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New Fiction

  • Death of a Liar: a Hamish Macbeth mystery - M.C. Beaton
  • As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust - Alan Bradley
  • Amnesua - Peter Carey
  • All the Light we Cannot See - Anthony Doer
  • Wolf Winter - Cecilia Ekback
  • A Small Indiscretion - Jan Ellison
  • Mr. Mac and Me - Esther Freud
  • Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman
  • Crash and Burn - Lisa Gardner
  • The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
  • Shadow of the Raven - Tessa Harris
  • Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
  • Cold Cold Heart - Tamil Hoag
  • Funny Girl - Nick Hornby
  • Motive: an Alex Delaware novel - Jonathan Kellerman
  • Of Irish Blood - Mary Pat Kelly
  • Dreaming Spies - Laurie R. King
  • Saint Odd - Dean Koontz
  • Inside a Silver Box - Walter Mosley
  • Private Vegas - James Patterson
  • A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler
  • The Marriage Game: a novel of Queen Elizabeth ! - Alison Weir

New Non-Fiction

  • Water-Wise Home: How to Capture, and Reuse Water in your Home and Landscape - Laura Allen
  • The Public Library: a Photographic Essay - robert Dawson
  • Hudson Valley Food & Farming: Why Didn't Anyone Ever Tell Me That? - Tessa Edick
  • Leaving Before the Rains Come - Alexandra Fuller
  • Publishing: a Writer's Memoir - Gail Godwin
  • Fishing Stories: a Lifetime of Adventures and Misadventures on Rivers, Lakes, and Seas - Nick Lyons
  • The Right Size Flower Garden - Kerry Ann Mendez
  • Beginner's Guide to Knitting in the Round - Kristin Omdahl
  • Worn Stories: Sartorial Memoirs - Emily Spivack

New Audio Books

  • Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors - Peter Ackroyd
  • Outline - Rachel Cusk
  • Crucible of Comand: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged - William C. Davis
  • The Big Seven: a Faux mystery - Jim Harrison
  • Runaway: stories - Alice Munto
  • West of Sunset - Stewart O'Nan
  • The Son - Jo Nesbo
  • Something Rich and Strange: selected stories - Ron Rash

New DVD's

  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone
  • The Boxtrolls
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
  • Foxcatcher - Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • The Homesman - Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank
  • Life Itself - Roger Ebert
  • My Old Lady - Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith
  • Nurse Jackie, season 6 - Edie Falco
  • Olive Kitteridge - Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray
  • Outlander, season 1, Vol. 1 - Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies
  • St. Vincent - Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts
  • Whiplash - Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

Women's History Month

Fiction

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  • The Pregnant Widow: inside history by Martin Amis
  • 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
  • Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
  • 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
  • I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
  • Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
  • 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 Help by Katherine Stockett
  • The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout
  • Brooklyn: a novel by Colm Tóibín
  • Back When we were Grownups by Anne Tyler
  • Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
  • Nothing to do but Stay by Carrie Young
  • Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
  • Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • True Women by Janice Woods Windle

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
  • Living History by Hillary Clinton BIO Clinton
  • 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 Woman by Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever 973.38 GRE
  • The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer 305.42 GRE
  • Journey from the Land of No: a Childhood caught in Revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian 955.05 HAK
  • In Her Own 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
  • West With the Night by Beryl Markham Bio Markham
  • The Peabody Sisters: three Women who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall 974.4 MAR
  • 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
  • Founding Mothers: the Women who Raised our Nation by Cokie Roberts 973.3 ROB
  • 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

CABIN FEVER CURE

Let's welcome Spring with these interesting and timely programs!

Sunday, March 15, 2:00 – 4:30 pm
Marbletown Community Center

Honeybees in the Garden: A Dance With Evolution

with Chris Harp and Grai St. Clair Rice, HoneybeeLives
Marbletown Community Center, 2:00 pm

During the course of evolution, pollinators and plants have been involved in a seductive
relationship that has been instrumental in creating the luxuriant world we live in today.
Honeybees are the most productive of the pollinators, and yet their well-being is
threatened by contemporary influences.

