July 2007

New Fiction

• Summer Reading - Hilma Wolitzer
• Falling Man - Don DeLillo
• The Overlook - Michael Connelly
• Right Livelihoods: 3 Novellas - Rick Moody
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• Leopards Kill - Jim DeFelice
• Murder in chinatown - Victoria Thompson
• The Quest - Wilbur Smith
• Stalin's Ghost: an Arkady Renco novel - Martin Cruz Smith
  
• The Shadow Catcher - Marianne Wiggins
• The Navigator: a Kurt Austin Adventure - Clive Cussler
• Love Kills - Edna Buchanan
• Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal - Eric Van Lustbader
• The Gravedigger's Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates
• On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
• Jesus Out to Sea: stories - James Lee Burke
• Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje
• The Good Guy - Dean Koontz
• Consequences - Penelope Lively
• Bessie: a novel of Love and Revolution - Lawrence Bush
• The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
• The Devil Who Tamed Her - Johanna Lindsey

New Non-Fiction

• FDR - Jean Edward Smith
• Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia Child - Nancy Verde Barr
• Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-off Socks and Gloves - Miyako Kanamori
• The Summer Shack Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Shore Food - Jasper White
• Knitting never Felt Better: The Definitive Guide to Fabulous Felting - Nicky Epstein
• Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America - Arthur V. Evans
• Hidden New England - Susan Farewell
• The Flexitarian Table: Inspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone in Between - Peter Berley
• The Wall Street Journal Complete Retirement Guidebook: How to Plan It, Live It and Enjoy It - Glenn Ruffenach & Kelly Greene

New Audios

All CDs unless noted

• Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
  
• The Sonnet Lover - Carol Goodman
• War and Peace: BBC Audio Dramatization - Leo Tolstoy (tape)
• Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century - Great Courses (tape)
• Buddhism - Great Courses (tape)
• The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions - Great Courses (tape)
• Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement - Great Courses (tape)

New DVD's

• Breach
• Deadwood, Season 3
• A Wedding - Robert Altman

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. These include historic fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and more. Many of these titles can be found in the Mid Hudson Library System.

Titles We Couldn't Put Down Until We Finished Them at 3am.

FICTION

• In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
  
• The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
  
• Haunted; Broken - Kelley Armstrong
  
• Simple Genius - David Baldacci
  
• Novels - Linda Barnes
  
• The Exorcist - William Blatty
  
• Small Town- Lawrence Block
  
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
  
• The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
• World War Z - Max Brooks
  
• Ender's Game; Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
  
• Bad Luck and Trouble - Lee Child
  
• The Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy
  
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
  
• No Second Chance; Promise Me - Harlan Coben
  
• Warlord trilogy - Bernard Cornwell
  
• Chasing the Dime; The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
  
• Hostage; The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
  
• Stupid and Contagious - Caprice Crane
  
• Sahara - Clive Cussler
  
• Han Solo At Stars' End - Brian Daley
  
• Lake News; Finger Prints - Barbara Delinsky
  
• Booked To Die - John Dunning
  
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
  
• Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
  
• Four To Score - Janet Evanovich
  
• Baby Shark - Robert Fate
  
• Company Man; Killer Instinct; Paranoia - Joseph Finder
  
• 1634; 1824 - Eric Flint
  
• Hammer of Eden - Ken Follett
  
• After the Rice - Wendy French
  
• Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
  
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
  
• Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
  
• Lunatic Cafe; Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton
  
• Gentlemen and Players - JoAnne Harris
  
• The Baby Game - Randall Hicks
  
• Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
  
• Retribution - Jilliane Hoffman
  
• Mr. Perfect - Linda Howard
  
• Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
  
• 24 Hours - Greg Iles
  
• Dark-Hunter series - Sherrilyn Kenyon
  
• The Shining; It; 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
  
• The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Devil in Winter - Lisa Kleypas
  
• The Futurians - Damon Knight
  
• "Trapped" in Strange Highways - Dean Koontz
  
• The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
  
• The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey
  
• Left Behind series - Tim LaHaye and Jerry
  
• Jenkins
  
• A Little White Death - John Lawton
  
• Keturah and Lord Death - Martine Leavitt
  
• What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman
  
• Tell Me No Lies - Elizabeth Lowell
  
• Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
  
• Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
  
• The Bright Forever - Lee Martin
  
• Spindle's End; Beauty; Sunshine - Robin McKinley
  
• Twilight; New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
  
• Tulip Fever - Deborah Moggach
  
• Creepers - David Morrell
  
• The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch - Marsha Moyer
  
• The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  
• Aubrey series - Patrick O'Brian
  
