New Fiction

• The Infinities - John Banville
  
• The Last Surgeon - Michael Palmer
• Split Image - Robert B. Parker
  
• Big Girl - Danielle Steel

New Audio Books

• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor
• Bad Things Happen - Harry Dolan
• Even Money - Dick Francis and Felix Francis
• The Law of Nines - Terry Goodkind
• Death and Honor - WEB Griffin
• Blue Moon - Laurell K. Hamilton
• Murder Being Once Done: an Inspector Wexford Mystery - Ruth Rendell
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

New DVD's

• The Age of Innocence - Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer
• Alice in Wonderland - Peter Sellers, John Gielgud
  
• The Blind Side - Sandra Bullock
  
• Broken Embraces - Penelope Cruz
• Brothers - Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal
  
• Capitalism: a Love Story - Michael Moore
• The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan
  
• Fantastic Mr. Fox - voices: George Clooney, Meryl Streep
• The Flame Trees of Thika - Hailey Mills
• The Grifters - Anjelica Huston, John Cusak
  
• Hearts in Atlantis - Anthony Hopkins
  
• The Informant - Matt Damon
  
• Mad Men, season 3
• Nurse Jackie - HBO first season
• Paris - Juliette Binoche
• Ponyo - annimated
  
• Precious - Mo'Nique, Gabourey Sidibe
• The Princess and the Frog - Disney
• Project Runway, season 6
  
• September Issue - Vogue magazine documentary
  
• A Serious Man - a Coen Brothers film
  
• Up in the Air - George Clooney
• Where the Wild Things Are - a Spike Jonze film
• Whip It - Elen Page, Drew Barrymore

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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.

April in Paris

FICTION

• The Last Time I saw Paris - Elizabeth Adler
  
• The Dead of Winter - Rennie Airth
  
• Game of Patience - Suzanne Alleyn
  
• Lunch in Paris: a love story, with recipes - Elizabeth Bard
  
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
  
• The Paris Vendetta - Steve Berry
  
• Murder in the Latin Quarter - Cara Black
  
• Leaving Home - Anita Brookner
  
• The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
  
• The Children's War - Monique Charlesworth
  
• The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
  
• A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
  
• Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
  
• The Foreign Correspondent - Alan Furst
  
• The Parisian Prodigal - Alan Gordon
  
• Blame it on Paris - Jennifer Greene
  
• The Girl With No Shadow - Joanne Harris
  
• Pictures at an Exhibition - Sara Houghteling
  
• The Mark of the Angel - Nancy Huston
  
• L'Affaire ; Le Marriage ; Le Divorce - Diane Johnson
  
• To Dance with Kings - Rosalind Laker
  
• Robert Ludlum's the Paris option - Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds
  
• Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris - Vanina Marsot
  
• Dreaming in French - Megan McAndrew
  
• Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky
  
• The Dressmaker - Elizabeth Oberbeck
  
• Prince of Darkness - Sharon Kay Penman
  
• City of Darkness, City of Light - Marge Piercy
  
• The Maigret mystery series - Georges Simenon
  
• The Way I Found Her - Rose Tremaine
  
• The Book of Salt - Monique Truong
  
• April in Paris - Michael Wallner
  
• Black girl in Paris: a novel - Shay Youngblood
  

CLASSICS

• Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
  
• Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
  
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  
• The Counte of Monte Cristo ; The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  
• Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame ; Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
• The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
  
• Christmas Holiday - W. Somerset Maugham
  
• The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
  
• Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
  
• A la Recherche du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust
  
• Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
  
• The works of - Emile Zola
  
• I'll Always Have Paris - Art Buchwald
  
• The Piano Shop on the Left Bank - Thaddeus Carhart
  

NON FICTION

• My Life in France - Julia Child BIO Child
  
• Is Paris Burning? - Larry Collins 940.542 Col
  
• The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry - Kathleen Flinn 641.07 FLI
  
• Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art - Dan Franck 944 FRA
  
• Marie Antoinette: The Journey - Alexandra Fraser BIO Marie
  
• Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food you Really Can Make at Home - Ina Garden 641.594 GAR
  
• The Cat Who Went to Paris - Peter Gethers 818.5 Get
  
• Paris to the Moon - Adam Gopnik 944.36 GOP
  
• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway BIO Hem
  
• Seven ages of Paris - Alistair Horne 944.361 HOR
  
• The Sweet Life in Paris : Delicious Adventures in the World's most Glorious -- and Perplexing -- City - David Lebovitz 641.013 LEB
  
• Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan 940.3 MAC
  
• The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen - Jacques Pepin CASS Pep
  
• Return to Paris - Colette Rossant
  
• Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris CASS Sed
  
• What is Remembered - Alice B. Toklas Bio Toklas
  
• The Paris Cookbook - Patricia Wells
  
• We've always had Paris-- and Provence: a Scrapbook of our life in France - Patricia and Walter Wells
  
• The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris - Edmund White
  

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POEMS OF
EMILY DICKINSON
reflecting on the seasons

with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, April 22
4:00pm, Reference Room

We will celebrate Earth Day and national poetry month with poems about the coming and going of seasons: their special joys (and terrors--in storms!), their waited-for comings, their harbingers, their barely perceptible goings, expressing all the poignancy of natural seasons in human life. All are welcome!

