September 2016

New Fiction

• The Bones of Paradise - Jonis Agee
• Sting - Sandra Brown
• Addlands - Tom Bullough
• The Jealous Kind - James Lee Burke
• Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and Wales
• The Dollhouse - Fiona Davis
• What Remains of Me - Alison Gaylin
• Trigger Mortis: a James Bond novel - Anthony Horowitz
• Hide Away - Iris Johansen
• Bright, Precious Days - Jay McInerney
• Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
• Christodora - Tim Murphy
• This Must Be the Place - Maggie O'Farrell
• Leaving Lucy Pear - Anna Solomon
• The Shattered Tree - Charles Todd
• Any Minute Now - Eric Van Lustbader
• The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• Max Gate - Damien Wilkins
  

New Non-Fiction

• Two Homes One Childhood: a Parenting Plan to Last a Lifetime - Robert E. Emery, PhD
• What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Fourth-Grade Education - E.D. Hirsh, Jr
• Tales from Shakespeare: All the tales from Shakespeare - Charles and Mary Lamb
• USA's National Parks - Lonely Planet
• A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing: Theater, Film, and Television - Janet Neipris
• Elder Care Journey: a View from the Front Lines - Laura Katz Olson
• The Old Farmer's Almanac 2017
• The New Rules of Green Marketing: Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding - Jacquelyn A. Ottman
• The Kingdom of Speech - Tom Wolfe
• Writer's Market 2017

New Audio Books

• A Murder of Magpies - Judith Flanders
• Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War - Robert M. Gates

New DVD's

• Hologram for the King - Tom Hanks
• Maggie's Plan - Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Julianne Moore
• The Jungle Book - voices: Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Walken
  
• The Man Who Knew Infinity - Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones
• The Tunnel - Stephen Dillane, Clémence Poésy
  
• Wallander, season 4 - Kenneth Branagh

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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.

