New Fiction

• The Milky Way Man - Kevin Ahearn
• First Family - David Baldacci
• Borderline - Nevada Barr
• Waveland - Frederick Batherlme
• Murder in the Latin Quarter: an Aimee Leduc Investigation - Cara Black
• In a Gilded Cage - Rhys Bowen
• The Lost Quilter - Jennifer Chiaverini
• Cursed - Carol Higgins Clark
• Just Take My Heart - Mary Higgins Clark
• The Winner Stands Alone - Paul Coelho
• Corsair: a Novel 0of the Oregon Files - Clive Cussler
• Prayers for Sale - Sandra Dallas
• Fatally Flaky - Diane Mott Davidson
• Lavender Morning - Jude Deveraux
• Don't Cry: stories - Mary Gaitskill
• The Diary - Eileen Goudge
• Laura Rider's Masterpiece - Jane Hamilton
• Deadlock - Iris Johansen
• True Detectives - Jonathan Kellerman
• The Geometry of Sisters - Luanne Rice
• Tea Time for the Traditionally Built - Alexander McCall Smith
• The Rose of Sebastopol - Katherine McMahon
• Long Fall: the First Leonid McGill Mystery - Walter Mosley
• Dear Husband: stories - Joyce Carol Oates
• Rhyming Life & Death - Amos Oz
• Execution Dock - Anne Perry
• Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
• Perfect Poison - Amanda Quick
• I Think of You: stories - Ahdaf Soueif
• The Birthday Present - Barbara Vine
• Loitering with Intent: a Stone Barrington novel - Stuart Woods

New Non-Fiction

• 501 Must-Visit Natural Wonders - Bounty Books
• Faith Under Fire - Roger Benimoff
• We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: a Plan that Will Work - Jimmy Carter
• 'Wichcraft: Craft a Sandwich into a Meal - and a Meal into a Sandwich - Tom Colicchio
• Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School - Katherine Darling
• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and his Moral Conscience - Kirstin Downey
• Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor - Brad Gooch
• A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families - Michael Holroyd
• Cleopatra and Anthony: Power, Love, and Ploitics in the Ancient World - Diana Preston
• Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend - Paul Schneider
• Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story - Evan I. Schwartz
• Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism - Herve This
• Age is Just a Number: Achieve your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life - Dara Torres
• A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century: a Memoir - Jane Vandenburgh
• A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from my Kitchen Table - Molly Wizenberg

New Audio Books

• Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
• My Life - Bill Clinton
• Cause of Death - Patricia Cornwell
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding
• Finding Moon - Tony Hillerman
• Compulsion - Jonathan Kellerman
• Time Bomb - Jonathan Kellerman
• Twisted - Jonathan Kellerman
• About Face - Donna Leon
• The Family Man - Elinor Lipman
• 1st to Die - James Patterson
• Ritual in Death - J. D. Robb
• Salvation in Death - J. D. Robb
• McNaly's Dare - Lawrence Sanders
• Look Again - Lisa Scottoline
• Life Studies - Susan Vreeland

New DVD's

• The 400 Blows
• Doubt
• Elegy
• Frost/Nixon
• The Last Metro
• Monsoon Wedding
• My Fair Lady
• Next Stop Wonderland
• The Reader
  
• Somewhere in Time
• The Spirit
• State of Play
• The Tale of Desperaux
• Victor, Victoria
• The Wrestler

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. These include historic fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and more. Most 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.

All Kinds of Humor

British Humor

• Adams, Douglas
  
• Amis, Kingsley
  
• Benson, EF
  
• Durrell, Gerald
  
• Fielding, Helen
  
• Gibbons, Stella
  
• Heyer, Georgette
  
• Jerome, Jerome K.
  
• Lodge, David
  
• Pratchett, Terry
  
• Saki
  
• Townsend, Sue
  
• Waugh, Evelyn
  
• Willis, Connie
  
• Wodehouse, PG

Cozy Humor

• Edgerton, Clyde
  
• Keillor, Garrison
  
• Leacock, Stephen
  
• White, Bailey
  

American Humor

• Armour, Richard
  
• Bombeck,Erma
  
• Browne, Jill Connor
  
• Buchwald, Art
  
• Dennis, Patrick
  
• Flagg, Fannie
  
• Jenkins, Dan
  
• Kerr, Jean
  
• Kimmel, Haven
  
• Kluger, Steve
  
• Lafferty, R. A.
  
