May 2011

New Fiction

• The Land of Painted Caves - Jean M. Auel
• Once Upon a Time, There Was You - Elizabeth Berg
• The Free World - David Bezmozgis
• Hiss of Death - Rita Mae Brown
• Mobbed - Carol Higgins Clark
• I'll Walk Alone - Mary Higgins Clark
• Live Wire - Harlan Coben
• The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly
• Brooklyn Story - Suzanne Corso
• Crunch Time - Diane Mott Davidson
• Elizabeth I - Margaret George
• An Evil Eye - Jason Goodwin
• The Love of My Youth - Mary Gordon
• Tabloid City - Pete Hamill
• Eve - Iris Johansen
• The Silent Land - Graham Joyce
• Drawing Conclusions - Donna Leon
• The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party - Alexander McCall Smith
• Tiger Hills - Sarita Mandanna
• The Troubled Man - Henning Mankell
• Southern Comfort - Fern Michaels
• The Same River Twice - Ted Mooney
• Miss New India - Bharati Mukherjee
• The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht
• The Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories 2011
• My New American Life - Franci9ne Prose
• The Silver Boat - Luanne Rice
• Chasing Fire - Nora Roberts
• Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle - Ann B. Ross
• A Moment in the Sun - John Sayles
• 44 charles Street - Danielle Steel
• Swim Back to Me - Ann Packer
• Treason at Lisson Grove - Anne Perry
• Ivory from Paradise - David Schmahmann
• Caribou Island - David Vann
• The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
• A Lesson in Secrets - Jacqueline Winspear

New Non-Fiction

• The Affair of the Veiled Murderess: an Antebellum Scandal and Mystery - Jeanne Winston Adler
• Decorate: 1,000 professional design ideas for every Room in your Home - Holly Becker
• Best Editorian Cartoons of the Year, 2011 Edition
• Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters - Donald BogleThe Best One-Dish Suppers - Editors of Cook's Illustrated
• The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives - Katie Couric
• Almost a Family: a memoir - John Darnton
• The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge - T. J. English
• River Cottage Every Day - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
• Bossypants - Tina Fey
• The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick
• My Korean Deli: Risking it all for a Convenience Store - Ben Ryder Howe
• She Walks in Beauty: a Woman's Journey Through Poems - selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy
• Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India - Joseph Lelyveld
• Turkey - Lonely Planet
• The Churchills: In Love and War - Mary S. Lovelol
• The Rythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide - Steve Marantz
• Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England - Patricia Phagan
• Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Working - Patricia C. Phillips
• Bullpen Diaries - Charley Rosen
  
• The Source of All Things: a memoir - Tracy Ross
• Mondigliani: a Life - Meryle Secrest
• Outdoor Furniture: 14 Timeless Woodworking Projects for the Yard, Deck, and Patio - Skills Institute Press
• Baseball in the Garden odfEden: the Secret History of the Early Game - John Thorn
• Trillin on Texas - Calvin Trillin
  
• Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell
• Homesteading in the 21st Century - George Nash & Jane Waterman
• Italian, My Way - Jonathan Wasman
• If You Ask Me - Betty White
• A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual lessons for surrendering your weight forever - Marianne Williamson
  

New Audio Books

• Flaubert's Parrot - Julian BarnesThe Secret Soldier - Alex Berenson
• Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell
• Silent Mercy - Linda Fairstein
• Bossypants - Tina Fey
• Ruthless Game - Christine Feehan
• The Outlaws: a Presidential Agent novel - WEB Griffin
• In the Company of Others: a Father Tim novel - Jan Karon
• Drawing Conclusions - Donna Leon
• Getting to Happy - Terry McMillan
• When the Thrill is Gone: a Leonid McGill mystery - Walter Mosley
• Snow - Orhan Pamuk
• My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wordhouse
• Strategic Moves - Stuart Woods

New DVD's

• The King's Speech - Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
  
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Halows: Part 1 - Daniel Radcliffe
• Rabbit Hole - Nicole Kidman
• Upstairs Downstairs - 2011
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Chronicles of Narnia

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BOOKLISTS

We feature reading suggestions here every month. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

