October 2016

New Fiction

• Cooking for Picasso - Camille Aubray
• Pushing Up Daisies - M.C. Beaton
• Thrice the Brinded Cat Hat Mew'd - Alan Bradley
• The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon
• Surrender, New York - Caleb Carr
• The Hamilton Affair - Elizabeth Cobbs
• Robert B Parker's Debt to Pay - Reed Farrel Coleman
• Insidious: an FBI Thriller - Catherine Coulter
• Curious Minds: a Knight Moon novel - Janet Evanovich
• Killer Look - Linda FairsteinLeave Me - Gayle Forman
• The Sleeping World - Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
• We Could be Beautiful - Swan Huntley
• Downfall: a Brady novel of suspense - J.A. Jance
• The Tea Planter's Wife - Dinah Jefferies
• Nutshell - Ian McEwan
• I Will Send Rain - Rae Meadows
• Crash and Burn - Fern Michaels
• So Say the Fallen - Stuard Neville
• Commonwealth - Ann Patchett
• Revenge in a cold River: a William Monk novel - Anne Perry
• Apprentice in Death - J.D. Robb
• Two She-Bears - Meir Shalev
• The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko - Scott Stambach
• Rushing Waters - Danielle Steel
• Lady Cop Makes Trouble: a Kopp Sisters novel - Amy Stewart
• Another Brooklyn - Jacqueline Woodson

New Non-Fiction

• Becoming a U.S. Citizen: a Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview - Ilona Bray, J.D.
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
• When in French: love in a Second Language - Lauren Collins
• Turkey - Eyewitness Travel
• Spain - Fodor's Travel
• Frommer's Easy Guide to New Orleans
• Frommer's Hawaii
• Cookie Advent Cookbook: with 24 Festive Recipes - Barbara Grunes
• Ecuador & Galapagos - Insite Guides
• Prefabulous Small Houses - Sheri Koones
• Big Book of Knitted Mittens: 45 Distinctive Scandinavian Patterns - Jorid Linvik
• Greek Islands - Lonely Planet
• Cuba - Lonely Planet
• Taunton's New Kitchen Idea Book - Heather J. Paper
• Rough Guide to Mexico
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race - Margot Lee Shetterly
• Europe Through the Back Door 2017 - Rick Steves
• Germany 2016 - Rick Steves
• Spain 2016 - Rick Steves
• The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership that Defined a Presidency - Kathryn Smith
• Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J.D. Vance
• Woodwork Projects for Your Garden and Porch: Simple, Functional, and Rustic Decor You can Build Yourself - Mattias Wenblad
• Craig Climbed a Tree: His Lifelong Struggle - Fran & Craig Wishnick

New Large Print

• In such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mahem, and Fun in the Sandbox - Carol Burnett
• The Wonder - Emma Donoghue

New Audio Books

Recently Donated:

• The Sign - Raymond Khoury
• In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick

New DVD's

• A Bigger Splash - Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson
• Captain America: Civil War - Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie,
  Don Cheadle,
  Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen
• Genius - Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney
• Hunt for Wilder People - Sam Neill, Julian Dennison
• The Innocents - Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza
• Indian Summers - season 1 & 2 - Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Jemima West, Julie Walters
  
• Love & Friendship - Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigney
• Me Before You - Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin
• The Meddler - Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, JK Simmons
• Money Monster - George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell
• Moone Boy, Season 1,2,3 - Chris O'Dowd
• Sherlock: The Abominable Bride - Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman

Recently Donated DVDs

• Big Hero 6 - animated
• Ghostbusters 1 & 2 - Bill Murray
• Land of the Lost - Will Ferrell
• Legends, season 1 - Sean Bean
• Lucy - Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman

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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.

Top 100 Killer Thrillers

NPR listeners voted for the best thrillers. more

1. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

3. Kiss the Girls, by James Patterson

4. The Bourne Identity, by Robert Ludlum

5. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

6. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

7. The Shining, by Stephen King

8. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

9. The Hunt tor Red October, by Tom Clancy

10. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11. Dracula, by Bram Stoker

