November 2014

New Fiction

• The Zone of Interest - Martin Amis
• Betrayers: the Novel - David Bezmozgis
• Personal: a Jack Reacher novel - Lee Child
• The Perfect Witness - Iris Johansen
• The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: stories - Hilary Mantel
• Rose Gold - Walter Mosley
• Burn - James Patterson
• Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories - Paul Theroux

New Non-Fiction

• Bowie the Biography - Wendy Leigh
• One Pot: 120+ easy meals from your skillet, slow cooker, stockpot, and more - Martha Stewart Living

New Audio Books

• The Betrayers - David Bezmozgis
• The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
• To Dwell in Darkness - Deborah Crombie
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
• Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
• Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
• The Goddess of Small Victories: a Love Story - Yannick Grannec
• An Italian Wife - Ann Hood
• Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse - Robin Hutton
• Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

New DVD's

• Chef - Jon Favreau, Sophia Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson
• Death Comes to Pemberley - Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode
• Dorothea Lang: Grab a Hunk of Lighting
• MadMen: the Final Season, Part 1

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

Did you miss any of these best sellers?

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Álvarez
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Three Junes by Julia Glass
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
• Waiting by Ha Jin
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
• Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• The Help by Kathryn Strockett
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Nicole Quinn to Read from
It's a Nightmare

Monday, November 3 - 6:30pm
in the Reference Room

The Stone Ridge Library welcomes Nicole Quinn who will read from her newest work, It's a Nightmare, on Monday, November 3 at 6:30 pm in the Reference Room. It's a Nightmare is the first in the Gold Stone Trilogy set a million years in the future. Nicole will introduce her characters--polar opposites Dream Weaver and Night Mare, as they battle to prevail in their one-continent world of Blinkin. All are welcome. For information, contact the Library Program Office at 687-8726.

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The Poetry of Place:
Native American Place Names in Ulster County

Evan Pritchard,
Director of the Center
for Algonquin Culture

Wednesday, November 19 - 7pm
Marbletown Community Center

Join us for an educational and fun-filled evening as Professor Evan Pritchard, author and a descendant of the Algonquin-speaking people, presents an illustrated lecture where he will discuss the various layers of poetic meaning in the Native American place names in Ulster County.

Algonquin place names tended towards clever wordplay and purposeful ambiguity since before contact. In fact, some are more like poems than sentences. Frequently, the Dutch joined in the process and reshaped these words to have a similar sound and meaning, but in Dutch. Then in some instances the English did the same to the new Dutch words. While there are Algonquin place names from North Carolina to the Maritimes similar to our own, New York is the only place where one finds these "Double Dutched" place names, literary time capsules for those who want to understand the ancient history of our region. In any case, the exploration of the poetry of place here in Ulster County is a fascinating study.

Professor Evan Pritchard, of Celtic and Algonquin descent, is an author of over twenty critically acclaimed books about Native American culture, including Native New Yorkers, (Council Oak) No Word for Time, (Council Oak) Bird Medicine (Inner Traditions), Native American Stories of the Sacred (Skylight Paths) and the newly released book of poetry, Greetings from Mawenawasic! (Foothills) which incidentally features a poem about Ulster County's poetic place names (and features a poetic Native American place name in the title!) Pritchard studied the Munsee language with Canadian elder Beulah Timothy, and others, the native language of Ulster County, and Old Dutch with Dirk Tang of the Hague, its second language. He has been a professor of Native American Literature at Pace, Marist, and Vassar Colleges, and has lectured at dozens of major universities in Eastern US. He had appeared on the History Channel, Manhattan Cable and MSNBC, to name a few, and has been a guest on hundreds of radio shows, including those on ABC, New Dimensions, Pacifica and NPR networks. His website is algonquinculture.org and features a detailed list of his many books and future lectures.

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The A, B, Cs and Ds
of Medicare

Thurs., November 20
1:30pm in the Biography Room

Peter J. Rein, Licensed Health, Life and Medicare Insurance Specialist will present a free seminar: The A, B, Cs and Ds of Medicare. He will discuss the various plans available: Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage Plans, Medicare Supplement Plans, LIS (Low Income Subsidy) and EPIC (Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage). For more information, contact Diane DeChillo at 687-8726.

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Congratulations Rob!