Chris and Grai share their insights into the complex world of the honeybee and their health in our contemporary society. The presentation will encourage an understanding of how individuals can help the honeybee through simple garden/landscape elements, and a love and respect for these pollinators. HoneybeeLivesʼ Natural / Organic Beekeeping Classes nurture beekeepers who nurture their bees. The winter weekend workshops, to start hives in spring, are held each year in Rosendale and Brooklyn. HoneybeeLives.org

Creating Gardens for Native Pollinators

Francis Groeters, Ph.D., Catskill Native Nursery
Marbletown Community Center, 3:30 pm

Many of our food plants like blueberries and tomatoes are efficiently pollinated by native bees, such as social bumble bees and solitary mason bees. Butterflies, flies and beetles also act as pollinators. Francis will discuss how to attract native pollinators by creating gardens of native plants that support them throughout their life cycle.

Francis holds degrees in Biology and Zoology and has done extensive research on insects that feed on plants. He has a lifelong interest in studying flora of various areas, and now focuses on Catskill Mountain plants. catskillnativenursery.com.

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When the Dust Finally Settles...
Strategies for the Long-Term Caregiver


Joel Goldstein, Author, "No Stone Unturned: A Father's Memoir of His Son's Encounter with Traumatic Brain Injury"
Saturday, March 7, 2 pm –
Marbletown Community Center

By tragic necessity, Joel Goldstein became a lay expert in traumatic brain injury after his teenage son suffered severe TBI in an auto accident in 2001. In his talk, Joel will share the strategies his family used to manage and cope with the consequences of ongoing care-giving while preserving their balance, optimism, resilience and zest for life. The talk will be followed by a lively question and answer session and book signing.

Joel Goldstein's critically acclaimed book No Stone Unturned: A Father's Memoir of His Son's Encounter with Traumatic Brain Injury (Potomac Books, April 2012) has been embraced by health and rehabilitation professionals, universities, and civilian and military caregivers. It offers profound insights into what survivors and their families must face. Considering every possibility in their search for remedies to their son Bart's catastrophic injuries, the Goldsteins explored several promising alternatives, including craniosacral, hyperbaric oxygen, sensory learning, and vision restoration therapies. Bart's remarkable recovery resulted from a combination of conventional medicine and alternative and emerging therapies. Persons struggling with any grave medical condition will find the book, and Joel's talks, insightful, inspiring and useful. His message, full of humor and practical techniques on navigating life's toughest challenges, offers a thoughtful hand-drawn map for the journey which, inevitably, so many of us must travel.

Joel has written for Exceptional Parent Magazine, Brainline.org, Adoption Today, and Military Special Needs Network. He has spoken about TBI and recovery form grave illness on National Public Radio, public television and to audiences from the YMCA to the Hellenic Medial Society of New York. A distinguished transportation and logistics executive at Cambridge Corporate Services in NYC, Joel resides in New Paltz with his wife of 40 years, Reiki Master Dayle Groudine. Together they have left no stone unturned searching for remedies, both conventional and alternative, to Bart's grave injuries.

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Zumba Gold - Pilot Program*

Tuesday, March 10, Noon – 1:00pm - Marbletown Community Center
Juliet Gould, Certified Aerobics Fitness and Group Exercise Instructor

*Pilot Program: If we have people who would like to continue, we will meet on Tuesdays through April 21. The programs are free, but registration is requested. Go to our online calendar.

ZUMBA GOLD® uses Latin and World Rhythms to create an effective and easy-to-follow dance fitness workout, combining all elements of fitness--cardiovascular, muscle conditioning, balance, range of motion, coordination and flexibility. The class is perfect for active older adults, beginner participants, people who need modifications, and those who are seeking the original ZUMBA FITNESS® workout at a lower intensity. Participants should wear comfortable clothes and sneakers, and bring a water bottle.

Juliet Gould is a licensed ZUMBA GOLD instructor and certified personal trainer. She has been training for the better part of a decade and uses her unique experiences with diverse clients as a basis for her individualized approach to fitness. Juliet has helped clients achieve diverse goals including athletic conditioning and injury rehabilitation. She holds certification through the American and Aerobics Fitness Association of America in Group Exercise Instruction and Personal Fitness Training. She also maintains knowledge of current wellness trends and research by attending workshops such as AFAA Practical Pilates™ Training and AFAA Fighting Obesity: The Practical Way.

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REMEMBERING JOANNE AVERILL

Before moving to New York in 1992, Joanne Averill worked for many years writing technical manuals for large industrial machinery in Massachusetts. She had a BA in Economics from Franconia College in New Hampshire and an MA in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She also worked at Bard College for the Levy Economics Institute as a researcher. Since retirement, Joanne became active in the Stone Ridge Library, as a patron, volunteer, and trustee.

