New Fiction

• The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  
• Between the Assassinations - Aravind Adiga
• Waveland - Frederick Barthelme
• Heart and Soul - Maeve Binchy
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
• You or Someone Like You - Chandler Burr
• The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
• Knock Out - Catherine Coulter
• Medusa: a Kurt Austin Adventure - Clive Cussler
• Nightwalkers - P.T. Deutermann
• The Color of Lightning - Paulette Jiles
• Relentless - dean Koontz
• Road Dogs - Elmore Leonard
• Natural Elements - Richard Mason
• The Last Secret - Mary McGarry Morris
• Brimstone - Robert B. Parker
• The Song is You - Arthur Phillips
• Matters of the Heart - Danielle Steel

New Non-Fiction

• Losing Mum and Pup - Christopher Buckley
• Mission Control, This id Apollo: The story of the First Voyages to the Moon - Andrew Chaikin
• Japan - Fodor's
• Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley - Sybil Rosen
• Great Britain - Lonely Planet
• The Road to Jerusalem: Book One of the Crusades Trilogy - Jan Guillou
• In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World - Justine Hardy
• Yoga Wisdom & Practice for Health, Happiness, and a Better World - B.K.S. Iyengar
• K5  Five Themes - William Kentridge
• I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: a memoir - Giulia Melucci
• Middle East - Lonely Planet
• Seeing Central Park: The Official Guide to the Worlds Greatest Urban Park - Sara Cedar Miller
• Byron in Love: a Short Daring Life - Edna O'Brien
• One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict - Benny Morrisque que Closing Time: a memoir - Joe Queenan
• Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Rcipes Worth Waking Up For - Isa Chandra Moskowitz
• Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English language - Patricia T. O'Conner
• In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Logan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language - Arika Okrent
• The Beats: a Graphic History - Harvey Pekar
• Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back - Reynolds Price
• Not Becoming My Mother: & other things she taught me along the way - Ruth Reichl
• Mannahatta: a Natural History of New York City - Eric W. Sanderson
• The American Future: a History - Simon Schama
• Horse Soldiers: the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. Soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan - Doug Stanton
• Martha Stewart's Cupcakes - Martha Stewart
• Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend - Larry Tye
• The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire & the Birth of an Obsession - Andrea Wulf

New Audio Books

• Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Janet Evanovich
• The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
• The Food of a Younger Land - Mark Kurlansky
• Swann'a Way: part one - Marcel Proust
• The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

New DVD's

• 12 Monkeys
• Birth
  
• Cherry Blossoms
• Cold Comfort Farm
  
• Defiance
  
• Gran Torino
  
• He Knew He Was Right
  
• An Ideal Husband
  
• Imagining Me & You
• Lady in the Water
• Revolutionary Road
  
• Weeds, Season 4
  
• Sherlock Holmes Dressed to Kill
• The Young Visitors or, Mr Salteena's Plan
  
• Waltz with Bashir
• What Lies Beneath
  

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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.

Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

Non Fiction that Reads Like Fiction

Nonfiction in which the pacing, character development, writing style, etc. will please even someone who normally reads just fiction.

• The Zookeeper's Wife; a War Story - Diane Ackerman 940.53 ack
  
• Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty - Caroline Alexander 996.1 ale
  
• Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Caroline Alexander 919.89 ale
  
• Babylon's Ark - Lawrence Anthony 590.73 ant
  
• It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong Bio Armstrong
  
• A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah 966.404 bea
  
• All Over But the Shoutin' - Rick Bragg Bio Bragg
  
• In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson 919.404 bry
  
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Ann Fadiman 306.462 fad
  
• Washington's Crossing - David Hackett Fischer 973.332 fis
  
• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller 968.91 ful
  
• Shot in the Heart - Mikal Gilmore 364.1 gil
  
• The Lobster Chronicles - Linda Greenlaw 974.145 gre
  
• The Lost Painting - Jonathan Harr 759.5 har
  
• The Island of Lost Maps - Miles Harvey 025.8 har
  
• Seabiscuit: an American legend - Laura Hillenbrand 798.4 hil
  
• Blue Latitudes: boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before - Tony Horwitz 910.92 hor
  
• The Liar's Club - Mary Karr Bio Karr
  
• House -Tracy Kidder 690.8 kid
  
• Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder 610.92 kid
  
• Brunelleschi's Dome : How a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture - Ross King 726.6 kin
  