Survival Stories

• Albatross: A True Story of a Woman's Survival at Sea - Deborah Scaling Kiley 910.45
• Alive: the Story of the Andes Survivors - Piers Paul Read 982.6Rea
• Alone - Richard Byrd 919.9Byr
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston
• Capsized: the True Story of Four Men Adrift for 119 Days - James Nalepka & Steven Callahan 910.9Nal
• A Child Called "It" - David J. Pelzer BioPelzer
• Children's Blizzard - Laskin, David
• Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic - Gay Salisbury
• Dispatches from the Edge: a memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival - Anderson Cooper 070.92Coo
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing 919.0Lan
• Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Caroline Alexander 919.89Ale
• He Walked Through Walls - Myriam Miedzian 940.53Mie
• The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey - Linda Greenlaw
• I Signed as the Doctor: a Memoir of a Cancer Doctor Surviving Cancer - Laura Liberman 616.99Lib
• Ice bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole - Dr. Jerri Nielsen 613.69Nie
• In the Heart of the Sea: Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick 910.916Phi
• In the Zone : Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World - Peter Potterfield 796.5Pot
• Johnstown Flood - David McCullough
• Kon Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl 910.4Hey
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 - Simon Winchester 551.22Win
• Last Man Down : a Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center - FDNY Battalion Commander Richard Picciotto 363.34Pic
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel FIC Mar
• Life on the Line: Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat - Grant Achatz 641.509Ach
• Lucky - Alice Sebold BIO Seb
• The Mapmaker's Wife : a True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon - Robert Whitaker 981.1Whi
• Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home - Nando Parrado
• Miracle on the Hudson - William Prochnau 363.12Pro
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville FIC Mel
• No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley
• The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger 974.45Jun
• Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery - Nathaniel Philbrick
• Shackleton's Forgotten Men - Lennard Bickel 919.804Bic
• Tears of the Desert: a Memoir of Survival in Darfur - Halima Bashir 962.404Bas
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
• Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp - Xianhui Yang FIC Yanf
  

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

The 65th Annual
LIBRARY FAIR!

Saturday, June 11 from 10 – 3.

The Stone Ridge Library Fair boasts a long tradition—65 years! Although many of the features have changed over time, the spirit of the Library Fair endures. Once again, the Library will host THE party of the year, featuring the Giant Book Tent with bargains galore, the Plant Tent brimming with locally grown annuals, perennials, vegetable seedlings and daylilies.

Local authors will have their work available for sale and autographing—the ideal gift for bibliophile buddies. Eleanor's Emporium will offer sparkling tableware and lovely textiles at bargain prices, and the Saturday Knitters will join with other fiber artists to demonstrate and sell their homespun wonders. For teens and children, there will be lots of books, games, and activities for a full day of F.U.N.

Fairgoers can select from our mouthwatering menu of traditional Fair delights: sausage and peppers, hot dogs and hamburgers, vegetarian entrees, lemonade, cotton candy, snow cones, popcorn, and homemade baked treats—with strawberry shortcake topping the list of favorites. Ah, summer!

Live music will be provided all day, with the Rondout Valley High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Barbara Wild wrapping things up.

Raffle to feature Tea with Actress Melissa Leo and other great prizes!

We are excited to announce some fabulous raffle prizes this year, beginning with Tea for Two with Academy Award winning actress Melissa Leo at Jack and Luna's;
Encaustic on panel painting by Priscilla Derven, value $800; Chinese Covered Jar from the Stone Ridge Trading Company, value $395;

Color Nook from Barnes and Noble, value $250; a Basket of Cheer from Stone Ridge Wine & Spirits; Basket of Gift Certificates from the Rondout Valley Growers including a half share of fruit CSA from the Stone Ridge Orchard. Tickets on sale at the library NOW and on Fair Day.

Tickets are $5 each; 5 for $20. Patrons do not have to be present to win.

New this year:
Pancake Breakfast
& Bag Sale,

Sunday, June 12
from 9 – Noon.

