December 2011

New Fiction

• A Crimson Warning - Tasha Alexander
• Zero Day - David Baldacci
• The Wedding Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories - don DeLillo
• The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
• V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton
• The House of Silk: a Sherlock Holmes novel - Anthony Horowitz
• 11/22/63 - Stephen King
• Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
• Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson
• The Imposible Dead - Ian Rankin
• Chalice of Blood: a mystery of ancient Ireland - Peter Tremayne

New Non-Fiction

• My Family Table: a Passionate Plea for Home Cooking - John Besh
• The Time of Our Lives: a Conversation about America - Tom Brokaw
• Staying Put: remodel your house to get the home you want - Duo Dickinson
• Blue Nights - Joan Didion
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and raid that sparked the Civil War - Tony Horwitz
• Girl in the Kitchen: How a Top Chef cooks, thinks, shops, eats, and drinks - Stephanie Izard
• Then Again - Diane Keaton
• Best Baby Names Treasury - Emily Larson
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - Robert K. Massie
• Why Read Moby Dick? - Nathaniel Philbrick
• Lucking Out: my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies New York - James Wolcott

New Audio Books

• In a Dog's Heart - Jennifer Arnold
• Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
• The Chase - Clive Cussler
• How the Dog became the Dog - Mark Derr
• Rebecca Daphne DuMaurier
• Five by Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst
• The House of Silk: a Sherlock Holmes novel - Anthony Horowitz
• Naked - David Sedaris

New DVD's

• Beginners - Ewan McGregor, Christophe Plummer
• Bobby Fisher Against the World
• Case Histories - Jason Isaacs
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams - Werner Herzog Documentary
• The Help - Bryce Dallas Howard, Viola Davis
• One Day - Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess
• Our Idiot Brother - Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer
• Pirates of the Caribbean: on Strange Tides - Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz
• Sarah's Key - Kristin Scott Thomas
• The Simpsons, Fourteenth Season
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Russell Wong
• The Tree of Life - Brad Pitt, Sean Penn
• Water for Elephants - Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz

Recently Donated DVD's

• The Beatles Celebration
• The Beatles Diary

• Gojira/Godzilla
• Inspector Lewis, series 2 - Kevin Whately

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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.

