May 2006

New Fiction

• We are All Welcome Here - Elizabeth Berg
• Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark
• Seeing - Jose Saramago
• Memoirs of a Muse - Lara Vapnyar
• Debts of Dishonor: an Imogen Quy mystery - Jill Paton Walsh
• Penumbra - Carolyn Haines
• Dark Tort - Diane Mott Davidson
• Gone: an Alex Delaware novel - Jonathan Kellerman
• Quite Honestly - John Mortimer
• Fortunate Son - Walter Mosley
• Richard Temple - Patrick O'Brian
• Beach Road - James Patterson
• Dark Assassin - Anne Perry
• Hitched: a Regan Reilly Mystery - Carol Higgins Clark
• Hey, Good Looking - Fern Michaels
• Tomb of the Golden Bird - Elizabeth Peters
• Dark Harbor: a Stone Barrington Novel - Stuart Woods
• Vanished - Karen Robards

New Non-Fiction

• The Place you Love is Gone: Progress Hits Home - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
• The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems - Mark Haddon
• Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses - Helen Castor
• America's Best Value Colleges - the Princeton Review
• An Ordinary Man: an Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the Film Hotel Rwanda - Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner
• Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long - Richard D. White, Jr.
• My Life in France - Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
• Giada's Family Dinners - Giada DeLaurentuus

New Audios

All CDs unless noted

• Tomb of the Golden Bird - Elizabeth Peters
• An Ordinary Man: an Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the Film Hotel Rwanda - Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

New DVD's

• Bee Season
• Breakfast on Pluto
• Brokeback Mountain
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Darkness Falls
• Jackie Chan Adventures
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Match Point
• Murder by Numbers
• Sharkboy and Lavagirl
• Shopgirl
• Avenging Angelo
• I Still Know what You did Last Summer

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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.

IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE

Contemporary fiction about immigrants in the U.S.:

• Abu-Jaber, Diana. CRESCENT
  
• Ali, Monica. BRICK LANE
  
• Alvarez, Julia. HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
  
• Boyle, T.C. THE TORTILLA CURTAIN
  
• Canin, Ethan. CARRY ME ACROSS THE WATER
  
• Castillo, Mary. HOT TAMARA
  
• Cruz, Angie. LET IT RAIN COFFEE
  
• Cussler, Clive. FLOOD TIDE
  
• Daswani, Kavita. THE VILLAGE BRIDE OF BEVERLY HILLS
  
• Desai, Kiran. THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS
  
• Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. THE VINE OF DESIRE and SISTER OF MY HEART
  
• Dubas, Andre. THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
  
• Erian, Alicia. TOWELHEAD: A NOVEL
  
• Freeman, Cynthia. PORTRAITS
  
• Gaffney, Elizabeth. METROPOLIS: A NOVEL
  
• Gish, Jen. THE LOVE WIFE, MONA IN THE PROMISED LAND, and TYPICAL AMERICAN
  
• Goldman, Francisco. THE ORDINARY SEAMAN
  
• Goodman, Allegra. THE FAMILY MARKOWITZ
  
• Gillian, Maria M., ed. GROWING UP ETHNIC IN AMERICA (short stories)
  
• Haq, Hina. SADIKA'S WAY
  
• Hijuelos, Oscar. THE FOURTEEEN SISTERS OF EMILIO MONTEZ O'BRIEN
  
• Hosseini, Khaled. THE KITE RUNNER
  
• Huo, T.C. THE LAND OF SMILES
  
• Jhabvala, Ruth P. SHARDS OF MEMORY
  
• Kelman, James. YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
  
• Krauss, Nicole. THE HISTORY OF LOVE
  
• Lahiri, Jhumpa. THE NAMESAKE and THE INTERPRETER OF MALADIES (short stories)
  
• Lappin, Elena. FOREIGN BRIDES (short stories)
  