• Sister Mine - Tawni O'Dell
  
• The Dive From Clausen's Pier - Ann Packer
  
• Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
  
• Amelia Peabody series- Elizabeth Peters
  
• Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
  
• Ain't She Sweet - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  
• My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
  
• Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
  
• Silk and Shadows - Mary Jo Putney
  
• The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  
• Thirteen Steps Down - Ruth Rendell
  
• Naked In Death - J.D. Robb
  
• Harry Potter novels - J.K. Rowling
  
• The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
  
• Sweet Baby - Sharon Sala
  
• Snowflower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
  
• The Mayor of Lexington Avenue - James Sheehan
  
• Rage of Angels - Sidney Sheldon
  
• Summer of Night - Dan Simmons
  
• Tinker - Wen Spencer
  
• Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Snow Blind- P.J. Tracy
  
• These Is My Words - Nancy Turner
  
• Beautiful Lies - Lisa Unger
  
• Farthing - Jo Walton
  
• The Book Thief; I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak

NONFICTION

• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  
• Bold Spirit - Linda Hunt
  
• Inside the Kingdom - Carmen bin Laden
  
• Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
  
• If I Am Missing Or Dead - Janine Latus
  
• The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio - Terry Ryan
  

Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list

Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, July 11th,
4pm in the Reference
room

The selection this month is The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith. The latest in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agengy series.

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

Books are available at the library.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Thursday, July 26,
4pm in the Reference Room

The selections for this meeting include two books:

Open Season - C.J. Box
Cosi Fan Tutti - Michael Dibdin

and 2 short stories:

Boscomb Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes mystery - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Edge - Agatha Christie

Books and short stories are at the circulation desk.

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Scrabble

Mondays, July 2, 9,
16, 23, 30

6-8pm in the
Reference Room

Scrabble players meet every Monday in the Library's Reference room. Newcomers are welcome!

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Knitting Group

Saturdays, July 7, 14, 21, 28
10am-noon at the Library

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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ON THE SHELVES

Poughkeepsie Journal 6.3.07
On the Shelves with Ellen Tannenbaum

Women Persevere in Stories of Hope, Courage

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.

Every one of us has had the opportunity to face down our own fears and challenges and been able to learn from the experience. The same can be said for all of the heroines in this month's book selections. From fighting for what they believe in to overcoming personal conflicts to crime and illness, each of these women faces daunting challenges. Each title leaves the reader with a feeling of satisfaction as though they themselves participated.

These authors are able to engage their readers through stories of common women overcoming incredible situations. One cannot help but be immersed in the storytellers' writing and touched deeply by the women they write about.

In The Camel Bookmobile, by Masha Hamilton (HarperCollins), Fiona Sweeney, a Brooklyn librarian, wants to change the world. She travels to Kenya to promote a program in which camels packed with 300 books travel to nomadic communities offering library services. Along the way, she is affected by the people she meets as much as they are affected by her strength of conviction.

A lost child

"This is what I know ." Abby Mason begins again and again as she tries to come to terms with the disappearance of her fiancé's daughter in The Year of Fog, by Michelle Richmond (Delacorte Press). The child was under her supervision when she vanished from a beach in San Francisco and Abby refuses to believe Emma is gone forever. Seconds turn into minutes into hours as a frantic Abby searches desperately in a quest to find Emma and restore order to the upside-down world her life has become since that moment.

When Mary Baxter's daughter dies suddenly, her life falls apart. She can't work, can't deal with anything that reminds her of her loss and can barely get out of bed each day. Her mother suggests knitting therapy so she joins a local knitting store's group. Each of the women in Ann Hood's The Knitting Circle (W.W. Norton) provides insight into a new knitting technique and her own deep secrets. In the company of her new friends, Mary is able to move forward in both her life and her knitting skills.

In Cathy Bueti's Breastless in the City: A Young Woman's Story of Love, Loss and Breast Cancer (Cleveland Clinic Press), the reader comes face to face with a true hero. Tragedy strikes in many forms in this memoir that reads like a novel. Through enduring medical treatments, family struggles and great loss, Cathy shows time and again what it takes to be a survivor.

Ellen Tannenbaum, MLS is the director of the Dover Plains Library in Wingdale. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Westchester Library Association and a member of the Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award committee.

Can't decide on what to read? Visit
Mid Hudson for links to lists of titles that might attract your interest.

