunshine
  
• Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Project Runway season 2
  
• Simpsons season Nine
  
• Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  
• When the Levees Broke
  

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. These include historic fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and more. Many of these titles can be found in the Mid Hudson Library System.

Pleasant Places

Books in which you get a sense of comfort from characters living in a close community

• The Tale of Holly How: the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Alberts
  
• Hamish Macbeth mysteries by M.C. Beaton
  
• End of the Road by Tom Bodett
  
• Mrs. Murphy mysteries by Rita Mae Brown's
  
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
  
• The Quilter's series by Jennifer Chiaverini
  
• The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
  
• Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
  
• Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
  
• Welcome to the World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg
  
• Veterinarian stories by James Herriot
  
• Mitford series by Jan Karon
  
• Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison B. Keillor
  
• Fifty Acres and a Poodle by Jeanne Marie
  
• The Exact Same Moon by Jeanne Marie Laskas
  
• Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
  
• Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald
  
• The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
  
• Candles on Bay Street by K.C. Mckinnon
  
• Jane Stuart and Winky series by Evan Marshall
  
• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
  
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
  
• The Fall of the Year by Frank Mosher
  
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  
• Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
  
• Thrush Green and Fairacre series by Miss Read
  
• Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
  
• And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
  
• Thrush Green series by Miss Read
  
• Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

HOLMES & COMPANY:
A Reading Club for Mystery Lovers

Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 6:15pm
in the Reference Room

We’re reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. Edgar Allen Poe’s Dupin Tales and The Beautiful Cigar Girl by David Stashower. Books are available at the Circulation Desk.

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Knitting Group

Saturdays, January 6, 13, 20, 27
10am-noon at the Library

Our lively knitting group meets every Saturday in the Library's Reference room. We welcome newcomers at any level.

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Wikipedia:
The Free Encyclopedia

A free-content encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by contributors from all around the world. The site is a wiki, "meaning that anyone with access to a ... computer can edit, correct, or improve information." Without editorial oversight, the quality of the content on this site varies dramatically, but it is worth exploring. There are over 6,000,000 entries, the English version has over a million and a half entries. Spanish, French, and Esperanto are among the 250 other languages offered. more

GREAT WEBSITES!

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Washington D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial

Official website for this Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial that will be located on a "four-acre plot on the north east corner of the Tidal Basin within the precinct of the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt" in Washington, D.C. Features maps, a description of landscape elements, news, brief background about Dr. King, and photos from the commemorative groundbreaking held on November 13, 2006. more

Everything International

This site "provides links to a wide variety of international business, education, and research Internet sites." It is "maintained and updated regularly (every hyperlink is verified for accuracy approximately every 10 days)." Links are browsable by topics such as country and regional data, news, international organizations, and company and industry data. Established and maintained by the associate dean of Philadelphia University School of Business Administration. more

How To Do an Annual Financial Checkup

This article outlines ideas for a year-end personal finance review, covering goals, asset protection, will updates, investment performance evaluation, debt control, income tax reduction, and retirement plan review. Includes links to related articles. Written for About.com by an accountant and author of books on personal finance. more

Presidential
$1 Coin Program

"The United States is honoring our Nation's Presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served, beginning with Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison in 2007. The United States Mint will mint and issue four Presidential $1 coins per year." Features a coin release schedule, coin images (and edge lettering), and material about coinage legislation and U.S. Mint directors during each presidential term. From the U.S. Mint. more

VirtualTourist

Outside contributors create the opinionated but useful text of this travel site. Editors screen for grammar and spelling and try to weed out fraudulent postings but, overall, prospective vacationers get a candid view of destinations worldwide. Includes postings for hotels, restaurants, attractions, nightlife, shopping, and transportation for areas around the world. "Every tip on VirtualTourist is linked to a member's profile." more

18 Ways to
Make a Baby

Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Nova program that "investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction." Topics include types of human reproduction (such as various types of artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization), human cloning, fertility throughout life, and animations about how cells divide (mitosis and meiosis). more

The James Beard Foundation

The mission of this group is "to celebrate, preserve, and nurture America's culinary heritage and diversity in order to elevate the appreciation of our culinary excellence." The site features a list of yearly nominees and winners of the prestigious James Beard cookbook award back to 2003, news and notes about restaurants in various U.S. cities, brief background about Beard (1903-1985), recipes, and a glossary of exotic ingredient terms. more

Carl Larsson

Official website for artist Carl Larsson (1853-1919), "mostly known for his water colour paintings and his pictures of his family in Sundborn [Sweden], an idyllic village whose lovely surroundings emphasize the happy family life shown in his paintings." Includes a brief biography of Larsson and his wife Karin, photos of his home in Sundborn, and images of selected paintings and prints, such as "Flowers on the Windowsill" and "The Midwinter Sacrifice." In English and Swedish. more

Earth From Space

Companion to 2006-2010 traveling exhibition featuring satellite imagery of Earth from space. Provides images of vegetation, tropical forests, oceans, floods and storms, mountains and volcanoes, agriculture, urban areas, and more. Includes material about remote sensing and satellite technology. From the Smithsonian Institution. more

Smithsonian National Zoological Park: Asia Trail

The website for this section of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park features fact sheets on giant pandas, sloth bears, clouded leopards, fishing cats, giant salamanders, red pandas, and small-clawed otters. Also includes photos, animal webcams, an audio tour, and other material about the species and the exhibit. From the Smithsonian Institution. more

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