• Lasdun, James. SSEVEN LIES
  
• Lee, Gus. CHINA BOY and HONOR AND DUTY
  
• Littell, Robert. THE VISITING PROFESSOR
  
• Mukherjrr, Bharati. THE TREE BRIDE
  
• Na, An. A STEP FROM HEAVEN
  
• Nabokov, Vladimir. LOLITA
  
• Namioka, Lensey. AN OCEAN APART: A WORLD AWAY
  
• Narayan, Kirin. LOVE, STARS, AND ALL THAT
  
• Obejas, Achy. DAYS OF AWE
  
• Perez, Loida Maritza. GEOGRAPHIES OF HOME
  
• Proulx, Annie. ACCORDION CRIMES
  
• Quesada,Roberto. NEVER THROUGH MIAMI
  
• Rabinyan, Dorit. STRAND OF A THOUSAND PEARLS
  
• Rezzori, Grego von. THE ORIENT EXPRESS
  
• Rosario, Nelly. SONG OF THE WATER SAINTS
  
• Salinger, Steven D. WHITE DARKNESS and SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING
  
• Santiago, Esmeralda. AMERICA'S DREAM
  
• Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. LOVE: A NOVEL and SECOND GENERATION
  
• Shearer, Cynthia. THE CELESTIAL JUKEBOX
  
• Tan, Amy. THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER and THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES
  
• Yun, Mia. TRANSLATIONS OF BEAUTY

Historical Fiction about Immigrants:

• Arkin, Frieda. HEDWIG AND BERTI
  
• Auch, Mary Jane. ASHES OF ROSES
  
• Baker, Kevin. DREAMLAND and PARADISE ALLEY
  
• Bowen, Rhys. DEATH OF RILEY, MOLLY MURPHY series
  
• Castellani, Christopher. THE SAINT OF LOST THINGS
  
• Cather, Willa. MY ANTONIA
  
• Cather, Willa. O PIONEERS!
  
• Chabon, Michael. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY
  
• Chang, Lan Samantha. INHERITANCE
  
• Chun, Pam. THE MONEY DRAGON
  
• DeRosa, Tina. PAPER FISH
  
• Delbanco, Nicholas. WHAT REMAINS
  
• Dos Passos, John. MANHATTAN TRANSFER
  
• Doyle, Roddy. OH, PLAY THAT THING
  
• Erdrich, Louise. MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB
  
• Fanning, Charles, ed. EXILES OF ERIN (short stories)
  
• Fast, Howard. THE IMMIGRANTS series
  
• Finney, Ernest J. CALIFORNIA TIME
  
• Forbes, Kathryn. MAMA'S BANK ACCOUNT and Van Druten, John. I REMEMBER MAMA
  
• Gaffney, Elizabeth. METROPOLIS
  
• Hegi, Ursula. THE VISION OF EMMA BLAU
  
• Hijuelos, Oscar. THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE, OUR HOUSE IN THE LAST WORLD, EMPRESS OF THE SPLENDID SEASON
  
• Hoff, B.J. SONS OF AN ANCIENT GLORY
  
• Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James Houston. THE LEGEND OF FIRE HORSE WARRIOR
  
• Kessler-Harris, Alice. BREAD GIVERS: A NOVEL
  
• Lagasse, Mary. THE FIFTH SUN
  
• Mark, Grace. THE DREAM SEEKERS
  
• Mazzucoo, Melania. VITA
  
• O'Connor, Joseph. STAR OF THE SEA
  
• Pearce, Jonathan. THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON
  
• Pelecanos, George. THE BIG BLOWDOWN
  
• Petrakis, Harry Mark. DAYS OF VENGEANCE
  
• Proulx, Annie. ACCORDION CRIMES
  
• Powers, Richard. THE TIME OF OUR SINGING
  
• Puzo, Mario. THE FORTUNATE PILGRIM and THE GODFATHER
  
• Roiphe, Anne. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
• Rolvaag, O. E. GIANTS IN THE EARTH
  
• Rosten, Leo. THE EDUCATION OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
  
• Roth, Henry. MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM and CALL IT SLEEP and A DIVING ROCK ON THE HUDSON
  
