July 2010

New Fiction

• The Seven Year Bitch - Jennifer Belle
• My Name is Memory - Ann Brashares
• Whiplash - Catherine Coulter
  
• The Spy - Clive Cussler
• The Lion - Nelson
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• Lowcountry Summer - Dorothea Benton Frank
  
• Beautiful Maria of My Soul - Oscar Hijuelos
• Frankenstein: Lost Souls - Dean Koontz
  
• Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective - Eric Van Lustbader
  
• The Rule of None - Steve Martini
• Tell-All - Chuck Palahnluk
• The Fourth Assassin - Matt Beynon Rees
• The Madonnas of Echo Park - Brando Skyhorse

New Non-Fiction

• Medium Raw: a Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Anthony Bourdain
• William Golding: the Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies - John Carey
• ..Unfinished Business... One Man's extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Thing - Lee Kravitz
• The Information Officer - Mark Mills
• The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures - Philip Mould
• Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg - Michael Perry
  
• Edible: a Celebration of Local Foods - Tracey Ryder
• Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History - Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell

New Audio Books

• The Scarpetta Factor - Patricia Cornwell
• The Lion - Nelson DeMille
• Sizzling Sixteen - Janet Evanovich
• Supreme Justice - Phillip Margolin

New DVD's

• Alice in Wonderland - Johnny Depp
• Green Zone - Matt Damon
• The Last Station - Helen Miren, Christopher Plummer

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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.

DESERT ISLAND BOOKS

Books you'd want to have with you if you were stranded on the proverbial desert island.

FICTION

• Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
• Jane Austen - novels
• Samuel Beckett - Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition
• Anne Bishop - Black Jewels trilogy
• Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969
• Ray Bradbury - collected stories; Dandelion Wine; Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
• Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
• Willa Cather - My Antonia
• Agatha Christie - novels
• Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy
• Charles Dickens - David Copperfeld; Our Mutual Friend
• Sara Donati - Wilderness series
• Tim Dorsey - Florida Roadkill
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes
• Dorothy Dunnett - The Complete Lymond Chronicles (Game of Kings)
• Leif Enger - Peace Like A River
• William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury; other novels
• Jack Finney - Time and Again; From Time to Time
• Diana Gabaldon - Outlander series
• Neil Gaiman - Sandman series; Neverwhere
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
• Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
• Ernest Hemingway - novels
• Frank Herbert - Dune
• Tony Hillerman - novels
• Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
• Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
• James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake
• Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
• Stephen King - The Stand
• Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness; Rocannon's World
• C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
• Sinclair Lewis - Main Street
• Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
• Anne McCaffrey - Pern series (Dragonflight)
• Robin McKinley - Beauty
• James Michener - Hawaii; Centennial
• Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
• Howard Frank Mosher - A Stranger In The Kingdom
• Alice Munro - Lives of Girls and Women
• Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
• S.J. Perelman - The Most of S.J.Perelman
• Edgar Allen Poe - Complete Works
• Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
• Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
• Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
• Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
• J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter novels
• Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow
• Budd Schulberg - What Makes Sammy Run?
• Robert Silverberg - novels
• Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• John Steinbeck - East of Eden
• Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
• Mary Stewart - Madam, Will You Talk?
• Donna Tartt - The Secret History
• J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• John Updike - Rabbit quartet
• Johann Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson
  

NONFICTION

• Robert Benchley - Benchley Round-Up
• William Rose Benet, ed. - Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
• Bible: Hebrew interlinear translation; New International Version; King James Version
• R.H. Blyth - haiku books
• Bill Bryson - books
• Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Italo Calvino - Italian Folktales
• Robert Cormier - I Have Words to Spend
• Harold Courlander, ed. - folktale books
• Will Cuppy - The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Euripedes - The Complete Plays
• Susan Feldman, ed. - The Storytelling Stone
• Rene Girard - Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
• Homer - Iliad; Odyssey
• Joy Of Cooking
• Chris McNab - Living Off the Land
• Thomas Merton - New Seeds of Contemplation
• Beverley Nichols - Merry Hall
• The Oxford English Dictionary
• David Remnick - Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
• Ned Rorem - The New York Diary; The Paris Diary
• George Seldes, ed. - The Great Thoughts
• William Shakespeare - The Complete Annotated Shakespeare; A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
• James Thurber - The Thurber Carnival
• Dawn Wells - Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook
• John Wiseman - The SAS Survival Handbook
• Jane Yolen, ed. - Favorite Folktales From Around The World
• Jack Zipes, ed. - folktale books
  

MISCELLANEOUS

• text for learning another language
• sushi cookbook
• survival handbook (Foxfire, Marine, etc.)
• boatbuilding handbook
• sailing/navigation handbook
• guidebook of ocean fish species of the world
  

ANTHOLOGIES

• Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker
• "A good solid poetry anthology"
• "One of Robert Arthur or Harold Q. Masur's Alfred Hitchcock Presents anthologies"
• The Oxford Book of American Poetry
• The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature
• The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
• The Smart Set: A History And Anthology, edited by Carl R. Dolmetsch
  

Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list.

Masks in Romania

Wednesday, July 28 – 7pm
in the Library's Reference Room

Shelley Wyant (the woman who traveled alone in India in 2010), will share stories from her most recent adventure—two weeks in Bucharest on a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant teaching mask work at I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film. Shelley is working with 70 first-year students about to embark on their final creation project. She will illustrate her talk with photos from her mask work and a weekend side trip, where she visited a Carpathian Mountaintop by cable car, and toured the Peles Castle in Sinaia.

