August 2014

New Fiction

• Close your Eyes, Hold Hands - chris Bohjalian
• Nine Lives to Die - Rita Mae Brown
• Starter House - Sonja Condit
• Power Play: an FBI thriller - Catherine Coulter
• Under Your Skin - Sabine Durrant
• Top Secret Twenty-One: a Stephanie Plum novel - Janet Evanovich
• Suspicion - Joseph Finder
• The Hurricane Sisters - Dorothea Benton Frank
• Midnight in europe - Alan Furst
• Written in my Own Heart's Blood - Diana Gabaldon
• The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
• The Stories - Jane Gardam
• Baklave Club - Jason Goodwin
• The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths
• Everything to Lose - Andrew Gross
• Problems with People: stories - David Guterson
• Wynne's War - Aaron Gwyn
• The Director - David Ignatius
• Strangled in Paris: a Victor Legris mystery - Claude Izner
• Adirondack: Life and Wildlife in the Wild, Wild East - Edward Kanze
• Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
• Summer House with Swimming Pool - Herman Koch
• The City - Dean Koontz
• Mambo in Chinatown - Jean Kwok
• California - Edan Lepucki
• Hyde - Daniel Levine
• Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Ascendancy - Eric Van Lustbader
• The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon
• Rogues: stories - ed by George R.R. Martin
• I Am Having So Much Fun Here Witghout You - Courtney Maum
• The Arsonist - Sue Miller
• One Plus One - Jojo Moyes
• The Night Searchers - Marcia Muller
• Invisible - James Patterson
• The Long Mars - Terry PratchettNo Country - Kalyan Ray
• China Dolls - Lisa See
• The Girls of August - Anne Rivers Siddons
• The Vacationers - Emma Straub
• Atonement of Blood: a mystery of Ancient Ireland - Peter Tremayne
• Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate The Late Scholar: Based on the Chatacters of Dorothy L. Sayers - Jill Paton Walsh
• Never Coming Back - Tim Weaver
• The Care and Management of Lies: a novel of the Great War - Jacqueline Winspear

New Non-Fiction

• The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food - Dan Barber
• Fresh Cooking: a Year of Recipes from the Garrison Institute Kitchen - Shelley Boris
• But Enough About You - Christopher Buckley
• Great Food Jobs 2: Ideas and Inspiration for Your Job Hunt - Irena Chalmers
• 365 Skinny Smoothies: Delicious Recipes to help you get Slim and Stay Healthy Every Day of the Year - Daniella Chace
• Beloved Strangers: a memoir - Maria Chaudhuri
• Hard Choices: a memoir - Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Getting Financial Aid 2015 - CollegeBoard
• Barn: Preservation & Adaption - Elric Endersby
• The Late Starters Orchestra - Ari L. Goldman
• Why Can't I Get Better?: Solving the Mystery of Lyme & chronic Disease - Richard I. Horowitz, MD
• Southeast Asia - Insite Guides
• The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley - ed. by Jaap Jacobs and L.H. Roper
• Finding Me: a Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - Michelle Knight
• The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert
• Sewing Pretty Little Accessories: charming Projects to Make and Give - Cherie Lee
• The Dog Who Could Fly: the Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew at His Side - Damien Lewis
• Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War - Mary McAuliffe
• Making Better Buildings: Sustainable Construction for Homeowners and Contractors - Chris Magwood
• Hidden History of Columbia County New York - Allison Guertin Marchese
• The Essential Diabetes Book: How to Prevent, Control, and Live Well with Diabetes - Mayo Clinic
• Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty - Elizabeth Mitchell
• Hell Before Breakfast: america's First War Correspondents Making History and Headlines, from the Battlefields of the Civil War to the Far Reaches of the Ottoman Empire - Robert H. Patton
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
• My Salinger Year - Joanna Rakoff
• Pete Seeger vs. The Un-Americans - Edward Renehan
• P.O.T.S Together We Stand: Riding the Waves of Dysautonomia - Jodi Epstein Rhum
• Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut - Anthony V. Riccio
• Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis - James W. Russell
• Murder & Mayhem in Ulster County - A.J. Schenkman & Elizabeth Werlau
• Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe - Ritu Sharma
• Plays for Two: a Dazzling New Collection of 28 Plays for Two Actors - ed. Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
• Stringer: a Reporter's Journey in the Congo = Anjan Sundaram
• Rescuing Julia Twice: a Mother's Tale of Russian Adoption and Overcoming Reactive Attachment Disorder - Tina Traster
• The Nile: a Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past & Present - Toby Wilkinson

New Audio Books

• Sharpe's Gold - Bernard Cornwell
• AndJustice There is None - Deborah Crombie
• The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
• All Over Creation - Ruth Ozeki
• The Ten Year Nap - Meg Wolitzer

New DVD's

• Afternoon of a Faun - Nancy Buirski's documentary on famed prima ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq
• Caes Histories, series 2 - Jason Isaacs
• Endeavour, season 2 - Shaun Evans
• Finding Vivian Maier - documentary
• Half of a Yellow Sun - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose
• Le Weekend -
  Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan,
  Jeff Goldblum
• On My Way - Catherine Deneauve
• Vicious - Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