Quick Reads for a busy month

• So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams
• Lady Catherine's Necklace - Joan Aiken
• Tuesdays with Morrie ; For One More Day - Mitch Albom
• Night Train - Martin Amis
• Old Herbaceous: a novel of the Garden - Reginald Arkell
• The Penelopiad ; The Tent - Margaret Atwood
• The Anniversary and other Stories ; The Headmaster's Dilemma - Louis Auchincloss
• The Shepherd, the angel and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog - Dave Barry
• Oh! To be in England - H. E. Bates
• Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin books - M.C. Beaton
• As Max Say It ; Wartime Lies - Louis Begley
• The Actual - Saul Bellow
• A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Sandra Benitez
• The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
• Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom for a Complicated World - Noah benShea
• Durable Goods, Joy School, True to Form, The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg
• Lilac and Flag ; Photocopies - John Berger
• Bark if you Love Me: a Woman Meets - Dog Story - Louise Bernikow
• Natasha and Other Stories - David Bezmuzgis
• The Moon Opera - Bi Feiyu
• Civil War Stories - Ambrose Bierce
• This Year It Will Be Different and Other Stories: A Christmas Treasury ; The Return Journey - Maeve Binchy
• The Lemur - Benjamin Black
• Murder at the Met - David Black
• A Vow of Chastity - Veronica Black
• A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You - Amy Bloom
• If the River was Whiskey - T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Love in Another Town ; A Secret Affair - Barbara Taylor Bradford
• Murder Unprompted ; A Nice Class of Corpse - Simon Brett
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson
• Stella in Heaven - Art Buchwald
• Carry Me Across the Water - Ethan Canin
• The Signal - Ron Carlson
• Heat Wave - Richard Castle
• Lucy Gayheart - Willa Cather
• Classic Ghost Stories - edited by Charles Keeping
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection - Michael Chabon
• Oh What a Paradise it Seems - John Cheever
• Novels of Regency England series - Marion Chesney
• Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper - Harriet Scott Chessman
• The A.B.C. Murders ; And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
• The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
• Dashing Through the Snow - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
• Silent Night - Carol Higgins Clark
• Foe ; Youth - J.M. Coetzee
• The Lone Pilgrim: stories - Laurie Colwin
• The Gift of Stones - Jim Crace
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
• Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
• The Diary of Mattie Spense, The Persian Pickle Club - Sandra Dallas
• The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
• Enmrengard - Isak Dinesen
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• Redeye ; Raney ; Walking Across Egypt - Clyde Edgerton
• Dot in the Universe - Lucy Ellmann
• A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917 - Amy Ephron
• the Stephanie Plum series - Janet Evanovich
• The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
• A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
• The Gun ; The African Queen - C.S. Forester
• Cachalot - Alan Dean Foster
• The Curse of the Appropriate Man - Lynn Freed
• Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
• Mrs. 'Arris goes to New York - Paul Gallico
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold ; Memories of my Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Ellen Foster ; Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
• Evenings at Five - Gail Godwin
• The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes ; The Train Now Departing: Two Novellas - Martha Grimes
• Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
• The Haunted Monastary ; Poets and Murder - Robert Van Gulik
• Rain - Kirsty Gunn
• Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
• The Labrador Pact - Matt Haig
• The Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale
• Woman in the Dark ; The Thin Man - Dashielle Hammett
• Damage - Josephine Hart
• The Old Man and the Sea ; Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
• A Single Pebble - John Hersey
• Siddhartha ; The Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
• Lucy Boomer - Russell Hill
• Double Happiness - Mary-Beth Hughes
• Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• Slow Emergencies - Nancy Huston
• Soul Catcher - charles Johnson
• High Bonnet: a novel of epicurean Adventures - Idwal Jones
• The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
• Love and Modern Medicine
• Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
• Call for the Dead ; A Murder of Quality - John LeCarre
• The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
• Amnesia Moon - Jonathan Lethem
• The Gangster we are all Looking For - le thi diem Theiry
• Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
• No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series ; Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld series - Alexander McCall-Smith
• Paying the Piper ; The Windsor Knot - Sharyn McCrumb
• The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers
• The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullough
• A Key to the Suite - John D. McDonald
• Amsterdam ; On Chesil Beach ; The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
• The Artists Widow - Shena Mackay
• Bright Lights, Big City ; Story of the Life - Jay McInerney
• The Pleasure of My Company ; Shopgirl - Steve Martin
• I Was Amelia Earhart - Jane Mendelsohn
• Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
• The Man in my Basement - Walter Mosley
• Heaven of Drums - Ava Gloria Moya
• Night Ferry to Death - Patricia Moyes
• Fair Maiden ; I Lock My Door Upon Myself - Joyce Carol Oates
• How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
• The Women of brewster Place - Gloria Naylor
• The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese
• In Our Strange Gardens - Michael Quint
• Tales from a Village School and other books - Miss Read
• Just Deserts - Carl Reiner
• Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
• African Passions ; Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa Express - Beatriz Rivera
• Lying Awake - Mark Salzman
• The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
• Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris /813.54 sed
• Love Story - Erich Segal
• The Venice Train - Simenon
• Off Keck Road - Mona Simpson
• Letters from Yellowstone - Diane Smith
• I think of You - Ahdaf Soueif
• Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark
• A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
• Cannery Row ; The Pearl - John Steinbeck
• Dreamtime - Robert F. Steiner
• World of Pies - Karen Stolz
• Night Gardening - E. L. Swann
• A Woman of Means - Peter Taylor
• Hidden Life of Dogs - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters - Jessica Treat
• Deciding the Next Decider /811.54 tri ; Tepper Isn't Going Out ; About Alice - Calvin Trillin
• Gertrude and Claudius - John Updike
• The Big Day - Barry Unsworth
• Murder in the Catskills ; Murder in the Shawangunks - Norman J. VanValkenburg
• The Stone Virgins - Yvonne Vera
• The Bridges of Madison County ; Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend - Robert James Waller
• In Love and Trouble ; You Can;'t Keep a Good Woman Down - Alice Walker
• Last Days of the Dog-Men - Brad Watson
• Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
• Mama Makes Up Her Mind /814.54 whi, Quite a Year for Plums /fic - Bailey White
• Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories - edited by Bailey White
• Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit ; The Code of the Woosters ; Psmith in the city ; The Purloined Paperweight - P. G. Wodehouse
• A Room of One's Own ; Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
• Sky Burial - Xinran
• Goodbye Tsugumi ; Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto

Hand Crafted Gift Items

Back by popular demand, the Stone Ridge Library's Holiday Gift Wall will be stocked with unique hand-crafted items ideal for holiday presents.
Hand-made jewelry, woven tea towels, beautiful and functional pottery and hand knitted items from our Saturday Knitters will be available for purchase beginning December 1. A portion of the sales will support the Library's operating budget (books, supplies, programs, etc.)

