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May 2015
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. [Descartes]

New Fiction

  • Dash in the Blue Pacific - Cole Alpaugh
  • Mightier than the Sword: the Clifton Chronicles - Jeffrey Archer
  • The Patriot Threat - Steve Berry
  • The Shadow of the Crescent Moon - Fatima Bhutto
  • The Harder they Come - T.C. Boyle
  • The Cavendon Woman - Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • The Fifth Gospel - Ian Caldwell
  • Odysseus Abroad - Amit Chaudhuri
  • The Stranger - Harlan Coben
  • Inside the O'Briens - Lisa Genova
  • Paris Red - Maureen Gibbon
  • At the Water's Edge - Sara Gruen
  • Cold Betrayal: an Ali Reynolds novel - J.A. Jance
  • Leaving Berlin - Joseph Kanon
  • A Desperate Fortune - Susanna Kearsley
  • Girl Underwater - Claire Kells
  • The Animals - Christian Kiefer
  • Falling in Love - Donna Leon
  • Emma - Alexander McCall Smith
  • Last One Home - Debbie Macomber
  • Heartbreak Hotel - Devorah Moggach
  • The Children's Crusade - Ann Packer
  • NYPD Red 3 - James Patterson
  • The Mouth of the Crocodile: a Mamur Zapt mystery - Michael Pearce
  • The Angel Court Affair - Anne Perry
  • I Refuse - Per Petterson
  • A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction - Terry Pratchett
  • Miss Julia Lays Down the Law - Ann B. Ross
  • The Poser - Jacob Rubin
  • Barefot Dogs: stories - Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
  • Every Fifteen Minutes - Lisa Scottoline
  • The Last Flight of Poxl West - Daniel Torday
  • Aquarium - David Vann
  • Cuba Straits - Randy Wayne White
  • Hot Pursuit - Stuart Woods

New Non-Fiction

  • Alternative Medicine: the Definitive Guide - REF
  • The Complete Poetry - Maya Angelou
  • A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden - April Bloomfield
  • Let us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee, Walker Evans
  • The Road to Character - David Brooks
  • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Daniel James Brown
  • Butter Baked Goods: Nostalgic Recipes from a Little Neighborhood Bakery - Rosie Daykin
  • American Dietetic Assoiation Complete Food & Nutrition Guide - Roberta Larson Duyff
  • The Carolinas 7 Georgia - fodors
  • Frank: a Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage - Barney Frank
  • Complete Guide to Prescription & Nonprescription Drugs - H. Winter Griffith REF
  • Bettyville: a memoir - George Hodgman
  • Ovwercoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategy, and Hope That can Transform a Child's Life - Lynn Kern Koegel
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing - Marie Kondo
  • The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insite, and the Brain - John Kounios
  • Stop at the Red Apple: The Restaurant on Route 17 - Elaine Freed Lindenblatt
  • H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
  • Mayo Clinic Family Health Book REF
  • Asap Science: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors & Unexplained phenomena - Mitchell Moffet & Greg Brown
  • Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professionals - REF
  • Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen - Mary Norris
  • The Human Body: an Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders - Steve Parker
  • Social Secruity for Dummies - Jonathan Peterson
  • Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis - Robert D. Putnam
  • Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 1848-1868 - Cokie Roberts
  • Integrative Nutrition: Feed Your Hunger for Health & Happiness - Joshua Rosenthal
  • Is This Think On? a Friendly Guide to Everything digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming - Abby Stokes
  • Billie Holiday: the Musician and the Myth - John Szwed
  • Becoming Steve Jobs: the Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader - Brent Schlender
  • What Comes Next and How to Like It: a memoir - Abigail Thomas
  • Raising Chickens for Dummies - Kimberley Willis

New Audio Books

  • The Harder they Come - TC Boyle
  • Notes from a Dead House - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
  • Words without Music: a memoir - Philip Glass
  • The Language of Food: a Linguist Reads the Menu - Dan Jurafsky
  • H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
  • Honeydew - Edith Pearlman
  • Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 1848-1868 - Cokie Roberts

New DVD's

  • The Babadook - Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman
  • Big Eyes - Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz
  • Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies - PBS
  • Grantchester - James Norton
  • The Immigrant - Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner
  • Last Days in Vietnam - Documentary
  • A Most Violent Year - Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo
  • Twelfth Night
  • Unbroken - Jack O'Connell
  • Wolf Hall - Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy

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LIBRARY FAIR

SATURDAY, JUNE 13

BAG SALE

SUNDAY, JUNE 14
10am to 3pm on the Library Grounds

BOOKS, GIFTS AND
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED.