2014
Beach Reads

• Hamish Macbeth series by M.C. Beaton
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• Burglar series by Lawrence Block
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
• Robert Langdon novels by Dan Brown
• Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown
• At Home by Bill Bryson 643.1 bry
• Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
• anything by Agatha Christie
• The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
• The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
• Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly
• The Mayan Secrets; The Storm by Clive Cussler
• Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
• Bridget Jones's Diary series by Helen Fielding
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fanny Flagg
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Canada by Richard Ford
• The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
• The Cuckoo's Calling; The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
• Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Kinsey Millhone mysteries by Sue Grafton
• The Beach House by Jane Green
• Sycamore Row by John Grisham
• Marley & Me by John Grogan
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Fly Away by Kristin Hannah
• Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
• Beautiful Day; The Island by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Kite Runner; And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Fifty Shades series by E.L. James
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Joyland by Stephen King
• Flight Behavior; Prodigal Summer; The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella
• The Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries by Donna Leon
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
• John Adams by David McCullough Bio Ada
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 929.208 McC
• The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
• Starting Now; Rose Harbor in Bloom by Debbie Macomber
• The Son by Philipp Meyer
• Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
• Me Before You; One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  
  Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson
• Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penney
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Chet and Bernie mysteries by Spencer Quinn
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• The Collector; Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts
• The Divergent series by Veronica Roth
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Lean In by Sheryl Standberg 658.4 San`
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The English Girl by Daniel Silva
• The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
• The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Power Play; Friends Forever by Danielle Steel
• The Help by Katherine Stockett
• The Vacationers by Emma Straub
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
• Bruno, Chief of Police novels by Martin Walker
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• Best Friends Forever ; All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
• The Devil Wears Prada; Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
• Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods

100 New Books!

Our library has just received a gift of 100 new children's picture books, ranging from pre-kindergarten through early readers. They were donated by the Brownstone Book Fund, a private foundation in NYC that fosters early reading, a love of books, and encourages parents and children to read together.
"We are excited to have these new books in our collection, and hope that people will come in and explore and enjoy them," said Children's Librarian Julianna Arms. "Thanks to the Brownstone Book Fund for this lovely donation."

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Election August 11, 2014
to Choose Trustees,
Decide on Budget

VOTE: Monday, August 11, 2014
2 pm - 8 pm at the Library

The election is to fill two four-year seats and one one-year seat on the Board of Trustees and to consider the following proposition:

• "Shall the budget proposed by the Board of Trustees of the Stone Ridge Public Library, including a tax appropriation of $254,854 be approved?"

Boards of Trustees candidates nominated by petition for the four-year seats are Steve MacDonald and Judith Schneller, and for the one-year seat is Ethan Plank.

For those not able to come to the polling place on Election Day, absentee ballots are available at the library. Absentee ballots must be returned by mail or in person to the Library no later than the close of business on Monday, August 11, 2014.

Those eligible to vote must live and be registered to vote in the Town of Marbletown. For further information contact the library director, Jody Ford at 845-687-7023. To see the budget click here.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, August 13
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career, it is also A portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken' and wanting money and success more than anything else. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, August 20
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell, the first Inspector Kurt Wallander mystery. Early one morning, a small-town farmer makes the horrible discovery that his neighbors have been brutally attacked during the night. An old man is dead, and his wife lies dying before the farmer's eyes. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: "foreign".

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, September 24
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for September is Blindspot : by A Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise, a novel of the American Revolution co-written by two notable professors of American History, Jane Kamensky (Brandeis) and Jill Lepore (Harvard). It is a historical romance and murder mystery authentically situated in 18th century America. Set in boisterous Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Scottish painter Stewart Jameson and his spirited apprentice, Fanny Easton, a fallen woman who has disguised herself as a boy, Francis Weston. When Boston's revolutionary leader, Samuel Bradstreet, dies suddenly on the day Jameson was to paint his portrait, Bradstreet's slaves are accused of murder. Jameson, Weston, and the brilliant doctor Ignatius Alexander set out to determine the truth. What they discover turns topsy-turvy everything you thought you knew about the Founding Fathers.

It is helpful to develop a contextual understanding of the era in which a story is being told. I'd recommend reading a general text of The American Revolutionary period before, or in tandem with, Blindspot. There is a section of "Further Readings" provided by the authors at the end of their novel. If you want a short general history, I would recommend Gordon Wood's The American Revolution: A History or, for a longer, more democratic interpretation, Gary Nash's The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America.

