New Fiction

• Valeria's Last Stand - Marc Fitten
• The Devil's Punchbowl - Greg Iles
• The Walking People - Mary Beth Keane
• Guardian of Lies: a Paul Madriani novel - Steve Martini
• Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  
• Just Desserts - Carl Reiner
• Black Hills - Nora Roberts
• The Visibles - Sara Shepard
• Get Real - Donald E. Westlake

New Non-Fiction

• Magnificent Desolation: the Long Journey Home from the Moon - Buzz Aldrin
• Getting Financial Aid 2010: Scholarships, Grants, Loans & Jobs - College Board
• Late Edition: a Love Story - Bob Greene
• The AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad - Julie Jason
• The Road to Woodstock: From the Man Behind the Legendary Festival - Michael Lang
  
• I Signed as the Doctor: Memoir of a Cancer Doctor Surviving Cancer - Laura Liberman, M.D.
  
• Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language, a memoir - Katherine Russell Rich
  

New Audio Books

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
  
• The Moon Looked Down - Dorothy Garlock
  
• When Madeline was Young - Jane Hamilton
• Einstein - Walter Isaacson
• Julie & Julia - Julie Powell
  
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - Mary Roach
• When You are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
• The Defector - Daniel Silva

New DVD's

• Anthony Bourdain Collection 4
• Coraline
• Enchanted April
• Grey Gardens - Drew Barrymore
• He's Just Not That Into You
• Mad Men, Season 2
• The Playboys - Aidan Quinn
• The Stratton Story - James Stewsrt
• This American Life: season 2
• Wallander: Sidetracked; Firewall; One Step Behind - Kenneth Branagh

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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.

Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

Centennial Booklist
1980-1999

1981

• An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough
  

1982

• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  

1983

• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
  

1985

• Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
  
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (play) - August Wilson

1986

• Fences (play) - August Wilson
  

1987

• Beloved - Toni Morrison
  
• The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
  
• Driving Miss Daisy (play) - Alfred Uhry
  

1988

• Joe Turner's Come & Gone (play) - August Wilson
  

1989

• The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
  

1990

• The Piano Lesson (play) - August Wilson
  

1991

• The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
  

1992

• The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
  

1993

• The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
  
• The English Patient - Michael Ondaatji
  
• Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
  

1995

• Ship Fever and Other Stories - Andrea Barrett
  

1996

• Primary Colors - Anonymous
  

1997

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
  
• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
  

1999

• Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund

Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck
Local History
Lecture Series continues...

To celebrate our Centennial Year, we are inaugurating a local history lecture series and fittingly naming it after Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck whose family donated their family residence to be used as our library and whose Julia’s diaries and family portraits are treasured in our historic collection and archives.

This free lecture series will take place on the following Friday evenings at 7:00 pm at the Marbletown Community Center. The public is cordially invited to attend.

Friday, August 7
7pm at the Community Center

Professor Laurence Hauptman, Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY New Paltz who will present a power point discussion on American Indians in the Time of Henry Hudson: The Munsee and Mahican Indians, describing the history and culture of these two significant Native American peoples at the time of Henry Hudson’s exploration and the European settlement in 1609.

Friday, August 21
7pm at the Community Center

Have You Heard? The Sounds and Stories of the Hudson Valley is the final program in the series, taking place on Friday, August 21. Eileen McAdam and Jim Metzner, Directors of the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley will share stories collected at the library this summer and will discuss the importance of oral history as a record of community and our sense of place.

This series has been funded through a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

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Tea Time Book Group

Wednesday, August 12,
4pm, Biography Room

The selection for August is Firekeeper: a narrative of the Eastern frontier by Robert Moss, an epic adventure based on the extraordinary historical story of Sir William Johnson.

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

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group

Thursday, August 20,
4pm in the Biography Room

The selections for this meeting include: The Point in the Market: a Mamur Zapt mystery by Michael Pearce and The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The New Yorker Discussion Group

Friday, August 7 at 3:30pm
in the Reference Room

This month we will be discussing the following articles:

• July 6th P. 80 BOOK REVIEW Chris Anderson’s “Free” by Malcolm Gladwell
  
• June 29th P. 39 PROFILES The Catastrophist A leading scientist, James Hansen speaks out on emissions. By Elizabeth Kolbert
  
• June 22nd P. 32 ANNALS OF CRIME Don’t Shoot A radical remedy for gang violence. By John Seabrook
  

If time permits the following are available for discussion

• June 22nd P 44 LETTER FROM ANDALUSIA Lorca’s Bones Spain’s unreconciled civil war
  
• June 22nd P 50 THE POLITICAL Scene Jane Mayer Leon Panetta’s CIA Challenge

Please bring your “wish list” of articles for discussion from current New Yorker magazines for the September meeting. Our facilitator will make the selections at the beginning of the meeting.

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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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WRITERS GROUP

Monthly

Sat. August 1
1pm in the
Reference Room

The Library has a writers group that meets monthly on Saturday in the Reference Room. They read from their writing and share thoughts. If you are interested in writing you are welcome to join us.

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On the Shelves

By Erica Freudenberger
Poughkeepsie Journal 7.5.09

Coming-of-age tales perfect summer reads

Imagine being abandoned by your mother at a 7-Eleven in the Australian outback at age 11. That's what happened to Taylor Markham, the main character in Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, this year's winner of the Michael L. Printz award for excellence in teen literature (the teen librarian equivalent to an Oscar).