HISTORICAL FICTION
Authors & Titles 2016

• Ackroyd, Peter - The Fall of Troy
• Akunin, Boris - The Turkish Gambit
• Albert, Susan Wittig - mysteries
• Alexander, Tasha - mysteries
• Ali, Tariq
• Allende, Isabel - Zorro, The Japanese Lover, Daughter of Fortune, Island Beneath the Sea
• Alleyn, Susanne - Game of Patience
• Arnott, Jake - He Kills Coppers
• Atkinson, Kate - Behind the Scenes at the Museum, A God in Ruins
• Auel, Jean Earth's Children series
• Bahr, Howard - The year of Jubilo
• Banks, Russell - The Reserve
• Barnes, Julian - Arthur and George
• Barrett, Andrea - The Air we Breathe
• Barry, Sebastian - The Secret Scripture
• Belfer, Lauren - And After the Fire
• Benioff, David - City of Thieves
• Blake, Sarah - The Postmistress
• Bohjalian, Chris - The Sandcastle Girls ; Skeletons at the Feast
• Bowen, Rhys - Molly Murphy mysteries
• Boylan, Clare - Emma Brown
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer - Mists of Avalon
• Brooks, Geraldine
• Brown, Sandra - Rainwater
• Byatt, A. S. - Possession
• Caldwell, Ian - The Fifth Gospel
• Carey, Peter
• Carter, Betsy - The Puzzle King
• Chabon, Michael - Gentlemen of the Road
• Chevalier, Tracy
• Cleverly, Barbara - Joe Sandilands mysteries
• Chiaverini, Jennifer - Mrs. Lincoln's Rival
• Cornwell, Bernard
• Crafts, Hannah - Bondwoman's Narrative
• Dallas, Sandra - Prayers for Sale
• Delaney, Frank - Last Storyteller ; Shannon
• Diamant, Anita
• Doctorow, E.L. - The March ; Ragtime
• Doerr, Anthony -All the Light We Cannot See
• Donati, Sara - The Wilderness series
• Donnelly, Jennifer - The Tea Rose Trilogy
• Donoghue, Emma - Frog music
• Dunant, Sarah
• Dunnett, Dorothy
• Ebershoff, David - The 19th Wife
• Ephron, Amy - A Cup of Tea
• Erdrich, Louise - The Plague of Doves
• Erickson, Carolly - The Spanish Queen
• Faber, Michel - The Crimson Petal and the White
• Fellowes, Julian
• Finch, Charles - Charles Lenox mysteries
• Follett, Ken - Fall of Giants ; World Without End ; Pillars of the Earth ; Winter of the World
• Forester, C. S. - Horatio Hornblower series
• Franklin, Ariana - Mistress of the Art of Death
• Frazer, Margaret - The Traitor's Tale
• Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain
• Furst, Alan - The Foreign Correspondent ; Blood of Victory ; The Spies of the Balkans
• Gabaldon, Diana - Outlander series
• Garwood, Julie - Shadow Music
• Gear, W. Michael - Prehistoric People series
• George, Margaret - The Memoirs of Cleopatra ; Elizabeth I
• Ghosh, Amitav - River of smoke ; Sea of Poppies
• Goldberg, Myla - Wickett's Remedy
• Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Goodwin, Jason - Yashim Togalu mysteries
• Gordon, Mary - The Liar's Wife
• Gortner, C.W. - Mademoiselle Chanel
• Gregory, Philippa - Tudor novels
• Gregson, Julia - East of the Sun
• Grey, Iona - Letters to the Lost
• Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants
• Guillou, Jan - The Road to Jerusalem
• Hamilton, Jane - The Excellent Lombards
• Harper, Karen - Mistress Shakespeare ; The Hooded Hawke
• Haley, Alex - Roots
• Hall, Brian - I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company
• Harris, C. S. - Why Mermaids Sing
• Harris, Joanne - Holy Fools ; Five Quarters of the Orange
• Harris, Robert - Imperium ; Pompeii ; Fatherland
• Hearn, Lian - Tales of the Otori series
• Hicks, Robert - The Widow of the South ; A Separate Country
• Higginbotham, Susan - The Queen of Last Hopes
• Hijuelos, Oscar - Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise
• Holland, Cecelia - Pillar of the Sky
• Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Buried Giant
• Jakes, John - The North and South Trilogy
• Jiles, Paulette - Enemy Women
• Kadare, Ismail - The Siege
• Kalogridis, Jeanne - The Devil's Queen
• Kanon, Joseph - Alibi ; The Good German
• Keane, Mary Beth - Fever
• Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's List
• Kidd, Sue Monk - The Invention of Wings
• King, Laurie R.
• Kingsolver, Barbara - The Lacuna
• Koen, Karleen - Through a Glass Darkly
• Lee, Chang-rae - On Such a Full Sea
• Lehane, Dennis - The Given Day ; Live by Night
• Lerner, Eric - Pinkerton's Secret
• Leonard, Elmore - Up in Honey's Room
• Liss, David - The Whiskey Rebels ; A Spectacle of Corruption ; A Conspiracy of Paper
• Llywelyn, Morgan - After Rome ; 1999
• Maguire, Gregory - Mirror, Mirror
• McCullough, Colleen - Morgan's Run ; Too Many Murders ; The Thorn Birds
• McEwan, Ian - Atonement
• McLain, Paula - The Paris Wife
• McMahon, Katharine - Rose of Sebastopol
• Mahfuz, Najib - Three novels of ancient Egypt : Khufu's Wisdom ; Rhadopis of Nubia ; Thebes at War
• Malouf, David - The Conversations at Curlow Creek
• Mandanna, Sarita - Tiger Hills
• Mantel, Hilary - Bring up the Bodies ; Wolf Hall
• Martin, Valerie - The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
• Mathis, Ayana - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
• Michener, James A. - Alaska ; Hawaaii
• Min, Anchee - Pearl of China ; Empress Orchid
• Mitchell, David - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
• Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
• Moore, Christopher - Sacré Bleu ; Fool
• Morgan, Robert - Gap Creek ; This Rock
• Morrison, Toni - Beloved ; Home
• Morton, Kate - The Distant Hours ; House at Riverton ; The Forgotten Garden
• Naslund, Sena Jeter - Abundance
• Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise
• O'Brian, Patrick - Master and Commander series
• Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
• Orringer, Julie - The Invisible Bridge
• Otsuka, Julie - The Buddha in the attic
• Pearl, Matthew - The Dante Club
• Pears, Iain - An Instance of the Fingerpost
• Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - Adventures of Captain Alatriste series
• Perry, Anne
• Philbrick, Nathaniel - Mayflower
• Piercy, Marge - City of Darkness, City of Light
• Proulx, Annie - Barkskins, That Old Ace in the Hole
• Quick, Amanda - The River Knows
• Renault, Mary - The king Must Die
• Robinson, Marilynne - Gilead
• Rosnay, Tatiana de - Sarah's Key ; The House I Loved
• Rowland, Laura Joh - Red Chrysanthemum ; The Assassin's Touch
• Russell, Mary Doria - Dreamers of the Day
• Rutherfurd, Edward - Paris ; London ; New York ; The Dublin saga
• Sansom, C. J. - Heartstone ; Revelation
• Saylor, Steven - Roma
• Schwartz, John Burnham - The Commoner
• Schwarz, Christina - Drowning Ruth
• Scibona, Salvatore - The End
• Scott, Joanna - De Potter's Grand Tour
• See, Lisa
• Shaara, Jeff
• Shaara, Michael
• Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• Shreve, Anita - Sea Glass
• Sierra, Javier - The Master of the Prado
• Smiley, Jane - Golden Age
• Smith, April - A Star for Mrs. Blake
• Smith, Wilbur
• Tademy, Lalita - Red River ; Cane River
• Thompson, Victoria - Gaslight mysteries
• Trigiani, Adriana - The Shoemaker's Wife
• Tsukiyama, Gail - The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
• Unsworth, Barry - Land of Marvels
• Vidal, Gore - Lincoln
• Vreeland, Susan - Clara and Mr. Tiffany ; Girl in Hyacinth Blue
• Waters, Sarah - The Little Stranger ; The Night Watch ; Fingersmith
• Weir, Alison
• White, Randy Wayne - Cuba straits
• Whyte, Jack - Order in Chaos ; The Eagle
  