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Conversational Spanish

Tuesday, August 5, September 2
1:30-2:30 in the Bio Room

Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for these sessions that provide participants with an opportunity to practice and hone their Spanish language skills in a comfortable and enjoyable setting. Cliff Rockmuller, former language teacher at the Rondout Valley School District, leads the conversation. This program is held on the first Tuesday of each month.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, August 19, Sept. 16
1:30-2:30pm
Biography Room

Want to brush up or improve your French with a conversation hour? Claudine is a native French speaker, born in Paris and raised in Europe; following a 30 year Government career abroad, she chose Stone Ridge to retire in. Culture, medicine, travels, and anything/everything culinary are favorite subjects—which she would love to share and exchange in French.
The program will be offered on the third Tuesday of each month.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, Aug, 14, 28
1.30-3:30 in the Biography Room

Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Our meetings are held twice a month, on the second and fourth Thursdays.

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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group

Monday, August 11, 25
4:30-6:30pm

A writers' group meets every other Monday at the Library, with a maximum of 10 participants. This program is designed for people who are already in the process of writing and publishing work and want to participate in a structured feedback process. Cathy Arra, a poet, writer and former teacher of English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District facilitates the group. If you are interested in participating, please contact Diane DeChillo at the Stone Ridge Library (687-8726) to place your name on the wait list.

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Move to Music with our
Dance and Rhythm Group

Every Thursday,
10:45 to 11:45
at the Marbletown Community Center
All Ages

If you would enjoy stretching, moving and dancing to all kinds of music come join us at the Marbletown Comunity center on Thursdays. We don't have a teacher, we wear comfortable clothing, go barefoot or not, and bring CDs or cassettes of our choosing. For more information call 687-7186.

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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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Movies Based on Books Opening in Theaters

August 1, 2014

Movie Title: Child of God
Based on: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Director: James Franco
Cast: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Scott Haze

August 1, 2014

Movie Title: Behaving Badly
Based on: While I'm Dead, Feed the Dog by Ric Browde
Director: Tim Garrick
Cast: Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker, Elisabeth Shue

August 1, 2014

Movie Title: Guardians of the Galaxy
Based on: Marvel comics by Dan Abnett, Gene Colan, Arnold Drake, Steve Englehart, Andy Lanning
Director: James Gunn
Cast: Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt, Benicio Del Toro and the voices of Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel

August 8, 2014

Movie Title: The Hundred-Foot Journey
Based on: The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Helen Mirren

August 8, 2014 (TV series)

Title: Outlander
Based on: the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Shown on: Starz
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies

August 15, 2014

Movie Title: The Giver
Based on: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Director: Philip Noyce
Cast: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgard, Cameron Monaghan, Odeye Rush

August 22, 2014

Movie Title: If I Stay
Based on: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Director: R.J. Cutler
Cast: Choe Moretz, Jamie Blackley, Mirella Enos, Joshua Leonard, Stacy Keach

August 22, 2014

Movie Title: Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Based on: A Dame to Kill For from Frank Miller's comics series, Sin City, Dark Horse
Co-directors: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Bruce Willis, Josh Brolin and Chris Meloni

August 22, 2014

Movie Title: When the Game Stands Tall
Based on: When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak, by Neil Hayes
Director: Thomas Carter
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Alexander Ludwig, Laura Dern, Michael Chiklis

August 27, 2014

Movie Title: November Man
Based on: There Are No Spies by Bill Granger
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Olga Kurylenko, Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey

August 29, 2014

Movie Title: One Chance
Based On: One Chance: A Memoir by Paul Potts
Director: David Frankel
Cast: James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Wal ters

August 29, 2014

Movie Title: Life of Crime
Based on: The Switch by Elmore Leonard
Director: Daniel Schechter
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Yasiin Bey, John Hawkes, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher

Construction Updates

Removing the chimney for the gable end work. more

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FALL BOOK SALE

Saturday October 11
& Bag Sale on Sunday October 12

Book Donations

The Library is now accepting book donations for the Fall Book Sale. Please bring them when we are open.

Ceramic Pots Needed

We have a new feature coming to the Fall Book Sale! We're preparing house plants for sale in October and right now we need 4", 5", and 6" ceramic pots and interesting containers. We plan to dress up the house plants Rosemary Deen is nurturing for the Fall Book Sale. Please bring your containers to the Library. Questions: director@stoneridgelibrary.org

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Book Benches in London

The National Literacy Trust has brought Books about Town to the streets of London this summer. Benches shaped as open books have been painted to look like pages and scenes from famous books. The site has maps of where they are on the book trail and listings of special events. more

Hudson Valley Heritage and New York Heritage Digital Collections

We are fortunate in this region to have a very useful and interesting digital history resource. It's called the Hudson River Valley Heritage Project (HRVH), and it is a database containing primary print materials and images covering the entire Mid-Hudson Valley. There are currently dozens of participating institutions. more

Google Art Project

Google Art Project was launched by Google in 2011 to provide the public with online access to high quality images of artwork from across the world. Originally the platform contained artwork from 17 museums but the project has expanded to include over 32,000 images from over 150 partnering institutions. Users can browse materials by the artist, collection, their location, the medium of the artwork, or the events, places, persons, or dates associated with the artwork. Users can also use Museum View to virtually browse museums and cultural institutions and view the artwork as it looks "in person." more

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eMail: Stone Ridge Library
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