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THANK YOU

Our thanks to the crew from The Ridge Gym for their wonderful volunteer work on Saturday, November 19, moving our bluestone. You Rock!

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Meet the Author:
William B. Rhoads

Ulster County New York Architectural History & Guide

Friday, Dec. 2
at 6 p.m.
at the Marbletown Community Center

Following a brief slide presentation, Dr. Rhoads will be available to sign his eagerly awaited new work, available for purchase for $24.95. This event is co-sponsored by the Stone Ridge Library and the Ulster County Historical Society. A portion of profits from sales will benefit the two organizations.

His new book features 325 sites that display a wide variety of architectural styles that have appeared over nearly 300 years in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains, from the 17th century Dutch stone houses of the Colonial Era, through the Federal and Victorian periods, to the modernist architecture of the mid -1950s. The text is enlivened with the histories of the owners, architects and builders, as well as the social and historical context within which the structures were built--from grand mountain hotels and baronial hunting lodges to modest dwellings of the poor and middle class, from National Historic Landmark buildings to eccentric hermits' huts and huckleberry pickers' shacks.

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THANK YOU

For our beautiful Mystery Flowers and for your good wishes.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, December 14
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Morality Play by Barry Unsworth, a brilliant novel set in the 14th century, that holds us in its powerful grip as it deftly portrays how art can, quite literally, reveal truth.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, Dec. 21,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey. Lyrical and captivating, Kwei Quartey's debut novel brings to life the majesty and charm of Ghana–from the capital city of Accra to a small community where long-buried secrets are about to rise to the surface. The Sherlock Holmes mystery is The Adventure of the Creeping Man - by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
7pm in the Biography Room

The Medieval Book Group members have decided to broaden their focus to encompass all of history. The new name derives from Greek mythology, Clio, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne and mother of Hyacinth, is the muse of history.

The first book to be discussed is The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton. It is a series of essays on the life of the common people in Enlightenment France, each chapter focuses on a different subject, including the folk tales we are all familiar with and cats.

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MEMOIR WRITING GROUP

Saturday, December 3 at 1pm
in the Biography Room

The Memoir Writing Workshop usually meets the first Saturday of the month. Bring in something you've recently written or are working on to share. 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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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thurs, Dec. 15,
1-3pm in the Bio Room

Join us for another afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen.

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Move to Music with our
Dance and Rhythm Group

Every Thursday in December, 10:45 to 11:45 at the Marbletown Community Center

A new dance and rhythm group plans to meet on Thursday mornings from 10:45 to 11:45 at the Marbletown Community Center. Sponsored by the Stone Ridge Library, the program is free and open to the public. Participants can bring their favorite dance CD, water and comfortable clothes. For information, please call the Library Program Office at 687- 8726.

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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 December:

Dec. 9, 2011
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Based on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Director: Tomas Alfredson

Dec. 9, 2011 (wide on Jan 27)
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Based on the novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Starring: John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller
Director: Lynne Ramsay

Dec. 16, 2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Loosely based on "The Final Problem," a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Jared Harris
Director: Guy Ritchie

Dec. 21, 2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English language version)
Based on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer
Director: David Fincher

Dec. 23, 2011
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Based on Hergé The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure
Starring: Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Jamie Bell, Cary Elwes
Director: Steven Spielberg

Dec. 23, 2011
War Horse
Based on War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, Benedict Cumberbatch
Director: Steven Spielberg

Dec. 23, 2011
We Bought a Zoo
Based on the Memoir We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, Elle Fanning
Director: Cameron Crowe

Dec. 25, 2011, (wide on Jan 20)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Based on: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Stephen Daldry

Recent Openings:

Nov. 23, 2011
A Dangerous Method
Based on: A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender
Director: David Cronenberg

Nov. 23, 2011
Hugo
Based on: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Starring: Jude Law, Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Emily Mortimer and Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Martin Scorsese

Nov 23, 2011
My Week with Marilyn
Based on: My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark
Starring: Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench
Director: Simon Curtis

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We want to hear from you!

LibrarySolutions@yahoo.com is open for your ideas, insights, suggestions or other constructive feedback about the future of the Stone Ridge Library. Help the Library create a forward-looking plan by contributing your best thinking to the conversation. With our historic building needing repair, a limited amount of space as well as limited resources, we greatly value all constructive comments about how the Library can continue to serve our community.

Your input will be collected by Library Trustee David Cagan who has volunteered to serve as community liaison for the Board. Please send your comments about the future of the library to: LibrarySolutions@yahoo.com

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