Children say "Thank you" to Senator Amedore for help with Children's Room Project

Children from the Stone Ridge Library gathered to thank Senator George Amedore, our representative in the 46th Senatorial District for the $50,000 grant he secured for the Library's children's room expansion.

Calling libraries the "cornerstones of our communities," the Senator praised the Library's programs as "first rate," and added that that the renovation will give our children a wonderful new space to enjoy everything the library has to offer.

The Stone Ridge Library Foundation is initiating a new campaign this fall to raise the remaining money needed to implement the plan, which includes and ADA bathroom and a small kitchenette, utilizing existing storage and keeping within the original footprint of the building. The estimated budget for construction is $97,680, according to Architects James and Karin Reynolds.

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MEDICARE 101

Wednesday, September 28
4:00 – 5:15 pm

A review of Original Medicare (Parts A and B) as well as understanding Medicare supplements Plans (Medigap). Discussion of Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage Plans) and how they differ from Original Medicare. Stand alone Part D (prescription drug plans) will also be discussed in detail including the best way to pick one, the Medicare "Donut Hole" and getting help for covering the cost of expensive medications through New York's EPIC plan (Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage).

This seminar is aimed at people who are new to Medicare, but those who are already in the Medicare program will find it informative as well.

Dan Calabrese is an independent life and health insurance agent who lives in Lagrangeville with his wife and two daughters. He specializes in Medicare and Long Term Care as well as Life Insurance and represents most of the major as well as smaller insurance carriers in the area.

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Food for Fines

September 19 – 30

The Library will be sponsoring a program to collect Food for Fines for all materials with the exception of DVDs, from Monday, September 19 through Friday, September 30. The donations we collect will be given to the Rondout Valley Food Pantry.

Items sought include canned goods, pasta and other non-perishable items. We will be happy to collect personal care items as well - toothpaste, shampoo, and soap. Please leave your donations in the baskets provided across from the Circulation Desk.

Please be sure to check that food donations are not past their expiration dates and that personal item donations are unopened.
Anyone wishing to make a monetary donation can do so directly to the Rondout Valley Food Pantry. Thank you!
Rondout Valley Food Pantry
3021 Route 213 East
Stone Ridge, N. Y. 12484
845.687.4013

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A Public Reading by the
Stone Ridge Library Writers

September 23, 2016, 7:00-9:00 pm
Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge, NY

To celebrate the Autumnal Equinox and their fourth year, the Stone Ridge Library Wrters invite you to a public reading of their work. Please join them for an evening of poetry and prose. The event is free. Refreshments will be served.

About the Writers:

Catherine Arra is a former English and writing teacher. Her poetry and prose appear or are forthcoming in The Timberline Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Gloom Cupboard and Sugared Water. Her chapbooks are: Slamming & Splitting (Red Ochre Press, 2014) and Loving from the Backbone (Flutter Press, 2015). Catherine facilitates the Stone Ridge Library Writers' Group.

