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February 2015
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New Fiction

  • The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell
  • Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart: a Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery - Christopher Fowler
  • The Big Seven - Jim Harrison
  • Rain on the Dead - Jack Higgins
  • Driving the King - Ravi Howard
  • Vanessa and her Sister - Priya Parmar
  • How to be Both - Ali Smith
  • A Fine Summer's Day - Charles Todd
  • Insatiable Appetites: a Stone Barrington novel - Stuart Woods

New Non-Fiction

  • Dresses for Every Occasion: 25 Designs, Casual, Vintage, Trendy and Formal Styles - Burda Style Modern Sewing
  • The Civil War: The Story of the War with Maps - M. David Detweiler
  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
  • The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History - Jonathan Horn
  • The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women and Germany on the Brink - Pamela Katz
  • More Love (Less Panic): 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia - Claude Knobler
  • No-Sew Knits: 20 Flattering, Finish-Free Garments - Kristen TenDyke

New DVD's


DVDs can now be renewed one time, provided no one is waiting for it.

  • Boyhood - Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater
  • Downton Abbey, season 5 - Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern
  • Girls - season 3
  • Gone Girl - Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike
  • The Judge - Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton
  • Love is Strange - John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei

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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.

Plot Twists
& Surprises

  • The Drowning House - Elizabeth Black
  • The Double Bind - Chris Bohjalian
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - by John Boyne YA
  • Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
  • And Then There Were None ;
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ;
    Endless Night ; Witness For the Prosecution ;
    Why Didn't They Ask Evans? -
    Agatha Christie
  • Tell No One - Harlan Coben
  • Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  • A Cup of Tea - Amy Ephron
  • various titles - Jasper Fforde
  • Gone Girl ;
    Dark Places -
    Gillian Flynn
  • The Day After Tomorrow - Allan Folsom
  • Land of the Living - Nicci French
  • Broken Harbor ;
    The Secret Place ;
    In the Woods ; Reliable Wife
    - Tana French
  • Strangers on a Train ; The Talented Mr. Ripley ;
    Ripley Under Ground ; Ripley's Game - Patricia Highsmith
  • The Woman and the Ape - Peter Høeg
  • The Vanishers - Heidi Julavits
  • The Dinner ; Summer House with Swimming Pool - Herman Koch
  • The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
  • Shutter Island ;
    Mystic River -
    Dennis Lehane
  • What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman
  • Sister ;
    Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton
  • Atonement ;
    Sweet Tooth -
    Ian McEwan
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • One Day -
    David Nicholls
  • Lifeguard ;
    The Quickie -
    James Patterson
  • An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
  • The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog - Elizabeth Peters
  • My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult YA
  • Standing in Another Man's Grave -
    Ian Rankin
  • The Rottweiler ;
    The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
  • Secret Prey - John Sandford
  • The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
  • The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve
  • The Birthday Present - Barbara Vine

2015 Rochester Memberships

The Town of Rochester has contracted with the Stone Ridge Library in 2015 to provide 238 paid family memberships to its Rochester residents. Additionally, the Library is providing free memberships to all Rondout Valley Students.

Rochester memberships are given out on a first come, first served basis, and must be renewed in person. Due to demand for memberships we will not be able to automatically renew 2014 membership cards. Last year the subsidized memberships were used up by the beginning of March. more

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Painting by Victor Kalin

The next time you're in the library take a minute to stop by the fireplace where a portrait of MLK will be on display until the end of February. The painting was made by Kripplebush resident Victor Kalin (1919-1991), husband of former Library volunteer Kate (1919-2004) and father of Rebecca, current member of the Stone Ridge Library Foundation.

Victor was best known for his illustrations and his skills of both technique and concept. Beside his commercial work, he was a professional jazz musician, photographer and fine artist. During World War II, he served as an artist correspondent for Yank magazine, the most widely read magazine in the history of the U.S. military; it was published at facilities around the world, for a total of 21 editions in 17 countries, and had a global circulation of more than 2.6 million. It was while there, at the Azores army base, that Vic met Kate Bryan, a Red Cross volunteer from Oklahoma.

In post-war Greenwich Village, Victor began his illustration career, working for the "big magazines" -- Esquire, Collier's, American Weekly, and Liberty. In the 1950's and '60's, when inexpensive paperback books were the rage, Vic was hailed as an innovative and versatile cover artist for Avon, Signet, Berkley, Dell, Ace and Pocket Books. In the 1960s and '70s, when the record industry was king, his work was seen on album covers for RCA Victor, Decca Jazz, Impulse, Flying Dutchman, Brunswick, and Philco.

Though portraiture was never a commercial pursuit, Victor immortalized his heroes, particularly musicians (aka, his "Jazz Greats") and civil right figures, such as King. Unframed, museum-quality prints are available for purchase at $200. (rebkalin@gmail.com)

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Artist Judy Stanger to exhibit at the Stone Ridge Library Winter 2015

Winter - Spring
Throughout the Library


Judy Stanger studied fine art during her undergraduate years, and has undertaken coursework at both The Woodstock School of Art and The Cape School of Art. She has been painting with pastel as her medium for more than 25 years while pursuing a career in the human services. Subjects of interest have been Seascapes in Cape Cod and other Atlantic coastlines, and Landscapes in the Hudson Valley as well as in Arizona.
She draws her inspiration for Seascape rendering from the sheer beauty that is expressed through the poetic character of light and color in seaside settings. Landscapes inspire a distinctly different sensibility by distilling images represented in nature such as mountains, rivers and barns through their interactions with light and color. She lives in Stone Ridge, NY and is a graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Albany with a Doctorate of the Arts, an interdisciplinary degree in the Humanities.

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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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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, February 11
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, February 18
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett. Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, February 3,
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, February 17, 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, February 9, 23
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

Thurs, February 12, 26
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

February 6, 2015

Movie Title: The Seventh Son
Based on: Revenge of the Witch, first title in the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney
Director: Sergey Bodrov
Cast: Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harington

February 13, 2015

Movie Title: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Based on: The Secret Service comic series by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons,
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Mark Hamill, Samuel L. Jackson

February 14, 2015

Movie Title: Fifty Shades of Grey
Based on: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L.James
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan

Children's Programming

Sign up for our winter After School Story Hours, Toddler Time, Tween programs, and more. more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Take a Virtual Tour

Tour the Colosseum, the Louvre, the Taj Mahal, Route 66, the Sistine Chapel and several other places virtually. From Mental Floss. more

Bloglovin

With Bloglovin you select blogs would like to follow and anytime your selected blogs are updated you will receive the email feed! A helpful PDF from the Adriance Library. more

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