December 2014

New Fiction

• The Counterfeit Heiress: a Lady Emily mystery - Tasha Alexander
• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Rita Mae Brown
• The Burning Room - Michael Connelly
• Flesh and Blood: a Scarpetta novel - Patricia Cornwell
• The Book of Strange New Things - Michael Faber
• The Laws of Murder - Charles Finch
• Let me be Frank with You: a Frank Bascombe book - Richard Ford
• Hiding in Plain Sight - Nuruddin Farah
• Dick Francis's Damage - Felix Francis
• Falling From Horses - Molly Gloss
• Gray Mountain - John Grisham
• A Map of Betrayal - Ha Jin
• The Laughing Monsters - Denis Johnson
• Revival - Stephen King
• Shopaholic to the Stars - Sophie Kinsella
• The Handsome Man's De Lux Cafe - Alexander McCall Smith
• Wicked Autemn - G.M. Malliet
• Pagan Spring: a Max Tudor Mystery - G. M. Malleit
• Family Furnishings: selected stories 1995 - 2014 - Alice Munro
• Us - David Nicholls
• Private India: Ciry on Fire - James Patterson
• A New York Christmas - Anne Perry
• Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult
• Blue Labyrinth - Preston & Child
• Prince Lestat: the Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
• Lila - Marilynne Robinson
• Deadline - John Sandford
• Some Luck - Jane Smiley
• Desert Gold: a novel of Ancient Egypt - Wilbur Smith
• Pegasus - Danielle Steel
• Nora Webster - Colm Toibin
• Paris Match: a Stone Barrington novel - Stuart Woods

New Non-Fiction

• Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and the Community of Artists who Revolutionized American Photography - Mary Street Alinder
• Baking Bible - Rose Levy Beranbaum
• How to Cook Everything Fast - Mark Bittman
• Sleep and You: Sleep Better, Live Better - Diane B. Boivin, M.D., Ph.D.
• Heritage - Sean Brock
• Not that Kind of Girl: a Young Woman tells you what she's "learned" - Lena Dunham
• As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - Cary Elwes
• Pen & Ink: Tattoos & the Stories Behind Them - Isaac Fitzgerald
• California 2015 - Fodor's
• Costa Rica 2015 - Fodor's
• Florida 2015 - Fodor's
• France 2015 - Fodor's
• Ireland 2015 - Fodor's
• Easy Guide to London 2015 - Frommer's
• Make it Ahead - Ina Garten
• I Only Read it for the Catroons: The New Yorker's most Brilliantly Twisted Artists - Richard Gehr
• Back to Basics: a Complete Guide to Traditional Skills - ed. by Abigail R Gehring
• Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere - Dorie Greenspan
• Prune - Gabrielle Hamilton
• The Wreath Recipe Book: Year-Round Wreaths, Swags, and Other Decorations to Make with Seasonal Branches - Alethea Harampolis
• Morocco - Insite Guides
• The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History - Boris Johnson
• Healthcare Made Easy: Answers to All of your Healthcare Questions under the Affordable Care Act - Michelle Katz
• My Little French Kitchen: Over 100 recipes from the Mountains, Market Squared and Shores of France - Rachel Khoo
• Ask Anna - Dean Koontz and his dog Anna
• Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide 2015
• Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace - Anne Lamot
• DeNiro: a Life - Shawn Levy
• Mexico - Lonely Planet
• Puerto Rico - Lonely Planet
• Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life - Sophia Loren
• 500 Preserving Delights: Jams, chutneys, Infusions, Relishes & More - Clippy McKenna
• The World of Ice & Fire: the Untole History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
• My Portugal: Recipes and Stories - George Mendes
• The Best Pasta Sauces: Favorite Regional Italian Recipes - Micol Negrin
• Heart and Home: Rooms that Tell Stories - Linda O'Keeffe
• Blue Horses - Mary Oliver
• American Queen: the Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal - John Oller
• Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi - Yotam Ottolenghi
• Twelve Recipes - Cal Peternell
• The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals - Corky, Lori, Dana and Tracy Pollan
• Build, Memory - Stewart Polshek
• Paying for College: Without going Broke - The Princeton Review
• The Big Book of Sides: More than 450 Recipes for the Best Vegetables, Grains, Salads, Breads, Sauces and More - Rick Rodgers
• Delicious December: How the Dutch Brought Us Santa, Presents, and Treats - Peter G. Rose
• my iPad for Seniors - Gary Rosenweig
• Marcus Off Duty: The Recipes I Cook at Home - Marcus Samuelsson
• The First Lady of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts - ed. by Stephen Drury Smith
• Atlas of Indian Nations - Anton Treuer
• Handcrafted Christmas: Ornaments, Decorations, and Cookie Recipes to Make a Home - Sisan Waggoner
• Handmade Gifts from the Kitchen: More than 100 culinary inspired presents to make and bake - Alison Walker
• Present Perfect: 25 Gifts to Sew & Bestow - Betz White

