New Fiction

• Genesis of Shannara the Gypsy Morph - Terry Brooks
  
• Curse of the Pogo Stick - Colin Cotterill
• Silks - Dick Francis and Felix Francis
• The Keepsake - Tess Gerritsen
  

New Non-Fiction

• Twins! Pregancy, Birth and the First Year of Life - Connie L. Agnew, M.D.
• New England - Fodor's
• Fodor's Caribbean 2009
• Fodor's New York City 2009
• Fodor's U.S. & British Virgin Islands 2009
• Mexico 2009 - Frommer's
• The Book of New Israeli Food: a Culinary Journey - Janna Gur
• Great Expectations Baby's First Year - Sandy Jones & Marcie Jones
• Twinspiration: Real-life advise from pregnancy through the first year - Cheryl Lang
• Can't Fail Room Makeovers - Lucianna Samu

New Audio Books

• When Will There be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
• Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener - M. C. Beaton
• Temperatures Rising - Sandra Brown
• One Shot - Lee Child
• The Innocent Man - John Grisham
  
• Life These Days: Stories from Lake Wobegon - Garrison Keillor
• Fresh Kills - Bill Loehfelm
• The Frumious Bandersnatch - Ed McBain
• The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin
• Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson
• High Noon - Nora Roberts
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

New DVD's

• Ironman
• Jellyfish
• Sex and the City movie
• The Simpsons, season eleven
• Taxi to the Dark Side
• This American Life - First Season

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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.

Ghost Stories and Haunted Houses

Novels in which the dead come back as ghosts - or much worse, and stories about haunted houses and other bad places. Includes some Horror Classics.

• Alcott, Louisa May - Behind a Mask
  
• Banville, John - Eclipse
  
• Barker, Clive - Coldheart Canyon
  
• Blatty, William Peter - The Exorcist
  
• Bradbury, Ray - Something Wicked This Way Comes
  
• Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights Card, Orson Scott - Treasure Box
  
• Cerf, Bennet - Famous Ghost Stories 808.83 cer
  
• Davies, Robertson - High Spirits; Murther and Walking Spirits
  
• Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
  
• Due, Tananarive - Joplin's Ghost
  
• Eddings, David - Regina's Song
  
• Feist, Raymond E. - Faerie Tale
  
• Gutcheon, Beth - More Than You Know
  
• Haig, Matt - The Dead Fathers Club
  
• Haining, Peter - Gothic tales of terror; classic horror stories from Great Britain, Europe, and the United States, 1765-1840 808.83 hai
  
• Hawkes, Judith - Julian's House
  
• Hill, Joe - Heart-Shaped Box
  
• Jackson, Shirley - The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  
• James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
  
• King, Stephen -Bag of Bones; Carrie; The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon; It; Pet Sematary; Salem's Lot; The Shining
  
• Klavan, Andrew - The Uncanny
  
• Koontz, Dean: The Bad Place; Odd Thomas; Forever Odd; Brother Odd; Odd Hours
  
• Maguire, Gregory - Lost
  
• McCrumb, Sharon - Rosewood Casket
  
• McMahon, Jennifer - Promise Not to Tell
  
• Michaels, Barbara - Other Worlds; Stitches in Time, Vanish with the Rose; The Wizard's Daughter
  
• Morley, Christopher - The Haunted Bookshop
  
• Rice, Anne - Interview with the Vampire; Violin
  
• Roberts, Nora - Midnight Bayou
  
• Rogan, Barbara - Suspicion
  
• Rosewood Casket McCrumb, Sharyn
  
• Saul, John - Black Creek Crossing; Midnight Voices; Nightshade; The Right Hand of Evil; Second Child
  
• Setterfield, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale
  
• Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
  
• Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
  
• Siddons, Anne Rivers - The House Next Door
  
• Simmons, Dan - A Winter Haunting
  
• Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  
• Stoker, Bram - Dracula
  
• Straub, Peter - In the Night Room; Ghost Story; Lost Boy Lost Girl
  
• Strieber, Whitley - The Forbidden Zone
  
• Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
  
• Wilson, F. Paul - The Haunted Air

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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Memoir Writing Workshop
with Rosemary Deen

Three Saturdays, October 4, 18, 25
1-3pm

We are delighted to welcome Rosemary Deen once again for her popular memoir writing workshops. Please register at the library to reserve your space.

