September 2008

New Fiction

• Blood Trail: a Joe Pickett Novel - C. J. Box
  
• Smoke Screen - Sandra Brown
  
• Folly du Jour - Barbara Cleverly
  
• Secrets - Jude Deveraux
  
• Sherlock Holmes: the Novels - Arthur Conan Doyle
  
• Careless in Red - Elizabeth George
  
• A Dangerous Age - Ellen Gilchrist
  
• People Who Walk in Darkness - Stuart M. Kaminsky
  
• Odd Hours - Dean Koontz
  
• What Happened To Anna K. - Irina Reyn
  
• Phantom Prey - John Sandford
  
• The House of God - Samuel Shem
  
• The Spirit of the Place - Samuel Shem
  
• The Road Home - Rose Tremain
  
• A Stopover in Venice - Kathryn Walker

New Non-Fiction

• Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China - Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
  
• Italian Grill - Mario Batali
  
• Downtown - Pete Hamill
  
• The Downhill Lie: a Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport - Carl Hiaasen
  
• Alfred & Emily - Doris Lessing
  
• Home Schooling: a Family's Journey - Gregory and Martine Millman
  
• Moyers on Democracy - Bill Moyers
  
• Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl - Stacey O'Brien
  
• Kick the Clutter: Clear out Excess Stuff Without Losing What You Love - Ellen Phillips
  
• Life Beyond Measure: Letters to my Great-Granddaughter - Sidney Poitier
  
• The Barbecue Bible - Steven Raichlen
  
• When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
  
• Tiny Yarn Animals: Amigurumi Friends to Make and Enjoy - Tami Snow
  
• Woman of Rome: a Life of of Elsa Morante - Lily Tuck
  
• The Man Who Loved China - Simon Winchester
  
• White Heat: the Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Brenda Wineapple
  

New Audios

All CDs unless noted

• Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
  
• Silks - Dick Francis and Felix Francis
  
• French Living Language
  
• Demian: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth - Hermann Hesse
  
• No One Belongs Here More than You: Stories Read Aloud by Miranda July
  
• A Dead Man in Tangier - Michael Pearce
  
• Blindness - José Saramago
  
• Spanish Living Language
  
• The Spare Wife - Alex Witchel

New DVD's

• Ballet Shoes
• The Closer - Second Season
• Far and Away
• The Godfather
  
• The Godfather Part II
  
• Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
  
• Kama Sutra: a Tale of Love
  
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
• No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain Season 3
  
• Pete Seeger, The Power of Song
  
• Sexy Beast
• The Shield - Season Five

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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.

ONE DAY READS

Read it in a day! Perfect for this busy time of year.

• For One More Day by Mitch Albom
  
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
  
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions by Richard Bach
  
• M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin books
  
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
  
• Natasha and other Stories by David Bezmozgis
  
• The Last Summer of You & Me by Ann Brashares
  
• The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
  
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie
  
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
  
• The Big Love by Sarah Dunn
  
• A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1971 by Amy Ephron
  
• Any of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
  
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
  
• The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald
  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• The African Queen by C. S. Forester
  
• Go with Me by Castle Freeman
  
• Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
  
• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
  
• Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons
  
• Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
  
• The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes
  
• Rain by Kirsty Gunn
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  
• The Labrador Pact by Matt Haig
  
• Woman in the Dark by Dashiell Hammett
  
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
  
• The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill (333.75Hil)
  
• The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
  
• Soul Catcher and Other Stories by Charles Johnson
  
• Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
  
• Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers
  
• Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
  
• Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
  
• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
  
• Moving Target by Elizabeth Lowell
  
• Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell
  
• Talking to the Enemy by Avner Mandelman
  
• Shopgirl by Steve Martin
  
• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
  
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
  
• Lethal Justice by Fern Michaels
  
• The Man in my Basement by Walter Mosley
  
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  
• The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
  
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  
• Life Without Water by Nancy Peacock
  
• Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  
• Tales from a Village School by Miss Read
  
