November 2016

New Fiction

• A Terrible Beauty: a Lady Emily mystery- Tasha Alexander
• Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood
• The German Girl - Armando Lucas Correa
• You're Still Sick? - Julie Jacobsen Deck
• The Girl from Everywhere - Heidi Heilig
• The Mistletow Murder: and Other Stories - P.D. James
• Night Watch - Iris Johansen
• Precious and Grace: the new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel - Alexander McCall Smith
• Missing: a Private novel - James Patterson
• Pharaoh: a novel of Ancient Egypt - Wilbur Smith
• Two by Two - Nicholas Sparks
• The Second Death: a Mystery of ancient Ireland - Peter Tremyne
• Sex, Lies & Serious Money: a Stone Barrington novel - Stuart Woods

New Non-Fiction

• The Garden Bible: Designing your perfect outdoor space - Barbara Ballinger
• Suddenly Single After 50: The Girlfriends Guide to Navigating Loss, Restoring Hope and Rebuilding Your Life - Barbara Ballinger
• House Rules: An Architect's Guide to Modern Life - Deborah Berke
• Poet's Market 2017 - Robert Lee Brewer, editor
• Our Time at Foxhollow Farm: a Hudson Valley Family Remembered - David Byers
• Work Clean: What Great Chefs can Teach us about Organization; The Life-Changing Power of Mise-en-place to Organize your Life, Work, and Mind - Dan Charnas
• Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2017
• The Rain in Portugal: poems - Billy Collins
• A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life - Pat Conroy
• Love Your Life Not Theirs: 7 Money Habits for Living the Life You Want - Rachel Cruze
• My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Unsubscribe: How to Kill email anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and get Real Work Done - Jocelyn K. Glei
• Still the One: a Rock'n'Roll Journey to Congress and Back - John Hall
• the Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide - William B. Helmreich
• Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal - Jack Kelly
• I Modify IKEA: Furnishings from Everyone's Favorite Store, Customized for Your Home - Elyse Majoe
• Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to change the World - Bill Nye
• My Adirondacks: Ten Stories from Twenty Years - Erik Schlimmer
• The Nine of Us: Growing up Kennedy - Jean kennedy Smith
• Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
• The Street That Built a City: McEntee's Chestnut Street, Kingston, and the Rise of New York - Lowell Thing
• Complete National parks of the United States - Mel White

New Large Print

• A Great Reckoning - Louise Penny

New Audio Books

• Pushing Up Daisies: an Agatha Raisin Mystery - M.C. Beaton
• In Such Good Company: Eleven years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox - Carol Burnett
• Surrender, New York - Caleb Carr
• The Wonder - Emma Donoghue
• Belgravia - Julian Fellowes
• Razor Girl - Carl Hiaasen
• The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life - John LeCarre
• His Final Battle: The last Months of Franklin Roosevelt - Joseph Lelyveld
• Love Warrior - Glennon Doyle Melton
• Bullseye - James Patterson
• Woman of God - James Patterson
• A Great Reckoning - Louise Penny
• The Kept Woman - Karin Slaughter
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whithead

Recently Donated Cds

• Duty and Honor - Tom Clancy
• The Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly
  

New DVD's

• Alice Through the Looking Glass - Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter
• Endeavour, third season - Shaun Evans, Roger Allam
• Free State of Jones - Matthew McConaughey
• Ghostbusters Answer the Call - Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth
• The Infiltrator - Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, Amy Ryan
• The Legend of Tarzan - Alexander Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Christopher Waltz
• The Night Manager - Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie
• Our Kind of Traitor - Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris
• Outlander: season 2 - Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Gary Lewis
• Star Trek Beyond - Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba
• X Men Apoclypse - James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence., Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne

Recently Donated DVDs

• Crash - Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon
• Gossip girl, seasons 1 & 2 - Blake Lively
• The Leopard - a Luchino Visconti film
• October Sky - Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern
• Sanjuro - an Akira Kurosawa film
• It's a Wonderful Life - James Stewart, Donna Reed
• Zen Noir - a Marc Rosenbush film

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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.

Did you miss any of these best sellers?

• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Álvarez
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• The Target; The Last Mile by David Baldacci
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• Inferno by Dan Brown
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Personal; Never Go Back by Lee Child
• All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Between the World and Mb by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Burning Room; The Crossing by Michael Connelly
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Top Secret Twenty-One; Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich
• My Brilliant Friend ; Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante
• One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Dark Places; Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• The One and Only by Emily Giffin
• Three Junes by Julia Glass
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• Gray Mountain; Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
• Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
• The Kite Runner ; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
• Waiting by Ha Jin
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Invention of Wings; The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Revival; End of Watch; Finders Keepers by Stephen King
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• A Girl's Guide to Moving On by Debbie Macomber
• After Alice by Gregory Maguire
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• What Alice forgot by Liane Moriarty
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
• Me Before You; After You by JoJo Moyes
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Alert; 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson
• The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
• The collector by Nora Roberts
• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Shanghai Girls ; Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
• The Longest Ride; See Me by Nicholas Sparks
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Blue by Danielle Steel
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• The Help by Kathryn Strockett
• Olive Kitteridge; My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Goldfinch; The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  

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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Reading, Book Signing
by Local Author

Wednesday, November 2 at 4pm
in the Reference Room.

