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September 2015
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New Fiction

  • Malice at the Palace - Rhys Bowen
  • Badlands - CJ Box
  • The Marriage of Opposites - Alice Hoffman
  • The Naked Eye - Iris Johansen
  • The Novel Habits of Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
  • How to Be a Grown-up - Emma McLaughlin
  • Brush Back: a V.I. Warshawski novel - Sara Paretsky
  • Alert: a Michael Bennett novel - James Patterson
  • Who Let the Dog Out? - David Rosenfelt
  • The Devil's Seal: a Mystery of Ancient Ireland - Peter Tremayne
  • Naked Greed - Stuart Woods

New Non-Fiction

  • Live your Life for Half the Price - Mary Hunt

New Audio Books

  • Medium Raw: a Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Anthony Bourdain
  • The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
  • Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee

New DVD's

  • Citizenfour - documentary
  • Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women - Elizabeth Marvel
  • Six by Sondheim - documentary
  • Revenge of the Mekons - documentary
  • Two Days, One Night - Marion Cotillard
  • White God - Zsófia Psotta

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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.


Fictional Authors
as Characters

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  • Herzog - Saul Bellow
  • Angels and Demons ; The Da Vinci Code ; Inferno ; The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
  • Bloodlines ; Kidnapped - Jan Burke
  • Possession - A. S. Byatt
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  • The Alienist - Caleb Carr
  • Heat Wave - Richard Castle
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ; Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
  • The Pale Horse ; Third Girl ; Halloween Party ; - Agatha Christie
  • Nighttime Is My Time - Mary Higgins Clark
  • The Poet ; The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
  • The Hours - Michael Cunningham
  • The Divine Comedy - Dante 851.1 dan
  • Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
  • Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
  • Spencer's Mountain - Earl Hamner Jr
  • The Ghost - Robert Harris
  • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
  • A Firing Offense - David Ignatius
  • Natchez Burning ; The Bone Tree - Greg Iles
  • A Widow for One Year ; The World According to Garp ; The 158 Pound Marriage ; The Hotel New Hampshire ; Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving
  • The Aspern Papers - Henry James
  • Zorba The Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
  • The Winter Sea - Susanna Kearsley
  • On the Road ; The Dharma Bums ; Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
  • The Secret Life Of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
  • Misery ; Salem's Lot ; The Dark Tower ; The Tommyknockers ; The Dark Half ; Bag of Bones ; Lisey's Story ; CELL ; The Shining ; The Green Mile ; Doctor Sleep ; Joyland - Stephen King
  • The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ; The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest ; The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larson
  • The Gods of Gotham - Faye, Lyndsay
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan
  • Archy and Mehitabel - Don Marquis 817 mar
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  • Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
  • Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  • Discworld novels - Terry Pratchett
  • The Shipping News - Annie Proux
  • The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
  • The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
  • The Late Scholar ; A Presumption of Death ; Unnatural Death ; The Nine Tailors ; - Dorothy Sayers
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple
  • The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
  • Unless - Carol Shields
  • The Help - Katherine Stockett
  • Slaughterhouse-Five ; Timequake ; Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
  • Trust Me on This ; Would I Lie to You? - Donald Westlake
  • Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolf
  • Give Us a Kiss - Daniel Woodrell

A New Book
by Marc Fried

Wednesday, September 30
7pm at the Community Center

Most of us know Marc B. Fried for his five books of Shawangunk region history and nature writing. But Fried is also a columnist: his Notes From The Other Side has appeared every 3 to 4 weeks for the past 8½ years in the Shawangunk Journal, a weekly print newspaper. Now Fried has selected and edited the best of these periodical writings and compiled them into a 339-page book that bears his column's title.

Readers who've enjoyed Fried's regional focus will not be disappointed, for there are a wealth of anecdotes, descriptions and musings here that relate to the Shawangunks and the Wallkill and Rondout valleys, including history, wilderness, farm life and gardening. But Notes from the Other Side is also filled with exotic adventure, social commentary and engaging humor: there are stories of cross-country hitchhiking, winter mountaineering, overseas travel and fascinating personalities and interactions, as well as stories from Fried's earlier years as a professional musician. These span more than half a century and encompass great diversities of geography and culture—an intimate interweaving of action with retrospection, radical thought with rural reminiscing, of microcosm with macrocosm, that readers will find both entertaining and thought-provoking.

