March 2011

New Fiction

• Playdate - Thelma Adams
• Fadeaway Girl - Martha Grimes
  
• We, The Drowned - Carsten Jensen
  
• The Diviner's Tale - Bradford Morrow
• Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
• Ghost Light - Joseph O'Connor
• Heartwood - Belva Plain
  
• New York Stories - edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
  
• Binocular Vision: new & selected Stories - Edith Pearlman
  
• The Fates will Find Their Way - Hannah Pittard
  
• One Crazy Summer - Rital Williams-Garcia
  

New Non-Fiction

• Forgotten Skills of Cooking: The Time-honored Ways are the Best - Darian Allen
• The Longest War: the Enduring Conflict Between America ane Al-Qaeda - Peter Bergen
• A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of a Misspent Life - Mary Randolph Carter
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua
• Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses - Claire Dederer
• Townie: a memoir - Andre Dubus III
• A Kayaker's Guide to New York's Capital Region - Russell Dunn
• Building Decks - editors of Fine Homebuilding
• The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands: poems - Nick Flynn
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Thing Right - Atul Gawande
• India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking - Anand Giridharadas
• Growing Older: a Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables - Joan Dye Gussow
• The Geometry of Pasta - Caz Hildevrand & Jacob Kenedy
• Bird Cloud - Annie Proulx
• The View from Lazy Point: a Natural Year in an Unnatural World - Carl Safina

New Audio Books

• Caught - Harlan Coben
  
• Room - Emma Donoghue
  
• My Father's Fortune - Michael Frayn
• The Girl in the Green Raincoat: a Tess Monaghan novel - Laura Lippman
• The Inner Circle - Brad Meltzer
• Tick Tock - James Patterson
• Don't Blink - James Patterson
  
• Storm Prey - John Sanford
  
• The Anatomy of Ghosts - Andrew Taylor

New DVD's

• 127 Hours - James Franco
• Bones, season 1
• Conviction - Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo
• Despicable Me - Steve Carell
• Downton Abbey - Masterpiece Classic
• Due Date - Robert Downey Jr, Zach Galifianakis
• Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glen Gould
• Get Low - Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murraw
• Long Good Friday - Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren
• Megamind - voices: Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt
• Never Let Me Go - Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightly
• Night Catches Us - Anthony Mackie
• Nurse Jackie, season 2 - Edie Falco
• Project Runway - Season 8
• Ramona and Beezus - Selena Gomez, Joey King
• Waiting for Superman
• Welcome to the Rileys - James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo
• You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Gemma Jones, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas

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BOOKLISTS

We feature reading suggestions here every month. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

MARCH IS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Non Fiction

• My Life in France by Julia Child Bio Child
• Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton BIO TUBMAN
• A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins by Penny Colman BIO PERKINS
• America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins 305.409 Col
• When Everything Changed: The amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins 305.409
• The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 by Annette Colodny 973.08 K
• Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830-1860 edited by Thomas Dublin 331.4 DUB
• The Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women who Rescued Allied Pilots from the Nazis During World War II by Peter Eisner 940.5337 Eis
• Woman on the American Frontier; a Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic." by William W. Fowler 978 FOW
• Gertrude Bell : Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell Bio Bell
• A Pioneer Woman's Memoir: Based on the Journal of Arabella Clemens Fulton by Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever. 978.02 FUL
• Journal of a Revolutionary War Womanby Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever 973.38 GRE
• The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer 305.42 GRE
• In Her Won Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elizabeth Griffith Bio Sta
• America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the Sixties by Laban Carrick Hill YA 303.48 HIL
• Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails edited & compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes 978 COV v.3 1851
• Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film by Ron Lackmann 978 LAC
• Side-by-Side: a Photographic History of American Women in War by Vickie Lewis 940.54 LEW
• Women of the West by Cathy Luchetti in collaboration with Carol Olwell 978.02 LUC or 305.4 LUC
• West With the Night by Beryl Markham Bio Markham
• The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles 305.4 MIL
• The Bolter by Frances Osborne Bio Sackville
• Women Together: a History in Documents of the Women's Movement in the United States by Judith Papachristou 301.41 P
• More than Petticoats: Remarkable New York Women by Antonia Petrash 920.72 PET
• The Women by the editors of Time-Life Books with text by Joan Swallow Reiter 305.409 TIM
• Ladies of Liberty: The Women who Shaped our Nation by Cokie Roberts 973.409 ROB
• Passing Strange: a Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line by Martha A. Sandweiss 305.896 SAN
• Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey [collected by] Lillian Schlissel 978.02 WOM
• Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks by Lynn Sherr and Jurate Kazickas 973.082 SHE
• A Jury of her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter 810.9 SHO
• Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel Bio Galileo
• Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna L. Stratton 305.42 S
• A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women who Served in Vietnam [told to] Keith Walker 959.7 WAL
• Not for Ourselves Alone : The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : an illustrated history by Geoffrey C. Ward 305.42
• The Lady in the Tower : the Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir 942.05 Wei
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 305.409 WOL pb