A coming-of-age story with a twist, Jellicoe Road explores the idea of finding yourself by exploring your past - however horrific it may be -while learning to trust others and create a new family.

From Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga to the Harry Potter series, books for young adults have begun to make inroads to adult readers and bestseller lists, capturing the imaginations of young and old alike.

And why not?

Teen novels explore the themes of self-identity, peer pressure and other perennial topics. To read them reminds us of a time when we wondered who we were and how we would orient ourselves to the world - before adult responsibility crowded out those questions.

Take, for example, Lily, the protagonist of Girl, Hero by Carrie Jones. She has a lot on her plate. Her mom's new boyfriend begins drinking hard early in the day and her pregnant sister comes over wearing bruises from her husband. Lily's dad - when he remembers to come by - wears blue tights and an anklet. To cope, Lily writes letters to her idol, John Wayne.

Or what would you do if you were a smart-mouthed skate punk suddenly relocated to rural Montana with your gay father and his lover? When Ben Campbell's father came out to his family, he lost himself in clouds of marijuana smoke, partying, skate-boarding and breaking the law.

Now 17, his father and "momdad," Edward, move Ben to the Eastern Montana town of Tough Butte. Will Ben trade in his spiky hair for a cowboy hat? To find out, read Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon.

While these titles will never vie for a place alongside Chekhov or Tolstoy, they are engaging tales perfect for summer reading - and for discussing with the teens in your life.

All of these titles and more are available through the Mid-Hudson Library System's Health Information Project.

The project features books, DVDs and Web sites that focus on teen health, social issues and substance abuse prevention. These collections have been reviewed by teens during the summer Teen Intern Program and have garnered the "Teen Seal of Approval."

If you'd like to know what teens are reading (and talking) about this year, check out HIP and click on "Book Reviews" or "Fiction."

When not working her way through cairns of books, Erica Freudenberger can be found in a library. She works as the Health Information Project assistant at the Mid-Hudson Library System, as the program coordinator of Tivoli Free Library and as the community relations liaison at Red Hook Public Library. For fun, she visits WKZE once a month to talk about what's happening at local libraries.

GREAT WEBSITES!

Rebecca's Pocket: Summer 2009 Reading Lists

This extensive compilation of links to 2009 summer reading lists covers a variety of themes and topics in summer reading, such as fiction, thrillers, "chick lit," travel, cooking, gardening, history, and politics. Posts include separate sections for book lists for children and young adults. From a longtime blogger and author of a book about blogging. more

The Redistricting Game

"'The Redistricting Game' is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting." When playing the game, you will learn about redistricting fundamentals, gerrymandering, the Voting Rights Act, and potential reforms. Includes links to related information. From the University of Southern California (USC) Game Innovation Lab, part of the USC School of Cinematic Arts' Interactive Media Division. It was developed for the USC Annenberg Center for Communications. more

TypingWeb

Have fun learning to type, or to type faster. This site lets you set your own difficulty level, and if you register (for free) it will track your progress. It's very easy to use with colored boxes telling you when you've made an error. At the end of each lesson, you'll see your typing speed and your errors. more

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers

Presentation about "two of the greatest composers of jazz ... Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967), ... [who] collaborated on hundreds of works." Find biographies of Ellington and Strayhorn, and an examination of two jazz standards: "'Caravan,' written in 1936 by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol, and 'Take the "A" Train,' composed in 1941 by Billy Strayhorn." Includes audio and video clips. From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. more

Slate: Explainer

"Answers to your questions about the news." Covers both serious and frivolous topics such as why the color green is so important to the Muslim world, how many balloons would it take to lift a house, how to find a missing plane, why car dealerships are closing, and what is a pandemic health alert. Includes material back to 1998. From the online magazine Slate. more

Traveler IQ Challenge

Use these online game maps to test your knowledge of locations around the world. Includes games for the world, Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, U.S, world capitals, photos, flags, and more. From TravelPod.com. more

100 Places to Connect With Other Bibliophiles Online

"Reading is no longer an individual activity. Thanks to online book clubs, book trading networks, social media sites just for librarians and book lovers, kids' networks and more, connecting with your fellow bibliophiles and gnashing about favorite books is easier than ever. ... Check below for 100 different sites and networks to find other bibliophiles like you." From the Online Education Database (OEDb), a website that lists accredited online colleges. more

Serve.gov

This federal government website is an "online resource for not only finding volunteer opportunities in your community, but also creating your own." Enter a keyword and ZIP code to find service needs and contact information in your community, or register your own service opportunity. Also offers toolkits (such as for organizing a book drive) and a place to share your service story. From the Corporation for National and Community Service. more

The New York Times Video

Collection of videos presented by The New York Times. Search, or browse by topic such as breaking news, world news, politics, business, technology, environment, science, health, sports, opinion, arts, style, travel, and automobiles. Also includes interviews and videos related to New York Times Magazine articles. more

Highway History

Large compilation of reference material on the history of highways in the U.S. and the Federal Highway Administration. Features information about the developments of the U.S. interstate highway system, specific highways, interstate maintenance, the origins of the highway numbering system, the Zero Milestone (originally intended as the zero marker for all highways), and more. Includes a bibliography and lyrics to selected road songs. From the Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation. more

Bowling, Boules, and Bocce in Parks

This article describes lawn bowling, boules (petanque), and bocce, noting that these games "are similar in that generally the object of all games is to toss or lob a larger ball from a distance, landing it closest to a smaller target ball." Includes historical and recent photos of the games being played in New York City parks. From the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. more

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