Join us for an evening of stories as Shelley enlightens and entertains us with her findings in Romania.

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POETRY@ the Library

Matt Spireng
"Coming Home"

Friday, July 16
7pm in the Reference Room

Matthew J. "Matt" Spireng, a longtime resident of Lomontville, will read from his poems about the region. Matt is a widely published, award-winning poet whose clear and accessible work is often drawn from the Esopus and Rondout Valleys. His book Out of Body won the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award.

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ADULT CHESS CLUB

Monday, July 12
(we're closed July 5th),
6-7:30pm in the Reference Room

Our new Chess Club for adults, scheduled for the first Monday of the month, from 6 - 7:30pm. Bring your own board if possible, and come join the fun!

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Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, July 14
4pm in the Reference Room

The selection this month is Studs Lonigan: a Trilogy containing Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day by James T Farrell. A classic, published in 1938.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Wednesday, July 21,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: Still Life by Louise Penny, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. And The Adventure of the Missing Three Quarter - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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MEDIEVAL
Book Group

Wednesday, July 21,
7pm in the Biography Room

We will talk about the legendary character Robin Hood and his era. The recommended readings for July are Robin Hood by James Clarke Holt (an analysis of the legend) and one of the novels written about Robin and his era. There are many from which to choose including Robin Hood by Paul Creswich (a traditional tale) or The Sheriff of Nottingham by Richard Kluger.

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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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ON THE SHELVES

with Lisa Karim
Poughkeepsie Journal 6.6.10

These books are perfect
for summer reads

Summer is here and if you're like me you're looking forward to relaxing afternoons at the beach or in your own backyard with some great light reading to enjoy.

Here are a few titles that fit the bill and are available through your local library.

Someone Will Be With You Shortly by Lisa Kogan offers a different type of escape read, but one I'm sure you'll love. This is a collection of essays that contain honest and, more often than not, hilarious truths and revelations about life, love, careers, fashion, parenting and much more. You'll find yourself shaking your head and laughing out loud. An afternoon with this book will seem like time spent with one of your best girlfriends.

Mike, Mike & Me by Wendy Markham is the story of what happens when the one that got away resurfaces in your life. The catch to this book, though, is that you won't know which was the one that got away until the final page. Follow Beau's journey 15 years after she's chosen a "Mike" and evolved into a suburban wife and mother as she figures out which Mike is truly the Mike of her dreams. I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed with her conclusion.

The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine is for those who prefer slightly more substance. This is the story of a mother and her two grown daughters on the verge of great changes in their lives. You'll feel for each character as she faces the challenges, decisio ns and relationships in her life and how they lead her to a new existence and the ultimate realization that things don't always work out the way you thought they might.

I'm looking forward to Thin, Rich, Pretty, by Beth Harbison, due out July 6. Interspersed with nostalgia of the 1980s, this is the story of three women who met as friends and rivals at summer camp 20 years ago who now, as adults, struggle to find happiness. In the present they discover the hurtful consequences of petty, younger actions and together find healing and the contentment they so desperately seek. Harbison's other books have all been great summer escape reads, so I'm sure this one will be, too.

Lisa Karim is the director of the LaGrange Library on the corner of Route 55 and Fireman's Way. Over the past 17 years she has served on various committees in the Mid-Hudson Library System, including Continuing Education and Resource Sharing, as well as chairwoman of the Dutchess County Library Directors Association.

Traveling Abroad or Staying Local this Summer?

The library can help!

Quick Answers for Patrons on the Go: Travel

Whether you plan to travel 3,000 miles away from home or 30 the library has something for you! A new web site devoted to helping you plan, prepare and enjoy traveling is now available through the library's web site: Quick Answers for Patrons on the Go: Travel.

Find information on kid-friendly vacation spots, local historic sites, hiking and rail trails in the area, how to get a passport, booking vacations online, how to get through the airport security line faster and so much more!

Connect with library resources like books and DVDs on travel destinations, downloadable audiobooks for long flights and car rides and language learning tools to help you communicate with the locals!

The site was developed with help from library staff from around the Hudson Valley who shared the questions they hear most often from library patrons and we've worked together to share answers so we can all benefit! more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

YourNextRead

YourNextRead is a simple and crowd-driven tool for finding out what book you should read next based on the ones you've recently finished. Tell YourNextRead what book you just finished—and enjoyed!—and it will generate a web of eight related books. You can click on any of the books to learn more about it which will, in turn, generate a new web that's based on that book. Alternatively you can use the thumbs up/down buttons to agree or disagree with the suggestions that YourNextRead gives you. You can use the service without logging in but signing up for a free account enables book-browsing history and wishlist functionality. From LifeHacker. more

British Pathe Film Archive

The special feature of this site is the ability to browse previews of the films in the entire 3500-hour British Pathe Film Archive, "which covers news, sport, social history, and entertainment from 1896 to 1970." Preview Film shows stills from the actual film clips, which are often several minutes long and which you get by using the Download Now button and filling out a brief registration form. Searchable.* more

*Reproduced with permission from copyright 2010 by the ipl2 Consortium (http://www.ipl.org). All rights reserved.

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