• Lansky, Doug
  
• Loos, Anita
  
• Martin, Steve
  
• McClelland, Michael
  
• Muphy, Pat
  
• O'Toole, John Kennedy
  
• Parker, Dorothy
  
• Perelman, SJ
  
• Runyon, Damon
  
• Sladek, John
  
• Smith, Thorne
  
• Thuber, James
  

Genre Humor

• Adams, Douglas
  
• Cruisie, Jennifer
  
• Evanovich, Janet
  
• Fforde, Jasper
  
• Gaiman, Neil
  
• Grafton, Sue
  
• Macleod, Charlotte
  
• Peters, Elizabeth
  
• Quick, Amanda
  

Black Humor

• Amis, Kingsley
  
• Bierce, Ambrose
  
• Buckley, Christopher
  
• Hiaasen, Carl
  
• Lansdale, Joe
  
• Moore, Christopher
  
• Parker, Dorothy
  
• Saki
  
• Vonnegut, Kurt
  
• Waugh, Evelyn
  
• Westlake, Donald
  

Humor Essays

• Ayres, Chris
  
• Barry, Dave
  
• Benchley, Robert
  
• Bombeck, Erma
  
• Bryson, Bill
  
• Cosby, Bill
  
• Foxworthy, Jeff
  
• Grogan, John
  
• Kerr, Jean
  
• O'Rourke, P.J.
  
• Rakoff, David
  
• Rivenbark, Celia
  
• Roach, Mary
  
• Sedaris, Amy
  
• Sedaris, David
  
• Twain, Mark
  
• Viorst, Judith
  

Compiled with help from the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list.

2009 LIBRARY FAIR

It’s the Library’s 100th Birthday! Let’s celebrate at the Fair!

Saturday, June 13, 10-3, on the lawn

The Stone Ridge Library Foundation will be offering guided tours of the Library and will host a flag making activity with local artist Barbara Bash to help celebrate the Quadricentennial of the Hudson Valley.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Volunteers are the Heart of the Fair! We are delighted to welcome some new people this year in addition to taking hats off to the veterans who have worked the Fair over the years.

New this year: a virtual information booth for volunteers. It is in the process of being made and will include answers to logistical questions as well as a map of the Fair. There are 4 ways to sign up to volunteer:

• Sign up sheets across from the Circulation Desk
• click here to sign up online
• email Jody Ford, Library Director
• call the Programs line at 687-8726.

The Fair will take place as always rain or shine. Shuttle bus service will be available from SUNY Ulster and the Marbletown Elementary School. For Fair updates, stay tuned to our Library Fair page.

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Tea Time Book Group

Reading Between the Lines
Book Series

Wednesday, May 13,
4pm, Biography Room

Rethinking Religion: Recent Women's Novels and American Identity

The New York Council for the Humanities is sponsoring a series that explores four novels by women that involve the quest for meaningful religious experience in contemporary American society. Each session centers on book selected by Elizabeth Toohey, a graduate student at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Joseph Keefe, our guest scholar will facilitate the discussions.

The series concludes with a conversation about Ceremony by Leslie Maromon Silko, which explores American Indian spiritual vision and reverence for nature through a young Indian war veteran's trauma and healing.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Thursday, May 21,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: Double Negative by David Carkeet, a first rate thriller set in a linguistic development institute, and The Adventure of the Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Medieval Book Group

Wed. July 22, 7pm
in the Biography Room

The topic for our July meeting is the Norman Conquest and the Bayeux Tapestry in the 11th - 12th centuries. The Bayeux Tapestry explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. Following is a list of suggested titles, please choose two books to read for our next meeting.

