June 2008

New Fiction

• Split Estate - Charlotte Bacon
• The Whole Truth - David Baldacci
• The Finder - Colin Harrison
• The Genius - Jesse Kellerman
• River of Heaven - Lee Martin
• Shadow of Power: a Paul Madriani novel - Steve Martini
• The Host - Stephenie Meyer
• Sunday at Tiffany's - James Patterson
• The Third Circle - Amanda Quick
• The Post Birthday World - Lionel Schriver
• Friday Nights - Joanna Trollope
• Santa Fe Dead - Stuart Woods
• How to Fish - Chris Yates

New Non-Fiction

• 175 Best Jams, Jellies, marmalades & Other Soft Spreads - Linda J. Amendt
  
• Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres - Ruth Brandon
  
• I am America (and so can you) - Stephen Colbert
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World - Tony Horwitz
  
• Wine Bar Food: Mediterranean Flavors to Crave with Wines to Match - Cathy Mantuano
  
• Chocolate Epiphany: Exceptional Cookies, Cakes, and Confections for Everyone - Francois Payard
  
• Plein Air Abstraction: at the Foothills of the Catskill Mountains - Susan Sommer
  
• Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-2009: The Most Accurate Up-To-Date Facts on all Major Jobs! (Reference)
  
• Sitting Bull - Bill Yenne

New Audios

All CDs unless noted

• The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  
• Captain's Fury: Book four of the Codex Alera - Jim Butcher
  
• Small Favor: a novel of the Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
  
• The Deportees and Other Stories - Roddy Doyle
  
• Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
  
• The Point in the Market : a Mamur Zapt mystery - Michael Pearce
  
• Clouds of Witness: a Lord Peter Mystery - Dorothy L.Sayers
  
• The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
  
• The Seduction of the Crimson Rose - Lauren Willig
  
• What the Gospels Meant - Garry Wills
  
• Beverly Hills Dead - Stuart Woods
  
• Santa Fe Dead - Stuart Woods
  
• Shoot Him if he Runs: a Stone Barrington novel - Stuart Woods

New DVD's

• 3:10 to Yuma
  
• Beowulf
  
• A Bug's Life
  
• Freedomland
  
• Grace is Gone - John Cusack
  
• Grease
  
• Great Debaters - Denzel Washington
  
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy – extended versions
  
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
    
  • The Two Towers
    
  • The Return of the King
    
• Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
  
• The Mist
  
• Saturday Night Live: the Complete Third Season

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. These include historic fiction, science fiction, mysteries, and more. Many of these titles can be found in the Mid Hudson Library System.

Desert Island Books

Books you want to have with you if you were stranded on the proverbial desert island.

FICTION

• Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
  
• Jane Austen - novels
  
• Samuel Beckett - Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition
  
• Anne Bishop - Black Jewels trilogy
  
• Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph and Other Stories1933-1969
  
• Ray Bradbury - collected stories; Dandelion Wine; Something Wicked This Way Comes
  
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
  
• Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
  
• Willa Cather - novels
• Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot novels
  
• Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy
  
• Charles Dickens - David Copperfeld; Our Mutual Friend
  
• Sara Donati - Wilderness series
  
• Tim Dorsey - Florida Roadkill
  
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes
  
• Dorothy Dunnett - The Complete Lymond Chronicles (Game of Kings)
  
• Leif Enger - Peace Like A River
  
• William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury; other novels
  
• Jack Finney - Time and Again; From Time to Time
  
• Diana Gabaldon - Outlander series
  
• Neil Gaiman - Sandman series; Neverwhere
  
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude
  
• Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
  
• Ernest Hemingway - novels
  
• Frank Herbert - Dune
  
• Tony Hillerman - novels
  
• Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
  
• Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
  
• James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake
  
• Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
  
• Stephen King - The Stand
  
• Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
  
• Tanith Lee - Biting the Sun; Silver Metal Lover
  
• Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness; Rocannon's World
  
• C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
  
• Sinclair Lewis - Main Street
  
• Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
  
• Anne McCaffrey - Pern series (Dragonflight)
  
• Robin McKinley - Beauty
  
• James Michener - Hawaii; Centennial
  
• Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
  
• Howard Frank Mosher - A Stranger In The Kingdom
  
• Alice Munro - Lives of Girls and Women
  
• Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
  
• S.J. Perelman - The Most of S.J.Perelman
  
• Edgar Allen Poe - Complete Works
  
• Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
  
• Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
  
• Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
  
• Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
  
• J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter novels
  
• Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow
  
• Budd Schulberg - What Makes Sammy Run?
  