• On Writing - Stephen King Bio King
  
• Animal Vegetable Miracle: a Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver 641.097 kin
  
• High Tide In Tucson: Essays From Now Or Never - Barbara Kingsolver 814.54 kin
  
• From Baghdad With Love - Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman 956.704 kop
  
• Into Thin Air - John Krakauer 796.522 kra
  
• Into the Wild - John Krakauer Bio McCandless
  
• Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point - David Lipsky 355 lip
  
• John Adams - David McCullough Bio Adams
  
• Born Standing Up: a Comic's Life - Steve Martin BIO Martin
  
• I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti - Giulia Melucci 641.594 mel
  
• River of Doubt - Candace Millard 918.113 mil
  
• Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen 371.822 mor
  
• Dewey: the Small-town Library Cat who Touched the World - Vicki Myron 636.809 myr
  
• God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible - Adam Nicolson 220.52 nic
  
• In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick 910.916 phi
  
• Mayflower: a story of courage, community and war - Nathaniel Philbrick 973.2 phi
  
• Bad Land: An American Romance - Jonathan Raban 978 rab
  
• Tender at the Bone - Ruth Reichl Bio Rei
  
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks 616.8 sac
  
• Moon Shot - Alan Shepard 629.45 she
  
• Ghost Soldiers - Hampton Sides 940.54 sid
  
• Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel Bio Galilelo
  
• Marilyn: Norma Jeane - Gloria Steinem Bio Monroe
  
• Flower Confidential - Amy Stewart 338.1 ste
  
• Manhunt: the Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer - James Swanson 364.152 swa
  
• My Own Country: A Doctors Story Of A Town And Its People In The Age Of AIDS - Abraham Verghese 362.1 ver
  
• The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell 974.088 vow
  
• Glass Castle: a memoir - Jeanette Walls 362.82 wal
  
• Sleeping At The Starlite Motel: And Other Adventures On The Way Back Home - Bailey White 814054 whi
  
• The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester 423 win

Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck
Local History
Lecture Series

To celebrate our Centennial Year, we are inaugurating a local history lecture series and fittingly naming it after Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck whose family donated their family residence to be used as our library and whose Julia’s diaries and family portraits are treasured in our historic collection and archives.

This free lecture series will take place on the following Friday evenings at 7:00 pm at the Marbletown Community Center. The public is cordially invited to attend.

Friday, July 10
7pm at the Community Center

Slide presentation featuring archaeological findings in the eighteenth century Hasbrouck House in New Paltz, drawing connections to the Hasbrouck family who were benefactors of the library.. with Prof. Joseph Diamond, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, SUNY, New Paltz

Friday, July 24
7pm at the Community Center

Bill Rhoads, Professor Emeritus of Art History at SUNY New Paltz, will present a slide lecture on the buildings in Marbletown and Rochester designed by Kingston architect Myron Teller and his partner Harry Halverson in the 1910s, 20s, and 30s. Teller had a national reputation as a reviver of the early Dutch Colonial style of architecture and Colonial hand-wrought hardware. The Stone Ridge Library preserves an important archive of Teller’s architectural notes and photos.

Friday, August 7
7pm at the Community Center

Professor Laurence Hauptman, Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY New Paltz who will present a power point discussion on American Indians in the Time of Henry Hudson: The Munsee and Mahican Indians, describing the history and culture of these two significant Native American peoples at the time of Henry Hudson’s exploration and the European settlement in 1609.

Friday, August 21
7pm at the Community Center

Have You Heard? The Sounds and Stories of the Hudson Valley is the final program in the series, taking place on Friday, August 21. Eileen McAdam and Jim Metzner, Directors of the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley will share stories collected at the library this summer and will discuss the importance of oral history as a record of community and our sense of place.

This series has been funded through a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

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Story Booth

Mondays, July 6, 13, 20, 27
11 am – 1 pm.

Eileen McAdam of the Sound and Story Project will record stories at the Library. For information, please contact us on the Library’s program line: 845 687-8726.

Listen to a sampling of Rondout Valley stories on soundandstory

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Community
Flag Making Event!

Walkway Across the Hudson - Walking on Air
Led by Barbara Bash

Saturday, July 25
10am - 12noon
at the Library

Come make a flag for Marbletown and be a part of this historic event, to be held October 2/3, 2009.