Frank Boyer began writing poetry in his early 20's, and has one way or another kept his hand in ever since. He published one chapbook of early poems, Jumping Out of My Skin, in 2009 and is presently working on a book of five long poetic texts that retell/reuse the Orpheus and Osiris myths. He is always happy to be where poetry is being written or read.

Sheila Finan is an Ulster Co. resident who has worked for decades as a teacher in the Adult Learning Center and as clinical social worker for U.C. Mental Health, now retired. She spent years living and raising children in France, England, Spain and Italy, working for public education here on foreign policy as an internationalist, and is active in current movements in the U.S.A.

Fay L. Loomis lives in the woods, which qualify her as a nemophilist: a haunter of the woods, one who loves the forest, its beauty, and its solitude. An active member of the Stone Ridge Library Writers, her poems, flash fiction, and articles have appeared in print and online publications, including The Beacon, Soul-Lit, Pan's Shadow, Twisted Endings, and Healing Power of the Imagination Journal.

Cliff Mallery began his professional career as a lawyer, first as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn then as in-house counsel for an investment bank. For eight years, he managed the San Francisco office of Bear Stearns. He's also been an adjunct instructor at Mount Saint Mary College. In retirement, he's done volunteer work for the Ulster Literacy Association and the Rochester Food Pantry. He is presently writing his first novel. He lives in Accord with his wife and her dog.

Mike Polcari grew up in Stone Ridge and returned to country living after residing in Boston, San Francisco and Las Vegas. He spends his summers in Northern California running a kid's camp that also inspired his second book. As a former professional poker player, he found many characters on the felt who stoked his creative fire. He writes popular fiction in the thriller genre and has completed two novels.

Carol Shank writes for children, but she's open to writing in many forms and for all ages. She's written work-for-hire picture books for Reading A-Z and Capstone Press. Her poetry has appeared in Cricket, Ladybug, and High Five magazines. Before retiring, she taught elementary school for twenty years, and before that she had many adventures she will soon write about.

Jose Sotolongo is a retired physician, born in Cuba. His fiction has appeared in Turk's Head Review, The Rusty Nail, Ray's Road Review, and The Write Room. He lives in Accord with his spouse and the head of the household, an Australian Labradoodle.

Scott Woods has fond memories of his boyhood on the family tree farm in Sullivan County New York. He's worked as an illustrator of young adult novels for Simon & Schuster, Doubleday, and Bantam Books and spent ten years in Los Angeles working at DreamWorks Animation. Scott's first book, We Hillfolk, recounts his return to the mountains and the creation of the Catskill farmstead he shares with his husband. Scott is presently working on a second book.

The written word is Cecilia Worth's response to pitting herself against adversity. Her topics range from empowerment and dignity for women giving birth and for individuals with AIDS to living in an uninsulated waterless Alaska cabin. She has been published by McGraw-Hill, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Travelers' Tales. Awards include Travelers' Tales Solas Grand Prize for Best Travel story of the Year and the UAA/Anchorage Daily News Grand Prize For Fiction. A book for expectant fathers is her current project.

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Founders Day

October 1
10am - 6pm
Ulster County Historical Society
2682 Route 209, Stone Ridge

WHAT DO SCOTLAND, MARBLETOWN, AND GIBRALTAR HAVE IN COMMON?

MARBLETOWN FOUNDERS' DAY CELEBRATION HAS THE ANSWER AND MUCH MORE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, AT THE ULSTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY/BEVIER HOUSE

On Saturday, October 1st, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., the 4th Annual Marbletown Founders' Day celebrates the 313th anniversary of Marbletown's original land patent grant with a display of history, local art, food, and period demonstrations at the Ulster County Historical Society at the Bevier House.

The event, which is free and open to the public, benefits in part the Stone Ridge Library.

The Founders' Day festivities include:

• Lectures throughout the day!
  • 10:30- The D&H Canal;
  • 11:30 Stone Houses Galore;
  • 1:30 Music and Musicians in early Ulster County;
  • 2:30 Dynamic women through the Early History of the Area.
• An Art Exhibit and Sale presented by Wired Gallery of High Falls, featuring painting, sculpture and photography by two-dozen area artists.
• Demonstrations of colonial crafts – weaving, spinning, and reed braiding.
• Display of historic postcards showing early images of Main Street, Stone Ridge from the Stone Ridge Library's local history collection.
• Free access to the collection of the Ulster County Historical Society at the Bevier House, which highlights the diversity of Ulster County history through its extensive collection of tools, and civil war memorabilia. The Bevier House is one of the oldest houses in the Ulster County built around 1680.
• Children's scavenger hunt and raptor demonstrations.
• All day 21st century period food offered by Black Board Bistro

The event is sponsored by the Town of Marbletown.

