New Fiction
- Burn - Nevada Barr
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
- Tough Customer - Sandra Brown
- Leaving Rock Harbor - Rebecca Chase
- Wrecked - Carol Higgins Clark
- Cure - Robin Cook
- Love Songs from a Shallow Grave - Colin Cotterill
- Lost Empire: a Fargo Adventure - Clive Cussler
- Scarlet Nights - Jude Deveraux
- Day After Night - Anita Diamant
- Crossfire - Dick Francis
- The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory
- The Vigilantes: a Badge of Honor novel - WEB Griffin
- Star Island - Carl Hiaasen
- Veil of Night - Linda Howard
- Queen of the Night - J A Jance
- Shadow Zone - Iris Johansen
- Hangman: a Decker/Lazarus novel - Faye Kellerman
- The Whisper - Carla Neggers
- The Devil's Star - Jo Nesbo
- Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
- The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo
- Body Work - Sara Paretsky
- The Postcard Killers - James Patterson
- In Harm's Way - Ridley Pearson
- I Curse the River of Time - Per Petterson
- Spider Bones - Kathy Reichs
- The Rembrandt Affair - Daniel Silva
- Three Stations: an Arkady Renko novel - Martin Cruz Smith
- Foreign Influence - Brad Thor
New Non-Fiction
- A to Z of Sewing: The Ultimate Guide for Beginning to Advanced Sewing - Kathleen Barac, editor
- Spooky Hudson Valley - Marianna Boncek
- Composed: a Memoir - Rosanne Cash
- Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor - Tad Friend
- Country Driving: a Journey through china from Farm to Factory - Peter Hessler
- Simply Sublime Gifts: High-Style, Low-Sew Projucts to Make in a Snap - Jodi Kahn
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory - Ben Macintyre
New Audio Books
- Crossfire - Dick Francis
- Altar of Eden - James Rollins
- Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
- A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
- The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
New DVD's
- City Island - Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies
- Ghost Writer - Ewan McGregor
- My Name is Khan - Shahrukh Khan
- Secret of Nikola Tesla - Orsen Wells
- The Simpsons: season 13
- Temple Grandin - Claire Danes, Katherine O'Hara
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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.
100 New Classics
1983 - 2008
- The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
- The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
- Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
- Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
- Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
- Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
- Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
- Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
- Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
- Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
- On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
- On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
- The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
- Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
- Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
- Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
- Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
- Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
- The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
- Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
- The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
- Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
- LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
- Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
- Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
- Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
- Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
- World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
- Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
- The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
- Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
- Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
- The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
- The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
- Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
- Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
- Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
- Money, Martin Amis (1985)
- Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
- Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
- Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
- The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
- Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
- Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
- Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
- A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
- Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
- Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
- Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
- The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
- Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
- And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
- The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
- Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
- Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
- Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
- Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
- A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
- Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
- Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
- The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
- Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
- America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
From Entertainment Weekly magazine |
FALL BOOK
& BAKE SALE
New This Year:
A Two-Day Event!
Sat. Oct 9 & Sun, Oct 10
Saturday, October 9,
from 10am – 2 pm
(Rain Date: Oct 16)
Our Saturday book sale will feature book bargains galore and delicious soups donated by local restaurants to enjoy right away or to take home to savor. We'll also have home baked delights to enjoy with coffee or cider, and pumpkins and colorful jeweled-colored mums. With holiday giving in mind, you can browse the fabulous hand-crafted items made by the Saturday knitters, and the assortment of tableware gift baskets created by library volunteers, all on sale to benefit the Library.
The Rondout Valley Growers Association will have a table at the sale on Saturday, with information and samples of summer's bounty.
At noon, Judy Essex, former Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County, will demonstrate how to make peach-cranberry jam , a delightful addition to the holiday table. Judy has made jams and gift baskets for more than twenty years as owner of Judy's Jams. Take a chance to win a jar of jam or a Gift Basket!
Sunday, October 10,
from 10am – 2pm
(Rain Date: Oct 17)
"Bag Sale" -- books at bargain basement prices -- $3 PER BAG.
Why not stock up for those long winter nights just around the corner!
Book Donations - Bakers Needed
 We are accepting book donations (in good condition) during library hours. No records please. If you'd like to bake or to give us a hand on Saturday or Sunday, we'd love to have your help. Please sign up at the Desk.