• Ant Farm: and Other Desperate Situations by Simon Rich
  
• rhe End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
  
• High Noon by Nora Roberts
  
• The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
  
• Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
  
• Poison Study by Maria Snyder
  
• The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
  
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  
• Night Gardening by E. L. Swann
  
• Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
  
• Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
  
• About Alice by Calvin Trillin
  
• The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Verra
  
• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
  
• Partly Cloudy Patriot (973Vow) by Sarah Vowell
  
• Montana 1948 by Lawrence Watson
  
• Peeps and Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
  
• My French Whore by Gene Wilder
  

FALL BOOK AND
BAKE SALE

Saturday, October 11, 10am-2pm
Rain Date: October 18

Our popular autumn book sale promises to provide a browsing and shopping treat for bibliophiles as the air becomes crisp and the leaves begin to turn color. Books for everyone!

Home baked goodies and beverages will also be available. This year we will be offering delicious homemade "Soup to go." Get some to freeze now so you have it for the cool weather to come.

Knitted items, made by members of the library’s knitting club will be available for purchase — a great opportunity for early bird holiday shoppers.

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Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, September 10, 4pm, Biography Room

The selection this month is Morning's on Horseback by David McCullough. A biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt, winner of the the National Book Award for Biography.

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

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Medieval Book Group

Wednesday, September 17th, 7pm in the Reference Room

The book for this meeting of the Medieval Reading Club is Ken Follett’s World Without End, the sequel to his highly popular Pillars of the Earth. The setting is 14th century England.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Thursday, September 18,
4pm in the Reference Room

The selections for this meeting include two books: Maigret and the Madwoman by Georges Simeon and The Goodbye Look by Ross McDonald, and a short story: The Stockbroker's Clerk - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Knitting Group

Saturdays, Sept. 6, 13, 20, 27
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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Price It!

Price It! for Antiques and Collectibles is a fantastic resource for yard sale, garage sale, and online auction shoppers. “The antiques and collectibles market is one of the fastest growing markets in the U.S., with an estimated 30% of the population collecting something — and that figure is expected to increase in the coming years. This indispensable online tool helps you ascertain an item’s current realistic market value by aggregating data from its own GoAntiques.com database as well as established, reliable sources like eBay, TIAS and dozens of land-based auction houses. You will always have the latest information on the collectibles you seek. And Price It! Antiques & Collectibles can be used from wherever you have remote access to your library’s holdings…at home, on the road, even from a live auction!”

In addition you can read stories and articles from some of the best-known authors and authorities in the antiques and collectibles industry, articles on a wide array of subjects including repair, restoration and conservation of antiques, hiring an appraiser and many specific areas of collecting.

It's all available through our website, just have your Library barcode ready. more

GREAT WEBSITES!

A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff

Annotated list of "general interest sites that give quality instruction on all sorts of fun and useful projects. Including, sometimes, how to build a deck or bake a cake." Includes links to sites such as Instructables, eHow, and About.com. From ReadWriteWeb, a blog that provides Web technology news, reviews, and analysis. more

Crime in the City

From John Burdett's Bangkok to Joseph Wambaugh's Los Angeles, authors talk about their favorite city. In a series of stories, crime novelists give listeners a tour of the places they and their characters inhabit. Also included are Donna Leon's Venice, Jason Goodwin's Istanbul, Robert B. Parker's Boston, and Denise Mina's Glasgow. From National Public Radio. more

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

The museum at the State University of New York at New Paltz has a collection of on-line exhibits, including one from Library patron Michael Weisbrot. Michael's exhibit is entitled "Alan and the Strange Light." It "tells the decades-long storyof his nephew Alan and his family as they struggle with Alan's serious illness, medical neglect, and institutional indifference." more

