New Fiction
- The Bishop at the Lake - Andrew M. Greeley
- Dead Heat - Dick Francis and Felix Francis
- Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade - Diana Gabaldon
- Songs Without Words - Ann Packer
- Pontoon: a Novel of Lake Wobegon - Garrison Keillor
New Non-Fiction
- Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr - Nancy Isenberg
New Audios
All CDs unless noted
- Landsman - Peter Charles Melman
- Tresspass - Valerie Martin
- The Zookeeper's Wife: a War Story - Diane Ackerman
- The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
- Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamid
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
New DVD's
- Knocked Up
- Breaking and Entering - Jude Law
- Anne of the Thousand Days & Mary Queen of Scots
- After the Wedding
- The Wind that Shakes the Barley
- Away from Her
- Prime Suspect #7
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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.
Taking Liberties, the Novel Lives of Famous People
Format: Author – Title /Famous Person
Alexander, Bruce - Blind Justice*; Murder in Grub Street; Watery Grave; Person or Persons Unknown; Jack, Knave, and Fool; Death of a Colonial; The Color of Death; Smuggler's Moon; An Experiment in Treason; The Price of Murder; Rules of Engagement* /all are about Sir John Fielding, blind judge of the Old Bailey and founder of Scotland Yard
Barker, Pat – Regeneration* /Siegfried Sassoon
Barnes, Julian - Arthur and George* /Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & George Edalji
Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor; Jane and the Man of the Cloth; Jane and the Wandering Eye; Jane and the Genius of the Place; Jane and the Stillroom Maid; Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House; Jane and the Ghosts of Netley; Jane and His Lordship's Legacy; Jane and the Barque of Frailty* /Jane Austen mysteries
Belfer, Lauren - City of Light* /presidents Cleveland and McKinley
Carr, Caleb – Alienist* /Theodore Roosevelt
Chessman, Harriet Scott - Lydia Cassat reading the morning newspaper* /Lydia & Mary Cassat
Chevalier, Tracy - Burning bright* /William Blake; Girl with a Pearl Earring* /Johannes Vermeer
Clark, Mary Higgins - Mount Vernon Love Story* /George and Martha Washington
Cross, Donna Woolfolk - Pope Joan /Pope Joan
Diamont, Anita - Red Tent*
Docotrow, E.L. – March* /W. T. Sherman; Ragtime /John Pierpont Morgan & others; Waterworks* /Boss Tweed; World's Fair*
Ellroy, James - American Tabloid /Hoover, Kennedy & Hughes; Cold Six Thousand /Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Hoover, etc.
Fairstein, Linda – Entombed /Edgar Allan Poe
Feldman, Ellen – Lucy* /Lucy Rutherford, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt; The Boy who love Anne Frank /Anne Frank
Forster, Margaret - Lady's Maid* /Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning; Keeping the World Away* /Gwen John (painter)
George, Margaret - Helen of Troy /Helen of Troy; Autobiography of Henry VIII /Henry VIII; Memoirs of Cleopatra* /Cleopatra; Mary, Called Magdalene /Mary Magdalene
Gold, Glen David - Carter Beats the Devil* /Warren Harding & Charles J. Careter IV
Gregory, Phillipa - Other Boleyn Girl* / Anne of Cleves, Catharine Howard, Jane Seymour, Mary Boleyn; Virgin's Lover /Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley Leicester, Amy Robsart Dudley; Queen's Fool /Elizabeth I & Mary I; The Constant Princess* /Catharine of Aragon; The Boleyn Inheritance*
Hambly, Barbara - Patriot Hearts /Martha Washington, Dolley Madison, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemmings
Hamilton, Jane - Book of Ruth* /Ruth
Harper, Karen - The Poyson Garden; The Tidal Poole; The Twylight Tower*; The Queene's Cure; The Thorne Maze*; The Queene's Christmas*; The Fyre Mirror; The Fatal Fashione; The Hooded Hawke* /all Elizabeth I