We are getting ready behind the scenes, and we'd love your help.
We are excited about the festivities—Books Galore, a Huge Plant Sale, Wonderful Food and Drink, Music all day, the Saturday Knitters, Gifts, and lots of Children's Books and activities. Can you help by volunteering, or donating some items for the Fair? Your donations are tax deductible, and you can request a donation slip at the Desk.

Donations sought:

  • Books in salable condition, with the exception of textbooks, encyclopedias, and dated medical and travel guides (nothing moldy, please).
  • Gift items: tablecloths, tea service, vases, holiday decorations, tableware—new or gently used. We'll help you regift these for a good cause!

Volunteers are the Heart of the Fair! Returning and New, we want YOU…

There are sign-up sheets near the Circ Desk with all the tasks that take place on Fair Day. Barbara Cazakoff, our Volunteer Coordinator, has been in touch with returning volunteers, and will contact new volunteers before the Fair to help you get settled in. Jobs include distributing Fair posters around town, working at the many booths… books, plants, strawberry shortcake, beverages, bake sale table, as well as set up Friday and cleanup after the Fair on Saturday, and help on Sunday for sales and setup. There is something for everyone!

We could also use help with:

  • Baking Cookies or your specialty for the Bake Sale Booth. Please deliver Friday or early Saturday. This booth was so successful last year, it paid for the cost of a tent!
  • Picking up Plant Donations. If you have a suitable vehicle or pickup, we could use some help on the Thursday and Friday before the Fair. Please call Diane for details: 687-8726.
  • Book Setup, Thursday, June 11 and Breakdown, Tuesday, June 16
    9am-2pm - Come for part or all of the day
    This is where we do the heavy lifting. This is where the expression, "Many hands make light work," comes into play. Please call Diane at 687-8726 if you'd like to be part of this effort.
  • Bag Sale, Sunday, June 13
    Perhaps you are not available on Fair Day, but would like to help. Welcome! We'd love to have your help.

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FOUNDERS DAY CELEBRATION

Saturday, June 27 - 10am – 6pm
Bevier House, Route 209, Marbletown

The Third Annual Founders Day event continues the celebration of Marbletown's history and will feature a dazzling display of local art, history and locally produced wares that are hallmarks of the Rondout Valley. The event is free and open to the public, and will benefit in part the Stone Ridge Library. Please stay tuned for details.

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The American Arts and Crafts Movement in New York State

Wednesday, May 20, 7pm
Marbletown Community Center

A lecture by Dr. Bruce Austin, Sponsored by

The American Arts and Crafts Movement, or "Mission" gained popularity as a decorative style beginning in 1900, and by 1920 had gone out of style. Arts and Crafts, however, was more than simply a decorative style: it was also a philosophy, an ethos, a way of living, and significantly, an enormous business.

Artists and manufacturers of objects in the Arts and Crafts style—furniture, ceramics, metal, lighting, textiles and jewelry—found like-minded creators in a few U.S. locations. The most significant among them is New York State.

Gustav and L & LG Stickley in Syracuse, Roycroft in East Aurora, and Charles Stickley in Binghamton, Frederick Walrath and Harvey Ellis in Buffalo, and the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock all produced superb examples of Arts and Crafts objects.

This slide presentation will share the unique contributions of Arts and Crafts creators from New York State.