Bayeux Tapestry interpretive texts

R. Howard Bloch, A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry (2006)

• Andrew Bridgeford, 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry (2005)
  
  
  
  
  

Biographies

David Bates, William the Conqueror (2001)

Peter Rex, Harold II: The Doomed Saxon King (2005)

Annie Fettu, Queen Matilda (2007)

Pictorial books

Wolfgang Grape, The Bayeux Tapestry: Monument to a Norman Triumph (no date)

David M Wilson, The Bayeux Tapestry (1985)

Novel

Julian Rathbone, The Last English King (1997)

Enjoy the 11th century these next few months.

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The New Yorker Discussion Group

Friday, May 8 at 4pm
in the Reference Room

We will be discussing:

March 23rd P. 42 LETTER FROM MOSCOW The Accused, The political fallout of a murder trial by Keith Gessen

March 23rd P. 28 ANNALS OF FINANCE Madoff and his Models The pioneers of the swindle by Ron Chernow

March 30th P. 46 LETTER FROM CHINA Wastepaper Queen A tycoon struggles in the downturn by Evan Osnos

March 30th 2009 P 26 ANNALS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Hellhole The U. S. holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?

If time permits the following are available for discussion

April 6th P 26 ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY Syria Calling Can Washington broker new negotiations by Seymour M. Hersh

April 6th P 42 PROFILES Couplet The literary brotherhood of twin poets by Rebecca Mead

Please bring your “wish list” of articles for discussion from current New Yorker magazines for the May meeting. Our facilitator, Vivi, will make the selections at the beginning of the meeting.

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WRITERS GROUP

Every Saturday

1pm in the
Reference Room

The Library has a writers group that meets every Saturday in the Reference Room. They read from their writing and share thoughts. If you are interested in writing you are welcome to join us.

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Knitting Group

Every Saturday,
10am-noon

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 Beth Zambito
Poughkeepsie Journal 4.5.09

Graphic novels, fit for children, are diverse

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

Graphic novels are hot items in libraries and bookstores for readers of all ages, where words and comic-style images work together to tell a story.

Some graphic novels appeal to all age groups, while others are written specifically with teen and/or adult audiences in mind. If you are looking for the right graphic novel for young children or preteens, try some of these selections.

Magic Pickle by Scott Morse. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a dill pickle? The latest in comic superheroes is "Weapon Kosher" or the Magic Pickle, the result of a scientist's inadvertent experiment in the 1950s where his lunchtime snack's molecular structure was altered by a particle confabulator. Now living under preteen Jo Jo Wigman's bedroom floor, Magic Pickle has been reactivated from cryogenic slumber to battle the Brotherhood of Evil Produce - and help his new sidekick fight a few of her own battles with the school bully along the way. With a silly premise that includes villains such as the Romaine Gladiator and a hero who "dispenses dill justice," your children will relish this story.

Amelia Rules: When the Past is a Present, by Jimmy Gownley. Amelia deals with many of the issues facing a modern 10-year-old girl in her own hilariously sassy style. In the latest installment of the series, Amelia has to cope with her mother dating after divorce, her own first crush and the deployment of a friend's father who is in the Army.

Otto's Orange Day, by Frank Cammuso and Jay Lynch. This is the perfect "first" graphic novel for the emerging reader. When he meets a magic genie, Otto wishes for the whole world to be his favorite color, orange. Our feline friend is soon singing the blues when he realizes some things - such as lamb chops and traffic lights - are better as they are, and having everything the "same is pretty lame."

Owly: Tiny Tales, by Andy Runton. Join sensitive, sweet Owly and his forest friends in this charming series of short, wordless stories that share lessons of kindness, compassion and the meaning of true friendship. This graphic novel series is appropriate for the youngest reader, yet appeals to all ages.

Gettysburg: the Graphic Novel, by C. M. Butzer. Graphic novels can depict nonfiction topics as well, with a poignancy and immediacy words alone may not convey. This is exemplified in Gettysburg: the Graphic Novel, which introduces upper elementary and middle school students to the events surrounding the battle of Gettysburg and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. A source list and author's note explaining the historic background of text and images are included.

Beth Zambito is a youth services librarian at the Adriance Memorial Library, where she provides readers' advisory services to parents and their children up to age 13 and purchases books including graphic novels for this age group. She serves as the secretary of the youth services section of the New York Library Association.