Harris, Robert – Imperium* /Cicero
Kaminsky, Suart M. – A Fatal Glass of Beer* /W.C. Fields; A Few Minutes Past Midnight* /Charlie Chaplin; He Done Her Wrong* /Mae West; The Howard Hughes Affair* /Howard Hughes
Kellerman, Faye - Quality of Mercy* /William Shakespeare
Kerr, Philip - Dark Matter /Sir Isaac Newton
King, Laurie R. - The Game /Kipling & Kim; Locked Rooms* /Dashiell Hammett
Kostaova, Elizabeth – Historian* /Vlad the Impaler
Lodge, David – Author, Author* /Henry James
Maguire, Gregory - Mirror, Mirror /Cesare Borgia & Lucrezia Borgia
Mailer, Norman - Castle in the Forest /Adolph HItler
McMurtry, Larry - Buffalo Girls* /Martha "Calamity" Jane & Annie Oakley; Anything for Billy* /Billy the Kid
Min, Anchee - Becoming Madame Mao /Madame Mao
Oates, Joyce Carol – Blonde* /Marilyn Monroe; Black Water* /Ted Kennedy
Pearl, Matthew - Dante Club* /Dante Alighieri & Oliver Wendell Holmes; The Poe Shadow* /Edgar Allan Poe
Rice, Anne - Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt /Jesus Christ
Robbins, David - Assassins Gallery /Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roth, Philip - Plot Against America /Charles Lingberg
Rubenfeld, Jed - Interpretation of Murder /Freud & Jung
Saylor, Steven – Roma* /history of Rome
Shaara, Michael - Killer Angels* /Robert E. Lee, Gen. George Gordon, Abraham Lincoln; Gods and Generals* /Stonewall Jackson
Tey, Josephine - Daughter of Time /Richard III
Toibin, Colm – The Master* /Henry James
Vidal, Gore – Empire* /Henry James; Julian /Julian, Emperor of Rome; Burr* /Aaron Burr; Lincoln* /Abraham Lincoln
Vreeland, Susan - Forest Lover* /Emily Carr; Passion of Artemesia* /Artemesia Gentileschi; Girl in Hyacinth Blue* /Johannes Vermeer; Luncheon at the Boating Party /Auguste Renoir
Weir, Alison - Innocent Traitor* /Lady Jane Grey; The Princes in the Tower* /Edward V, Duke of York
* In the Stone Ridge Library collection
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FALL BOOK AND
BAKE SALE
Saturday, October 6, 10am-2pm
Rain Date:
October 13
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 goods and beverages will also be available.
 Added to the mix this year will be knitted items, made by members of the library’s knitting club—a great opportunity for early bird holiday shoppers.
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Bonni Leu Banyard’s Photographs on View at the Library
Local photographer Bonni Leu Banyard will exhibit her latest work at the Stone Ridge Library during October and November. The majority of the show will feature flowers from Banyard’s garden, shot through a macro lens, which she says offers a “kind of cross between Georgia O’Keefe and highly stylized portrait photography.” She says that, technically, this kind of photography involves trying to fool the camera, using very selective depth of field to create the desired effect.
 Bonni has been fascinated with photography since taking her first class in high school. She attended The New School and studied with Captain Richard Borst in Soho, learning black and white photography and printmaking. Slow to come to digital, she now finds it rich with creative options.
 Known locally through her photography at Shellbark Farm and the Friends of Friends of Historic Rochester, she has also shown at the Ellenville Public Library & Museum, and Key Bank as well as previously at the Stone Ridge Library. She has recently completed a portfolio for Gardenmakers, the company that created the Library’s enchanting entrance.
In addition to photography, Banyard is a free-lance bookkeeper, and is the library’s official “bean counter.” When asked about her inspiration for the show, Banyard alludes to an online gallery she stumbled upon, and also reflects on the joy she finds in her garden where she “feels like a pollinator, surrounded by butterflies and bumble bees.”
