March 2016

New Fiction

• The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto - Mitch Albom
• Cometh the Hour: The Clifton chronicles - Jeffrey Archer
• Warriors of the Storm - Bernard Cornwell
• The Theoretical Foot - M.F.K. Fisher
• Forty Rooms - Olga Grushin
• The Photographer's Wife - Suzanne Joinson
• Breakdown: an Alex Delaware novel - Jonathan Kellerman
• Robert B. Parker's Blackjack - Robert Knott
• In Other Words - Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Revolving Door of Life: the new 44 Scotland Street novel - Alexander McCall Smith
• The High Mountains of Portugal - Yann Martel
• Midnight Sun - Jo Nesbo
• Even dogs in the Wild - Ian Rankin
• No Shred of Evidence - Charles Todd
• Georgia: a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe - Dawn Tripp

New Non-Fiction

• SPQR: a History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard
• The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain - Bill Bryson
• Cook it in Cast Iron: Kitchen-Tested Recipes for the One Pan that Does it All - Cook's Country
• My Time with the Kings: a Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement - Katheryn Johnson
• Soap Making Naturally - Bev Missing
• National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States
• Boys in the Trees: a memoir - Carly Simon

New Large Print

• The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald
• The Man without a Shadow - Joyce Carol Oates
• The Song of Hartgrove Hall - Natasha Solomons
• Blue - Danielle Steel

New Audio Books

• Death of a Nurse - M.C. Beaton
• In Other Words - Jhumpa Lahiri
• Even Dogs in the Wild - Ian Rankin
• My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
• No Shred of Evidence - Charles Todd
• Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

New DVD's

• Black Mass - Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton
• Bridge of Spies - Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance
• Everest - Jake Gyllenhall, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes
• Endeavour, Season 1
• Girls - 4th Season
• Grandma - Lily Tomlin
• Jafar Panahi's Taxi
• Rock the Kasbah - Bill Murray
• Room - Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay
• Spectre - Daniel Craig
• Straight Outta Compton - Dr Dre, Eazy-e, Ice Cube
• Suffragette - Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Meryl Streep

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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.

The Greatest Books Since 2000

"This list is generated from 107 "best of" book lists from a variety of great sources. An algorithm is used to create a master list based on how many lists a particular book appears on. Some lists count more than others. I generally trust "best of all time" lists voted by authors and experts over user-generated lists. On the lists that are actually ranked, the book that is 1st counts a lot more than the book that's 100th." From The Greatest Books website. more

1 . The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

2 . Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

3 . The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

4 . Atonement by Ian McEwan

5 . Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

6 . 2666 by Roberto Bolano

7 . The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

8 . Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

9 . White Teeth by Zadie Smith

10 . The Road by Cormac McCarthy

11 . The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

12 . The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

13 . Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis

14 . Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

15 . Poems by Paul Celan

16 . The Known World by Edward P. Jones

17 . Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

18 . The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott

19 . Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

20 . Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler

21 . Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

22 . The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

23 . Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage

24 . Life of Pi by Yann Martel

25 . My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

26 . Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

27 . The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

28 . The Human Stain by Philip Roth

29 . The Half Brother: A Novel by Lars Saabye Christensen

30 . Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

31 . A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

32 . Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes

33 . Forever: A Novel by Pete Hamill

34 . I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda

35 . What Is the What by Dave Eggers

36 . Baudolino by Umberto Eco

37 . Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling

38 . Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

39 . Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

40 . Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

41 . The Early Stories by John Updike

42 . Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

43 . Pastoralia by George Saunders

44 . Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

45 . House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

46 . The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

47 . Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

48 . Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

49 . Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

50 . Fifty Shades of Grey: by E L James

51 . The Help by Kathryn Stockett

52 . Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

53 . Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

54 . Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg

55 . Mortals by Norman Rush

56 . The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

57 . Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain

58 . Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

59 . The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury

60 . The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall

61 . Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

62 . American Genius: A Comedy by Lynne Tillman

63 . A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

64 . No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

65 . A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

66 . The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

67 . The Feast of the Goat: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

68 . Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

69 . Persepolis Two by Marjane Satrapi

70 . Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

71 . The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

72 . The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

73 . Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

74 . Sold by Patricia McCormick

75 . You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

76 . Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

77 . The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

78 . Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

79 . Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

80 . Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier

81 . Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton

82 . City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

83 . Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

84 . Dissolution: A Shardlake Novel by C. J. Sansom

85 . Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

86 . A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

87 . American Gods by Neil Gaiman

88 . The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

89 . Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

90 . The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

91 . Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

92 . The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

93 . The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

94 . Salvage the Bones: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward

95 . Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

96 . The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

97 . Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

98 . The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

99 . My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

100 . Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Cabin Fever Cure

Hand-on workshops
to chase those winter blahs!

