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 Issue 6, Sept. 2005 |
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Contact UsPhone: 687-7023 E-Mail: Webmaster BOOKLISTS Every month in this spot we will feature reading suggestions. These will include historic fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and more. Many of these titles can be found in the Mid Hudson Library System. Books about Numbers, Numerical Patterns and CodesChasing Vermeer- Blue Balliett Universal Baseball Association, Inc.: Henry Waugh, Prop.- Robert Coover Number Sense- Stanislas Dehaene Pattern Recognition- William Gibson Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell Bee Season- Myra Goldberg Godel, Escher, Bach- Hofsteder The Eight- Katherine Neville A Calculated Risk- Katherine Neville The Golderg Variations- Richard Powers Prime Obsession- Bernhard Riemann Contact- Carl Sagan Have His Carcase- Dorothy L. Sayers Cryptonomicon- Neal Stephenson Man Who Counted: a Collection of Mathematical Adventures- Malba Tahan Everything and More- David Foster Wallace Death Qualified- Kate Wilhelm Leaning Towards Infinity- Sue Woolfe Desperate HousewivesAdler, Warren - The Housewife Blues Ali, Monica - Brick Lane Aristophanes - Lysistrata Atwood, Margaret - Lady Oracle Ballis, Stacey - Inappropriate Man Berg, Elizabeth - Open House Berg, Elizabeth - The Pull of the Moon Bernard, Cheryl - Turning on the Girls Binchy, Maeve - Tara Road Blume, Judy - Wifey Bonner, Cindy - The Passion of Dellie O'Barr Braselton, Jeanne - A False Sense of Well-Being Buchan, Elizabeth - Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman Cannell, Dorothy - The Widow's Club Chopin, Kate - The Awakening Coll, Susan - Rockville Pike Crittenden, Danielle - Amandabright@home Delinsky, Barbara - The Summer I Dared Despres, Loraine - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Le Blank Deveraux, Jude - Summerhouse Doherty, Berlie - The Vinegar Jar Durrant, Sabine - Having It and Eating It Emmet, Alan - The Mr. & Mrs. Club Fielding, Joy - The First Time Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary Fraser, Laura - An Italian Affair Frazen, Jonathan - The Corrections Freely, Maureen - My Year with the Stork Club Gaffney, Patrica - The Saving Graces Garnett, Ruth-Miriam - Laelia Gertler, Stephanie - Jimmy's Girl Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - The Yellow Wallpaper Goldsmith, Olivia - First Wives' Club Goldsmith, Olivia - Switcheroo Goodger, Jane - The Perfect Wife Graham, Laurie - The Future Homemakers of America Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair Guterson, Mary - We are all Fine Here Haigh, Jennifer - Mrs. Kimble Hannah, Kristin - Distant Shores Harrison, Suzette D. - When Perfect Ain't Possible Hearon, Shelby - Footprints Heller, Jane - Cha Cha Cha Heller, Jane - The Club Heller, Jane - An Ex to Grind Henry, Patti Callahan - Losing the Moon Hill, Susan - Mrs. de Winter Hudler, Ad - Southern Comfort Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God Isaacs, Susan - Compromising Positions Kabak, Carrie - Cover the Butter Kaufman, S. - Diary of a Mad Housewife Keane, Molly - Good Behaviour Kelly, Cathy - Someone Like You King, Cassandra - The Sunday Wife Kelly, Susan - Even Now King, Stephen - Dolores Claiborne Lamb, Wally - She's Come Undone Landvik, Lorna - Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons Lefcourt - Abbreviating Ernie Leroy, Margaret - Postcards from Berlin Levin, Ira - The Stepford Wives Macomber, Debbie - Thursdays at Eight McBride, Regina - The Marriage Bed Mealious, Grace - Peyton Place Moore, Jane - Fourplay Nunez, Sigird - Naked Sleeper Parks, Adele - Playing Away Persotta, Tom - Little Children Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar Preston, Caroline - Lucy Crocker 2.0 Ray, Jeanne - Step-Ball Change Satran, Pamerla - Redmond Babes in Captivity Small, Beatrice - Private Pleasures Smith, Haywood - Queen Bee of Mimosa Beach Soloman, Nina - Single Wife Stegner, Wallace - Crossing to Safety Sullivan, Faith - Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast Sussman, Susan - The Dieter Thayer, Nancy - The Hot Flash Club Tolstoy, Leo - Anne Karenina Trigiani, Adrienne - Lucia, Lucia Trigiani, Adrienne - The Queen Bee of the Big Time Trollope, Joanna - The Rector's Wife Tyler, Anne - Ladder of Years Viorst, Judith - Murdering Mr. Monti Waldman, Ayelet - Nursery Crimes Weldon, Fay - The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil Weldon, Fay - Remember Me Wells, Rebecca - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells, Rebecca - Little Altars Everywhere West, Dorothy - The Wedding White, Terry L. - P.S., I've Taken a Lover Wolitzer, Meg - The Wife Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway Yates, Richard - Revolutionary Road Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list. |