On Sunday morning, we'll host a Pancake Breakfast and Bag Sale ($3 for a bag of books). The menu will include pancakes from scratch, pure local maple syrup, sausages, potatoes, orange juice, coffee and tea—served on the Library lawn. Tickets are $7 at the door, $6 for seniors and children under 12. We hope that you'll join us!

The Fair will take place rain or shine. On Saturday shuttle bus service will be provided by Arthur Mulligan Bus Company, from SUNY Ulster (Lots B & E) and the Marbletown Elementary School. Parking Sunday is available at High Meadow School and the Marbletown Town Hall.

CONTRIBUTIONS

We would love contributions of books, gently used gifts and tea accessories, plants (closer to Fair time) and garden accessories.

VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers are the key to the Fair's success! Please sign up at the Library, on line, or by calling 687-8726. It's a lot of fun! We'll find just the right job for you.

Check our virtual information booth for volunteers. It includes answers to logistical questions.

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MOTHER'S DAY TEA AND LECTURE highlights the local violet industry

Saturday, May 7, 2–4 pm
Ulster County Historical Society at the Bevier House

The Ulster County Historical Society and the Stone Ridge Public Library will co-host a Mother's Day Tea and Lecture on Saturday, May 7 from 2:00–4:00 p.m. at the Bevier House on Route 209 in Marbletown. Victorian style tea, with tea sandwiches and desserts will be served.

Suzanne Hauspurg, local historian and Director of the Ulster County Historical Society, will discuss the violet industry in the local area, focusing on the days when Rhinebeck was the Violet Capital of the World.

Items for sale will include antique teacups and tea sets, vintage linens, violet seeds from Europe, and wonderful gift baskets made just for Mother's Day.

Admission is $5 per person. To register, please call the Ulster County Historical Society at 338-5614 or the Stone Ridge Library Program Office at 687-8726.

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ARCHITECTURAL WALKING TOUR OF MAIN STREET

Sunday, May 29 Meet at the Library at 2:00 pm
(rain date: 5/30)

Join us for a tour of Main Street, Stone Ridge with Dr. William B. Rhoads, Professor Emeritus of American Art and Architecture at the State University at New Paltz. We will investigate the architectural characteristics of the splendid buildings on our Main Street.

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Priscilla Derven
at the Library, Spring 2011

Fifteen of Priscilla Derven's paintings will be on view throughout the Stone Ridge Library this spring. The works are mostly small and executed in several media. These include encaustics on wood panels, caseins on wood panels, oils on linen and one larger watercolor/gouache on paper shown courtesy of John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY, with whom Derven has been showing regularly for the past seven years. She also has been showing with the Fleming Street Gallery in Key West, FL, for the past three years. Her work includes the threads of two continuing themes: paintings of people on the beach and images of skirmishes taken from movie imagery.

Derven was born in Nyack, NY, and educated at Hunter College. Her work experiences include teaching art with children as well as college-level students, graphic and newspaper design and textile design as a free lancer doing paintings for printed fabrics both for home furnishings and apparel. For the past ten years she's worked exclusively on her own art.

She moved to High Falls from Brooklyn, NY, with her husband Steve MacDonald in 1986. Since 1993 they've been dividing their time between High Falls and Key West.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thurs, May 19,
1-3pm in the Bio Room

Join us for another afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, May 11
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey. An irrepressibly funny novel set in early nineteenth-century America. When Olivier sets sail for the United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Wednesday, May 18,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claud Izner, a painstakingly researched, effortless evocation of the glorious City of Light. And The Adventure of the Illustrious Client- a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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ADULT CHESS CLUB

Monday, May 2,
6-7:30pm in the Biography Room

Our 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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MEMOIR WRITING GROUP

Saturday, May 7 at 1pm
in the Biography Room

A Memoir Writing Group usually meets the first Saturday of the month. Bring in somethin g you've recently written or are working on to share. Anyone interested should contact Brian Drabkin by email, or at 687-4711 or Diane in the Program Office at 687-8726.

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MEDIEVAL
Book Group

Wednesday, July 20,
7pm in the Biography Room

The book for the July meeting is 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies. Based on 15 years of in-depth research, 1421 traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships who actually charted America 70 years before Columbus.