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Memoir Writing Group
 A Memoir Writing Group will meet weekly in the Biography Room on Saturdays at 1:00 pm, beginning September 11th. Anyone interested should contact Brian Drabkin by email, or at 687-4711 or Diane in the Program Office at 687-8726.
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ADULT CHESS CLUB
 Monday, Sept. 13,
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, Sept. 8,
4pm in the Reference Room
 The selection for September is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. An epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.
Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group
 Wednesday, Sept. 22,
4pm in the Biography Room
The selections for September include: Nowhere to Run by CJ Box. The harrowing new Joe Pickett, game warden novel from the Edgar Award-winning author. And The Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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MEDIEVAL
Book Group
  Wednesday, September 15,
7pm in the Biography Room
Our guest from the UK, Claire Walker, will join us for a discussion of the Magna Carta and the US Constitution. The recommended readings for this meeting are Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton and A Brief History of the Magna Carta by Geoffrey Hindley or 1215: The Year of Magna Carta by D. Danziger & J. Gillingham.
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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 Scott Jarzombek
Poughkeepsie Journal 8.1.10
Fan roots, roots, roots for baseball books
No other sport is as intricately woven into the tapestry of American culture as baseball. Its history often reflects the social and political environment of its time.
This is why I love books about the sport; they not only spin a tale of great games and amazing talent, but they also provide a unique viewpoint of what life was like for players and fans.
I would like to suggest three recently published books on the sport. One is a personal memoir of a fan; another offers a dramatic study of one man's quest to build a juggernaut; and for those looking for something more entertaining, maybe something a little morbid, there is a third that even a non-baseball fan could enjoy.
 The title of Faith and Fear in Flushing is taken from the well-respected blog written by the authors, Greg W. Prince and Jason Fry. It follows the Mets from their 1969 championship series to their heartbreaking 2006 season.
This is not your standard baseball book. While the facts, statistics and play-by-plays sports fans love are included, there is also an incredible amount of heart, and personal perspective.
From Prince's first job to meeting the love of his life, the authors have the unique ability to make the on-field play fit so perfectly with their personal lives. Prince seems to have many more wins than his beloved team.
This is the definitive Mets fan book. Prince and Fry are able to explain the mental and spiritual connection fans have had to the club. It shows there is a bond that goes beyond just rooting for the underdog, and why there are a few of us who truly "believe."
This book brought back a ton of personal childhood memories and reminded me of so many great moments and heartbreaks.
If you make it through this book without bleeding a little blue and orange, then I feel a little sorry for you.
The second book is, of course, about the Bronx Bombers, not so much the team but their infamous former owner, the late George Steinbrenner.
 While many of his peers will be lost in history, he will continue to be a major figure in the game. Steinbrenner's tumultuous career, from his purchase of the team in the 1970s to his expulsion and the recent championship era, is well chronicled in Bill Madden's Steinbrenner: the Last Lion in the Game.
While it sometimes reads like a tabloid — Madden covered the team for the Daily News — the writing makes for a quick recreational read.
Last Lion in the Game could be the study of any million-dollar company's Machiavellian but irrational CEO. It is a fascinating and entertaining read, even for a non-Yankees fan such as myself.
 Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball, by Frank Russo and Gene Racz, is the strangest of these three books.
Russo covers several players' post-careers, and by post I mean postmortem.
As interesting as many of these players' lives were, some of them had some incredibly fascinating and bizarre deaths.
This is an entirely different type of baseball encyclopedia, where syphilis and murder play a bigger part of the story than earned run averages and on-base percentages.
 If you are looking for some additional summer baseball reads, let me suggest a few older books.
Praying For Gil Hodges is about one family's struggles in post-World War II New York and its love of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound, by Ron Darling and Daniel Paisner, is a fascinating look into the psychological struggles of a starting pitcher.
While both have been out for some time, they should not be overlooked.
Scott Jarzombek is the Head of Youth Services for the Poughkeepsie Public Library. |
LIBRARY VOTE
The Library budget vote and trustee election was held on August 9th at the Library. The budget tax appropriation of $229,612 was approved by Marbletown voters with 40 in favor and 5 votes against. Trustees Judith Schneller, Stephen MacDonald and Shelley Wyant were all re-elected.
In 2009 the Library was visited 101,675 times. For more information check: 2009 Facts and Figures.
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