• Robert Silverberg - novels
  
• Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  
• John Steinbeck - East of Eden
  
• Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
  
• Mary Stewart - Madam, Will You Talk?
  
• Donna Tartt - The Secret History
  
• J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy
  
• Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  
• John Updike - Rabbit quartet
  
• Johann Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson

NONFICTION

• Robert Benchley - Benchley Round-Up
  
• William Rose Benet, ed. - Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
  
• Bible: Hebrew interlinear translation; New International Version; King James Version
  
• R.H. Blyth - haiku books
  
• Bill Bryson - books
  
• Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy
  
• Italo Calvino - Italian Folktales
  
• Robert Cormier - I Have Words to Spend
  
• Harold Courlander, ed. - folktale books
  
• Will Cuppy - The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica
  
• Euripedes - The Complete Plays
  
• Susan Feldman, ed. - The Storytelling Stone
  
• Rene Girard - Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
  
• Homer - Iliad; Odyssey
  
• Joy Of Cooking, 75th Anniversary edition
  
• Chris McNab - Living Off the Land
  
• Thomas Merton - New Seeds of Contemplation
  
• Beverley Nichols - Merry Hall
  
• The Oxford English Dictionary
  
• David Remnick - Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
  
• Ned Rorem - The New York Diary; The Paris Diary
  
• George Seldes, ed. - The Great Thoughts
  
• William Shakespeare - The Complete Annotated Shakespeare; A Midsummer Night's Dream
  
• Wallace Stevens - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
  
• James Thurber - The Thurber Carnival
  
• Dawn Wells - Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook
  
• John Wiseman - The SAS Survival Handbook
  
• Jane Yolen, ed. - Favorite Folktales From Around The World
  
• Jack Zipes, ed. - folktale books
  

MISCELLANEOUS

• text for learning another language
  
• sushi cookbook
  
• survival handbook (Foxfire, Marine, etc.)
  
• boatbuilding handbook
  
• sailing/navigation handbook
  
• guidebook of ocean fish species of the world
  

ANTHOLOGIES

• "The biggest science fiction anthology I could find"
  
• Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker
  
• "A good solid poetry anthology"
  
• "One of Robert Arthur or Harold Q. Masur's Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  
• anthologies"
  
• The Oxford Book of American Poetry
  
• The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence
  
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature
  
• The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
  
• The Smart Set: A History And Anthology, edited by Carl R. Dolmetsch

Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list.

LIBRARY FAIR

Saturday, June 14, 10am - 3pm

It’s Fair time again. Join us for a day of music, food, and camaraderie with friends and neighbors. Bring home some fabulous bargains from under the tents that will pepper the yard. At the stroke of 10 you can be among the book aficionados who will make a dash to the Giant Book Tent, or you may prefer to head straight for

the Plant Tent that will be bursting with cheery annuals and interesting perennials to take home to color your garden. You will surely want to visit with some of the many local authors who will be on hand to autograph their books, and watch the Fiber Artists demonstrate their skills of weaving and spinning while the Stone Ridge Library Knitters join them under the shade trees to knit and purl their fabulous wares.

Local musical talent will provide entertainment all day long!

Gently used tableware and gifts will be on sale at Eleanor’s Emporium, and a 50/50 Raffle will take place every hour for a chance for lucky winners to bring home some extra cash, or some more books.

For the children, as always, there will be games and toys and lots of fun, and the teens will be providing a surprise art show...more details to follow.

With the aroma of sausage and peppers in the air, everyone will surely want to have lunch! Also available will be hot dogs and hamburgers, gazpacho and garden salads. The dessert menu will reflect our old fashioned values: home baked cookies and our famous strawberry shortcake will be hard to resist! Specialty coffees, teas, and other beverages will be on tap all day as well.

The Stone Ridge Library Fair is possible because of the amazing volunteers who make it happen. If you haven’t signed-on yet and would like to join in the fun and help out, please let us know ahead of time and we’ll find just the right job for you! Please call us at 687-8726.

The Fair will take place rain or shine. Shuttle bus service will be available from SUNY Ulster and the Marbletown Elementary School. On Fair day, please take a copy of the Fair booklet, complete with a map, a program of activities, and a list of sponsors.

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Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, June 25th,
4pm in the Reference
Room

The selection this month is
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. Joseph Keefe, one of the founding faculty members of UCCC, will lead the discussion.