Local author Julie Jacobsen Deck will read from her new book, You're Still Sick? on Wednesday, November 2 at 4pm in the library's Reference Room. The book, a novel, deals with the subject matter of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, a chronic illness which has affected the author personally, as her daughter suffers from this chronic disease, which is a form of dysautonomia, Kirkus Reviews had favorable comments: "…the story does an excellent job of portraying the relentless difficulties of suffering from hard-to-treat, chronic illness… a sometimes-exhausting but realistic portrait of life under physical duress." The program is free and open to the public.

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Borrowed Holidays, Borrowed Capitals with Evan Pritchard

Sunday, November 13, 2-4 pm
Marbletown Community Center

Evan Pritchard, author/historian and Mic Mac descendant, will share his research covering the Algonquian people and their contribution to both our current political structure and seasonal holidays. He will also give examples of many United States capitals which were once centers of population and leadership for Native Americans and how some governmental structures that we have today derive from the Delaware and Haudenosaunee Confederacies of our region. Evan will also speak about the "Nunnowa," and "Gumwin," Indian harvest celebrations, as we prepare for the nation's traditional Thanksgiving celebration. See the recent article in Country Wisdom.

This program is free and open to the public and is suitable for all ages. A reception with seasonal treats will follow the talk. All are welcome; no reservations are necessary.

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Holiday Gift Wall

Monday, November 14

Our Holiday Gift Wall is stocked with unique hand-crafted items ideal for your holiday gift giving. Hand knitted items, jewelry, woven tea towels and beautiful and functional pottery will be available for purchase. A portion of the sales will support the Library's operating budget (books, supplies, programs, etc.)

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday,November 9
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler. The Whitshanks, a Baltimore clan whose history is told through several generations in this sensitive and empathetic novel, is no different than most. As Abby and Red age, their children are drawn back to their sprawling house. When the second part of the novel moves back in time, the shift is jarring at first; but after a fifty year writing career (this is her 20th novel), Tyler has the end in sight. This is a book about the stories we tell each other and the little moments that make up our lives.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, November 16
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Blackhouse by Peter May. A Scottish sleuth, in a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod's struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod's first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he's regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel's end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut. First in The Lewis Trilogy.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Saturday, December 17
12:45pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for December is The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph Ellis. The unexpected story - brilliantly told - of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their individual autonomy. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men responsible.

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Conversational Spanish
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, November 1 and
Tuesday, November 22
1:30-2:30
Biography Room

We are pleased to host two groups of Conversational Spanish every month. On the first Tuesday, from 1:30 – 2:30 Conversational Spanish meets—a continuation of the original group. On fourth Tuesdays, also from 1:30 – 2:30, there is a gathering for those who want to go at a slower pace. Both sessions take place in the Library's Reference Room. Gracias, Heidi!

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, November 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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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra

Monday, November 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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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, November 10,
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

November 4, 2016

Movie Title: Doctor Strange
Where: Theaters
Based on: Doctor Strange comics, (Marvel) by Steve Ditko
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch

November 11, 2016

Movie Title: Arrival (formerly, The Story of Your Life)
Where: Theaters
Based on: Story of Your Life in Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker

November 11, 2016

Movie Title: Elle
Where: Theaters
Based on: Oh by Philippe Djian
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Christian Berkel

November 11, 2016

Movie Title: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Where: Theaters
Based on: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Joe Alwyn, Steve Martin, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel and Chris Tucker

November 18, 2016

Movie Title: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Where: Theaters
Based on: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a Companion book to Harry Potter by J.K. Row;ing
Director: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Dan Fogler, Samantha Morton, Gemma Chan, Carmen Ejogo, Jon Voight

November 18, 2016

Movie Title: A Street Cat Named Bob
Where: Theaters
Based on: A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Bob the Cat

November 25, 2016

Movie Title: Lion
Where: Theaters
Based on: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
Director: Garth Davis
Cast: Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel

Construction Updates

John Saldi. more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Techboomers

Techboomers is a free guide to learning how to use popular websites and internet-based applications, as well as learning general stuff about the internet. It provides free video and article tutorials in a language suited to those who may not be the most tech-savvy. These tutorials teach the easiest and most efficient ways to use the websites, as well as how these websites can improve one's quality of life. The Adriance library has prepared a helpful PDF. more

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