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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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Practice Tests

With the end of the school year rapidly approaching, tests are on the minds of many students, and planning a future when High School or College years are completed is on the minds of many others. This database is also a great tool given today's economy. It provides a starting place for people who want to explore a new career, need help with their resume, want to go back to school or get into college. more

The database includes:

High School Test Prep:

• GED prep - including GED Spanish.
  
• AP exams prep
  
• ASVAB prep - prepare for the military.
  
• Academic Skills Question Banks - build skills with practice tests for math, reading, science, and writing.
  
• High School Placement Test (HSPT)
  
• Also includes: resume for college application
  

College Prep Test Prep:

• CLEP prep - earn college credit (includes 29 tests).
  
• DSST prep - get college credit for what you know!
  
• SAT
  
• SAT Subject Tests
  
• PSAT
  
• Also includes: "Find and pay for college" and a resume for college application

Career Test Prep:

• NCLEX - the gateway to a career in nursing.
  
• ASVAB prep - prepare for the military.
  
• PRAXIS - the gateway to a career in teaching.
  
• Civil service and licensure exams - including the Postal, Firefighter, and Police Officer exams.
  
• Also includes: Online Resume Builder and help researching careers

Graduate School Practice Tests:

• GRE prep
  
• GMAT prep
  
• LSAT
  
• MCAT
  
• MAT
  

Coffee Corner

We'll have coffee and tea for sale in the Biography Room beginning this week for $1.00 per cup. Patrons can enjoy their refreshments throughout the Library, with the exception of the public computer area. Cookies as available... Enjoy!

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Wondering What's Happening
with the
Library's Buttresses?

Wed. June 8, 7pm at the Community Center

Paul Mays, the library's architect, will facilitate a presentation/workshop at the Library on what is happening with the building's renovation plans. In addition to previewing initial design concepts for the building, Mays will ask attendees to participate in an interactive design session to find out what you'd like to see in the renovated library.

Mays, is a principal in the architecture firm, Butler, Roland, Mays. BRM has been working with the library since 2008 on short and long-term architectural planning to maintain the historic significance of our treasured building while keeping it structurally sound until we're ready to begin a renovation program.

For more information, please call Jody Ford, the Library's Director at (845) 687-7023 or e-mail Jody at director@
stoneridgelibrary.org.
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Create Your Future at the Stone Ridge Public Library

Many patrons and community members participated in a series of focus groups conducted by an independent consultant this past winter. From these focus groups, we've concluded that the Library can best be described as a place for all of us: it's for children learning to enjoy reading; for teens and tweens engaging their love for technology; for adults exploring new ideas and opportunities through programming and library resources; and for seniors staying connected and engaged with our community.

At Stone Ridge Public Library, we level the playing field, challenge you to find new and creative ways to approach the world, and provide you with the resources you'll need for whatever personal growth you seek. Our new tagline—Create your Future—conveys all that and more.

We are here and ready to help you create your future. So, come on in. We look forward to helping you.

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Community Foundation of Ulster County Grant

We are pleased to announce that the Library received a grant from the Community Foundation of Ulster County to help purchase upholstered chairs for the Biography Room. The new chairs are part of an upgrade to the room that will enhance its use for programs.

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Facts & Figures

The Library has posted the 2010 Stone Ridge Library fact sheet. more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

May 7 – The Kentucky Derby

This official site for the Kentucky Derby includes Derby history, the Derby experience and Derby customs (those hats!), as well as information about this year's horses. more

Stieg Larsson: Behind "The Drgaon Tattoo"

Stieg Larsson remains a best-selling author, although he never lived to see (or enjoy) his worldwide success. Although he died before his "Millenium Trilogy" became a publishing phenomenon, Lisbeth Salander ("the girl with the dragon tattoo") and Mikael Blomkvist (the journalist who helps her) are part of today's popular culture.

"Who was Stieg Larsson? Did he use models for his lead characters? What were his politics? Did politics influence his stories? Where are those hard-to-pronounce places? Join us for a pictorial journey behind the books." From AwsomeStories. more

• *Reproduced with permission from copyright 2010 by the ipl2 Consortium (http://www.ipl.org). All rights reserved.

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