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Trustee Election
August 2009

Petitions are available at the Library upon request. People wishing to run for the Board of Trustees must be registered voters in the Town of Marbletown. Completed petitions must be returned to the Library by July 10, 2009.

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Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, July 8,
4pm, Biography Room

The selection this month is The Map of Love by Adaf Soueif. At either end of the twentieth century, two women fall in love with men outside their familiar worlds which makes for an unconventional love story.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Thursday, July 16,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovsey and The Adventure of the Empty House - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Medieval Book Group

Wed. July 22, 7pm
in the Biography Room

The topic for our July meeting is the Norman Conquest and the Bayeux Tapestry in the 11th - 12th centuries. The Bayeux Tapestry explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. Following is a list of suggested titles, please choose two books to read for our next meeting.

Bayeux Tapestry interpretive texts

R. Howard Bloch, A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry (2006)

• Andrew Bridgeford, 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry (2005)
  
  
  
  
  

Biographies

David Bates, William the Conqueror (2001)

Peter Rex, Harold II: The Doomed Saxon King (2005)

Annie Fettu, Queen Matilda (2007)

Pictorial books

Wolfgang Grape, The Bayeux Tapestry: Monument to a Norman Triumph (no date)

David M Wilson, The Bayeux Tapestry (1985)

Novel

Julian Rathbone, The Last English King (1997)

Enjoy the 11th century.

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NEW YORKER
DISCUSSION GROUP

Friday, July 10, at 3:30pm in the Reference Room

The following articles were chosen for discussion:

• June 1st Issue P 36 Annals of Medicine by Atul Gawande THE COST CONUNDRUM Expensive health care can be harmful
  
• May 25th Issue P 52 A Reporter at Large by Elizabeth Kolbert THE SIXTH EXTINCTION The earth’s species in peril
  
• May 11th Issue P 66 Department of Education by Douglas McGray THE INSTIGATOR L.A.’s charter-school crusader
  

If time permits the following articles will be considered:

• June 8th Issue P 106 A CRITIC AT LARGE by Louis Menand CAN YOU TEACH CREATIVE WRITING
  
• May 18th Issue P 66 FICTION by Salman Rushdie “IN THE SOUTH”
  

Please bring any discussion questions or thoughts about the above articles.

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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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WRITERS GROUP

Sat, August 1

1pm in the
Reference Room

The Library has a writers group that meets monthly on Saturday in the Reference Room. They read from their writing and share thoughts. If you are interested in writing you are welcome to join us.

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On the Shelves

with Cathy Nuding
Poughkeepsie Journal 6.7.09

These scary tales will grip young readers

Editor's note: On the Shelves is a monthly column written by a rotating list of mid-Hudson Valley library directors who comment on notable books coming to your local public library.

Here are some chilling tales I recommend for warm-weather readers grades 5-9:

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (Harper Collins, 2008), won the Newberry Award, renewing interest in scary stories for tweens and teens. Gaiman's work is gripping.

Darkside, by Tom Becker (Orchard Books, 2008), reveals a sinister, hidden side of London, with unsavory inhabitants including descendants of Jack the Ripper. Jonathan stumbles from Lightside - the London we know - to Darkside, escaping from kidnappers. Vampires, werewolves and other dangerous residents make Darkside a scary hiding place as he tries to unravel the mystery of his damaged family. Darkside's sequel, Lifeblood, continues the saga with the same levels of intrigue and evil.

Manhattan, 1872, is the setting for Avi's The Seer of Shadows (Harper Collins, 2008). Horace is a photographer's apprentice. A commission from a woman whose daughter recently died seems innocent enough, but both photographer and subject hide secrets. Worse, Horace discovers he can see shadows - the spirits of those recently deceased - when the face of departed daughter Eleanor appears in his photos. Horace is soon enveloped in a terrifying series of events he alone can stop - without, he hopes, any more fatalities.

Manhattan real and imagined is unveiled in Scott Mebus' Gods of Manhattan (Dutton Children's Books, 2008). Thirteen-year-old Rory is able to see Mannahatta, a spirit city existing alongside today's Manhattan. Mannahatta is built upon history and legend, and any person or thing of note - good or evil - resides for the ages. Rory becomes entangled in a fiendish plot, joining forces with a fantastic cast - some familiar, such as Alexander Hamilton and Babe Ruth, others not, such as an army of talking cockroaches.

