April 2016

New Fiction

• Noonday - Pat Barker
• Death of a Nurse: a Hamish Macbeth mystery - MC Beaton
• A Few of the Girls: stories - Maeve Binchy
• Time of Fog and Fire: a Molly Murphy Mystery - Rhys Bowen
• Off the Grid - CJ Box
• At the Edge of the Orchard - Tracy Chevalier
• This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! - Jonathan Evison
• She's Not There - Joy Fielding
• When Falcons Fall - CS Harris
• The Waters of Eternal Youth - Donna Leon
• The Story of My Teeth - Valeria Luiselli
• Two if by Sea - Jacquelyn Mitchard
• The Architect's Apprentice - Elif Shafak
• The Summer Before the War - Helen Simonson
• Property of a Noblewoman - Danielle Steel

New Non-Fiction

• The Bee Book - DK Books
• Rightful Heritage: Franklin d. Roosevelt and the land of America - Douglas Brinkley
• Solar Electricity Handbook 2015 Edition: a Simple, Practical Guide to Solar Energy - Designing and Installing Solar PV systems
• Peregrine Spring: a Master Falconer's Extraordinary Life with Birds of Prey - Nancy Cowan
• The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary who became an American Hero - Timothy Egan
• Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis - Tim Flannery
• Why Can't we Just Play? What I did when I realized my Kids were Way Too Busy - Pam Lobley
• London - Lonely Planet
• The Perennial Matchmaker: Creating Amazing Combinations with your Favorite Perennials - Nancy J. Ondra
• Master the New SAT - Peterson
• Love the House You're In: 40 Ways to Improve Your Home & Change Your Life - Paige Rien
• I Never Knew that about Ireland - Christopher Winn

New Large Print

• The Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George
• Private Paris - James Patterson

New Audio Books

• Noonday - Pat Barker
• At the Edge of the Orchard - Tracy Chevalier
• Forty Rooms - Olga Grushin
• The High Mountains of Portugal - Yann Martel
• The Travelers - Chris Pavone

New DVD's

• The Big Short - Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
• Brooklyn - Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters
• Carol - Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara
• Creed - Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone
• The Danish Girl - Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander
• Game of Thrones - the complete fifth season
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 - Jennifer Lawrence
• Secret in Their Eyes - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts
• Spotlight - Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachael McAdams, Liev Schreiber
• Steve Jobs - Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogan, Jeff Daniels
• Trumbo - Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren

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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.

Diversity is
our Strength

• Does my Head Look Big in This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
• Brick Lane - Monica Ali
• How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents - Julia Alvarez
• The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam
• West of Kabul, East of New York - Mir Tamim Ansary
• American Chica - Marie Arana
• Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
• Lilies of the Field - William Edmund Barrett
• How does it Feel to be a Problem - Moustafa Bayoumi
• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Life in Motion: an Unlikely Ballerina - Misty Copeland 792.802 COP
• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children - Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• The Hours - Michael Cunningham
• The Watson's go to Birmingham, 1963 - Christopher Paul Curtis
• Funny in Farsi - Firoozeh Dumas
• Our America: a Hispanic History of the United States - Felipe Fernandez-Armseto
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
• Breaking the Line: the Season in Black College Football that Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights - Samuel G. Freedman
• Annie on My Mind - Nancy Garden
• The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family - Annette Gordon-Reed
• Thinking in Pictures: and Other Reports from my Life with Autism - Temple Grandin
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green
• A Time to Kill - John Grisham
• Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi
• The Vision of Emma Blau - Ursula Hegi
• The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• Negroland: a memoir - Margo Jefferson
• A Free Life - Ha Jin
• Miss Anne in Harlem : the White Women of the Black Renaissance - Carla Kaplan
• Calling Me Home: a novel - Julie Kibler
• The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
• The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Chitlin' Circuit : and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll - Preston Lauterbach
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Small Island - Andrea Levy
• Breakfast on Pluto - Patrick McCabe
• Allah, Liberty, and Love : the Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom - Irshad Manji
• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis
• Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time - Adrian Miller
• Redefining Realness : My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More - Janet Mock
• The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat - Edward Kelsey Moore
• The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
• Luna - Julie Anne Peters
• My New American Life - Francine Prose
• Looking for Palestine: Growing up Confused in an Arab-American Family - Najla Said 305.892 sai
• Yes, Chef: a memoir - Marcus Samuelsson 641.509 SAM
• Persepolis - Satrapi, Marjane
• An Invisible Thread : the True Story of an 11-year-old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny - Laura Schroff
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• My Beloved World: a memoir - Sonia Sotomayor 347.73 SOT
• Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
• Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis bio Parks
• How to be Black - Baratunde Thurston
• Black Man in a White Coat : a Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine - Damon Tweedy, M.D
• The Color Purple—Alice Walker
• Men we Reaped: a memoir - Jesmyn Ward
• Help Me to Find my People: the African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery - Heather Andrea Williams
• Orlando - Virginia Woolf

