October 2006

New Fiction

• Armageddon's Children - Terry Brooks
  
• The Bee's Kiss - Barbara Cleverly
  
• Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811 - Bernard Cornwell
  
• The Loner - Clive Egleton
  
• Bloodlines: a Horse Racing Anthology - edited by Maggie Estep and Jason Starr
  
• Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
  
• Paint it Black - Janet Fitch
  
• The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
• a Stolen Season: an Alex McKnight novel - Steve Hamilton
  
• After This - Alice McDermott
  
• Girl in a Box - Sujata Massey
  
• Fool Me Once - Fern Michaels
  
• Fear of the Dark - Walter Mosley
  
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
• The Adventuress - Audrey Niffenegger
  
• Sp[ecial Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
  
• Rise and Shine - Anna Quindlen
• The Splendor of Silence - Indu Sundaresan
  
• The Testament - Eric Vanlustbader
  
• The Devil's Backbone - Kim Wozencraft

New Non-Fiction

• The Universe in a Single Atom: the Convergence of Science and Spirituality - Bstan dzin-rgya-mtsho, His Holiness the Dalai LAma
  
• The Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book: Faith, Family, and the Land - edited by Angie Cheek, Lacy Hunter Nix and Foxfire Students
  
• My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo has Taught Me about Life, Love, and Laughing Out Loud - Kevin Clash
  
• The Best American Poetry 2006 - Guest Editor, Billy Collins
  
• If I Live to be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians - Neenah Ellis
  
• There is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children - Melissa Fay Greene
  
• Boundaries - Maya Lin
  
• Leonare Maltin's 2007 Movie Guide - Leonard Maltin
  
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks
  
• The Overachievers: the Secret Lives of Driven Kids - Alexandra Robbins
  
• Simply Green Giving: Create Beautiful Gift Wrapping, Tags, and Handmade Treasures from Everyday Materials - Danny Seo
  
• The Immortal Game: a History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated our Understanding of War, Art, Science, and the Human Brain - David Shenk

New Audios

All CDs unless noted

• Babylon by Bus: Or, the True Story of Two Friends Who Gave Up Their Valuable Franchise Selling "Yankees Suck" T-shirts at Fenway to Find Meaning and Adventure in Iraq - Ray Lemoine, Jeff Neumann
  
• My Latest Grievance - Eleanor Lippman
  
• Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War - Nathaniel Philbrick
• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks
• The Man of my Dreams - Curtis Sittenfeld
  
• Timothy or Notes of an Abject Reptile - Verlyn Klinkenborg
  
• Piece of Work - Laura Zigman
  

New DVD's

• Apocalypse Now
  
• Barry Lyndon
  
• Basic Instinct
  
• Clifford's Puppy Days
  
• Dombey and Son
  
• Eight Below
  
• Lady and the Tramp
  
• The Shaggy Dog

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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.

Romances for Those Who Despise Romances

Criteria: Well-written, cross-over genre, no bodice rippers.

• Emma by Jane Austen
  
• Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
  
• Shards of Honor, Civil by Lois McMaster Bujold
  
• Possession by A. S. Byatt
  
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  
• Faking It by Jennifer Cruise
  
• Captain Correli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
  
• Into The Wilderness by Sarah Donati
  
• Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
  
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  
• Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding
  
• Time and Again, and From Time to Time by Jack Finney
  
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier
  
• Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
  
• Blind Waves and Helm by Steven Gould
  
• The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
  
• Once In Every Life by Kristin Hannah
  
• Hannibal by Thomas Harris
  
• Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
  
• Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
  
• The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi
  
• Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  
• First Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  
• Second Glance by Jodi Piccoult
  
• Shell Seekers, September and Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
  
• Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
  
• Eve Dallas series and In Death series by J. D. Robb
  
• Northern Lights and Birthright by Nora Roberts
  
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
  
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
  
• The Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker
  
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
  

AUTHORS

• Jane Austen
  
• Maeve Binchy
  
• Jonathan Carroll
  
• James Fenimore Cooper
  
• Jennifer Crusie
  
• Dorothy Eden
  
• Edna Ferber
  
• Jack Finney
  
• Roberta Gellis
  
• Tami Hoag
  
• Victoria Holt
  
• Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  
• Belva Plain
  
• Mary Stewart
  
• Phyllis A. Whitney
  

Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list.

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FALL BOOK SALE

Saturday, October 7, 10am-2pm
On the library lawn

Books, plants and baked goods.