Those looking for a modern, fast-paced thriller should seek out Stolen Children, by Peg Kehret (Dutton Children's Book, 2008). Amy accepts a babysitting job for an afternoon, thinking caring for 3-year-old Kendra will be easy enough. But after kidnappers take them both, things become dangerous, serious and terrifying. Is she strong enough - mentally and physically - to save them both from the violent and disturbed men who have stolen them? At only 14, Amy must make decisions and devise an escape plan, topics definitely not covered in her babysitting course.

Cathy Nuding is the youth services librarian at the East Fishkill Community Library. She is responsible for collection development, readers advisory and programming for children and teens, and seems to be in the process of reading no less than three books at any given time.

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Have You Heard?

The Rondout Valley Sound and Story Project

Listen to Rondout Valley stories, they will be changing through the summer. Brought to you by the Sound and Story Project. more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

New American Dream: Food: Cater to the Earth

Website for a "campaign focused on the environ-mental impact of food production and con-sumption." Features material on fair trade and bottled water, a marketplace to help identify sustainable foods, and a blog. From New American Dream, "founded in 1997 to address the environmental and social impacts of unsustainable consumption." more

Annoying Music

Collection of radio program audio files showcasing "stinky," "neglected," or otherwise "bad music." Music is presented for themes such as Valentine's Day, campaign songs, Elvis Presley, May Day, Mother's Day, Halloween, and the winter holidays. Archive goes back to 1999. From National Public Radio (NPR). more

Alpha Consumer

This blog focuses on "how to save money, avoid scams, manage debt, and be a savvy shopper." Topics include credit card "balance chasers," donating to charity, mortgage points, how to buy an Internet domain name, the recession and weekly spending, how to calculate student loan debt, going green and saving cash, and more. Includes audio and video. Archive goes back to July 2007. From U.S. News & World Report. more

Arthur Conan Doyle the Prolific Writer

A site designed to highlight Arthur Conan Doyle's works other than his Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Features illustrated essays on his "poetry, plays, historical fiction, commentary on social and legal reform, war and military chronicles, enthusiastic articles on various sport, and finally writings on behalf of Spiritualism." From the City of Westminster Libraries. more

Fashioning Felt

Companion website to a 2009 exhibition and book focusing "on felt that has been produced by traditional hand- or machine-felting processes; they exclude non-woven felt and techniques, in order to underscore the essential elements of feltmaking." View objects from the exhibit (browsable by keyword and designer), view process photos for a Turkmenistan-made carpet, and read related blog entries. From the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. more

YouTomb

"YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation." Finds name of video, single image from selected videos, entity that asked the video be removed, and the number of days the video had been viewable. Also includes blog. Statistics are not up to date. From MIT Free Culture, a student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). more

America and the Utopian Dream

An introduction to American utopias "from the first Puritan settlements to the communes of the 1960s" as presented through literary works and manuscript collections. Features images of works and commentary for utopian literature such as "Das Kapital" and "Erewon," dystopian literature such as "Brave New World" and "1984," and material on utopian communities such as the Shakers, Brook Farm, Oneida, and Halycon, California. From the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. more

American Bookbinders Museum

Information from this San Francisco museum dedicated to the art of bookbinding in the U.S. Its site features images and information about printing presses and other printing equipment (such as stampers, a glue machine, and a stapler), information about dozens of historical bookbinders, examples of endpapers, and descriptions of selected publications in the museum collection. more

Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco

"Several thousand images from nearly 100 volumes on decorative art and surface ornament, mainly portfolios of plates, pattern books, and scrapbook compilations." Find images of flowers, animals, butterflies, house colors, ceramics, and more. Many images are from French publications. From the New York Public Library (NYPL). more

Shorpy

This site "is a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago." Most of the photos on the site "were extracted from reference images ... from the Library of Congress research archive," with others from the personal files of contributors. Includes three photos of Shorpy. more

Extreme Mammals

Companion to a 2009 exhibition that "examines the ancestry and evolution of numerous species, ranging from huge to tiny, from speedy to sloth-like, and displays animals with oversized claws, fangs, snouts, and horns." Features articles, stories, fun facts, photos, video clips, interactive features, classroom resources, and related material about "the biggest, smallest, and most amazing mammals of all time." From the American Museum of Natural History. more

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