Dr. Austin is Chairman and Professor of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. He served as the organizer and curator for the exhibition "The Arts and Crafts Movement in Western New York: 1900-1920." He writes for a variety of publications on the subject.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, May 13
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is
The Ladies of Garrison Gardens
by Louise Shaffer. Peggy Garrison, who married into a huge fortune has died. When Peggy's will is read, the news of who will take over the Garrison fortune shakes the town to its core. To everyone's shock, Peggy has left all of the Garrison holdings–the world-famous botanical gardens, the massive resort, and the lovely Garrison "Cottage," where FDR once visited–to the town's down-and-out wild child, Laurel Selene McCready. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refres hments. Due to the Library Fair we will not be meeting in June.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, May 20
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein. A respected university professor is dead - strangled and dumped in an elevator shaft. And while the school does damage control for anxious parents, Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper and her close detective friend Mike Chapman scramble for answers, fueled by the most daunting discovery: a piece of paper, found on the lifeless body of Professor Lola Dakota, that reads The Deadhouse....

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, June 3
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for this meeting is Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved an Empire in the New World in their Quest for Treasure, Religion, Freedom and Revenge (2009) by Edward Kritzler. At the end of the fifteenth century, in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took to the seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. Filled with high-sea adventures–including encounters with Captain Morgan and other legendary pirates.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, May 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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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, May 19, 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, May 4, 18
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, May 14, 28,
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 This Month

May 1, 2015

Movie Title: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Based on: Avengers comics by Stan Lee
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Paul Bettany, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Andy Serkis

May 1, 2015

Movie Title: Far From the Madding Crowd
Based on: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Juno Temple, Michael Sheen

May 8, 2015

Movie Title: 5 Flights Up (formerly, Ruth & Alex)
Based on: Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
Director: Richard Loncraine
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Cynthia Nixon, Korey Jackson, Claire van der Boom, Carrie Preston

May 14, 2015

Movie Title: Wayward Pines
Based on: Pines and Wayward by Blake Crouch
Shown on: Piolet for FOX tv series
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Matt Dillon, Melissa Leo, Juliette Lewis, Terrance Howard

May 15, 2015

Movie Title: Pitch Perfect 2
Based on: Pitch Perfect: the Quest for Collegiate A Capella Glory by Mickey Rapkin
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick

GREAT WEBSITES!

Chronicling America

A website providing access to information about historic news-
papers and select digitized newspaper pages. Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory tofind information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Over 9 million pages have been digitized to date. more

Instructables


Instructables is a repository of how-to guides for making just about anything. If you want to make it yourself there's probably someone who already has and can provide the necessary steps to do it. Browse the site forideas, search for a project or even upload one of your own! If you've been looking to get into the DIY culture Instructables is the place to start! A helpful PDF from the Adriance Library. more

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BOOKLISTS

Every month 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.

100 Best English Language Novels -
Time Magazine

TIME critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present. Read more

  • The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
  • All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
  • American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
  • An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
  • Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
  • Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
  • The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
  • At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien
  • Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
  • Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison
  • The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
  • The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
  • The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
  • Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy
  • Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder
  • Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
  • Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller
  • The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger
  • A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
  • The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
  • The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon
  • A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
  • The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
  • A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
  • The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
  • Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
  • Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone
  • Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles
  • The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
  • Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck
  • Gravity's Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
  • The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
  • Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
  • Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
  • A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
  • I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
  • Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
  • Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison
  • Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
  • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
  • Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding
  • The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Loving (1945), by Henry Green
  • Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
  • The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
  • Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
  • Money (1984), by Martin Amis
  • The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
  • Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
  • Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
  • Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
  • Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
  • Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 1984 (1948), by George Orwell
  • On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey
  • The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
  • Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
  • A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
  • Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
  • Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
  • Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
  • The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
  • Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
  • Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
  • The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
  • Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
  • Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates
  • The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
  • Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
  • The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
  • The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
  • The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee
  • To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
  • Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller
  • Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
  • Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
  • Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
  • Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  • White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
  • White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys

Graphic Novels

  • Berlin: City of Stones (2000), by Jason Lutes
  • Blankets (2003), by Craig Thompson
  • Bone (2004), by Jeff Smith
  • The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002), by Kim Deitch
  • The Dark Knight Returns (1986), by Frank Miller
  • David Boring (2000), by Daniel Clowes
  • Ed the Happy Clown (1989), by Chester Brown
  • Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000), by Chris Ware
  • Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (2003), by Gilbert Hernandez
  • Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

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