70th Annual Library Fair
Call for Volunteers

Saturday, June 11, 10am – 3pm
on the Library Lawn

The Stone Ridge Library has begun planning the 70th Annual Library Fair. Volunteers are needed to help with book sorting the week before and after the Fair, picking up plants and baked goods, setup, cleanup and tending booths on Fair Day.

Anyone interested in signing up early can do so by emailing manager@stoneridgelibrary.org or calling Diane DeChillo, Library Program Manager, at 687-7023, Ext. 108. Specific jobs will then be coordinated closer to the event with our Library Fair Volunteer Coordinator.

"Our volunteer crew is amazing and the heart of the Fair. As we begin planning, we welcome our seasoned volunteers and invite newcomers to join the fun and help out," said Library Program Manager Diane DeChillo. "Early sign up will help us plan as we are now three months out for this special community event."

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Spring Music Series
@ the Library

Join us in the Reference Room for these delightful musical performances!

Eric Roth
19th Century Guitar Recital

Sunday, April 17, 2pm

Eric will present a program of guitar music from the nineteenth century, which was a time of striking innovation and development of this familiar instrument. The program will include works from Vienna, Spain, Russia, France, Italy, and England, and feature music of America's first great guitar composer, an African-American named Justin Holland (1819-1887). Composers will include Paganini, Sor, Giuliani, Mertz, Shand, Tarrega, and others. Music will be performed on a beautiful, authentic reproduction instrument modeled after one built in 1830. Eric will also provide information about the instrument, repertoire, composers, and history.

DUANLIED:
James Ruff &
Drew Minter
Early Scottish Gallic Wire Harp and Song Recital

Sunday, April 24, 2pm

Experienced in early music, concert and opera, tenor James Ruff has since 2005 worked to master Scottish Gaelic language, traditional Gaelic Song, and the early Gaelic wire harp. As ensemble Duanlied, James joins countertenor and harper Drew Minter, together bringing to life early Scottish and Irish music for harps and voices, skillfully bridging both Gaelic and English language song traditions.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, April 13
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass. In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, April 20
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for the April meeting is Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal. As England stands alone against imminent Nazi invasion, betrayal and treachery threaten to bring her down from within. Maggie Hope, a young American in London, finds work as a secretary to the newly appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill. When the P.M. is threatened by assassination, Maggie is thrown into the worlds of spies, secret agents, code-breaking and betrayal.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, April 20
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for April is Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins--or in our modern eating habits.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, April 5, May 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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A New Conversational Spanish Offering
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, March 22, 1:30-2:30
Biography Room

For those of you who would like an opportunity to practice your Spanish language skills at a slower pace, Heidi Ehrich will be facilitating a second Conversational Spanish session every fourth Tuesday at the Library at 1:30. Cliff Rockmuller's group will continue to meet on the first Tuesday at 1:30. Patrons are welcome to participate in one or both groups, the only pre-requisite being a basic conversational ability in Spanish.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, April 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, April 4, 18
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, April 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

April 1, 2016

Movie Title: Kill Your Friends
Where: Theaters
Based on: Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Director: Owen Harris
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Rosanna Arquette

April 9, 2016

Movie Title: Look Who's Back
Where: Netflix
Based on: Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
Director: David Wnendt
Cast: Oliver Masucci, Fabian Busch, Christoph Maria Herbst

April 9, 2016

Movie Title: Outlander, Season 2
Where: TV Series, STARZ
Based on: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Director: Ron Moore
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan

April 11, 2016

Movie Title: Hunters
Where: TV Series, Syfy
Based on: Alien Hunter by Whitley Strieber
Director: Natalie Chaidez
Cast: Nathan Phillips, Britne Oldford, Julian McMahon