BOOK SALE OCTOBER 8Join us for our fall book sale on Saturday October 8, from 10-4. Though this is our "mini" sale we still have lots of great titles waiting for you! And while you are here, sample cider and delicious baked goods also for sale. Rain date October 15th. If you have books you would like to donate for the sale, we are accepting donations anytime the Library is open. Please be sure your donations are gently used and in salable condition. Donations of baked goods will be collected the day before or the day of the sale.
UPCOMING PROGRAMSKnitting Group Saturdays, September 3, 10, 17 & 24 10am-Noon Our knitting group meets every Saturday in the Library's Reference room. All levels are welcome. Medieval Reading ClubWednesday, September 21 6:15pm in the Library Reference Room. Anyone who has read a novel set in the 700 to 1200 CE time frame is welcome to attend. Make use of library cardPoughkeepsie Journal - 9.6.05 - Good Life Column September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, and the Mid-Hudson Library System is urging those who do not have a card to get one. "Your library card is your ticket to opportunity," said Rebekkah Smith, the library system's Coordinator of Member Information. "What other card in your wallet gives you free access to books and CDs, magazines and movies?" A new feature this year at many of the system's libraries is downloadable audio books at their Web sites. These can be played on a computer or MP3 player. This service is only available with your library card. Other items your library card can get you include:
For information on how to sign up for a library card, visit your local library. Card CatalogChecked the Mid-Hudson card catalog lately? A new feature has been added. Cover images appear to the left of most titles. Additionally, there is a "more information" link that will lead you to a summary of the book and a review from "Booklist." RECIPE OF THE MONTH Ratatouille A great way to use some of our locally grown tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and zucchini.
Heat oil in large skillet or dutch oven. Saute onions and garlic until limp but not browned. Stir in Eggplant, Zucchini, Peppers, and Salt. Add a little more oil to prevent vegetables from sticking. Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add tomatoes, basil and parsley. and simmer about 15 minutes longer. You can serve this hot or cold. You can also put in a casserole or individual ovenproof dishes: top with a cheese of your choice (Swiss, Feta, Mozzarella, etc.) and bake until cheese melts and is hot and bubbly. From Taster's Choice, by The Stone Ridge Library Cookbook Committee. Recipe by the Cookbook Committee. To place a hold on this book, or any other item in the Mid-Hudson Catalog click http://gigcat.midhudson.org/ |
GREAT WEBSITE !The Museum of Online Museums has links to online collections and ehxibits at gallery and museum websites: coudal.com Enjoy these reads that have a touch of science fictionPoughkeepsie Journal 9.4.05 On the Shelves by Josh Cohen 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. Summer is winding down, but that is no reason to face reality. Unlike traditional science fiction, which creates total fantasy or futuristic worlds, these titles seem to describe the real world until a ripple in reality makes things slightly distorted. Improbable, Adam Fawer; William Morrow. When David Caine's new epilepsy medication gives him the ability to see a set of alternative futures, depending on which choice he makes. Some scientists, who see a huge profit if they can figure out how it works, try to capture him for experimentation. When Nava Vaner, a CIA agent who has traded a few secrets has one of these trades go bad, both the CIA and her former trading partners want revenge. She hooks up with David and together they are pursued by a variety of groups, never quite sure who is who. Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, Luis Fernando Verissimo; New Directions Publishing Corporation. A loner named Vogelstein attends the annual Edgar Allan Poe conference. The conference has an ongoing dispute between its three principle speakers about Poe's work. The most odious of the three is found dead inside his locked room with his body folded into a position against the mirror in a way that is taken as a clue. Vogelstein and Jorge Luis Borges theorize about how this was done and who the murderer could be. Could it have been: the orangutan from Poe's story, the spirits of the South, one of the two rival speakers, or someone else? The Athenian Murders, Juan Carlos Somoza; Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Translating