A year ago, Rob Miraldi, President of the Library's Board of Trustees and an author, gave a presentation for the Library on his then just-released book, Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist, a biography of a famous American investigative reporter.
Recently it was announced that the book was named the best journalism biography in America in 2013. He will receive the Ann Sperber Biography Award in New York City on November 19.
Congrats to Rob!
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Ulster County Chamber Music Series RAFFLE

Buy a raffle ticket for a chance to win six tickets to the concerts in the 2015 Ulster Chamber Music Series. You can use them in any combination: 2 tickets for each concert, 3 tickets for any two concerts, etc. All concerts will be held Sunday afternoons at 3:00 o'clock at the Church of the Holy Cross, 30 Pine Grove Avenue, Kingston. Each performance will be followed by a reception with an opportunity to meet the artists.

Artists for the season include:

Madison String Quartet, February 22

Borealis Wind Quintet, March 29

Garry Kvistad and Friends, including Paul Winter and Prana, April 19

Raffle Tickets will be on sale at the Library and are $5 each, or 5 for $20. The face value of each subscription is $100. Winners will be selected on December 1.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, November 12
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. The story of two men, their incredible friendship, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Zorba, a Greek working man, is a larger-than-life character, energetic and unpredictable. He accompanies the unnamed narrator to Crete to work in the narrator's lignite mine, and the pair develops a singular relationship. The two men couldn't be further apart: The narrator is cerebral, modest, and reserved; Zorba is unfettered, spirited, and beyond the reins of civility. Over the course of their journey, he becomes the narrator's greatest friend and inspiration and helps him to appreciate the joy of living.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, November 19
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan. American travel writer Poke Rafferty has seen—and survived—some of the worst Bangkok has to offer. But now, finally married to his longtime love, Rose, and raising the young daughter, Miaow, they adopted from the streets, Poke believes his life is stable at last. Then a nightmare figure from Rose's time as a Patpong dancer barges into their world, threatening their peace, their love, their home, their lives.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, December 3
7pm in the Biography Room

Doris Kearns Goodwin's, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism is the Clio's Muse selection for discussion on December 3. Goodwin's biography and history of early 20th century America was selected by numerous newspapers as one of the Best Books of the Year in 2013. It examines many issues of American society 100 years ago that resonate in our culture in the early 21st century.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, November 4
1:30-2:30 in the Bio Room

Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for these sessions that provide participants with an opportunity to practice and hone their Spanish language skills in a comfortable and enjoyable setting. Cliff Rockmuller, former language teacher at the Rondout Valley School District, leads the conversation. This program is held on the first Tuesday of each month.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, November 18
1:30-2:30pm
Biography Room

Want to brush up or improve your French with a conversation hour? Claudine is a native French speaker, born in Paris and raised in Europe; following a 30 year Government career abroad, she chose Stone Ridge to retire in. Culture, medicine, travels, and anything/everything culinary are favorite subjects—which she would love to share and exchange in French.
The program will be offered on the third Tuesday of each month.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, Nov. 13
1.30-3:30 in the Biography Room

Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Our meetings are held twice a month, on the second and fourth Thursdays.

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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra

Monday, November 3, 17
4:30-6:30pm

A writers' group meets every other Monday at the Library, with a maximum of 10 participants. This program is designed for people who are already in the process of writing and publishing work and want to participate in a structured feedback process. Cathy Arra, a poet, writer and former teacher of English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District facilitates the group. If you are interested in participating, please contact Diane DeChillo at the Stone Ridge Library (687-8726) to place your name on the wait list.

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Move to Music with our
Dance and Rhythm Group

Every Thursday,
10:45 to 11:45
at the Marbletown Community Center
All Ages

If you would enjoy stretching, moving and dancing to all kinds of music come join us at the Marbletown Comunity center on Thursdays. We don't have a teacher, we wear comfortable clothing, go barefoot or not, and bring CDs or cassettes of our choosing. For more information call 687-7186.

