December 2016

New Fiction

• This Was a Man - Jeffrey Archer
• To Capture What we Cannot Keep - Beatrice Colin
• The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
• The Flame Bearer - Bernard Cornwell
• Turbo Twenty-Three - Janet Evanovich
• The Inheritance - Charles Finch
• The Whistler - John Grisham
• Faithful - Alice Hoffman
• When All the Girls Have Gone - Jayne Ann Krentz
• I'll Take You There - Wally Lamb
• Ash Island - Barry Maitland
• The Mortifications - Derek Palacio
• Cross the Line - James Patterson
• The Obsidian Chamber: a Pendergast novel - Preston & Child
• Say No More - Hank Phillippi Ryan
• Escape Clause - John Sanford
• The Award - Danielle Steel
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thein
• Dishonorwable Intentions - Stuart Woods

New Non-Fiction

• City of Dreams: the 400 year epic history of Immigrant New York - Tyler Anbinder
• 50 Essays: a Portable Anthology - Samuel Cohen
• Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 - Blanch Wiesen Cook
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 - Joseph J. Ellis
• Fix-It and Forget-It Christmas Slow Cooker Feasts: 650 Easy Holiday Recipes - Phyllis Good
• 100 Days of Real Food: Fast & Fabulous the Easy and Delicious Way to Cut Out Processed Food - Lisa Leake
• You Will Not Have My Hate - Antoine Leiris
• The Permaculture Promise - Jono Neiger
• The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Newborns - Elizabeth Pantley
• Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution - Nathaniel Philbrick
• A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to become America's First Indian Doctor - Joe Starita
• The Marches: a Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland -Rory Stewart
  

New DVD's

• Absolutely Fabulous: the Movie - Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley
• Ants on a Shrimp - documentary about Noma, the "World's Best Restaurant"
• Bad Moms - Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Jada Pinkett Smith
• The BFG: Big Friendly Giant - voices: Mark Rylance
• Captain Fantastic - Viggo Mortensen
• The Durrells in Corfu - season 1 - Keeley Hawes, Milo Parker
• Father Brown - Mark Williams: seasons 1, 2, 3 part 1, 3, part 2
• Finding Dory - Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks
• Game of Thrones, the complete sixth season
• Harry Potter Series on BluRay - Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon
  
  • Sorcerers Stone
  • Chamber of Secrets
  • Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Goblet of Fire
  • Order of the Phoenix
  • Half Blood Prince
  • Deathly Hallows 1
  • Deathly Hallows 2
• Indignation - Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon
• Mia Madre - Margherita Buy, John Turturro
• Pete's Dragon - Bryce Dallas Howard
• Poldark, season 2 - Aidan Turner
• War Dogs - Johah Hill, Miles Teller

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BOOKLISTS

Here are some reading suggestions for the month. 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

• Last Chance to See /591.529 ADA - Douglas Adams
• 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
• The Sense of An Ending - Julian Barnes
• 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
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
• 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
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London
• No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series ; Isabel Dalhousie series - Alexander McCall-Smith
• Someone - Alice McDermott
• 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
• A Mercy - Toni Morrison
• 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
• Close range: Wyoming stories - Annie Proulx
• 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
• Travels With Charley In Search of America - John Steinbeck
• 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

Holiday Gift Wall

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.)

We have new colors of our larger bags. Black, Brown, Burgundy, Navy. Still only $12.

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COMMUNITY EVENT

The Hudson River Estuary Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension invite you
to an educational program:

Woodlands and Wetlands: What Communities Need to Know

Monday, December 5, 2016, 6-8:30pm
Marbletown Community Center

Why are forests and wetlands important to your community?
Which ones are protected?
How can landowners and municipalities be better stewards of these valuable resources?

Join us for an educational opportunity to learn about forests and wetlands, and strategies for land use and stewardship planning. In addition to several presentations, there will be examples of local municipal projects from the towns of Marbletown, Rochester, and Wawarsing on display, along with Ulster County Department of the Environment's open space map book, habitat cores map, and recent feature in National Geographic magazine. Participants will have an opportunity to network and enjoy the municipal and county displays on refreshment breaks.

This free event is open to the public and municipal officials are encouraged to attend.
Self-certification forms for 2.5 hours of municipal training credit will be available for members of local boards.

Presenters:
Laura Heady, NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program
Marilyn Wyman, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia & Greene Counties

This program is provided in partnership with NYS Water Resources Institute, Cornell University, and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's Hudson River Estuary Program, with support from the NYS Environmental Protection Fund.

To register by phone: (518) 622-9820 x0
To register online: click here

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, December 14
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Chance Developments by Alexander McCall Smith. Inspired by vintage photographs, these five lyrical stories capture the surprising intersections of love and friendship that alter life's journeys. A smiling girl leading a younger girl astride a pony, and a boy in a kilt on a tricycle beside them, gives rise to a story of a lifelong romance between the two riders. A dapper, roguish-looking man perching on a lady's knee sparks the story of a ventriloquist and an animal handler who work in a circus, and who, under the most delightfully unexpected circumstances, fall in love. The image of a woman halloed by light in a train station becomes the lighthearted tale of a nun's decision to leave the sisterhood and discover what the big city has to offer. Charming and poignant, this collection brims with flourishes of grace and humor. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, December 21
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger. In this solid, action-packed procedural, an assassin lies in wait for Tamarack County, Minn., sheriff Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor, and even darker threats loom for him and his family. Cork answers a routine domestic violence call on the Iron Lake Reservation. ("It didn't feel right. A man like Eli might get drunk and riled up enough to kill his wife, but he'd never shoot his dogs.") Rifle fire drops Cork's deputy, and as the manhunt escalates, Cork realizes he's been lured into a trap.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Saturday, December 17
12:45pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for December is The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph Ellis. The unexpected story - brilliantly told - of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their individual autonomy. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men responsible.

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Conversational Spanish
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 27
1:30-3:00
Reference Room

We are pleased to host two groups of Conversational Spanish every month. On the first Tuesday, from 1:30 – 3:00 Conversational Spanish meets—a continuation of the original group. On fourth Tuesdays, also from 1:30 – 3:00, there is a gathering for those who want to go at a slower pace. Both sessions take place in the Library's Reference Room. Gracias, Heidi!

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, December 20, 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 is offered on the third Tuesday of each month.

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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra

Monday, December 12
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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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, December 8, 22,
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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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 9, 2016

Movie Title: All We Had
Where: Theaters
Based on: All We Had by Annie Weatherwax
Director: Katie Holmes
Cast: Katie Holmes, Stefania Owen, Luke Wilson, Richard Kind, Mark Consuelos, Judy Greer, Eve Lindley

December 16, 2016

Movie Title: A Kind of Murder
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
Director: Andy Goddard
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Imogen Poots, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Haley Bennett

December 21, 2016

Movie Title: Julieta
Where: Theaters
Based on: 3 short stories from the collection Runaway by Alice Munro
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Rossy de Palma, Emma Suárez

December 23, 2016

Movie Title: A Monster Calls
Where: Theaters
Based on: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Illustrations by Jim Kay
Director: J.A. Bayona
Cast: Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver

December 23, 2016

Movie Title: Silence
Where: Theaters
Based on: Silence by Endô Shûsaku
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano

December 25, 2016

Movie Title: Fences
Where: Theaters
Based on: Fences by August Wilson
Director: Denzel Washington
Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis

December 25, 2016

Movie Title: Hidden Figures
Where: Theaters
Based on: Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Director: Theodore Melfi
Cast: Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae

December 25, 2016

Movie Title: Live By Night
Where: Theaters
Based on: Live By Night by Dennis Lehane
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning

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