How Do I? ... Freeze

Extensive list of freezing recommendations for specific foods, such as meat, fish, poultry, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, fresh herbs, and prepared foods. The list includes a step-by-step presentation on freezing strawberries and freezing information for less commonly covered foods, such as chayote squash and mayhaw juice. From the National Center for Home Food Preservation at the University of Georgia. more
Solution Source: Food Preparation, Safety and Storage
This collection of food tips includes topics related to canning, food safety, food storage, freezing food, jams and jellies, pickling, and other preservation and safety concerns. Some of the specific subjects include canning with a pressure canner, packing safe bag lunches, foods that do not freeze well, safe shipping of food, and making low or no-sugar jams. From Penn State Extension. more

Philosophy Talk

Website for this weekly philosophy radio program "that questions everything ...except your intelligence." Hosted by Stanford philosophy professors, the show applies philosophic thought to everyday topics and issues such as baseball, happiness, and terrorism. Features upcoming topics and where to listen, show podcast, and blog. Audio programs of past shows are archived back to 2004. From Stanford University. more

American Journeys: Columbus to Kerouac

This exhibit presents a "selection of treasured manuscripts, books, and artifacts, which trace some of the remarkable journeys that brought us from 1492 to the mid-twentieth-century era of social protest." Maps, drawings, photos, and other digitized material are accompanied by brief essays on topics such as travels by indentured labor, runaway slaves, the Harlem Renaissance, and John Steinbeck and Dust Bowl travelers. From the University of Virginia Library. more

The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978

Companion to a 2007 exhibit that "traces the evolution of snapshots in America from 1888, when George Eastman introduced the first Kodak camera, to 1978." Flip through an online book to view snapshots, "photographs usually made by amateurs and intended to document personal history. ... Their casual, loose style has influenced fine are photographers as well as other artists." From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. more

Web 2.0 Travel Tools

"This occasional blog is devoted to creating a list of web 2.0 websites and webtools that are, in some way, related to Travel and Tourism." Covers news sites and comments on more established sites, such as the top seven sites for planning your vacation, a site that maps tourist attractions in the U.S., and a comparison of new Chinese travel sites. Archives go back to 2006. From a professor at Northern Arizona University. more

Good News for Africa's Gentle Giants

"The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas has received a huge boost. A new, groundbreaking census released [in August 2008] by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) shows massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo." On this site learn about the 2008 gorilla discovery and the WCS projects to protect all four gorilla subspecies. From the WCS. more
Great Apes & Other Primates: Gorillas
Fact sheet about gorillas. Topics include species and subspecies (currently four, but "some primatologists list one additional subspecies of mountain gorilla"), physical description, geographic distribution, habitat, diet, reproduction, behavior, social structure, communication, and threats to survival. From the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. more

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures From the National Museum, Kabul

Companion to a 2008 exhibit of "artifacts unearthed in modern Afghanistan ... [and which] attest to the region's importance as a vital and ancient crossroads of ... the Silk Road." Features an introductory video, maps with images and video clips of sculpture and jewelry, timeline of treasures (dating from 2200 B.C. to 200 A.D.), and extensive related material from National Geographic. From the National Gallery of Art. more

Banned Books Week

Website about the events related to this celebration (started in 1982 and observed in late September-early October), which "was launched to draw attention to the growing number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores, and libraries." The site, launched in summer 2008, has a growing list of banned book displays and events at libraries, schools, and bookstores. Also includes links to related resources. From the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. more

The Orwell Prize

Website for the Orwell Prize, "the pre-eminent British prize for political writing." Site features a list of winners back to 1994 (and recent nominees) and background about the life and work of George Orwell, including a brief biography and images of a poetry manuscript and photos of Orwell. From the Orwell Prize, in association with the Orwell Trust, Political Quarterly, and the Media Standards Trust. more
Orwell Diaries
"From 9th August 2008, George Orwell's domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written. Orwell's 'domestic' diaries begin on 9th August 1938/2008; his 'political' diaries (which are further categorised as 'Morocco', 'Pre-war' and 'Wartime') begin on 7th September 1938/2008." From the Orwell Prize, in association with the Orwell Trust, Political Quarterly, and Media Standards Trust. more

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