New Audio Books

• Updike - Adam Begley
• Personal: a Jack Reacher novel - Lee Child
• The Book of Strange New Things - Michael Faber
• The Secret Place - Tana French
• The golem of Hollywood - Jonathan Kellerman
• Lila - Marilyn Robinson
• Some Luck - Jane Smiley
• Nora Webster - Colm Toibin

New DVD's

• The Giver - Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgard, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift
• The Honorable Woman - Maggie Gyllenhall, Stephen Rea, Janet McTeer
• The Wind Rises - animated, voices: Joseph Gordon Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, William H. Macy
• X-Men Days of Future Past - Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Ellen Page, Ian Mckellen, Patrick Stewart

HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE

Our Holiday Gift Wall is stocked with unique hand-crafted items ideal for your holiday gift giving. Hand knitted items, jewelry, woven tea towels and beautiful and functional pottery will be available for purchase. A portion of the sales will support the Library's operating budget (books, supplies, programs, etc.)

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, December 10
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Howards End by E.M Forster. The self-interested disregard of a dying woman's bequest, an impulsive girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage between an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at a Hertfordshire estate called Howards End. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, December 17
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is Cop Killer: the Story of a Crime by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo. The ninth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series finds Beck investigating parallel cases that have shocked a small rural community. In a country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. Meanwhile, on a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops and two teenage boys.

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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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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, February 4, 2015
7pm in the Biography Room

The book selection for our February meeting is, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (2012) by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. This critically acclaimed and readable economic history addresses the issue of the disparate wealth and poverty of nations in the world. By illuminating the past the book provides a new way to understand the present and discuss the future.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, December 2
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, December 16
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, Dec. 11
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, December 1, 15, 29
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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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

December 5, 2014

Movie Title: Wild
Based on: Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Gaby Hoffmann, Laura Dern

December 7 & 8, 2014

Lifetime TV Movie: The Red Tent
Based on: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Director: Roger Young
Cast: Minnie Driver, Morena Baccarin, Rebecca Ferguson, Debra Winger

December 12, 2014

Movie Title: Inherent Vice
Based on: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Josh Brolin, Martin Short, Benicio Del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Jena Malone, and Timothy Simons

December 17, 2014

Movie Title: The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
Based on: The Hobbit or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett

December 19, 2014

Movie Title: Annie
Based on: Little Orphan Annie comics by Harold Gray
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne

December 25, 2014

Movie Title: American Sniper
Based on: American Sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history by Chris Kyle
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes

December 25, 2014

Movie Title: Paddington
Based on: A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Director: Paul King
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Julie Walters

December 25, 2014

Movie Title: Unbroken
Based on: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Director: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney

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Snow Days

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Air Travel Search and Booking Sites

This PDF is full of resources to help make your travel planning more economical and efficient. It was put together by Bev Santero, a librarian at Adriance. more

Newspaper Map

The Newspaper map is an interactive Google map of over 10,000 news outlets from across the world. Each pin contains links to the homepage of the news outlet as well as links to Google translation of the homepage in various languages. Each pin is color coordinated to indicate the language of the website. The Newspaper map is run by Great Name, a Swedish web development company. more

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BOOKLISTS

Every month 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.