Join us in the Reference Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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Medieval Book Group

Wednesday, June 18th, 7pm in the Reference Room

We will shift our attention away from Europe and look at the Americas before Columbus by reading Charles Mann’s acclaimed book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. Also recommended are two other books on history that we talked about at our last meeting- Sam Wineburg’s Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts and Dan Smail’s On Deep History and the Brain. Each book offers a fresh insight into the nature of history.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Note new time and day
of the week

Saturday, June 28th,
10am in the Reference Room

The selections for this meeting are: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, and a short story: The Cardboard Box - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Knitting Group

Saturdays, June 7, 14, 21, 28
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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ON THE SHELVES

Poughkeepsie Journal 5.11.08
On the Shelves with Phyllis Keaton, director, Howland Public Library in Beacon

Memoir offers insight into Woodstock

On the Shelves is a monthly column by a rotating list of mid-Hudson Valley library directors who comment on notable books coming to your local public library.

Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane is often quoted: "If you can remember anything about the '60s, you weren't really there."

Elliot Tiber really was there, and he remembers a lot. Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life, by Tiber with Tom Monte, is an engaging personal history describing the confluence of events that createdthe Woodstock festival and made his life.

Tiber was born Eliyahu Teichberg in 1935. He writes he changed his name to avoid "the Teichberg Curse, a malevolent scourge placed upon our family that ensured our ongoing financial ruin."In 1969, Tiber was a painter living the artist's life in Greenwich Village, hanging out with Marlon Brando. Weekends, he spent being the good son, helping his parents run the rundown El Monaco Motel in the Catskills. "Bran-who?" he imagines his mother asking.

How his two disparate lives merged is the subject of Taking Woodstock - soon to be a motion picture from "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee and writer/producer James Schamus. While the film is sure to be of high quality, the book was written to be read or, since it's a memoir, read aloud. Read for yourself.

Here are some other titles:

Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance by Dean Wareham

Another person who took stock this year is Dean Wareham, vocalist and lead guitarist for the independent bands Galaxy 500 and Luna, who recorded in the late 1980s and early '90s. Black Postcards, which could have been subtitled "Between Rock 'n' Roll 'n' a Hard Place," documents the rise and fall of the alternative music scene, Wareham's personal and professional relationships and the music industry in general.

The Howland Public Library received a donation of Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste: Galaxy 500 1987-1991. The DVD and book can be borrowed by anyone with a library card.

Rock Star Mommy: My Life as a Rocker Mom by Judy Davids

OK, I admit it. I have a fondness for silly paperbacks, and this is one of them. "Rock Star Mommy" is part memoir, part "how-to" and part inspiration. If you're a mom, or if your mom's a mom, who has always wanted to play in a rock band, this book is the perfect (silly) Mother's Day gift.

Rock on!

Phyllis Keaton is the director of the Howland Public Library, serving the Beacon City School District. She is president of the New York Library Association Library Administration & Management section and past-president of NYLA's Public Libraries Section. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Hudson Valley Libraries and on the Mid-Hudson LIbrary System Continuing Education Committee and the Outreach Committee. She is also a proud Rocker Mom.

Can't decide on what to read? Visit
Mid Hudson for links to lists of titles that might attract your interest.

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The Good Old Days...

Life in High Falls
March 20, 1884

The ladies of the M. E. Church will hold a "weight party" at their edifice on Wednesday evening, March 26th. To those unacquainted with the above kind of party we would say that each lady present is solicited for her weight which is marked down on a slip of paper with her name and enclosed in an envelope. After a sufficient number of names have been secured, the envelopes are put in a bag and each gentleman present is allowed to draw therefrom an envelope which will contain the weight and name of the lady he is to escort to supper. The supper of course is paid for by the gentleman at the rate of a half cent per pound for the lady's weight, that is, the weightof the lady will determine the cost of the supper for the couple. If the weather should prove stormy on that evening it will be held the first fair night thereafter.

GREAT WEBSITES!