Rain date, October 14

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A New Look at
an Old Myth

Wednesday, October 11, 6:30pm
in the Reference Room

An informal talk and discussion about the ancient Irish Celtic myth of Deirdre. Originally an oral tale about people thought to have lived in the first century B.C., Deirdre was first written down by Irish monks in the 7th or 8th centuries and continued to fascinate writers and poets into modern times. Through the centuries, Deirdre, the woman, has been lost. The early Christian monks saw her as a destructive femme fatale and later versions portrayed her as a disempowered quasi Victorian victim. Looking to other ancient Irish tales and historical records, this talk will reexamine the myth to find the real Deirdre. There is no need to be familiar with the myth. All ages welcome.

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Art Project and
Open Forum

Sunday, October 22, 3-5pm
Marbletown Community Center

In this outreach and educational collaboration with the Marbletown Teen Center, the Environmental Conservation Commission and the Library, students will share their vision of Main Street in 20 years through art. Community discussion will follow. All are welcome.

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October Roundtable

Tuesday, October 24th, 7pm
at the Community Center

The Middle East- Perpetual Powder Keg or Possible Long Term Peace? The third fall season of Stone Ridge Library Roundtable discussions opens with a topic essential in our time. Please join us for a dialogue regarding the perplexing complex of events in the Middle East which are holding everyone’s attention. We will explore the origins of the current troubles and consider the options available for building a lasting peace. We will meet in the Community Center at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, October 24th. Michael Wallace will moderate.

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Knitting Group

Saturdays,
October 7, 14, 21, 28
10am-noon at the Library

Our knitting group meets every Saturday in the Library's Reference room. We welcome newcomers at any level.

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Coming up in November

Fall Fundraiser
with Jon Bowermaster

Friday, November 10, 7 pm
Marbletown Community Center

Join us for an evening with National Geographic writer and world adventurer Jon Bowermaster for two brand new documentary films drawn from his ongoing OCEANS 8 project—sea kayaking around the world, one continent at a time, studying the health of the world’s seas and the lives of people who depend on them.

The evening’s program will feature BORDER LAND, from his 2005 expedition kayaking the coast of Croatia and its 1,200 islands, dealing in large part with over fishing in the Adriatic…plus, swimming with 600-pound tuna. Jon has also just finished a documentary from his 1999 expedition to the Aleutian Island. The film, BIRTHPLACE OF THE WINDS, could be his favorite to-date. Jon will be available to chat about his experiences, so we encourage you to join us for this interesting event. Meanwhile, check out Jons website.

Tickets are $10.00 at the door, children are free. Refreshments will be served. Special prizes will be featured.

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HOLMES & COMPANY:
A Reading Club for Mystery Lovers

Wednesday, November 1, 6:15pm
in the Reference Room

The first book we will discuss is The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr. Books are available at the Library.

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ON THE SHELVES

Poughkeepsie Journal 9.3.06
On the Shelves with Ellen Tannenbaum

Read up on romances before school year starts

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

As each of us looks forward to the new fall season, the start of the schoolyear and the change in weather, we see our time for great summer readingcoming to an end. Before the leaves fall, why not check out some of the new,terrific and diverse young adult titles available at your local library?

In Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Nick and Norah meet at a punk Manhattan night club and they begin to fall in love. That's not what makes this novel special. Their story is told in alternating chapters and takes place all in one night. It brings its reader face to face with the hurt, confusion and excitement these teens feel as they get to know one another. Both have come from hurtful relationships and have shared fears that similar results will occur if they follow their hearts into this new relationship. Told from the teen's perspective with realistic situations, graphic language and truthful emotions, this is a love story for mature readers.

Bare your fangs

In a different kind of love story, we meet up again with Raven, a vampire enthusiast, and Alexander, her vampire boyfriend, in Vampire Kisses 3: Vampireville, the third book in the series by Ellen Schreiber. Raven is ready to become Alexander's companion for eternity, but first they must work together to save the Dullsville local soccer star, Trevor. He has been selected to be the companion of the vampire Luna and she and her twin, Jagger, have moved into Dullsville to change him. Filled with spooky yet romantic moments, this light fare will leave most young vampire fans thirsting for book four.