12. The Stand, by Stephen King

13. The Bone Collector, by Jeffery Deaver

14. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton

15. Angels & Demons, by Dan Brown

16. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham

17. The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton

18. Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane

19. The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth

20. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

21. Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett

22. It, by Stephen King

23. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

24. The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson

25. Jaws, by Peter Benchley

26. The Alienist, by Caleb Carr

27. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris

28. Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow

29. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett

30. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson

31. No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy

32. Gone Baby Gone, by Dennis Lehane

33. Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith

34. Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin

35. Subterranean, by James Rollins

36. Clear and Present Danger, by Tom Clancy

37. Salem's Lot, by Stephen King

38. Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane

39. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carre

40. The Poet, by Michael Connelly

41. The Boys from Brazil, by Ira Levin

42. Cape Fear, by John MacDonald

43. The Bride Collector, by Ted Dekker

44. Pet Sematary, by Stephen King

45. Dead Zone, by Stephen King

46. The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon

47. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre

48. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith

49. Tell No One, by Harlan Coben

50. Consent to Kill, by Vince Flynn

51. The 39 Steps, by John Buchan

52. Blowback, by Brad Thor

53. The Children of Men, by P.D. James

54. 61 Hours, by Lee Child

55. Marathon Man, by William Goldman

56. The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

57. 206 Bones, by Kathy Reichs

58. Psycho, by Robert Bloch

59. The Killing Floor, by Lee Child

60. Rules of Prey, by John Sandford

61. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

62. In the Woods, by Tana French

63. Shogun, by James Clavell

64. The Relic, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

65. Intensity, by Dean Koontz

66. Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming

67. Metzger's Dog, by Thomas Perry

68. Timeline, by Michael Crichton

69. Contact, by Carl Sagan

70. What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman

71. The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

72. The Cabinet of Curiosities, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

73. Charm School, by Nelson DeMille

74. Feed, by Mira Grant

75. Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child

76. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay

77. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt

78. The First Deadly Sin, by Lawrence Sanders

79. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

80. The Brotherhood of the Rose, by David Morrell

81. Primal Fear, by William Diehl

82. The Templar Legacy, by Steve Berry

83. The Hard Way, by Lee Child [tie]

84. The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper

85. Six Days of the Condor, by James Grady

86. Fail-Safe, by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

87. Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith

88. The Eight, by Katherine Neville

89. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

90. Goldfinger, by Ian Fleming

91. Bangkok 8, by John Burdett

92. The Kill Artist, by Daniel Silva

93. Hardball, by Sara Paretsky

94. The Club Dumas, by Arturo Perez-Reverte

95. The Deep Blue Good-by, by John MacDonald

96. The Monkey's Raincoat, by Robert Crais

97. Berlin Game, by Len Deighton [tie]

98. A Simple Plan, by Scott Smith

99. Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith

100. Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain

FALL BOOK SALE

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

Bag Sale

Sunday, Oct. 9
10am - 2pm, on the Library Lawn

In addition to Saturday's giant book sale, there will be soups from Davenport's, Hasbrouck House, High Falls Kitchenette, Hillside Friends and Family, Lekker, Lydia's, Saunderskill Farms and The High Falls Cafe at Stone Dock Golf Course. Breads and rolls from the Roost, Ethan's artisan bread, and a bake sale will keep everyone fed as they browse the amazing assortment of newly donated books. Then, on Sunday, also from 10am to 2pm, we'll have the "Bag Sale," with a whole bag of books going for $10. Proceeds will go to the Library's operating budget—utilities, books, supplies, etcetera...

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FOUNDERS DAY

Saturday, October 1 from 10 am to 6pm
at the Ulster County Historical Society
(Bevier House), 2682 Route 209.

Founders Day commemorates the 313th anniversary of Marbletown's original Land Grant from Queen Anne. History, local art, food and period demonstrations will take place and there will be Lectures throughout the day…on topics ranging from the D&H Canal, Stone Houses, Music in early Ulster County, and Dynamic Women in the early history of our area.

Art will include a show and sale curated by Wired Gallery of High Falls representing several local artists to benefit in part the Stone Ridge Library. Colonial crafts like weaving and spinning and reed braiding will recall days gone by. "Main Street Stone Ridge" will come to life with an exhibit of historic postcards from the Library's local history collection.

The Bevier House (built in 1680, making it one of Ulster County's earlies architectural treasures) will be open all day. Drop in to see their collection of tools and Civil War memorabilia.

This free event, sponsored by the Town of Marbletown will also feature a children's scavenger hunt and a raptor demonstration. Food will be provided all day by Black Board Bistro.

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FREE COMMUNITY
SHRED DAY

Saturday, November 5, 9am - Noon
In the Library Parking Lot

Examples of items you may bring for
on-site shredding include:

• Bank Statements
• Medical/Insurance forms
• Tax forms
• Receipts
• Personal Files
• CDs/DVDs
• Credit Cards

Please bring paper only; no binders. Staples and paperclips do not need to be removed. The shredded paper will be recycled.
Limit of 3 boxes.

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This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

From October 13-27, the eBook This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp will be available for every patron that wishes to read it—no holds, no wait lists. Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun. Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.

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Pat Kelly's Art on Display
at the Library

Pat Kelly's love of drawing began at a very early age, with an equal love of horses. "I drew horses as long as I can remember," she says. "I even failed algebra because we were given little pieces of paper at the beginning of each class with which to solve the day's problems, and I couldn't resist filling them with horses." The love of drawing and of horses led, in time, to fulfilling careers as a professional horsewoman and as an artist whose oil and pastel paintings are included in many private and corporate collections in the U.S.A., as well as in Europe and South America. "I had the good fortune of beginning my formal studies at the Art Students League in New York with the renowned anatomy teacher, Robert Beverly Hale. "He refined my drawings of horses by comparing their anatomy with that of the human figure and opened up many avenues for me with his encouragement and input. As a result, I love drawing the figure and all animals. A good thing, too, as my first commission was of buffalo!"