GREAT WEBSITES!

Fantastic Fiction

"Biblio-graphies for over 20,000 authors and information on over 270,000 books." With lists including the most popular authors, new books and new authors this site from the UK is the place to go to find anything about authors and books. An author search brings up every book they've written. The "series" section is great to find out the order of the series you're reading. Includes a "coming soon" section. more

Very Short List

"Very Short List is a collection of distinct, free, daily e-mails that each recommend one must–see gem a day. ... Each weekday, we recommend a single gem from the vast mass of films, TV shows, books, websites, music, and more." Also includes separate items for science and the Web. Archive goes back to mid-2006. Includes subscription information. more

Basho: On the
Poet's Trail

Feature article from 2008 describes following the path of 17th century Japanese haiku master Matsuo Basho who walked along a narrow "1,200-mile route ... through Japan in 1689" and wrote "Narrow Road to a Far Province." Accompanied by background about Basho, photos, field notes from the photographer, and an interactive map of the author's travels in Japan. From National Geographic. more

Mirage Bookmarks

Website about bookmarks. Features an exhibit of "outstanding bookmarks from 1850s up to now with over 150 images" (with topics such as Victorian, bookstores, religious, heroes, handmade, museum, and French advertising), history of bookmarks, bookmark quotes, and related material on interesting bookstores, libraries, and other topics. From a Swiss company that sells metal bookmarks. more

American Comedy Archives

This archive was established to preserve "primary source material that documents the professional activities of the ground breaking individuals who have written, produced or performed comedy for radio, television, motion pictures or live performance. ... It is the first collection of its kind at an academic institution devoted to exploring the nature of comedy as an American art form." As of March 2009, find online oral histories of selected comics. From Emerson College. more

Invincible Cities

Hundreds of color photographs of Richmond, California, Camden, New Jersey, and Harlem, New York, intended by the artist to be part of a "Visual Encyclopedia of the American Ghetto." The photos depict the built environment of these cities as they change over time (1980s-2005). Website features a detailed introduction and databases of photos from each city with interactive maps. Provided by the artist with the support of the Ford Foundation and Rutgers University. more

The State of the Birds

Website for "the first ever compre- hensive report [released March 2009] on bird populations in the United States, showing that nearly a third of the nation's 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline due to habitat loss, invasive species, and other threats." Find the report, maps, data, and suggestions for how to get involved in bird population studies. Produced for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. more

Wilder Shores: Lady Travelers of the 18th and 19th Centuries

This exhibit "features books and manuscripts, both by and about, women who traveled" to regions such as India, Russia, and Turkey in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is "organized geographically, loosely following the structure of Barbara Hodgson's book, 'No Place for a Lady.'" Includes photos, illustrations, and images of books. From the Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). more

Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America

Companion to a 2009 PBS documentary series that "explores the currents of American comedy throughout a century of social and political change, illuminating how comedy has tackled and poked fun at our political system, race relations, gender issues, and the prevailing American standards and taboos in everyday life." Features essays on comedy's evolution (covering vaudeville and Broadway, comedy clubs, cartoons, radio, recordings, and television), video clips, and an online episode. more

Monticello: The Vegetable Garden

History of the vegetable gardens at the Monticello home of 3rd U.S. president Thomas Jefferson, who "grew 250 varieties of more than 70 different species of vegetables, precisely recording the details of their growth." Includes photos, a map showing the location of the vegetable garden terrace, and information about the restoration of the gardens. From the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. more

Medpedia

Website for a "project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public." Features articles about health conditions and issues. All contributors are either physicians or have Ph.D.s in a health science. Provided in association with the Harvard Medical School; Stanford School of Medicine; University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; University of Michigan Medical School; and others. more

21st Century Abe

Abraham Lincoln "was born two hundred years ago. ... But why are we in the 21st century still obsessed with this 19th-century man? ... What does this popular Abe have to do with the historical Abe?" This site will take six months (from February 2009) to answer these questions. Includes responses from scholars and artists, and an opportunity for you to add material. From the Rosenbach Museum & Library. more

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