January 2016

New Fiction

• The Japanese Lover - Isabel Allende
• The Guilty - David Baldacci
• Away in a Manger: a Molly Murphy mystery - Rhys Bowen
• Ripped from the Pages: a bibliophile mystery - Kate Carlisle
• All Dressed in White - Mary Higgins Clark
• The Crossing: a Bosch novel - Michael Connelly
• A Wild Swan and other Tales - Michael Cunningham
• Numero Zero - Umberto Eco
• Tricky Twenty-Two: a stephanie Plum novel - Janet Evanovich
• Front Runner: a Dick Francis novel - Felix Francis
• Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise - Oscar Hijuelos
• Avenue of Mysteries - John Irving
• Come Rain or Come Shine: a Mitford novel - Jan Daron (Large Print)
• The Golem of Paris - Jonathan Kellerman
• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: stories - Stephen King
• Shopaholic to the Rescue - Sophie Kinsella
• Cross Justice - James Patterson
• A Christmas Escape - Anne Perry
• The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness - Kyung-Sook Shin
• The Master of the Prado - Javier Sierra
• The Book of Speculation - Erika Swyler

New Non-Fiction

• The Oregon Trail: a New American Journey - Rinker Buck (Large Print)
• Hudson Valley & the Catskills - Nikki Goth Itoi
• Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World - Bill Nye
• Brave Enough - Cheryl Strayed

New Audio Books

• Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello
• Slade House - David Mitchell

New DVD's

• Amy - Amy Winehouse doc
• The Passion of Joan of Arc - 1928
• Trainwreck - Amy Schumer, Bill Hader

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2016 Rochester Memberships

The Town of Rochester has contracted with the Stone Ridge Library in 2016 to provide 238 paid family memberships to its Rochester residents. Additionally, the Library is providing free memberships to all Rondout Valley Students.

Rochester patrons can renew their memberships in person beginning Monday, January 4, 2016 at 2pm. They are given out on a first come, first served basis. Due to demand for memberships we will not be able to automatically renew 2015 membership cards.

Non-subsidized family memberships will be available after the 238 free memberships have been given out. Non-subsidized family memberships are available at $52.45. per year. The rate schedule below shows the cost of a family membership for the balance of 2016 depending on which month it begins.

• January - $52.45
  
• February - $48.08
  
• March - $43.74
  
• April - $39.36
  
• May - $34.99
  
• June - $30.62
  
• July - $26.24
  
• August - $21.87
  
• Sept - $17.49
  
• Oct - $13.12
  
• Nov - $8.74
  
• Dec - $4.37

If you have questions please feel free to email Stone Ridge Library Director Jody Ford.

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Reading and Author Signing

Saturday, January 2, 2016
1 to 2 pm in the Reference Room

We are pleased to welcome author David Hlavsa who will read from his book titled Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief, and Home Repairs on Saturday, January 2, with a reception following.

Published by Michigan State University Press, Walking Distance is a story of a couple's love and loss of their baby. The work has received praise from fellow authors. Joanne Cacciatore, Founder, MISS Foundation, and Director of the Center for Loss and Trauma calls Walking Distance a "profoundly unique memoir." She adds: "David Hlavsa invites the reader into a sacred place where the numinous meets the secular, where humor and suffering intersect and where life and death coalesce." For additional information, please contact the Program Office at 845 687-7023, Ext. 108.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, January 13
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France, a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, January 20
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler. It is the fifth book in the Philip Marlowe series. The novel centers on the little sister of a Hollywood starlet and has several scenes involving the film industry. It was partly inspired by Chandler's experience working as a screenwriter in Hollywood and his low opinion of the industry and most of the people in it.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

NOTE NEW DATE & TIME:
Saturday, February 27
1pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for February is The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of Capitalism by Edward Baptist. Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery's end--and created a culture that sustains America's deepest dreams of freedom.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, January 5, February 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, January 19
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, January 11, 25
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, Jan. 14, 28
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

January 5, 2016

Movie Title: The Shannara Chronicles
Where: TV Limited Series - MTV
Based on: Shannara series by Terry Brooks. The TV series is based on the second book Elfstones of Shannara
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Cast: Poppy Drayton, Austin Butler, Manu Bennett, Aaron Jakubenko, Ivana Baquero, John Rhys-Davies

January 12, 2016

Movie Title: Shadowhunters
Where: TV Series - ABC Family
Based on: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Director: Ed Decter
Cast: Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, David Castro

January 15, 2016

Movie Title: The 5th Wave
Where: Theaters
Based on: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Director: J Blakeson
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Alex Roe, Maika Monroe, Liev Schreiber, Ron Livingston

January 15, 2016

Movie Title: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Where: Theaters
Based on: Thirteen Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghaziby Mitchell Zuckoff
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, Max Martini, Freddie Stroma

January 15, 2016

Movie Title: The Magicians
Where: TV Limited Series - Syfy
Based on: The Magicians first book in the trilogy by Lev Grossman
Director: Mike Cahill
Cast: Jason Ralph, Sosie Bacon

January 29, 2016

Movie Title: The Finest Hours
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue by Casey Sherman
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Graham McTavish, Holliday Grainger, Eric Bana

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Construction Updates

Dealing with drainage issues. more

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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.

BOOK CLUB
IN A BAG

These titles are available as part of the Book Club in a Bag kit. The kit consists of a tote bag which has ten copies of the book, as
well as a list of discussion questions to get your book club
started. Each bag can be borrowed for six weeks.

Just visit BCB, it's as easy as 1-2-3! Just:

1. Browse: choose from more than 140 titles – everything from fiction to non-fiction, mysteries to history!
2. Schedule: pick a month, you may reserve a kit up to a year in advance!
3. Reserve! All you need is your library barcode and PIN!

The newest kits have an * before the title.

• * The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and
  Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
• The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
• Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
• The Archivist by Martha Cooley
• An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock
  Clarke
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki
• Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
• Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• B-More Careful by Shannon Holmes
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• * The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• Chicken Soup for the Soul by Mark Victor Hansen
• * City of the Sun by Juliana Maio
• Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Consumption by Kevin Patterson
• Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condè
• * Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• * Dear Life by Alice Munro
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
• Désirée: The Bestselling Story of Napoleon's First Love by Annemarie Selinko
• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
• The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
• Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• * The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Go With Me by Castle Freeman Jr.
• Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines
• * The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann
  Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Half-Past Nowhere by Joseph Cavano
• The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
• * Home by Toni Morrison
• Home Front by Kristin Hannah
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
• How to Eat a Cupcake by Meg Donohue
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Impulse by Frederick Ramsay
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Ladies of Garrison Gardens by Louise Shaffer
• The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
• The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
• The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado
• Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L.
  Swanson
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
• Murder Off the Books by Evelyn David
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Orchid Theif by Susan Orlean
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• A Painted House by John Grisham
• Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Peak by Roland Smith
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley
• Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen by India Edghill
• The Reader by Bernard Schlink
• * The Reading Circle by Ashton Lee
• Redemption by Julie Chibbaro
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Russian Lover and Other Stories by Jana Martin
• The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• * The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
• Sea Escape by Lynne Griffin
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco
• A Simple Murder by Eleanor Kuhns
• Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines
• * The Submission by Amy Waldman
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• Totally Killer by Greg Olear
• A Violet Season by Kathy Leonard Czepiel
• War Dances by Sherman Alexie
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
• We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl
  Strayed
• Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• * Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

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