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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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Movies Based on Books Opening in Theaters

November 2, 2014

Movie Title: Olive Kitteridge on HBO
Based on: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, a Pullitzer Prize winning novel
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast: Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Bill Murray

November 7, 2014

Movie Title: The Homesman
Based on: The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Cast: Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones

November 7, 2014

Movie Title: Rosewater
Based on: Then they came for me: a family's story of love, captivity, and survival by Maziar Bahari with Aimee Molloy
Director: Jon Stewart
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jason Jones

November 7, 2014

Movie Title: The Theory of Everything
Based on: Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Emily Watson

November 14, 2014

Movie Title: Foxcatcher
Based on: Foxcatcher : The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John Du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold by Mark Schultz & David Thomas
Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell

November 21, 2014

Movie Title: Hunger Games, Mockingjay, Part 1
Based on: Mockingjay by Collins, Suzanne,
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Sam Claflin

November 21, 2014

Movie Title: The Imitation Game
Based on: Alan Turing: the Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Director: Morten Tyldum
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode

Construction Updates

Richard Phelps and John Saldi, done for the season. more

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THANK YOU

Our thanks to local restaurants for delicious soups for our October 11 Book Sale:
Davenport Farms
Hoffman House
High Falls Café
Inn at Stone Ridge
Lekker
Lydia's Country Deli and Café

A big thank you to all of our Library Trustees and to our volunteers. Special thanks to Rosemary Deen for the new indoor plant sale and to Ethan Plank for delicious homemade bread. And thanks to Express Tech for the printing!

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Conservation Treatment Grant Awarded

The Stone Ridge Library has been awarded a 2014 Greater Hudson Heritage Conservation Treatment Grant for the restoration of a portrait of Garret Decker Hasbrouck, oil on canvas, painted by Francesco Anelli in 1840. Marie G. Bruno of Arte Artigianato Restauro, Inc. in Kingston, New York will do the conservation work. The painting, measuring 70 ¾" x 54 ½", is a companion piece to the portrait of Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck, Garret's wife, painted when the couple lived in New York City. Mrs. Hasbrouck's portrait underwent conservation treatment with funding from the Greater Hudson Heritage Network's 2012 grant.

"The portraits are key components of the Library's local history collection," noted Library Director Jody Ford. After moving to Stone Ridge from New York City, the Hasbrouck family lived in the 1798 stone house that now serves as the community library, donated by their daughter Julia Hasbrouck Dwight in 1909. In addition, the library owns 17 of Julia's diaries written between 1838 and 1879, in which she records daily life and family events. "It is so interesting to read about the family's travels to Stone Ridge to visit relatives, and to hear Julia's opinions about the Anelli portraits as the couple sat for them," she added. The diaries are published in a daily blog, "In My Pen and Power," that is posted on the Library's website.

The grant was one of 24 awarded to agencies in 18 counties in New York State to assist with the conservation of paintings, textiles, sculpture, paper and decorative objects that demonstrate urgently needed conservation.

"As a small rural organization in Ulster County, we are grateful to benefit from this statewide program," said Robert Miraldi, President of the Library's Board of Trustees. "We are thrilled that both of these lovely paintings, an important part of the Library's history, will be fully restored. The charm of our building will be enhanced even more when this is done," he added.

Packing up Garret for his trip to Arte Artigianato
Restauro, Inc. in Kingston for conservation

Work on the portraits coincides with restoration work on the Library's historic buildings. The paintings were stored off site at Westlake Conservators in Skaneateles, New York (who did the work on Julia's portrait) for their safe keeping during the beginning stages of the construction work, and were returned to the Library, Julia post-treatment and Garret pre-treatment, in April 2014 when they were welcomed with a public reception.

The portraits are reported to be in overall stable condition. However, examination under fluorescent light revealed a number of damages that have occurred in the aging process, the most prominent of which, according to Conservator Marie Bruno, include traction cracks and "alligatoring" and oxidation (due to the use of bitumen, a dark paint made from coal tar). Treatment will include cleaning, correcting lined tears, including a one-inch gouge on Garret's chin, and correcting discolored varnish, using techniques that can be easily reversed. A final coat of synthetic resin varnish will be applied to provide protection from environmental pollutants. These methods reflect innovative techniques in the field of conservation that embrace a noninvasive approach.

"The portraits were unframed when we began to investigate the grant application process a few years ago," said Diane DeChillo, who worked on the project. "We don't have any information about frames in our documents. As we learned, through the grant application process, the importance of frames for their protection as well as their obvious aesthetic appeal, the Library Board purchased period reproductions and had the paintings framed by Catskill Art Supply, to complement the professional conservation work being undertaken."

Work on Garret Decker Hasbrouck's portrait will begin in late October and will take approximately 10 to 12 weeks. Once the work is completed, the Library will host a program to share the conservation process with the public, using photographs that document the work.

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