Difficult decisions

In Between Mom and Jo, by Julie Anne Peters, 14-year-old Nick faces different issues. He has two moms, Erin, his birth mother, and Jo, her partner. The three have lived a happy life together even though they have faced prejudice and taunting. Whatever the issue, they have faced it together, seeking justice. When Erin and Jo split up, everything changes. Erin is the birth mother and has legal rights over Nick, Jo has nothing. Erin forbids any relationship between Jo and Nick. Both are devastated. "Between Mom and Jo" shows the effects that divorce leaves on families, especially children. As a minor, Nick has no say in his custody or the home he lives in. Jo has no legal recourse, but must wait for Erin to understand the pain she is putting her son through.

Ellen Tannenbaum is the Director of the Dover Plains Library. She is also a member of the Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Awards Committee.

Can't decide on what to read? Visit
Mid Hudson for links to lists of titles that might attract your interest.

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

GREAT WEBSITES!

Cruise Critic

This is a "cruise vacation planning guide which includes objective cruise reviews on 225+ ships, 55 cruise line profiles, information on what to do and where to go in 135+ worldwide ports, readers' ship ratings and reviews, cruise bargains and cruise tips." Browse cruises by destination, city of departure, cruise line, price range, interest (such as golf), and lifestyle (such as gay and lesbian). From the Independent Traveler, publishers of a travel exchange website. more

Airport Security Follies!

A compilation of editorial cartoons about airport and airline security procedures. Includes the name of each artist, the artist's syndicate or newspaper, and contact information. From Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index. more

Worry-free Spinach

This September 2006 article provides brief suggestions, including buying spinach from a small local farm and using frozen spinach, for those who "want to eat spinach but are worried about recent reports of E. coli contamination." Accompanied by several recipes using frozen spinach, such as spinach and crab enchiladas and tamale tarts. From the website for Sunset magazine. more

Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

The "IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime." You can file a complaint using an online form on this site. Also includes a FAQ, a description of Internet crime schemes, and prevention tips in areas such as auction fraud, identity theft, and investment fraud. A partnership of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center. more

Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story

Collection of material from August 2006 about "Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, [who] was kidnapped by Sunni Muslim insurgents in Baghdad on Jan. 7, 2006," and held for 82 days before her release. Features articles by Carroll about her experiences as a hostage, news coverage from the time of her kidnapping, video clips, photos, a blog, and related material. From the Christian Science Monitor. more

Balzac's Paris: A Guided Tour

This site provides a virtual "promenade through the monumental heart of Paris in the time of Balzac, as described through some of his works, and as documented in maps and engravings of The Vernon Duke Collection Special Collections Department" at the University of California, Riverside. Also includes a brief biography of French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and a bibliography. more

Words Cannot Be Weighed: Literature From Egypt

Collection of stories and poems published in January 2006 from modern Egyptian writers. The authors featured "write fabulism, social realism, modernist irony, and other tongues." Also includes an introductory essay. From Words Without Borders, "the online magazine for international literature." more

If I Live to Be 100: Lessons From the Centenarians

Companion to a 2002 book of the same title that "grew out of a radio series on National Public Radio's 'Morning Edition' in 2000 called 'One Hundred Years of Stories.'" On this site find "profiles of most of the centenarians featured, see their photographs, and hear them speak." Also includes links to the radio pieces. more

WhitePages.com

Telephone directory for U.S. and Canadian individuals and businesses. Also includes reverse directories for telephone numbers and for street addresses, and direct and reverse directories for area and ZIP codes. "A variety of sources are used to provide the most accurate search results available for publicly available contact information in the United States and Canada." more

Experiencing War: War's End

This feature covers two events at the end of World War II in 1945: Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) on May 8, marking the Allied victory in Europe, and Victory in Japan Day (VJ Day) on August 14 (and formalized on September 2), the day that Japan surrendered to the Allies. Features memoirs, videos of oral history interviews, photos, digitized documents, and more. Part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. more

Intute

"Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources." Subject areas include science and technology, arts and humanities, social sciences, and health and life sciences. Searchable or browsable by subject. more

Animal Sounds

This table lists animal sounds represented in more than a dozen languages. Some of the sounds include bee droning, cat purring, chicken clucking, mouse squeaking, lion roaring, and owl hooting. Also features animal commands and typical pet names in different languages. From a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Adelaide, whose interests include device physics and noise. more

Language Course Finder

"With over 10,000 language schools teaching 88 languages in 115 countries, [this] is the largest online directory of language courses and language schools worldwide." Search in many languages for language to learn and location of program. Also includes information about language tests and certificates, online learning resources, and related travel material. From a company that has produced a language learning guidebook since 1985. more

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