As a patron, Joanne was an active participant in the Tea Time Book Discussion Group, the Mystery Book Group, Clio's Muse History Book Group and the Poetry Group. She also regularly attended special library programs throughout the year. As a volunteer, Joanne not only gave her time, but also created systems that continue to be used for the ongoing benefit of the Library with her special focus as co-chair of the Book Tent at the Library Fair and the October Book Sale. She taught us how to look for simple and effective solutions to problems and created templates that can be used over and over by staff and volunteers. She did this cheerfully, with humor and remarkable energy. As a trustee, Joanne made major contributions to the Futures Committee and the Five-Year Plan. When she began her tenure on the Board, Joanne said, "I love the Library and its people and believe it is an important local resource and would be pleased to work with others to make this community treasure a continued success."

Library Director Jody Ford, remembering Joanne, said, "She was a dear friend to the Library, and we will miss her."

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, March 11
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman. A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, March 18
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson. When a jogger finds a dead body in the snow, the members of Sweden's Uppsala police force uncover a victim with an unsettling history. John Jonsson, known to everyone as Little John, was a respectable family man and a local expert on tropical fish. But he had been quite a troublemaker, and his delinquent past seems to have caught up with him. Despite being on maternity leave, Inspector Ann Lindell is determined to find John's murderer. The cruel cat-and-mouse game that follows leads Ann to a deadly confrontation with a treacherous killer.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, April 8
(note date change)
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for our April meeting is Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and faith in the New China (2014) by Evan Osnos. "A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation. From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy--or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes." Written by the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, March 3,
1:30-2:30 in the Bio Room

Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for these sessions that provide participants with an opportunity to practice and hone their Spanish language skills in a comfortable and enjoyable setting. Cliff Rockmuller, former language teacher at the Rondout Valley School District, leads the conversation. This program is held on the first Tuesday of each month.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, March 17
1:30-2:30pm
Biography Room

Want to brush up or improve your French with a conversation hour? Claudine is a native French speaker, born in Paris and raised in Europe; following a 30 year Government career abroad, she chose Stone Ridge to retire in. Culture, medicine, travels, and anything/everything culinary are favorite subjects—which she would love to share and exchange in French. The program is offered on the third Tuesday of each month.

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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra

Monday, March 9, 23
4:30-6:30pm

A writers' group meets every other Monday at the Library, with a maximum of 10 participants. This program is designed for people who are already in the process of writing and publishing work and want to participate in a structured feedback process. Cathy Arra, a poet, writer and former teacher of English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District facilitates the group. If you are interested in participating, please contact Diane DeChillo at the Stone Ridge Library (687-8726) to place your name on the wait list.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thurs, March 12, 26
1.30-3:30 in the Biography Room

Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Our meetings are held twice a month, on the second and fourth Thursdays.

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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 Theaters

March 13, 2015

Movie Title: Anarchy (formerly, Cymbeline)
Based on: Cymbeline, a play by William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo, Penn Dadgley, Dakota Johnson

March 13, 2015

Movie Title: Cinderella
Based on: Cinderella Fairy Tale
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett, Hayley Atwell, Richard Madden

March 20, 2015

Movie Title: The Gunman
Based on: The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance

March 20, 2015

Movie Title: Insurgent
Based on: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller

March 27, 2015

Movie Title: Home (formerly Happy Smekday)
Based on: The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
Director: Tim Johnson
Voices of: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin

March 27, 2015

Movie Title: Serena
Based on: Serena by Ron Rash
Director: Susan Bier
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper

Construction Updates


Prep for insulating the attic. more

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Thank you

Thank you very much to the Library friends who contributed so many handsome pots to the plant sale in October. Those plant pots helped us to raise over $500 for the Library!

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GREAT WEBSITES!

College Navigator

The College Navigator is an online tool from the Department of Education that compiles relevant information from universities and releases them in an easy to read format. A PDF guide from Adriance Library. more

RetailMeNot


RetailMeNot is a popular online coupon finder. It is frequently updated so new coupon codes are added each day for buying items from online stores. There is a section for printable coupons to bring to the old brick and mortar shops and a handy-dandy blog with great ideas for getting discounted prices on the things you love or need. Another informative pdf from the Adriance Library. more

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