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Summer Pledge Drive

The Stone Ridge Library is in the midst of the second phase of restoration. To boost these efforts, the Summer Pledge Drive is underway. Supporters are encouraged to make an easy, secure, tax-deductible pledge in the donation form.

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Library Election

On Monday August 10th, Marbletown voters passed the proposed 2016 budget with 39 yes votes and 11 no. Stone Ridge residents Sig Hack, Ethan Plank and Vicky Schulte were each re-elected to a four year term. The 2016 tax appropriation includes a 1.78% increase to $259,390 from $254,854 this year. The budget increase is comprised of $536 in newsletter and membership. $2000 in repairs and hardware and $2000 in wages and payroll tax. The Stone Ridge Library has total holdings of 48,025 items, and circulates approximately 74,000 items a year.
To see the budget click here.

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Coming in October:



Fall Book Sale

Saturday, Oct. 10
10am - 2pm, on the Library Lawn

Bag Sale

Sunday, Oct. 11
10am - 2pm, on the Library Lawn

Our annual Fall Book Sale taking place on Columbus Day weekend will feature book bargains galore and delicious soups donated by local restaurants. And, with holiday giving in mind, shoppers can browse the fabulous hand-crafted items made by the Saturday Knitters, all to benefit the Library. We'll also have soups from local restaurants and home baked breads.

On Sunday grab a bag or two of books for
$8 a bag.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, September 9
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, September 16
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon. A detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day. Alaska rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in Sitka, Alaska.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, October 7
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for October is Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meachum. The fullest portrait to date of the complex emotional connection between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the two men who led the Free World to victory in World War II. At the time, there had never been anything like the friendship between the two men, and there has not been anything really like it since: a President and Prime Minister spending enormous amounts of time together (120 days during the war), fishing, smoking, and drinking late into the night in places as far-flung as the White House, Casablanca, and Tehran, talking to one another of politics, war, family, and illness.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, September 1, October 6
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, September 15
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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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, September 10, 24,
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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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra

Monday, September 14, 28
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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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

September 2, 2015

Movie Title: A Walk in the Woods
Where: Theaters
Based on: A Walk in the Woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal, Emma Thompson

September 11, 2015

Movie Title: Wolf Totem
Where: Theaters
Based on: Wolf Totem by Rong Jiang
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Shaofeng Feng, Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa

September 18, 2015

Movie Title: Black Mass
Where: Theaters
Based on: Black Mass: The Irish mob, the FBI, and a devil's deal by Dick Lehr and Gerland O'Neil
Director: Scott Cooper
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Johnny Depp, Dakota Johnson

September 18, 2015

Movie Title: Captive
Where: Theaters
Based on: Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story Of The Atlanta Hostage Hero by Ashley Smith
Director: Jerry Jameson
Cast: Kate Mara, David Oyelowo

September 18, 2015

Movie Title: Everest
Where: Theaters
Based on: Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Sam Worthington

September 18, 2015

Movie Title: Prophet's Prey
Where: Theaters
Based on: Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints by Sam Brower and Jon Krakauer
Director: Amy Berg
Cast: Sam Brower, Nick Cave, Andrew Chatwin

September 18, 2015

Movie Title: Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
Where: Theaters
Based on: Maze Runner: Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Director: Wes Ball
Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Will Poulter, Aidan Gillen, Rosa Salazar, Jacob Lofland, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel

September 21, 2015

Movie Title: Minority Report
Where: TV Series - Fox
Based on: The Minority Report, a short story by Philip K. Dick
Director: Mark Mylod
Cast: Wilmer Valderrama, Meagan Good, Laura Regan, Nick Zano

Our Garden


The Library gardens are designed and maintained by the wonderful Garden Makers of Accord.
more photos

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GREAT WEBSITES!

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