Fiction

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Tallgrass ; The Chili Queen ; The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
• Into the Wilderness, 1998 ; Dawn on a Distant Shore, 2000 ; Lake in the Clouds, 2002 ; Fire Along the Sky, 2004 ; Queen of Swords, 2006 ; The Endless Forest, 2010 by Sara Donati
• 1000 White Women by Jim Fergus CD
• Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
• Thin Moon and Cold Mist : The First Women's West novel by Kathleen O'Neal Gear 1995
• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Hearts of Horses ; Wild Life by Molly Gloss
• Etta: a novel by Gerald Kolpan
• The Girl with the dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson
• The Overland Trail by Wendi Lee
• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Feather and the Stone by Patricia Shaw
• Walking West by Noëlle Sickels
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout
• Brooklyn: a novel by Colm Tóibín
• Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
• Nothing to do But Stay by Carrie Young
• Innocent Traitor by by Alison Weir
• Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• True Women by Janice Woods Windle
  

THE WINTER GARDEN

Saturday, March 12 – 12 Noon,
Marbletown Community Center

Let's welcome Spring and prepare for next year's garden with Debra Tobin Gray of Gardenmakers, who will offer a slide-illustrated talk on the structure of the winter garden and the use of evergreens, berry-producing plants and specimens with interesting and colorful stems to enhance our winter garden. She will also discuss plants that provide shelter and food for birds. Debra is the creator and generous donor of the Stone Ridge Library's beautiful garden.

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BE RED CROSS READY

Thursday, March 8 –
2:00 pm

Michael Kastner of the American Red Cross will lead a workshop outlining the basic actions that people can take to be prepared should a natural or human caused disaster strike. The Library has been selected as a site for this program, which is funded by the Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation.

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Staying in Place (SIP)
along the 209 Corridor

Saturday, March 26. 1:00 pm

The first meeting of the Planning Committee for the SIP 209 Corridor will be held at the Stone Ridge Library. The purposes of SIP 209 Corridor are

1. to bring people together aged 50 years and older for fellowship;
2. to connect with others who could offer and ask for volunteer help;
3. to provide referrals for professional services.

Yearly fees are to be determined, but they shall be minimal. For information call ViVi Hlavsa at 845-331-0155 or write vvhlavsa@aol.com

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, March 9,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for March is Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund.
A breathtaking, and uplifting story of one woman's spiritual journey, informed by the spirit of the greatest American novel, but taking it beyond tragedy to redemptive triumph.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Thursday, April 7,
2pm at Mike's house

The selections for the next meeting (skipping March) include: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. And The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle. We'll have our discussion and watch the 1939 movie with Humphry Bogart.

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MEDIEVAL
Book Group

Wednesday, April 6,
7pm in the Biography Room

The book for the April meeting is Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf. This historical novel, in the form of a memoir, uses the adventures of a real-life Arab traveler, Assan al-Wazzan, to examine the worlds of Islam and Christendom at the end of the medieval period.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thurs, March 17, 1-3pm in the Bio Room

Join us for another afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. We will be reading the leading British Modernist poet: the wise & world-weary, the humane & tender poet, W. H. Auden.

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ADULT CHESS CLUB

Monday, March 7,
6-7:30pm in the Biography Room

Our Chess Club for adults, scheduled for the first Monday of the month, from 6 - 7:30pm. Bring your own board if possible, and come join the fun!

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MEMOIR WRITING GROUP

Saturday, March 12 at 1pm
in the Biography Room

A Memoir Writing Group 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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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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GREAT WEBSITES!

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