January 2012

New Fiction

• The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
• The Drop - Michael Connelly
• The Language of Secrets - Dianne Dixon
• The Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabalson
• The Litigators - John Grisham
• Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich
• Death Comes to Pemberley - PD James
• The Forgotten Affairs of Youth - Alexander McCall Smith
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

New Non-Fiction

• Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller
• Brilliant: White in Design - Linda O'Keeffe
• The Silver Spoon: the bible of authentic Italian cooking
• Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Working - Patricia C. Phillips

New Audio Books

• Kismet - Jakob Arjouni
• A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
• Willful Behavior - Donna Leon
• The Sweet Shop Owner - Graham Swift
• The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
• Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse

New DVD's

• Debt - Helen Mirren
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - Daniel Radcliffe
• Margin Call - Demi Moore, Paul Bettany, Stanley Tucci
• Midnight in Paris - Owen Willson, Rachael McAdam
• Mildred Pierce - miniseries, Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood
• The Tempest - Helen Mirren

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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.

Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

Book Club in a Bag Titles

January 2012

These titles are available as part of the Book Club in a Bag kit. The kit consists of a tote bag which has ten copies of a book title, as well as a list of discussion questions to get your book club started. Each bag can be borrowed for six weeks. This service is available to all patrons in the Mid-Hudson Library System.

If you find a title you would like, ask for help at the circulation desk and a staff member will book the kit for you. Bear in mind that there is one bag per title, so your choice may not be available on a certain date. Having your book group select several titles for a few months in advance works best. New titles are being added all the time.

• The Archivist by Martha Cooley
  
• An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
  
• Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
  
• At Home by Bill Bryson
  
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
  
• Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
  
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
  
• Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
  
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
  
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
  
• The Black Madonna by Louisa Ermelino
  
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
  
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  
• The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
  
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
  
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
  
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
  
• Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
  
• Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky
  
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  
• The Color of Water by James McBride
  
• Consumption by Kevin Patterson
  
• Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condè
  
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  
• The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter
  
• Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
  
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  
• The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
  
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
  
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
  
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  
• Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
  
• Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
  
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  
• Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
  
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
  
• Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
  
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  
• Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
  
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  
• Go With Me by Castle Freeman Jr.
  
• Grace by Richard Paul Evans
  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  
• Half-Past Nowhere by Joseph Cavano
  
• The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
  
• Healthy Children - Healthy Planet by Northwest Earth Institute
  
• Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
  
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  
• Here on Earth by Alice Hoffmann
  
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
  
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
  
• The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
  
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
  
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  
• Impulse by Frederick Ramsay
  
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  
• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
  
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  
• Jewel by Bret Lott
  
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein
  
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  
• The Ladies of Garrison Gardens by Louise Shaffer
  
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
  
• The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
  
• The Lemon Jelly Cake by Madeline Babcock Smith
  
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
  
• Love Songs in Minor Keys by Joseph Cavano
  
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  
• Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
  
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  
• The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
  
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
  
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
  
• Murder Off the Books by Evelyn David
  
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  
• The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
  
• This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas
  
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  
• Northern Borders by Howard Frank Mosher
  
• Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
  
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  
• The Orchid Theif by Susan Orlean
  
• A Painted House by John Grisham
  
• Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
  
• The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
  
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
  
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen by India Edghill
  
• The Rainmaker by John Grisham
  
• The Reader by Bernard Schlink
  
• Redemption by Julie Chibbaro
  
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  
• The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
  
• Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
  
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
• Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
  
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  
• Silk, Alessandro Baricco
  
• Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham
  
• Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller
  
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
  
• Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
  
• Stones From the River by Ursula Hegl
  
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
  
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
  
• Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
  
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  
• Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks
  
• Totally Killer by Greg Olear
  
• The Turtle Warrior by Mary Relindes Ellis
  
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  
• Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
  
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  
• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
  
• We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
  
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges
  
• While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
  
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
  
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
  
• You Kill Me by Alison Gaylin

2012 Rochester
Membership Cards Available Now

We are happy to announce that the Town of Rochester has made 238 free family memberships available to Rochester residents. These will be given out on a first come, first served basis. If you had a free membership last year, you must come in again to claim another free membership. Please bring your card with you and come in as soon as possible, as they go quickly. Last year the free memberships were all taken by March. After the 238 free memberships have been used, family memberships will be available for purchase.