A BRIEF HISTORY:

So, what is the historic link between Marbletown, Scotland and Gibraltar?
The answer is… Queen Anne (1665-1714).

William of Orange and his wife Mary (sister of Anne) assumed the British throne after a successful invasion of England in 1688. Mary died childless in 1694 and William never remarried. After 17 pregnancies, 12 miscarriages and 4 infant deaths, Anne's lone surviving and sickly son, Prince William, Prince of Gloucester died in 1700. The Act of Settlement (1701) put Anne in line for the throne which she assumed at William's death in 1702.

During Anne's short reign, one of many land patents were granted to retired officers and foot soldiers living in the vicinity of what is today Marbletown, dating from June of 1703. Scotland voluntarily joined the British Empire under the Act of Union in 1707 and Gibraltar came into the British Empire under the Treaties of Utrecht (1713) that ended the War of the Spanish Succession.

The first settlers to reside in what is now the Town of Marbletown are believed to have come from nearby Hurley in roughly 1669. Decommissioned British soldiers would build homesteads on the banks of the Rondout Creek, whose name derives from the Dutch word fort or redoubt that was erected near its mouth at the Hudson River in nearby Kingston. The rich soil on these banks would become an important breadbasket for the growing colonial city of New York and its environs, a short 100 mile float down the Hudson River. By 1703, the Town of Marbletown had received a land patent, granted by Queen Anne of England to Colonel Henry Beekman, Captain Thomas Garton and Captain Charles Broadhead on the 23rd of June of that year—which is the anniversary we now celebrate. The original document is on display as part of the permanent collection of the Ulster County Historical Society at the Bevier House.

In 1704, a New York silversmith, Jacob Boelen (1657-1729), was commissioned to design and render the Town stamp, a replica of which is also on display at the Bevier House, on loan from the Town of Marbletown. The original stamp is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Boelen captured the essence of Marbletown of the period in a simple rendering of deer in the upper register of the seal, signifying the bounty of the nearby forests teeming with game. On the lower register of the seal the artist depicted sheaves of wheat, symbolizing the abundance resulting from the fertile soils that lined the Rondout Creek. With a telling motto, "Be Just/To Trust," which captured both the simplicity and poignancy of the area's Dutch cultural inheritance, the Town of Marbletown was born.

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Coming in October:

Fall Book Sale

Saturday, Oct. 8
10am - 2pm, on the Library Lawn

Bag Sale

Sunday, Oct. 9
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
$10 a bag.

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Stacie Flint Art on Display
at the Library

The art of Stacie Flint is all about color; her oil and acrylic paintings complement the warmth of summer. These vibrant works depict figures set in lively, patterned interiors, as well as unique still lifes and landscapes. They combine inventive color, painterly brushwork, playful, animated energy, and create a light and breezy world with a feeling of freedom.

Flint also uses her distinctive colorful style for commissioned work; creating portraits of her clients and their family life. She teaches a workshop at her studio
on creative expression, and in addition to being a member of Roost, is part of the Gardiner Open Studio Tour and the Ulster/Dutchess mobile co-op LongreachArts, and sings in the women's choral group Bloom.

A resident of New Paltz, Flint's paintings and portraits are owned nationally and internationally. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Mid-Hudson Valley, New York City, and beyond. Her art has been featured on numerous magazine covers including Chronogram, The Valley Table, The Ulster County Community Guide, HITS Program Guide and The Van Wyck Gazette and has appeared in various issues of The New York Times, Hudson Valley Magazine, Poughkeepsie Journal, New Paltz Times and other publications. Her commissioned public art is on permanent display at Ulster County Area Transit in Kingston. Flint illustrated a children's book "Ten Pigs Fiddling" by Ron Atlas (2005 Amberwood Press), and created work for two music CD covers by the band Grenadilla.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, September 14
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is The Luminaries by Elinor Catton. This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, September 21
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for September is The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg. Erica, a thirtysomething biographer struggling with her latest book, deals with her grief over her parents' untimely death and her mixed feelings about returning to her hometown after years in Stockholm. On a whim, she visits her childhood friend Alex only to find her dead in the bathtub. The grieving parents ask Erica to write an article about Alex for a local newsletter, which forces her to try to make sense of her friend's life and death. As Erica delves deeper into Alex's past, she begins to work with a local police officer, Patrik, another childhood friend, and together they uncover secrets that some people would greatly prefer were left secret.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, October 19
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for October is Edward Alper's
The Indian Ocean in World History. The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography.