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The New Yorker Discussion Group

Third Fridays at 6pm
in the Reference Room

If you are interested, please come to a first meeting on Friday, October 17, at 6 o’clock to discuss the logistics and details for this new discussion group.

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Save Energy,
Save Dollars

Wednesday, October 22, 6 – 7:30pm
at the Library

Back by popular demand, Cornell Cooperative’s Weatherization and Energy Saving Workshop. This program was well received in August, so we have invited Tom Heffernan back to present it again. Participants will receive an energy kit. Pre-registration is being handled by Barbara Grumberg, Cornell Cooperative Extension, please call 340-3990 or you may email her.

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Round Table

The Election’s Over:
Now What?

Wednesday, November 5, 7pm
Marbletown Community Center

The Roundtable is an opportunity to share your thoughts on an important topic of the time. This year we will discuss The Election of 2008 and how it will affect our families, our expectations, the economy, and our commonality as community as we envision our future. Former Library Trustee Michael Wallace will serve as moderator.

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Hand Made Gifts

A remedy for tight budgets at holiday time…

Soap Making Workshop with Halyna Shepko of Shawangunk Ridge Farm

Saturday, November 8
Noon – 3pm
Marbletown Community Center

Registration and a $10 materials fee to make four soaps is requested

Sign up at the desk or call 687-8726.

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Travel Club

A library patron has suggested that we form a travel club as a forum to share experiences, tips and plans. If you are interested, please contact Diane at 687-8726.

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Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, October 8, 4pm, Biography Room

The selection this month is Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. A profound, yet witty contemporary morality tale.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Thursday, Oct. 16,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting are: Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett and A Study in Scarlett - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Knitting Group

Saturdays, October 4, 11, 18, 25
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 9.7.08
By Frank Rees

Put wager on these new authors for literary thrills

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.

In the high-stakes book publishing industry, new books by established writers generally get more publicity and media attention than books by new writers, so it's easy to overlook great new writers you may not know.

Trenchmouth Taggart, Finding Nouf, and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle represent some of the best work by new writers. These books will satisfy curious minds and discerning literary palates.

The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, by M. Glenn Taylor; West Virginia University Press.

This hilarious, bawdy and quirky debut novel tells the story of Trenchmouth Taggart - a man born and orphaned in 1903 and nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction.

Trenchmouth grows up fast in the hills of southern West Virginia where he sips moonshine, handles snakes, pleases women and masters the rifle. The story is detailed, present and personal and covers the 108-year life of Trenchmouth. Taylor has crafted a beautiful novel, evocative of the narrative style of John Irving and Larry McMurtry, that tells the truth about rural life without being slick, shallow or overly sentimental.

Finding Nouf, by Zoë Ferraris; Houghton Mifflin.

Ferraris has written an electrifying psychological suspense novel that takes readers into the little known world of the rich, rigidly gender-segregated women of Saudi Arabia.

Unlikely detective and desert guide Nayir ash-Sgarqi leads a search party in the blazing hot desert for a missing young woman - Nouf. The search is complicated by a society that limits Nayir's access to women. This novel offers rare insight into the inner workings of a country where women must wear the abaya; where ancient beliefs, taboos and customs clash with a fast-moving, technology-driven modern world.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski; Ecco.

A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three "yearling canines" and struggles to prove his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.

Wroblewski has written a riveting family saga that explores the limits of language with breathtaking scenes. This is a compulsively readable book that will leave readers thinking they will never read a book this good for a long, long time.

Frank Rees is the director of the Kent Public Library in Putnam County. Previously, he was the assistant director of the Howland Public Library and the director of the Hudson Area Association. He has written collection development articles for Library Journal.

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

Centennial Preparations

2009 will mark the library’s centennial year. As a part of our celebration, we will be preparing a series of exhibits looking at the decades between 1909 and 2009. We would like to feature tools, kitchen items, photgraphs and clothing from each decade. If you have an item that you would be willing to lend for the exhibit please contact Jody Ford at 687-0094 or email Jody.

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Volunteer Wish List

We are hoping one or two people will have time to volunteer to help us repair books and audiotapes. If you have experience repairing books or if you are willing to learn, please contact Jody Ford at 687-0094 or email Jody.

We also need dedicated volunteers to help us keep our shelves in order. We shelve a lot of books in a day so if you have an hour to spare on a regular basis, please let us know!