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LIBRARY FAIR

Volunteer Meeting
April 24, 11am

The Library Fair will be on Saturday, June 12th this year. The snow has melted and it's not too muddy, so we are accepting book donations again. It’s not too early to start collecting gift items for our sale tables so if you have gently used gift items, please drop them off at the library any time we are open. We are also accepting items for our silent auction.

New volunteers and Fair veterans are invited to join us for a Fair planning session on Saturday, April 24 from 11 to 12 at the library. We look forward to seeing you then!

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ADULT CHESS CLUB

Monday, April 5,
6-7:30pm in the Reference Room

Our new 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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Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, April 14
4pm in the Reference Room

The selection this month is The Help by Katheryn Stockett. In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Wednesday, April 21,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: Letter From Home by Carolyn G. Hart and The Adventure of the Six Napoleons - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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MEDIEVAL
Book Group

Wednesday, April 21,
7pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: Who Murdered Chaucer? A medieval mystery (2004) by Terry Jones. In addition, it is recommended to read as many of The Canterbury Tales as possible. There are numerous translations from which to choose.

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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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On the Shelves

with Phyllis Keaton
Poughkeepsie Journal 3.7.10

Books help guide us
through digital age

Why can't a computer be more like a human?

Jaron Lanier writes about the relationship between humans and computers, culture and technology. In You Are not a Gadget, he explains how technology has shaped our culture, and why culture should be shaping our technology.

Web 2.0, the second generation of Internet technologies that encourages sharing on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, was designed to foster communication and democracy. Instead, Lanier finds that early computer programming decisions had unintended consequences that favored mob mentality over individual thought, among other flaws.

Consider the quality of the comments left by readers on many Web sites. Lanier proposes a technological "reboot" that would stress the importance of the individual. His concerns are wide-ranging and the number of issues he addresses in the book is huge, but the book is organized into brief chapters that reduce big issues to human scale. Readers may not agree with some of his solutions, or even understand every point he makes, but most should find the book thought-provoking and ultimately inspirational.

Find out more about Lanier and You Are not a Gadget at www.jaronlanier.com. As you might expect, visitors to his site are not encouraged to leave comments.

In Delete: the Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger also questions the cost of the benefits of collective memory.

Google your name and look at the results. You might be surprised at what you find out about yourself online, and you might not be pleasantly surprised. Once personal details are online, it's virtually impossible to remove them. The collective mind does not easily forget; it just keeps accumulating information.

Delete explores how computer memory has trumped human forgetting and makes an interesting argument for designing technology to forget — just like we humans.

Or we can bypass technology completely, as proposed by Daniel Menaker in A Good Talk: the Story and Skill of Conversation.

Menaker contends that we've become so dependent on our means of communication — computers, smart phones — that we've forgotten how to talk to each other face-to-face. He points out that it's all too easy to be cruel to someone online than to someone you're talking to directly. In this engaging book, more personal essay than how-to, conversation can save the world. Or at least keep it human.

For those secure in their humanity who are more concerned about keeping up with their friends or children or grandchildren than with saving the world, there is the latest edition of "Facebook for Dummies" by Carolyn Abram and Leah Pearlman. It will tell you more than you ever need to know.

Phyllis Keaton is director of the Howland Public Library, serving the Beacon City School District. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Hudson Valley Libraries and on the Mid-Hudson Library System Outreach Committee. She is past president of the New York Library Association Library Administration & Management and the association's Public Libraries Sections, and is past chairwoman of the Dutchess County Library Directors Association.

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE eNEWS

We've been publishing this eNewsletter for five years. It has evolved over the years, take a look at the first one. Where are the pictures, the links, the fun websites, the book lists? We hope you enjoy it.

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Rochester Membership Cards 2010

As you may know, this year the Town of Rochester contracted with the Stone Ridge Library to provide 250 paid Family memberships to Town of Rochester residents. Additionally, the library is providing free memberships to all Rondout Valley students for 2010. At this time all the paid Family memberships have been used. However, if you would like to leave your name and contact information with the library we will notify you if someone moves or gives up their paid membership this year. Memberships for student use are unlimited. If a student in your family would like a free membership, he or she can obtain one by showing his student ID at the circulation desk.

Non-subsidized family memberships are also available. The rate schedule below shows the cost of a family membership for the balance of 2010 depending on which month it begins.

March - $41.70
April - $37.53
May - $33.36
June - $29.19
July - $25.02
August - $20.85
Sept - $16.68
Oct - $12.51
Nov - $8.34
Dec - $4.17

Rochester residents should also be aware that they can obtain library cards at no charge from the Ellenville Library for use in the Ramapo Catskill Library System. If you have questions please feel free to email Stone Ridge Library Director Jody Ford.

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