• Ruiz, Ronald L. GIUSEPPE ROCCO
  
• See, Lisa. ON GOLD MOUNTAIN
  
• Silbert, Layle. THE FREE THINKERS: TWO NOVELLAS
  
• Silver, Fannie. BETTER THAN GOLD
  
• Sinclair, Upton. THE JUNGLE
  
• Skvorecky, Josef. TWO MURDERS IN MY DOUBLE LIFE
  
• Smith, Betty. A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
  
• Sontag, Susan. IN AMERICA
  
• Stefaniak, Mary Helen. THE TURK AND MY MOTHER
  
• Stewart, Fred M. ELLIS ISLAND
  
• Tan, Amy. THE JOY LUCK CLUB
  
• Wheeler, Richard. THE FIELDS OF EDEN
  
• Widmer, Eleanor. UP FROM ORCHARD STREET
  
• Yezierska, Ansia. BREAD GIVERS
  
• Zabytko, Irene. WHEN LUBA LEAVES HOME: STORIES
  

Non-fiction by and about immigrants in the U.S.:

• Ahmedi, Farah. THE STORY OF MY LIFE: AN AFGHAN GIRL...
  
• Alzo, Lisa A. THREE SLOVAK WOMEN
  
• Antin, Mary. THE PROMISED LAND
  
• Apple, Max. I LOVE GOOTIE: MY GRANDMOTHER'S STORY
  
• Arana, Maria. AMERICAN CHICA: TWO WORLDS, ONE CHILDHOOD
  
• Asavesh, Gelareh. SAFFRON SKY: A LIFE BETWEEN IRAN AND AMERICA
  
• Bailey, John. THE LOST GERMAN SLAVE GIRL: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY...
  
• Berger, Joseph. DISPLACED PERSONS: GROWING UP AMERICAN AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
  
• Berlin, Irving--biographies of (there are many!)
  
• Birkerts, Sven. MY SKY BLUE TRADES
  
• Bok, Edward. THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK
  
• Dumas, Firoozeh. FUNNY IN FARSI: A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP IRANIAN IN AMERICA
  
• Gray, Francine du Plessix. THEM: A MEMOIR OF PARENTS.
  
• Golden, Harry. TRAVELS THROUGH JEWISH AMERICA, THE GREATEST JEWISH CITY IN THE WORLD, TALES OF OUR PEOPLE: GREAT STORIES OF THE JEW IN AMERICA, THE SPIRIT OF THE GHETTO: STUDIES OF THE JEWISH QUARTER OF NEW YORK, JEWISH ROOTS IN THE CAROLINAS: A PATTERN OF AMERICAN PHILO-SEMITISM
  
• Hoffman, Eva. LOST IN TRANSLATION: A LIFE IN A NEW LANGUAGE
  
• Kingston, Maxine Hong. WOMAN WARRIOR: MEMOIRS OF A GIRLHOOD AMONG GHOSTS
  
• Kleinfield, Sonny. HIS OLDEST FRIEND: THE STORY OF AN UNLIKELY BOND
  
• Kopelnitsky, Raimonda. NO WORDS TO SAY GOODBYE: A YOUNG JEWISH WOMAN'S JOURNEY...
  
• Latifi, Afschineh. EVEN AFTER ALL THIS TIME: A STORY OF LOVE, REVOLUTION,...
  
• Lazarus, Emma. poetry, prose, and plays
  
• Levenson, Sam. EVERYTHING BUT MONEY, IN ONE ERA AND OUT THE OTHER, SHTETL, MEMOIRS AND OTHERS,
• Martinez, Ruben. CROSSING OVER: A MEXICAN, FAMILY ON THE MIGRANT TRAIL
  
• Mathabane, Mark. KAFFIR BOY IN AMERICA
  
• Mawi Asgedom. OF BEETLES & ANGELS: A BOY'S REMARKABLE JOURNEY...
  