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Collection of summer reading lists and articles, including critics' lists, the "You Must Read This" series, cookbook suggestions, book excerpts, and interviews with "actors, academics, musicians and many others about what they are reading." From National Public Radio (NPR). more

Reading Is Fundamental: RIF's 2007 Summer Reading Guide

This compilation of summer reading resources includes suggestions for family activities (such as a "book-nic"), summer reading tips, and reading lists for children. The "Travel Reads" list features books with settings in many U.S. states and some international locations. From the nonprofit literacy organization Reading Is Fundamental (RIF). more

GREAT WEBSITES!

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One Life: Walt Whitman, a Kosmos

This exhibit about the poet Walt Whitman features a timeline of Whitman's life illustrated primarily with portraits of the poet. It also includes an introduction to the poet, an essay, audio excerpts from Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," audio of Whitman reading "America," and profiles of some of "Whitman's heirs" (such as jazz musician Charlie Parker and painter Jackson Pollock). From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. more

What's Cooking Grandma?

Small collection of video clips of grandmothers "sharing their special recipes." Features selections such as "Nana Ruth's Jam and Scones" and "Nannie Webb's Apple Crumble." Includes information about sending in a recipe and brief tips for recording audio and making a film. From the design collaborative Human Beans. more

13 Book Hacks for the Library Crowd

This site has 13 links to "tools available to help you save time and money when it comes to the bound world of information." You can integrate your computer with the library to keep track of your check-outs. DailyLit will send you e-mail size bits of books to read each day. Other sites include PaperBack Swap, where you can swap books for the price of postage, download public domain audiobooks, and get free Cliff notes. From LifeHacker. more

Summer of Love:
40 Years Later

Series of four articles from May 2007 about the 40-year anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Also includes a photo gallery, video clips of interviews with selected Summer of Love participants, and stories about participants such as Joan Baez, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Harris, Grace Slick, Wavy Gravy, Bob Weir, and Steve Wozniak. From the website for the San Francisco Chronicle. more

King George III Topographical Collection

Collection of over 2,500 "watercolours, drawings and prints from the vast collection amassed by a monarch for whom geography was a personal passion as well as a professional necessity." View highlights or browse the entire collection. Includes an essay about George III and the collection. From the British Library. more

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

This is "a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression." Searchable, or browse by genre (such as photographs or manuscripts), topics, themes (such as the Statue of Liberty and immigrant press), people, and organizations. Also includes a timeline. From the Open Collections Program of the Harvard University Library. more

Museum of Arts & Design

Official website for this New York museum, formerly the American Craft Museum, that "collects, displays, and interprets objects in ceramic, glass, fiber, metal and wood that honor innovation in art, craft and design." The site features images of selected works from the permanent collection and from exhibitions. Includes teacher resource packets for selected exhibits, such as for "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" and "Contemporary Netsuke: Masterful Miniatures." more

Chow

Collection of recipes, articles, message boards, and multimedia features that celebrate food, drink, and fun. The videos depict various kitchen maneuvers such as trussing a chicken, making a piecrust dough, and opening a bottle of wine. Also includes food and serving-related gift suggestions. Sign up if you want to contribute comments on recipes. From CNET. more

Scoundrels, Adventurers & Colorful Characters of the Wild West

Collection of biographies of "scoundrels, adventurers and colorful characters who called the Arizona Territory home," such as Cochise, Geronimo, John Wesley Powell, the Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Clanton Gang. Also includes listings for points of interest related to the individuals, recommended reading, and an option to browse listings by region in Arizona. From Arizona Heritage Traveler, a project of the Arizona Humanities Council and the Arizona Office of Tourism. more

The Wild West

Collection of historical essays about the frontier-period in the western U.S., covering gunfighters and lawmen, shootouts, American Indian wars, women in the West, the Gold Rush, the Pony Express, and other topics from the time period. Some of the individuals profiled include Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, and Chief Seattle. From a publisher of history magazines. more

A Return to Grey Gardens

Article about the diaries of Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, who lived in Grey Gardens (a mansion in East Hampton, New York) with her mother Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale. Mother and daughter were the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and their story has inspired a documentary film and a Broadway musical. From New York magazine. more

NASA Mission Information:
STS-117

Details about the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission, launched in June 2007, to the International Space Station that will "will install a new truss segment, unfurl new solar arrays and fold up an old one -- all tricky stuff that's been done on the past two missions." Features overview of the mission, press releases, images, biographies and interviews with the crew, and other material about the mission. From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). more

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