Suminagashi – "Ink Floating" with Christina DiMarco

Saturday, March 5, 10am – 1pm
Marbletown Community Center
Class size: 20 people; $5 materials fee.
Please register.

Discover and explore the magical art of Suminagashi, ink floating. We use ink and dispersants which swirl on the water surface as you move them. Images are picked up with absorbent paper and can be used as art in itself, in bookbinding, card making, and other applications. Christina Di Marco is a Hudson Valley artist and teacher of art for people of all ages and abilities, specializing in Suminagashi and Turkish marbling, a magical decorative art.

Introduction to Handmade Books with Joe Reilly

Saturday, March 19, 10am – 1pm
Marbletown Community Center
Maximum 10 participants. No materials fee.
Please register.

This 2-hour workshop begins with an introduction to the tools and supplies used in making books, as well as a short discussion on the qualities of paper. Then the participants will make two books: a soft-cover pamphlet stitch and a hard-cover accordion. All the materials, including a variety of decorative papers for the books' covers, will be provided. Joe Reilly is a retired teacher who has been making books by hand since the early 1990's. For the past ten years he has been seriously pursuing this avocation as a member of the Book Arts Roundtable, an artists' group based in New Jersey. His books are in many private collections across the United States.

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Traditional Irish Music
and Dance

Friday, March 18, 7 pm
at the Marbletown Community Center

Join us for an evening of traditional Irish music and dance with Sean Ernest, Dylan Foley and Siobhan Butler. Sean and Dylan are members of the Manhattan-based quartet, The Yanks who have performed at Irish festivals and major venues throughout North America and Ireland and have produced two critically acclaimed albums. Dylan Foley a native of Rhinebeck, NY is the 2014 All-Ireland Fiddle Champion. Joining Dylan will be Sean Ernest on guitar and bouzouki. Dancer Siobhan Butler will round out the performance with Sean-nos, a traditional Irish dance form. A reception will follow the performance. All are welcome!

SEAN NOS Irish Dance Class with Siobhan Butler

Tuesdays 3/22, 3/29, 4/5 - 6pm
Marbletown Community Center - $5
Please register

Sean-nós dance is considered by many to be the original form of solo Irish dance. Literally translating to "old style," sean-nós is an improvised dance style that is unique to each dancer. Dancers interpet the music through close-to-floor percussive movements, adding their own stylized flourishes.

This three week series is a wonderful opportunity for those interested in starting, or returning to, the basics of sean-nós dance. This class will give students the tools to begin building their repertoire and developing their sense of musicality as dancers. Open to dancers aged 13 and older. Please register for these lessons on our website.

Siobhan Butler is an acclaimed performer and teacher of Irish dance. Specializing in traditional Irish step and sean-nós dance, Siobhan's expertise in Irish dance has led her to teach at prestigious venues such as the Milwaukee Irish Fest, Villanova University, Boston College, The O'Flaherty Retreat, and Sean-Nós NorthWest to name only a few. She has been a featured dancer on the Nationally televised stations TG4 and RTE in Ireland and was the first sean-nós dancer to perform at the world famous Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. More about Siobhan can be found at her website.

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Iranian Women Beyond the Chador; A talk in two parts

An illustrated lecture by Susan and Paul Sprachman

Wednesday, March 16, 7 pm
Marbletown Community Center

In the first part of their talk, Susan's introduces through her photographs the topography, villages, and cities of Iran. The focus later shifts to images of Iranian women and the ways in which they use style and flair to bend legal restrictions on showing their hair and bodies.

In the second part of the talk, Paul will discuss how some Iranian women appear in current Persian writing. It focuses on two books Paul has recently translated: One Woman's War, a memoir by Zahra Hosseini, a devout Shia and refugee from Iraq who came of age during the early days of the Iran-Iraq war; and Tehran: Revolution Street that tells the story of Shahrzad, a high school student who finds herself the object of affection of two men—one, rich and powerful and the other poor and powerless.

A separate exhibit, Looking Beyond, is on view at the Library through the end of March featuring Susan's travel photographs.

The Sprachmans became full-time residents of Kripplebush after retiring in 2014. They have lived in New Jersey, Chicago, Iran, and Afghanistan.

Susan directed research projects on early childhood for Mathematica Policy Research in Princeton and is now focusing on her photography and volunteer activities. She has shown her work in juried shows at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum and the Art Society of Kingston, and gave an earlier version of this presentation for Arts Mid-Hudson. She is a trustee of the Ulster County Historical Society, a member of the Marbletown Historic Preservation Commission, and a volunteer with the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Ulster County (CASA).