• McCourt, Frank. ANGELA'S ASHES
  
• Minatoya, Lydia. TALKING TO HIGH MONKS IN THE SNOW: AN ASIAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY
  
• Ojito, Mirta. FINDING MANANA: A MEMOIR OF A CUBAN EXODUS
  
• Papashvilly, George and Helen. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
  
• Ribalow, Harold Uriel. MID-CENTURY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH LIFE and CULTURE IN OUR TIMES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF AMERICAN JEWS
  
• Santiago, Esmeralda. ALMOST A WOMAN and WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN
  
• Tan, Amy. THE OPPOSITE OF FATE
  
• Turtle, Brad. THE ELLIS ISLAND COLLECTION: ARTIFACTS FROM THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
  
• Von Drehle, Dave. TRIANGLE: THE FIRE THAT CHANGED AMERICA
  
• Weinberg, Sydney Stahl. THE WORLD OF OUR MOTHERS: THE LIVES OF JEWISH IMMIGRANT WOMEN
  
• Wong, Wayne Hung. AMERICAN PAPER SON: A CHINESE IMMIGRANT IN THE MIDWEST

Come to the 60th Annual Library Fair!

Back to our roots!

June 10th - New Time: 11 AM – 3 PM

FOR THE 60TH ANNUAL FAIR, we’re going back to basics—a little bit downsized, a little countrified, with new hours—and just as much fun as ever! The centerpiece of the Fair, as always, will be the book sale under the big tent. New this year, handmade pottery and garden accessories will complement the ever-popular plant sale. Local authors will be on hand to sign their books, and fiber artists will demonstrate and sell their wares. Jewelry and toys will also be available for purchase. Wraps and chili will vie with traditional hot dogs and hamburgers for your culinary vote. And the strawberry shortcake, iced tea and iced coffee will remind us why we love summer!

Children’s activities, and three 50/50 raffles will going on all day, and Kurt Henry will once again serve as M.C., opening the entertainment with the Kurt Henry Trio followed by Don Haynie and Sheryl Samuel, Grooves Ahead, and the Rondout Valley High School Jazz Band

It all begins at 11 AM on June 10th.
See you there!

IN THE MEANTIME, preparations for June 10th are already in order. We are putting the Fair together without a Fair Chair this year, so questions can be directed to the library. Volunteers are needed more than ever, and signup is available at the library and below.

We need help now with sorting books from 1:30 to 3:00 on Saturdays. Just drop by!

We are accepting book and toy donations, as well as new or gently used ceramic pots, plant hangers, wind chimes and other garden accessories. We’d love to give them a new home in our garden booth! As we get closer to June, please think of us as you divide your garden plants. We’ll even supply the pots: look for them lined up along the library walk.

Brown Bag Boutique and Eleanor’s Emporium will be available inside the library year-round, but will not be in the yard this Fair. We are collecting rummage and gift items ongoing, so please keep us in mind when sorting through your treasures.

Help us make the 60th the best ever!

Click here to sign up online. For further information call the Library at 687-8726.

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Book Club in a Bag

Start your own book Club with our new Book Club in a Bag. The Book Club in a Bag 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.

For a full listing of available titles, click here. 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.

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Knitting Group

Saturdays, May 6, 13, 20, 27
10am-Noon at the Library

Our knitting group meets every Saturday in the Library's Reference room. All levels are welcome.

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On the Shelves

Poughkeepsie Journal 4.9.06
By Steven Cook

'Dead' takes interesting approach to afterlife

On the Shelves is a monthly column by a rotating list of mid-Hudson Valley library directors who comment on notable books coming to your local public library.

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier; Pantheon. Imagine if the first stage of the afterlife was a city where the recently departed found themselves, but only as long as someone back on the living side remembered them. Those in the City know they are dead, and while they don't have children, they eat, socialize, write newspapers and do many of the things they did before. But when a virus spread through soft drinks starts killing millions of humans, it affects the City as well. Once all those who knew you die, you move on to the next, unknown stage of death. This thought-provoking story, which traces several residents of the City, as well as a woman stuck in the Antarctic at a research outpost who is spared the virus, gives an intriguing glimpse of a possible afterlife, and how those on the other side remain connected to the world we live in.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith; Atria Books. Louis Daguerre is one of the inventors of the photograph. His daguerreotypes captured life in France in the middle of the 19th century. In "The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre," Paris is the backdrop for the aged photographer's visions, caused by mercury poisoning from developing his photographic plates. Daguerre's belief is that the world will end in a year, and he must work quickly to capture 10 important images with his camera. The book is an atmospheric journey through the City of Light, with Daguerre receiving assistance from young poet Charles Baudelaire. Add in the finding of a long-lost love, and "Mercury Visions" is an historical novel about the beginning of an art form, in a very politically charged era.

Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John Updike; Knopf. Novelist and essayist John Updike takes time off from his usual works on relationships to turn to his lifelong love of American art, and some of his favorite artists. While not a thorough overview of the topic, Updike targets some familiar (Winslow Homer, Andy Warhol) as well as some less well-known painters (Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove). The reproductions are well done, and Updike shows an obvious love of his subject. These 18 essays, written over the years, bring a fresh perspective to some of America's greatest artists.

Crippen by John Boyne; Thomas Dunne Books. Author Boyne retells the true story of Scotland Yard Detective Walter Dew's 1910 chase of unlikely murder suspect Dr. Hawley Crippen across the Atlantic. Crippen, accused of dismembering his wife and burying her under the flagstones of their home, fled to Canada. Dew, investigating the disappearance of Crippen's wife through flashbacks and a slow-motion chase across the pond, leads the reader between Edwardian England and Canada, and does the mystery genre proud.

Steven Cook is the director of the Starr Library, founded in 1862, which serves the Town of Rhinebeck. The library underwent a major renovation and expansion last year, recently reopening with much more space. Cook has also directed several advertising agency libraries and was an editorial researcher and occasional reviewer for People Magazine in New York City.

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Libraries' book club bags bolster reading groups

Poughkeepsie Journal - 4.21.06 - Michael Woyton

MILLERTON - Claudia Thompson has run a book club for seven years. The group of women averages about 10 members. "It's been as high as 17 and as low as four," the Millerton resident said. "One of our biggest problems is everybody finding a copy of the book we want to read." Not all of them live in the same town, so they deal with different libraries and book stores.

A new program started by member libraries of the Mid-Hudson Library System might take the onus out of putting together a reading group. "Book Club in a Bag" provides library users with 10 copies of a book and discussion questions, packed in a tote bag, said Rebekkah Smith, the system's coordinator of member information. "The minute we announced it, we had a dozen libraries interested in participating," she said. About 20 libraries have contributed the 39 titles now available.

Smith said the average cost of the bags is about $170, bringing the system-wide investment to around $6,600. Each participating library foots the bill for the books it provides. "This takes the guesswork out of running a book club," she said. "It's a nice way to introduce people to books they may not have known about." Bags can be requested

Smith hastened to add that any patron of any library in the Mid-Hudson system can request a bag, mirroring the organization's "request-a-title" program. That makes most material at all member libraries available to any library card holder. The book bags can be requested up to a year in advance and can be checked out for six weeks.

Margaret Quick, director of the North East-Millerton Library, had heard for a couple of years about other libraries around the country providing multiple copies of books for reading clubs. She was toying with the idea of doing that at her facility. Quick mentioned it to other librarians, and the idea took off.

"We discussed it for a while and thought that it might be a good way to market the library and get another segment of the population into [them]," she said. Millbrook Library Director Ellen Guerci is thrilled to be involved in the new program. "We are always looking to provide new services that will add value to the community," she said. "There are many book clubs in our community and throughout the area. This is a way to serve them better."

New Paltz resident Jennifer Lange used to belong to a book club, but it got complicated. "The biggest problem was choosing the books," she said, after which everyone would have to try and find a copy at the library or bookstore. She usually ended up buying hers. "It was a significant cost," Lange said, "about $200 to $300 a year." She thinks the "Book Club in a Bag" program is going to make things a lot easier for readers. Along with enough free books, she said there will be great discussion topics. "So you'll just have to enjoy the book and get together with some friends and talk about it," Lange said. "If we had had this three or four years ago, we'd probably still be meeting," she said.

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