this Greek mystery about the death of a youth who attends Plato's academy would seem routine enough, but as the text is translated, the Translator begins to notice certain similarities to himself in the 2000-year-old text. The text is eidetic, meaning there is a hidden message revealed by the author through the use of images and repetition, but the Translator finds the characters are actually referring to him when they talk, and one even shows up in his room. Three more murders occur in the text, as things get even more surreal for our poor Translator. The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks; Doubleday. The Brethren are committed to killing any Traveler, individuals who have the ability to access other dimensions, for they fear knowledge of those dimensions will lead to a loss of control. Maya is a Harlequin, the group sworn to protect Travelers. The Brethren can access anything online and can trace every move Maya makes in her attempt to locate and protect the two remaining Travelers. Her only method of success is to live off the grid, making no use of electronic networks, credit cards and cell phones. In a timely analysis of the potential for control and loss of privacy that our wired society has created, Hawks, who lives off the grid himself, builds a thrilling novel. Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld, Terry Pratchett; HarperCollins. In this novel, Moist Von Lipwig, a con man, gets caught by the Supreme Ruler Lord Vetinari and can choose between death and running the post office. The post office has fallen into disuse because of the Grand Trunk, which is a precursor to the telegraph. Pratchett's work combines cynical humor with strange characters that make for a fun read. Before Von Lipwig knows it, he is committed to beating the Grand Trunk and falls in love with one of his business partners. The next installment in Pratchett's world, "Thud," is coming out next month. You can already put a hold on it through the Mid-Hudson Library System's online catalog midhudson. Request the title and be one of the first to read it. Josh Cohen is the executive director of the Mid-Hudson Library System, which provides a shared library automation system and resources to 66 public libraries in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam and Ulster counties. Can't decide on what to read? Visit midhudson.org/read for links to lists of titles that might attract your interest. Internet gets questions answeredNews-Leader.com (MO) 8.7.05 Reference librarians no longer have to dig through stacks to find patrons' information. Can you even remember how your information needs were met before the Internet became the norm? The reference librarians at the Springfield-Greene County Libraries can. They can recall how 10 years ago the answers to your inquiries sometimes took days of searching through thick volumes of encyclopedias, directories or indexes. Or, the answer was buried deep inside stacks of magazines, pamphlets or newspapers, and, before they were done, their fingers were covered in ink from the newsprint. But now that the reference question has met the Internet, the world of information and data has changed. Not only can the librarians find what you need faster and with less hassle, they can find more in-depth answers to your questions and give the information to you in better ways. Note these examples from Business Librarian Mike DePue: Question: "I need a picture, preferably in color, of a snow leopard." Answer, pre-Internet: "Here are some nature books and encyclopedias you can look through to see if there's anything useful. But we only have a black-and-white copier." Answer, now: "There are a number of Web sites, such as Google Images, that will turn up dozens of images in all sizes that we can print on our color printer." Q. "Where can I get a steering-column repair kit for a 1967 Oldsmobile F-85?" A., then: "If you look through the ads in these automotive magazines, there might be some possibilities. Olds-enthusiast clubs might be able to offer suggestions." A., now: "Here's a Web site that has them in stock. Pictures and prices are included." Q. "Who's the current mayor of Birmingham, Alabama?" A., then: "Our most current printed information is 2003." A., now: "Here's the mayor's Web site - with full biographical information." Q. "This month's Consumer Price Index came out at 7:30 this morning. When will you have it available?" A., then: "It's likely to be in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal." A., now: "It appears on the Internet the moment it's released. We can get it for you here or you can access it from home, school or business anytime after 7:29 a.m. on the release date." |
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