April 15, 2016

Movie Title: The Jungle Book
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Neel Sethi, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong'o, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Murray

April 15, 2016

Movie Title: The Adderall Diaries
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir Of Moods, Masochism, and Murder by Stephen Elliott
Director: Pamela Romanowsky
Cast: James Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard, Christian Slater, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Parrack

April 19, 2016

Movie Title: The Night Manager
Where: TV Limited Series, AMC
Based on: The Night Manager by John LeCarre
Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander

April 22, 2016

Movie Title: Go With Me
Where: Theaters
Based on: Go With Me by Castle Freeman Jr.
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta

April 22, 2016

Movie Title: A Hologram For The King
Where: Theaters
Based on: A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Tom Hanks, Sarita Choudhury, Omar Elba, Tracey Fairaway, David Menkin, Tom Skerritt

April 24, 2016

Movie Title: Game of Thrones, Season Six
Where: TV Limited Series, HBO
Based on: The Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
Director: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington

April 28, 2016

Movie Title: High-Rise
Where: Theaters
Based on: High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Elisabeth Moss, Sienna Miller

April 29, 2016

Movie Title: The Family Fang
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Director: Jason Bateman
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Walken

April 29, 2016

Movie Title: The Man Who Knew Infinity
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanegel
Director: Matt Brown
Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Eagle Cam

A pair of Bald Eagles chose the National Arboretum in Washington DC for their nest and two cameras have been set up to view them 24 hours a day. They had two eggs, one egg hatched on March 18, the other on March 20. Watch them grow, as they say on their website anything can happen. more

Lumosity

Games are an excellent way to keep your brain healthy and functioning at its peak. Lumosity is a fun website you can use for free (though paid subscriptions do exist) to play some of these games, however you will need to create a sign-in to use the site. more

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COMMUNITY
EVENTS

Scaling up Solar

Monday, April 4, 7 - 9pm
Rosendale Rec Center, Rt. 32, Rosendale, NY

Solar is coming! But the leases being offered by some companies risk denying landowners their rights and endangering agricultural easements. Details will be provided on Monday, April 4, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at a forum on Scaling up Solar: Exercising Caution with Large-Scale Solar leases to Protect Area Farmers and other Large Landowners. The event, sponsored by the Ulster County Climate Smart Committee, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, and Citizens for Local Power, will also include information about new opportunities for community solar. For information call Manna Jo Greene, 845-807-1270 or Susan H. Gillespie, 845-658-9820. Registration is suggested

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Intermittent Woodland Pools

A Presentation with Stuart Greenfield
Friday, April 22nd
(Earth Day)
7pm at Marbletown Community Center

While driving on a rainy night in the early spring, when the temperature is hovering near 45 degrees and the snow across the fields and in the woods has all but disappeared and familiar sounds can be heard off in the distance, we often find ourselves trying to avoid various small creatures crossing the roadway. Those small creatures are amphibians.

This presentation will answer the following questions that might be asked about Intermittent Woodland Pools:

• What type of wetland are they?
• Who inhabits them?
• When is the best time to look at them?
• Where might they be found?
• Why are they important?
• How might they be sustained?

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Trash Fest is Coming!
Join the Planning!

For the whole month of June, Marbletown will host Trash Fest, an arts and waste management festival, including:

• Large scale art at the Marbletown Transfer Station in High Falls
  
• Small scale art at MAMA in Stone Ridge
  
• Live performances
  
• Workshops on making art out of waste materials
  
• Workshop son reducing our community's waste stream
  
• And anything the community wants to make Trash Fest become!

We are Planning,
We Need You!
Please join us. We are seeking

• Artists to make large scale sculpture our of resourced materials, to be sited at the Transfer Station
  
• Performers interested in making work that uses waste materials
  
• Inspired Planners to help coordinate the indoor art show at MAMA, work on publicity, and help with all the details
  
• Others interested in making Trash Fest juicy

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. Trash Fest is also sponsored by League of Women Voters Mid-Hudson Region (LWVMHR) and by the Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission (ECC) Please contact Margot Becker.

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Contact Us

Phone: 687-7023
eMail: Stone Ridge Library
eMail: Website Manager

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