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34,000 Free eBooks

With the appeal of eBooks accelerating, the Mid Hudson Library System is working to continue to get good quantities of popular titles into the MHLS Digital Download Center at OverDrive.com. Under the "Additional eBooks Always Available" icon on the bottom of the left navigation bar is the Project Gutenberg content.

Project Gutenberg titles are high quality ebooks, all previously published which they digitized. While Project Gutenberg titles can be found elsewhere on the web, OverDrive removes duplicate titles; then over 34,000 free eBooks are made available, all with no holds or waiting lists. So, break out that new Kindle, Nook or iPad and start downloading. more

• Here are some of the current top Project Gutenberg eBooks people are reading:
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, January 11
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is The Warden by Anthony Trollop. The first book in the Barchester series, it is a short tale of a clergyman's burgeoning social conscience, and the uproar that causes in a small, rural community.

Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, January 18,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: Murder Must Advertise, a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers. The Sherlock Holmes mystery is The Adventure of the Lion's Mane - by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
7pm in the Biography Room

The Medieval Book Group members have decided to broaden their focus to encompass all of history. The new name derives from Greek mythology, Clio, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne and mother of Hyacinth, is the muse of history.

The first book to be discussed is The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton. It is a series of essays on the life of the common people in Enlightenment France, each chapter focuses on a different subject, including the folk tales we are all familiar with and cats.

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MEMOIR WRITING GROUP

Saturday, January 7, at 1pm
in the Biography Room

The Memoir Writing Workshop usually meets the first Saturday of the month. Bring in something you've recently written or are working on to share. Anyone interested should contact Brian Drabkin by email, or at 687-4711 or Diane in the Program Office at 687-8726.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thurs, January 19,
1-3pm in the Bio Room

Join us for another afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. We will be reading Petrach.

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Move to Music with our
Dance and Rhythm Group

Every Thursday
10:45 to 11:45
at the Marbletown Community Center

A new dance and rhythm group plans to meet on Thursday mornings from 10:45 to 11:45 at the Marbletown Community Center. Sponsored by the Stone Ridge Library, the program is free and open to the public. Participants can bring their favorite dance CD, water and comfortable clothes. For information, please call the Library Program Office at 687- 8726.

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KNITTING GROUP

Every Saturday
10am-noon

The Stone Ridge Library Knitters meet every Saturday morning from 10am - 12noon. All ages and experience levels can join us and drop-in knitters are also welcome. We each bring our own supplies and do our own work, but one of the best things about us is that whatever obstacle or confusion you might encounter, you're likely to receive as much comment and advice as you need to get where you're going with a project. Some of us can help toward the repair of knitted or crocheted items too.

The group is sociable and lively, and our conversation and sharing is just as wide-ranging as our projects. We are especially interested in the UFOs (Un-Finished Objects) that members bring in and love the show and tell of projects under way and being finished, new or old, simple or complex. Though knitting is our love and mainstay, we graciously adapt ourselves to stray crocheters and those of us who simply must take to the hook when the spirit moves. We share articles, magazines and books on knitting. Donations of yarn to the Library get made up into items for sale at the Library Fair and during the winter holidays for the benefit of the Library. Some of us also knit things for local hospitals or for the U.S. troops.

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Movies Based on Books Opening in January

January 20, 2012
Coriolanus
Based on: The play Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerald Butler, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain and Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Ralph Fiennes

Jan 20, 2012
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Based on: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Stephen Daldry

January 27, 2012
One for the Money
Based on: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Starring: Katherine Heigl
Director: Julie Ann Robinson

Jan 27, 2012
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Based on the novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Starring: John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller
Director: Lynne Ramsay

NEW Julia Blog!

The year is 1840. Follow Julia Hasbrouck's diary as she wrote it, entries will be posted on the same date, just 172 years later. To read the blog click: frommypenandpower.
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Julia, The First Weekender!

Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck was one of the original residents to live in the building that houses the Stone Ridge Library today. Julia and her husband Garrett had a home in New York City as well as in Stone Ridge. Her diary entries reflect life in both locations. To join the blog, follow directions on the right hand side of the page. more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

The International Ecotourism Society

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