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 Issue 7, Oct. 2005 |
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Contact UsGarden Ideas Phone: 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. Writers and Books of the Gulf Coast (coastal Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and western Florida)Books and plays in Gulf Coast settings
Writers from the Gulf Coast (but whose books are not necessarily set there) Susan Wittig Albert (Louisiana) Rick Bragg (Alabama) Poppy Z. Brite (New Orleans) Cindy Bonner (Corpus Christi) Andre Codrescu (New Orleans) Robert Crais (Louisiana) Richard Ford (Louisiana) Ernest Gaines (Louisiana) Ellen Gilchrist (Louisiana) Shirley Ann Grau (Louisiana) Tim Gautreaux (Louisiana) Jody Heymann (Corpus Christi) Ann Major (Corpus Christi) Valerie Martin (New Orleans) Joan Lowery Nixon (Houston) Anne Rice (New Orleans) Laura Joh Rowland (Louisiana) Sarah Shankman (Louisiana) William Sibley (Corpus Christi) Lucian Truscott IV (Louisiana) Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list. |
BOOK and BAKE SALEwill be held on ourRAIN DATE: Saturday, October 15, 10am - 4pmThough this is our "mini" sale we still have lots of great titles waiting for you! And while you are here, sample Monkey Joe's coffee and delicious baked goods also for sale. 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, October 8, 15, 22 & 29 10am-Noon Our knitting group meets every Saturday in the Library's Reference room. All levels are welcome. Meet the AuthorsFriday, October 14, 5:30pm at the Community Center Three local Juvenile and Young Adult authors will be sharing bits of their novels, answering questions, and autographing their books in a splendid evening of awesome talent. Meet the Authors Da Chen (China's Son, The Wandering Warrior), Laura Cunningham (The Midnight Diary of Zoya Blume), Nina Shengold as Maya Gold (Harriet the Spy, Double Agent) and the evening of October 14, 5:30 at the Marbletown Community Center. A light dinner will be served. Graveyard ArtWednesday, October 26, 7pm at the Community Center Join us for a pre-Halloween peek at Graveyard Art with Peter Osborne, Executive Director of the Minisink Valley Historical Society. This slide-illustrated program will explore various styles of “graveyard art” from the 1600s to the present day, drawing many examples from the southern part of our region’s cemeteries. Light refreshments will be served. RECIPE OF THE MONTH Swedish Apple Pie No crust!
Grease a 9 inch pie plate. Fill 2/3 full with sliced peeled cooking apples. Sprinkle with 1 Tbl sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Mix next six ingredients together and spread mixture over apples, sugar and cinnamon. Bake 1 hour at 350' or until apples are tender. Serve with ice cream. From Taster's Choice, by The Stone Ridge Library Cookbook Committee. Recipe by Margaret Lockwood, Stone Ridge. To place a hold on this book, or any other item in the Mid-Hudson Catalog click http://gigcat.midhudson.org/ MagazinesThe Stone Ridge Library subscribes to over 100 magazines and newspapers. The new issues are located in the Reference Room and the back issues are by the DVDs. Magazines can be checked out for 1 week.
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GREAT WEBSITE !Live local news in New Orleans, including articles, a blog, and continuous Internet television coverage, from WWLTV, a television station. Find a broad range of news and information related to Hurricane Katrina, including road closures, school status, health tips, emergency information, locators for missing people, and more. Let mystery, suspense entertain your fall nightsPoughkeepsie Journal 10.2.05 On the Shelves with Anne Jordan With the days growing shorter and colder, it's time to think about curling up with a good mystery or suspense thriller. Here are some titles to consider: File 'M' for Murder, by India Edghill; Five Star. If you don't want to get scared out of your socks, there are mysteries that are clever without making you shriek when someone walks in the room. One such story is "File 'M' for Murder," by local author India Edghill. Cornelia Upshaw moves to the Big Apple with her three-year-old daughter. She signs on as a temp so she can take or refuse work, decide her hours and, best of all, make use of the temp agency's daycare center. Things change when the overbearing boss at the most recent assignment is found murdered and the list of suspects is long. Throw in some interesting characters (Cornelia's sister, Lispenard or "Lizard"), the hint of a romance with the investigating detective, a healthful dose of clever humor and "Fancy," the precious spaniel of the deceased. The result is a charming read. Eleven on Top, by Janet Evanovich; St. Martin's Press. If you like a laugh-out-loud story, Janet Evanovich never disappoints. Her latest, "Eleven on Top," will have people moving away from you in waiting rooms as you suddenly bark laughter while you follow the misadventures of Stephanie Plum, quite possibly the unluckiest bounty hunter alive. Plum has decided to quit the bounty hunter business but it doesn't seem to quit her as an old enemy resurfaces and is hunting her down. If you've never read the Stephanie Plum series, start with the first one, "One for the Money" and you'll find yourself grabbing the other titles off the shelf with zeal. Then you'll be with the rest of us Plum fans, pacing up and down anxiously waiting for No. 12. Denial, by Stuart Kaminsky; Forge