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Newsfilm Online (NFO)

"Hours of [British] television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive ... available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research." Video clips cover 1920s to the present and are searchable or browsable by decade or by topic such as conflicts, disasters, lifestyle, science and technology, sports, and weather. Includes links to related sites. From the British Universities Film & Video Council. more

NASA Images

"NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive ... a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections." Features a pictorial timeline of space exploration, and images on the subjects of the universe, solar system, Earth, aeronautics, and astronauts. Search by key word, and narrow results by what, where, who, or when. From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). more

Timeline of Discovery

"Presented here ... is a timeline that includes important scientific discoveries from 1840 to the present related to early humans. This interactive overview is a practical tool for your own investigation of our collective past." Covers events such as gorillas being formally recognized as a separate genus from chimpanzees in 1847, the 1859 publication of "Darwin's groundbreaking and highly controversial book on evolution," and Leakey funded discoveries starting in the 1960s. From the Leakey Foundation. more

20 Best Websites to Download Free E-books

August 2008 annotated list of websites where you can download books for free. Some sites listed focus on computer programming, Shakespeare, government texts, technology, and other subjects. Reader comments provide suggestions of additional sources. From a blog with tips for tech users, designers, and bloggers. more

Consumer Reports: Blogs

Blogs from this Consumer Reports website cover cars, electronics, home and garden, safety, money and shopping, health, and babies and kids. Includes an option to subscribe to all or specific blogs. From the publishers of Consumer Reports magazine. more

Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters in the Archives of American Art

This presentation of artists' illustrated letters en-compasses "exuberant thank you notes, winsome love letters, lively reports of current events, graphic instructions and other personalized communiqués from the early nineteenth century through the 1980s." Browse by artist (such as Marcel Duchamp, Winslow Homer, or Man Ray) or date (1890-1989). Letters are from the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. more

Oudry's Painted Menagerie

The website for this past exhibition features images of the work of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), who was "one of the finest painters of animals in European Art. ... [It] features his vibrant animal portraits as well as decorative arts inspired by the craze for exotic animals in 18th-century Europe." Also provides an exhibition overview, "menagerie switch" game and blog entries. From the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. (Some features may not work in all browsers.) more

RoofRay

This website allows users to model roof solar arrays and determine monthly solar energy potential and perform a financial analysis of the system. The "Shedding Light" features nearby sample solar arrays entered in the system. A blog contains updates about features of the site, which was launched in August 2008. more

Map Your Name's Frequency Across the Globe

Just for fun "find out what countries your family name is most common in with Public Profiler's World Names search and map. Enter your last name and you'll get back a world map with the countries where your name is most common colored in." Then you can find out the top regions and most common forenames. Note: you need Java and Flash on your computer. more

The Association for Active Aging Professionals: Resources for Older Adults

Consumer materials from this organization whose members "share a common interest in reaching older adults with active-aging messages, facilities, programs and guidance." Includes suggestions for getting back into a fitness regime, finding age-friendly fitness facilities and trainers, maintaining foot health, and walking for health. more
Ageing and Life Course
Compilation of documents and publications on aging, covering topics such as age-friendly cities, active aging, older people in natural disasters and other emergencies, and age-friendly primary health care centers. Some publications also available in other European languages. From the World Health Organization (WHO). more
Aging Initiative
This website provides information about U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) "efforts to protect the environmental health of older persons." Provides fact sheets (many of which are available in several languages and easy-to-read and large-print editions) on topics such as diabetes and environmental hazards, and planning for excessive heat. Also lists events, funding opportunities, news and announcements, and other related material. From the EPA. more

Wikibooks

"Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit." Searchable, or brows by topic, featured book, or other factors. Also includes links to Wikijunior (non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12), textbooks in "simple English," and books in languages other than English. more

1908-1927 Ford Model T

Background about the Model T Ford. "It was on October 1,1908, ... that the Ford Motor Company unveiled the little machine that many historians think of as the most significant automobile of all time -- the 1908-1927 Ford Model T." Includes discussions of the car's features, specifications, and changes to the car in the mid-1920s. From How Stuff Works. more

The Business of Professional Football

Overview of the professional football industry, with annotated listings of related print and electronic resources. The introductory essay discusses the National Football League (NFL), the NFL revenue system, NFL salary caps, and NFL Europe. From the Library of Congress (LOC) Business Reference Services. more

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