Quick Reads for a Busy Month

• Lady Catherine's Necklace - Joan Aiken
• The Turkish Gambit - Boris Akunin
• Tuesdays with Morrie ; For One More Day - Mitch Albom
• Night Train - Martin Amis
• Old Herbaceous - Reginald Arkell
• The Headmaster's Dilemma ; The Anniversary and other stories - Louis Auchincloss
• The Golden Mean ; The Morning Star - Nick Bantock
• Jane Austin's Charlotte - Julia Barrett
• 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
• A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Sandra Benitez
• Jacob the Baker - Noah BenShea
• Durable Goods ; True to Form ; The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg
• Lilac and Flag ; Photocopies - John Berger
• The Moon Opera - Bi Feiyu
• Civil War Stories - Ambrose Bierce
• A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You - Amy Bloom
• If the River was Whiskey - T. C. Boyle
• Love in Another Town - Barbara Taylor Bradford
• A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
• The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
• The Matisse Stories ; Elements - A.S. Byatt
• Carry Me Across the Water - Ethan Canin
• The Signal - Ron Carlson
• A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
• Pancake Hollow Primer - Laurence Carr
• Heat Wave - Richard Castle
• Novels of Regency England series - Marion Chesney
• Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper - Harriet Scott Chessman
• The A.B.C. Murders ; other mysteries - Agatha Christie
• Elm Creek Quilts novels - Jennifer Chiaverini
• Dashing Through the Snow - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
• Silent Night - Carol Higgins Clark
• The Wednesday Sisters - Meg White Clayton
• Foe ; Youth - J.M. Coetzee
• Dr Siri Investigates series - Colin Cotterill
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
• The Persian Pickle Club - Sandra Dallas
• Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
• The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
• Netsuke - Rikki Ducornet
• Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
• Raney ; Walking Across Egypt - Clyde Edgerton
• Dot in the Universe - Lucy Ellmann
• A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917 - Amy Ephron
• The Gift ; Finding Noel - Richard Paul Evans
• Jeeves and the Wedding Bells - Sebastian Faulks
• Elza's Kitchen - Marc Fitten
• The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
• A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
• Dame Frevisse Medieval Mysteries - Margaret Frazer
• The Curse of the Appropriate Man - Lynn Freed
• Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
• Kissing the Virgin's Mouth - Donna M. Gershten
• Ellen Foster ; Virtuous Woman - Kaye Gibbons
• Evenings at Five - Gail Godwin
• Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and other stories - Nadine Gordimer
• Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
• The Haunted Monastary ; Poets and Murder - Robert Van Gulik
• Rain - Kirsty Gunn
• Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
• Married Love and other stories - Tessa Hadley
• Double Happiness - Mary-Beth Hughes
• High Bonnet: a novel of Epicurean Adventures - Idwal Jones
• Esther's Gift - Jan Karon
• A Christmas Blizzard ; Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny - Garrison Keillor
• The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
• The Gangster we are all Looking For - Le Thi Diem Thuy
• A Sea of Troubles - Donna Leon
• Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
• How it all Began - Penelope Lively
• No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series ; Isabel Dalhousie series - Alexander McCall-Smith
• Amsterdam ; On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
• McKay's Bees - Thomas McMahon
• Music of a Life ; Once Upon the River Love - Andrei Makine
• The Pleasure of My Company ; Shopgirl - Steve Martin
• Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
• I Was Amelia Earhart - Jane Mendelsohn
• Personal Velocity - Rebecca Miller
• The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones
• Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
• Rumpole novels - John Mortimer
• The Man in my Basement - Walter Mosley
• Heaven of Drums - Ana Gloria Moya
• How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
• The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
• Jane Austen Ruined my Life - Beth Pattillo
• In Our Strange Gardens - Michael Quint
• Love, Dishoner, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish - David Rakoff
• Tales from a Village School and other novels - Miss Read
• Just Deserts - Carl Reiner
• African Passions ; Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa Express - Beatriz Rivera
• Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris /813.54 sed
• Off Keck Road - Mona Simpson
• Letters from Yellowstone - Diane Smith
• I think of You - Ahdaf Soueif
• The Harry Houdini mysteries - Daniel Stashower
• Dreamtime - Robert F. Steiner
• World of Pies - Karen Stolz
• Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters - Jessica Treat
• Deciding the Next Decider /811.54 tri ; Tepper Isn't Going Out ; About Alice - Calvin Trillin
• A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage - Mark Twain
• The Big Day - Barry Unsworth
• Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mysteries - Arthur W. Upfield
• Murder in the Catskills ; Murder in the Shawangunks - Norman J. VanValkenburg
• The Stone Virgins - Yvonne Vera
• Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
• 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
• Mama Makes Up Her Mind /814.54 whi, Quite a Year for Plums /fic ; Nothing with Strings- Bailey White
• The Code of the Woosters ; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit - P. G. Wodehouse
• Sky Burial - Xinran
• Goodbye Tsugumi ; Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto

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