Books. Stuart Kaminsky, widely known for the series that became the popular "Rockford Files" TV show, has recently started the Lew Fonesca series. Fonesca is a compelling character, as he seems to be merely coasting through life since the tragic death of his wife. He rents a small two-room office; he works out of one and sleeps in the other. He wants only to serve papers for attorneys to cover his rent and groceries. He has the knack, however, for "finding people." In this novel, "Denial," when a woman comes to him to find the killer of her young son, he is unable to refuse the depth of despair that he sees in her eyes - the same emotion that he knows reflects back from his own eyes. This mystery moves at a good pace and the eclectic cast of characters adds to its depth. The reader will find himself rooting for Fonesca, and hoping that, even just once, Fonesca will manage a small smile. Old-fashioned police work Shadows, by Edna Buchanan; Simon & Schuster. Do you like the station house activity, the cop-speak and the serious detective work that makes for a classic police drama? Then Edna Buchanan's latest, "Shadows," is one for you. The cops of the Cold Case Squad in the Miami P.D. take on a murder case over 40 years old. In doing so, they make a grisly discovery that adds more questions than answers. Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, does a believable job taking you through police work, combining the pressures that go with crime solving, such as dealing with the media, politics and the detectives' personal lives. The Innocent, by Harlan Coben; Dutton. If you're into suspense, Harlan Coben once again takes the reader for one heck of a ride. If you choose to read his latest, "The Innocent," take a deep breath before you open the book because when you start it, Coben reaches out with both hands, grabs you by the shirtfront and yanks you in. There are twists and turns that you could never predict and what seems obvious is not, who seems safe is not and there is no putting this book down until the very last page, when you get the chance to exhale and realize you've been holding that first breath all the way to the end. 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. Anne Jordan is director of the Staatsburg Library, a member of the Mid-Hudson Library System. Can't decide on what to read? Visit midhudson.org/read for links to lists of titles that might attract your interest. Club members spread love of reading across the globeby Jocelyn Gecker - The Associated Press Poughkeepsie Journal 9.20.05 PARIS (AP) -- When Eric Jouannest left his book on a bridge behind Notre Dame cathedral, he didn't expect it would wind up in a remote Russian republic. But such is the globalized nature of a club that started in the United States a few years ago and has spread across the Atlantic and far beyond. The founders of BookCrossing.com compare their online book club to a virus, one that has reached far-flung places carried by members who heed the philosophy: if you love a book, set it free. One selling point is that it costs nothing to join. Members include literature buffs determined to share their passion or thin out their shelves and travelers who simply love a good book - although here the books do most of the traveling. The concept is based on what the club calls its 3R's: Read, Register and Release. Participants label a book's inside cover with a tracking number and the Web site's address bookcrossing, then stash it somewhere and post instructions online explaining where. Once a book's pickup is logged online, an e-mail is automatically sent to whoever dropped it off. Part of the thrill is seeing how far afield a book can land, said Jouannest, 45, a Parisian sound technician who left a French mystery novel on the Pont de l'Archeveche, a stone bridge behind Notre Dame, one spring day in 2004. "I got word of it two months later. Someone found it in Ulan Bator - in Mongolia! - and he took it with him to Buryatia," said a wide-eyed Jouannest, noting that he was familiar with the Russian republic of Buryatia from "Michael Strogoff," Jules Verne's 1876 tale of adventures in the Russian Empire. Word keeps spreading and membership rising as people leave books in cafes, parks or anyplace else so strangers can find them and partake in a novel attempt to turn the world into one big library - with no late fees. Sometimes the system works, sometimes it doesn't. Site founded in 2001 About 25 percent of books are found, according to Ron Hornbaker, an American software developer who founded the site in 2001. The club now boasts 400,000 members in 120 countries. "I knew it was the type of thing that could catch on and grow sort of in a viral nature," Hornbaker, 39, said by telephone from his office in Kansas City, Mo. "But I had no idea it would grow as fast as it did and as broadly geographically as it has." Overseas members now account for the majority. The number of American BookCrossers has dipped to 46 percent, with those in Britain, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and elsewhere accounting for most of the rest. Paris members hold gatherings once a month in the basement of a Right Bank cafe, where people sit around a table scattered with books up for grabs and glasses of beer. They speak a language of their own: books are freed or released, at which point they are "wild books." Once logged online, a book has been "caught." |
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