Developing her artistic skills while attending the Art Students League in Woodstock (which eventually became the Woodstock School of Art) she also began her career as a professional horsewoman. Working with horses, which she considers "living works of Art," Pat assembled a large number of drawings and photographs which served as references for future work. She drew on her professional experience in co-authoring the best-selling book, Horse Around the House, for which she also did over 200 illustrations. She has illustrated numerous articles, magazines, book covers and posters as well. In recent years, she has expanded her work to include figures drawings and plein aire painting, often with people in contemporary life situations. In landscapes, she found herself drawn to water scenes, which she attributes to her childhood growing up in Connecticut next to Long Island Sound. "I spent my youth as a 'water rat,' living in a bathing suit and swimming daily during the season. That has left me with a real nostalgia for the water. Since these waterscapes seem to sell well," she says, "I assume other folks have the same love." A resident of Kerhonkson, Pat has been included in numerous juried shows as well as group and solo shows, both regionally and nationally, including a successful one-woman show at the Art Society of Kingston. She is an active member of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, the Pastel Society of America and the Art Society of Kingston ... as well as an enthusiastic member of the Stone Ridge Library!

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, October 12
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble. Freda Haxby Palmer, author of the feminist classic The Matriarchy of War, was always more popular with her readers than with her own children. Her three offspring, now married and middle-aged, lead respectable lives, but Freda's behavior has gone from bad to worse. She lives like a hippie in a rundown seaside retreat in Exmoor. Her most recent book, a romance novel based on the life of Queen Christina, was universally panned. Lately, she has taken on the British tax code in the courts. But when Freda turns up missing, her estate suddenly seems more desirable. A movie producer has optioned her romance novel, and a sizable fortune may go to David D'Anger, M.P., her black son-in-law, to finance his utopian dream of creating a truly just society, an idea that makes the rest of the family cringe. This novel reexamines one of Drabble's favorite themes, the extent to which political idealism is a luxury of the privileged classes. This combination soap opera/novel of ideas, peppered with daunting Briticisms, is recommended for most Anglophile fiction collections. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, October 19
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Broken Shore by Peter Temple. Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, The Broken Shore, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death, he's posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community—everyone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong. The Broken Shore is a transfixing and moving novel about a place, a family, politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten.

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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, 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 Spanish
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, October 25, 1:30-2:30
Biography Room

Heidi Ehrich will be facilitating a second Conversational Spanish session every fourth Tuesday at the Library at 1:30. This is an opportunity to practice your Spanish language skills at a slower pace, the only pre-requisite being a basic conversational ability in Spanish.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, October 18, 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, October 17, 31
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, October 13, 27,
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

October 7, 2016

Movie Title: The Girl on the Train
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Justin Theroux, Rebecca Ferguson, Edgar Ramirez, Allison Janney and Lisa Kudrow

October 7, 2016

Movie Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson
Director: Stephen Herek
Cast: Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close

October 7, 2016

Movie Title: The King's Daughter
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N McIntyre
Director: Sean McNamara
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker, Kaya Scodelario, Pablo Schreiber, Fan Bingbing

October 7, 2016

Movie Title: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Where: Theaters
Based on: Middle School series by James Patterson
Director: Steve Carr
Cast: Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle, Jacob Hopkins

October 14, 2016

Movie Title: Certain Women
Where: Theaters
Based on: Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, James Le Gros, Jared Harris, Lily Gladstone

October 16, 2016

Movie Title: The Durrells in Corfu
Where: TV Limited Series -- PBS Masterpiece
Based on: The Corfu Trilogy, beginning with My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Director: Steve Barron and Simon Nye
Cast: Keeley Hawes, Josh O'Connor, Callum Woodhouse, Daisy Waterstone and Milo Parker

October 21, 2016

Movie Title: American Pastoral
Where: Theaters
Based on: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Director: Ewan McGregor
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning

October 21, 2016

Movie Title: The Handmaiden (Korean)
Where: Theaters
Based on: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Director: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Kim Tae-ri

October 21, 2016

Movie Title: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Where: Theaters
Based on: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back by Lee Child
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Tom Cruise

October 22, 2016

Movie Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Where: TV Limited Series, Comedy, Sci-Fi -- BBC
Based on: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Director: Robert Cooper
Cast: Elijah Wood, Samuel Barnett

October 28, 2016

Movie Title: Inferno
Where: Theaters
Based on: Inferno by Dan Brown
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tom Hanks

Construction Updates

Five Star Exteriors are painting the 1811 building. more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Hathi Trust – Digitized Books

You may have heard, or read, about the Google Books Project, where some major research universities scanned and digitized entire library collections. It was a massive undertaking. There is also an Internet Archive of more material (over 10 million books) that has been preserved in electronic format. The Hathi Trust Digital Library has built a robust online platform to bring these, and other, resources together into a searchable database. Their primary aim with their partners: "… to build a comprehensive archive of published literature from around the world. The Adriance Library has prepared an informative PDF. more

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