Stonehenge

Background about this World Heritage Site in England. Features a FAQ, visual and narrative history, photos, and information about visiting Stonehenge for the summer solstice. Also includes material about the spring 2008 Stonehenge archaeological dig, "the first excavation inside the stone circle at Stonehenge in nearly half a century." Note: Interactive map is not available. From English Heritage, an organization that protects and promotes England's historic environment. more
Stonehenge: The Healing Stones
"Archaeologists are carrying out [in spring 2008] the first dig for almost half a century inside the stone circle of [Stonehenge] the world's most famous Neolithic monument. Their aim is to unearth evidence for a startling new theory -- that Stonehenge was built to heal the sick." Site features news and video from the 12-day dig, a panoramic viewfrom within the stone circle, and related material. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). more

Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools

"You already love the one-stop convenience of shopping online at Amazon.com, but chances are you're not getting everything you can out of this feature-packed shopping engine. Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom's wish list two weeks before her birthday? Automatically ship you a new case of toilet paper every two months? Refund the difference on the price of an item you purchased that went on sale? Several advanced Amazon features and third party apps and add-ons can help you get the best deals and the stuff you want delivered to your door right on time." From Lifehacker. more

Congressional Tutorials Home Page

"These tutorials show you how to find Congres- sional materials in the Library and on the Internet." Topics of these Flash videos include finding recent bills (1989-present), hearings, and Congressional debates. Also includes a tutorial on how to contact your Congressional representatives. Note: Includes links to some sites that require a fee to use. From Jesse Silva and Karen Munro, librarians at the University of California, Berkeley. more

Ian Fleming Centenary, 1908-2008

"2008 marks the centenary of the birth of the writer, Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. To mark Ian Fleming's extraordinary and lasting contribution to British culture and to celebrate his life, various events are planned throughout the year." This site provides a brief biography of this author of the James Bond novels and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," audio of Fleming speaking about basic ingredients of thriller writing, bibliography and details about centennial events. more
Casino Royale
This British travel site celebrates Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent James Bond, who first appeared in the novel "Casino Royale." Features a list of Bond locations, and a 2-day itinerary that lets you "indulge in the ultimate James Bond experience. Make your way around Bond's London, learn about what makes a great spy, ... and even visit the place where the phrase 'shaken, not stirred' was coined." From VisitBritain, the British the national tourism agency. more

AAA Gas Price Finder

"The AAA Gas Price Finder information is derived from credit card transactions at more than 85,000 outlets around the country as well as direct feeds from individual chains. When you search for gas prices you will find the last price received over the past 7 days for those stations included in our tool." Covers the U.S. and most of Canada. From the California State Automobile Association (CSAA). more
Real Petroleum Prices "Real Petroleum Prices are computed by dividing the nominal price in a given month by the ratio of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in that month to the CPI in some 'base' period. ... Consequently, all real prices are expressed in 'current' dollars." Provides graphs showing gas prices from 1919 to the present, and imported crude oil prices from 1980 on. From the Energy Information Administration (EIA). more

The Carter Center

The Center "is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health." Includes Center news; a FAQ; history of the Center; and profiles of President Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter, and other directors. Also describes the Center's global peace and health programs. Click on an interactive world map to locate the Center's activities by country. more

Honor the Fallen

This site honors "those who fought and died in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom," as confirmed by U.S. Central Command. Browse by date, or search by name, rank, unit, or other factors to view entries, which include name, age, hometown, and cause of death. Some entries also include a photo and/or an article. From the MilitaryTimes. more
U.S. Deaths From the Iraq War: A Personal, Statistical View
This March 2008 interactive database tracks U.S. deaths in Iraq by including "fatal U.S. government casualties -- military and civilian -- in Operation Iraqi Freedom." View number of dead by age, gender, race, state, rank, cause of death, and other factors. Mouse over each box on the chart to learn basic information about each person. Includes links to related articles about the Iraq War, Afghanistan, and related matters. From USA Today. more

Free Rice

Practice your English vocabulary skills and provide 20 grains of rice to hungry people for each vocabulary word for which you identify the correct definition. "The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen." The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). Also includes a FAQ and a list of total donations by date back to October 2007. more

Green Planet

Website companion for "the first and only 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network. ... launching in June 2008." Features material related to health and beauty, food and health, home and garden, technology and transportation, travel and outdoors, and working. From Discovery Communications. more

Roadfood.com

Roadfood recom-mendations from the authors of "Two for the Road," an award-winning column in Gourmet . Here's where you can find the "best informal meals in America's colorful back-roads cafes and town diners." Search by state and food type for inexpensive, non-franchised, regional restaurants that are "enjoyed by locals (and savvy travelers) for their character as well as their menu." Read Roadfood News Postings to find good fish tacos, hash browns, and ice cream. Registered users are encouraged to write reviews following a prescribed format. more

Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation

"The Jane Goodall Institute advances the power of individuals to take informed and compas- sionate action to improve the environment of all living things." The site contains a biography of the primatologist, including information on her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park. Also provides an overview of the biology, psychology, and conservation of chimpanzees. more

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