Paul is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. He has a Masters Degree in Persian Literature from Tehran University and a PhD in Persian and Arabic from the University of Chicago. He is the author of studies of classical and modern Persian writing, some of which has been censored. His recent translations from Persian to English include the books discussed in the talk as well as others by writers who were teenage combatants in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-89). The books are available at the Stone Ridge Library.

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Big Library Read

From March 17 – 31, American Sniper will be available through OverDrive Media for every patron that wishes to read it—no holds, no wait lists. more

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Second Annual Rondout Creek Summit: Who's Doing What in the Watershed

Tuesday March 29th from 6-9 p.m
Marbletown/Rosendale Town Hall room M-1, 1925 Lucas Avenue, Cottekill, NY

Riverkeeper and the Environmental Conservation Commissions of the Towns of Rochester and Marbletown invite you to the 2nd Annual Rondout Creek Summit, featuring updates on the projects that affecting the watershed. The event will begin with networking and pizza at 5:30 (first come, first served!), followed by updates on water quality, infrastructure, and planning for future events. Sponsored by Rondout Creek ECC's. This event is open to the public and is meeting at the new Town Hall.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, March 9
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Past Imperfect by Jullian Fellows. Remembering his escapades at the side of a rival during London's 1960s debutante seasons, a man reluctantly accepts his dying nemesis's entreaty to locate a woman with whom the latter may have fathered a child. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, March 16
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is Woman with Birthmark: an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery by Hakan Nesser. Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and murder.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, April 6
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for April is Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins--or in our modern eating habits.

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Ulster County Historical Society Reading Club

Saturday, March 5
12:45 to 2:45pm in the Biography Room

The Ulster County Historical Society reading club will focusing on sections V to IX (pp. 243-492) of Vernon Benjamin's The History of the Hudson River Valley from Wilderness to the Civil War. Anyone from the Library community interested in attending is welcome.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, March 1, April 5
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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A New Conversational Spanish Offering
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, March 23, 1:30-2:30
Biography Room

For those of you who would like an opportunity to practice your Spanish language skills at a slower pace, Heidi Ehrich will be facilitating a second Conversational Spanish session every fourth Tuesday at the Library at 1:30. Cliff Rockmuller's group will continue to meet on the first Tuesday at 1:30. Patrons are welcome to participate in one or both groups, the only pre-requisite being a basic conversational ability in Spanish.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, March 15, 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 7, 21
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

Thursday, March 10, 24
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 2, 2016

Movie Title: Hap and Leonard
Where: TV Series - SundanceTV
Based on: Hap and Leonard novels by Joe Lansdale
Director: Jim Mickle and Nick Damici
Cast: Michael K. Williams, James Purefoy, Christina Hendricks

March 4, 2016

Movie Title: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker
Director: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
Cast: Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Steve Peacocke

March 11, 2016

Movie Title: The Young Messiah
Where: Theaters
Based on: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Cast: not available

March 16, 2016

Movie Title: Miracles From Heaven
Where: Theaters
Based on: Three Miracles From Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing by Christy Wilson Beam
Director: Patricia Riggen
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Queen Latifah

March 18, 2016

Movie Title: The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Where: Theaters
Based on: Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller

March 18, 2016

Movie Title: Daredevil, Season Two
Where: TV Limited Series - Netflix
Based on: Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller, Daredevil characters by Stan Lee
Director: Drew Goddard
Cast: Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll

March 18, 2016

Movie Title: The Little Prince
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Director: Mark Osborne
Cast: Voices of Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, James Franco, Marion Cotillard Paul Rudd, Benicio del Toro, Paul Giamatti, Ricky Gervais, Albert Brooks, and Bud Cort

March 25, 2016

Movie Title: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
Where: Theaters
Based on: Batman and Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel, Joe Schuster and Bill Finger
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Henry Cavill

March 25, 2016

Movie Title: I Saw the Light
Where: Theaters
Based on: Hank Williams: the Biography by Colin Escott
Director: Marc Abraham
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford

March 27, 2016

Movie Title: Grantchester, Season Two
Where: TV series - PBS Masterpiece
Based on: The Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie
Director: Lovely Day
Cast: James Norton, Robson Green

Snow Days

Click here for updated closings or delays at the Library. We will also be posting the information on our Facebook page. more

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After School Story Hours have started

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GREAT WEBSITES!

American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films is a filmographic database on the web providing details on nearly 60,000 American feature length films and 17,000 short films produced in America or financed by American production companies from 1893 to 2011. It also includes AFI AWARDS honorees from 2000 through 2015. more

Tax Scams

The IRS has created a web page with information on the latest tax scam activities. more

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