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Conversational Spanish
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, September 27
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.

New as of this month, Heidi is now also facilitating the original group on the first Tuesdays. 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 Spanish
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, October 4
1:30-2:30 in the Bio Room

Good News! Heidi Ehrich has offered to facilitate the Conversational Spanish group that Cliff Rockmuller began at the Library beginning in October. Cliff has moved to New Paltz, and we understand that he is meeting with students at the Elting Library. We thank Cliff for starting this fun and interesting group, and we wish him well. The sessions will take place on the first Tuesday of the month as in the past. Cliff's group will meet on the first Wednesday in New Paltz.

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.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, September 20, 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, September 12, 26
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, September 8, 22 ,
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

September 2, 2016

Movie Title: The Light Between Oceans
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbinder, Rachel Weisz

September 2, 2016

Movie Title: The 9th Life of Louis Drax
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
Director: Alexandre Aja
Cast: Jamie Dornan, Aaron Paul, Sarah Gadon, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Barbara Hershey, Aiden Longworth

September 9, 2016

Movie Title: Sully
Where: Theaters
Based on: Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Tom Hanks, Laura Linney

September 16, 2016

Movie Title: Bridget Jones's Baby
Where: Theaters
Based on: Bridget Jones characters by Helen Fielding
Director: Sharon Maguire
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey

September 16, 2016

Movie Title: Snowden
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Timothy Olyphant, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson

September 23, 2016

Movie Title: The Dressmaker
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Dressmaker by Roaslie Ham
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Cast: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth

September 23, 2016

Movie Title: Goat
Where: Theaters
Based on: Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land
Director: Andrew Neel
Cast: Nick Jonas, Ben Schnetzer, Virginia Gardner

September 23, 2016

Movie Title: Queen of Katwe
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Queen of Katwe: A Story Of Life, Chess, And One Extraordinary Girl's Dream Of Becoming A Grandmaster by Tim Crothers
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo

September 25, 2016

Movie Title: Poldark, Season 2
Where: TV Limited Series -- PBS
Based on: Cornwall Series by Graham Winston
Director: Edward Bazalgette & William McGregor
Cast: Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson

September 30, 2016

Movie Title: Denial
Where: Theaters
Based on: History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah Lipstadt
Director: Mick Jackson
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Epp

September 30, 2016

Movie Title: Luke Cage
Where: TV Limited Series -- Netflix
Based on: Luke Cage - Marvel Comics by Archie Goodwin and John Romita, Sr.
Director: Cheo Hodari Coker
Cast: Mahershala Ali, Mike Colter, Frankie Faison

September 30, 2016

Movie Title: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Where: Theaters
Based on: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Eva Green

Construction Updates

Work done on the corner of the 1811 building. more

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Library Elf

Sign up today and avoid overdues with email alerts

Elf is a web-based and email tool for library users to keep track of their library borrowings. Elf is like a personal assistant, whose task is to help with keeping track of what one has on loan from the library. Designed with the busy or avid library user in mind, Elf is ideal for families with multiple library cards.

Keep track of:

• Due dates
  
• Overdue materials
  
• Requested items ready for pickup

This is easier because you can choose:

• Notifications via text or email
  
• Customizable dates of notification
  
• Consolidated notifications
  Manage more than one Library Account
  
• Real time information and calendar view via browser

Elf is supported through subscriptions [the Mid-Hudson Library System has subscribed for 1 year] Without the Library subscribing the basic reminder service is free, but the premium service is for a fee. Sign up

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Zinio Digital Magazines

54 new titles (and a full year backlist of each title) have been added to the MHLS eMagazine collection. we now have access to 145 magazines digitally, through Zinio Digital Magazines for Libraries.

• Click How to set up Zinio for a helpful PDF.
  
• Here's a quick "how to" video.

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Internet Safety and Strong Passwords

The Adriance Library has created a PDF with links to password and safety sites. more

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eMail: Stone Ridge Library
eMail: Website Manager

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