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FREE
Computer Instruction
 Tuesdays and Thursdays
1-3pm
Basic computer instruction taught by Volunteer Alan Marker. Sign up at the Library for your half hour lesson.
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Fall Round Table:
HEALTH CARE in the United States
 Wednesday, October 10,
7pm
Marbletown Community Center
Please join us for a lively discussion about Health Care in the United States. The Round Table format is designed as a forum to explore topics that have had an impact on our lives, and provides an opportunity to share viewpoints and expertise. Mike Wallace will once again serve as moderator.
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Tea Time Book Group
 Wednesday, October 10th,
4pm in the Reference
Room
The selection for October is Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky. A novel of life under Nazi occupation - published 64 years after the author's death in Auschwitz.
Join us in the Reference Room for lively discussion and light refreshments.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group
 Thursday, October 25,
4pm in the Reference Room
The selections for this meeting include a book: The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler, and a short story: The Adventure of the Speckled Band - Arthur Conan Doyle
Books and short stories are at the circulation desk.
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Scrabble
 Mondays, October 1, 15, 22, 29
6-8pm in the
Reference Room
Scrabble players meet every Monday in the Library's Reference room. Newcomers are welcome!
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Knitting Group
Saturdays, October 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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ON THE SHELVES
Poughkeepsie Journal 9.2.07
On the Shelves with Josh Cohen
Novels give historical figures a second look
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.
Historical characters are the stars of these books. You might just wind up with a different opinion of these famous people.
 Killing Che, by Chuck Pfarrer; Random House. In 1967, CIA contractor Paul Hoyle is asked to destroy a small guerrilla movement in central Bolivia. What he discovers is the leader of the movement is none other than Che Guevara, who, contrary to CIA information, is not dead.
Complicating this task is Hoyle's infatuation with the mistress of a powerful Bolivian official and the Cubans, soviets and Bolivian Communist party that all want Che killed.
Another twist is Che's lover Tania, a go-between for the different sides. Most surprising is the portrayal of Che, not as a talented revolutionary leader, but as a well-meaning idealist whose blunders lead to his downfall.
 Stalin's Ghost, by Martin Cruz Smith; Simon & Schuster. When people in Moscow report seeing Josef Stalin at the last stop of the metro, Arkady Renko, whose star as a leading investigator has fallen, gets the case no one else wants.
What begins as simple mass hallucination leads to Renko becoming suspicious of not only his office rival, but also his romantic rival, Isakov, who has became a war hero under what Renko suspects were suspicious circumstances.
All this leads to an investigation of the Russians in Chechnya, the German invasion during World War II and a view of contemporary Russian politics.
 Fangland, by John Marks; Penguin Press HC. TV magazine producer Evangeline Harker is sent to Romania to scout a story about underworld crime boss Ion Torgu. After he whisks her to his castle, it dawns on Harker who Torgu might really be.
Torgu and Harker eventually show up at the news magazine's offices revealing Torgu's motives as well as the motives of several other characters.
 The Blackest Bird, by Joel Rose; Doubleday Canada. The 1891 murder of Mary Rogers in New York City is the backdrop for this mystery as High Constable Joseph Hays tries to solve the crime. Eccentric poet Edgar Allan Poe seems to have had motive and opportunity to commit the crime. With vivid descriptions of New York City settings and characters, Hays' investigation covers several years and two other murders.
Josh Cohen is the executive director of the Mid-Hudson Library System, which provides a shared library automation system and resources to 66 public libraries in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam and Ulster counties.
Can't decide on what to read? Visit
Mid Hudson for links to lists of titles that might attract your interest.
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–Ray Bradbury on UCLA library’s policy in the 1950s of charging 10 cents per half-hour for use of their typewriters, Escondido (CA), North Country Times, February 22,2007. As seen in American Libraries.
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