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Death of an Honest Man - MC Beaton
Madness is Better than Defeat - Ned Beauman
The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin
The Tuscan Child -
RhysBowen
Iron Gold: a Red Rising novel - Pierce Brown
Need to Know - Karen Cleveland
The Woman in the Water: a Prequel to the Charles Lenox series - Charles Finch
The Woman in the Window - A J Finn
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Poison - John Lescroart
A Time of Love and Tartan: a 44 Scotland Street novel - Alexander McCall Smith
Down the River unto the Sea - Walter Mosley
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper - Phaedra Patrick
City of Endless Night - Preston & Child
Sadness is a White Bird - Moriel Rothman-Zecher
The Gate Keeper - Charles Todd
The Neighborhood - Mario Vargas Llosa
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
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Time Pieces: a Memoir - John Banville
The Other Einstein - Marie Benedict
Going into Town: a Love Letter to New York - Roz Chast
When: The Sccientific Secrets of Perfect Timing - Daniel H Pink
What Ever Hapened to My White Picket Fence?: My Brain Injury from My Massive Brain Tumor - Janet Johnson Schiff
Earthly Signs: Moscow diaries 1917-1922 - Marina Tsvetaeva
Social Security Administration Answers to 100 Frequently Asked Questions about Retirement - ed. by John Weber
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House - Michael Wolff
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The Spy - Paulo Coelho
The Woman in the Window - A J Finn
The Little French Bistro - Nina George
Munich - Robert Harris
Night Moves - Jonathan Kellerman
The People vs. Alex Cross - James Patterson
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving - Julia Samuel
Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
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The Grave's a Fine and Private Place - Alan Bradley
Fools and Mortals - Bernard Cornwell
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
Peter the Great: his Life and World - Robert K. Massie
City of Endless Light - Preston & Child
Dark in Death - JD Robb
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House - Michael Wolff
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Coco - Annimated
Darkest Hour - Gary Oldman
The Florida Project - Willem Dafoe
Homeland - season 6
LBJ - Woody Harrelson
Murder on the Orient Express - Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Penelope Cruz
Only the Brave - Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges
Same Kind of Different as Me - Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, Renee Zellweger
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Walking Out - Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins
Wonder - Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay
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We feature reading suggestions each month. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.
Diversity is our Strength
Does my Head Look Big in This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents - Julia Alvarez
The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam
West of Kabul, East of New York - Mir Tamim Ansary
American Chica - Marie Arana
Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Lilies of the Field - William Edmund Barrett
How does it Feel to be a Problem - Moustafa Bayoumi
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Life in Motion: an Unlikely Ballerina - Misty Copeland 792.802 COP
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children - Kirstin Cronn-Mills
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The Watson's go to Birmingham, 1963 - Christopher Paul Curtis
Funny in Farsi - Firoozeh Dumas
Our America: a Hispanic History of the United States - Felipe Fernandez-Armseto
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
Breaking the Line: the Season in Black College Football that Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights - Samuel G. Freedman
Annie on My Mind - Nancy Garden
The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family - Annette Gordon-Reed
Thinking in Pictures: and Other Reports from my Life with Autism - Temple Grandin
Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi
The Vision of Emma Blau - Ursula Hegi
The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Negroland: a memoir - Margo Jefferson
A Free Life - Ha Jin
Miss Anne in Harlem : the White Women of the Black Renaissance - Carla Kaplan
Calling Me Home: a novel - Julie Kibler
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Chitlin' Circuit : and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll - Preston Lauterbach
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Breakfast on Pluto - Patrick McCabe
Allah, Liberty, and Love : the Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom - Irshad Manji
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis
Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds - Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac 323.11 Mey
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time - Adrian Miller
Redefining Realness : My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More - Janet Mock
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat - Edward Kelsey Moore
The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
The Last Refuge : the Corruption of Patriotism and Environment in the Age of Terror - David W. Orr 306.2 Orr
Luna - Julie Anne Peters
My New American Life - Francine Prose
Looking for Palestine: Growing up Confused in an Arab-American Family - Najla Said 305.892 sai
Yes, Chef: a memoir - Marcus Samuelsson 641.509 SAM
Persepolis - Satrapi, Marjane
An Invisible Thread : the True Story of an 11-year-old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny - Laura Schroff
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
My Beloved World: a memoir - Sonia Sotomayor 347.73 SOT
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis bio Parks
How to be Black - Baratunde Thurston
Black Man in a White Coat : a Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine - Damon Tweedy, M.D
The Color Purple-Alice Walker
Men we Reaped: a memoir - Jesmyn Ward
Help Me to Find my People: the African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery - Heather Andrea Williams
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
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Useful Fruiting Plants for the Home Garden
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Sunday, March 11, from 2-4 pm
Marbletown Community Center
 The Library will host an illustrated lecture featuring Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano of Hortus Conclusus on March 11.
The program will provide an opportunity to learn about landscaping the home and garden with a rich diversity of edible fruiting plants from around the world, and the under-appreciated wild fruit from our native forest. The presentation will cover plants that can be grown in the Hudson Valley climate, as grown at the Hortus Conclusus, Botanical Garden/Arboretum in Stone Ridge.
 Hortus Conclusus was created by Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano to support their goal of creating a botanical garden that seves as an educational resource. Their small family-run business specializes in edible and decorative landscaping, garden consultation, and installations. Allyson Levy is a Master Gardener and is certified as an arborist through the International Society of Arborists. Scott Serrano is responsible for the creation of Hortus Conclusus, which has been recognized as a Class 1 arboretum though the Morton Registry of Arboretums.
The program is free and open to the public, and no registration is necessary. For information, or in case of inclement weather, please check our Facebook page or call the program office, 687-7023, Ext. 108.
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Library Use Value Calculator
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Curious how much the services the library provides you would cost if you had to pay for them directly? Use our Library Value Calculator to find out. Just enter the number of times you or your family use each service. The estimated retail value of each service will be calculated on the right, and the total value of your library use is shown at the bottom of the worksheet, with a yearly total on top.
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A sure sign spring is nearly here, we will begin accepting book donations after April 1, 2018.
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Announcing the Periwinkle Fund for the
Stone Ridge Library Children's Area
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 The Periwinkle Fund was started by an anonymous grandparent with a desire to help improve the children's library. You too can show your love for our littlest patrons by making a donation. Until June 2018, every one of your dollars up to $500 will be matched by this anonymous donor. The funds will be used to improve the children's area with a new all-purpose room, back porch, kitchenette and restroom. So, give to the Periwinkle Fund now and let your money be doubled. (And, don't worry...anyone can give to the Periwinkle Fund!).
You can give securely
online here, please add "Periwinkle Fund" in the Additional Comments section. Your gift will make a difference so thank you for supporting the Stone Ridge Library.
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Every Friday, at 10am
We are starting a group to play Mahjong, beginners are welcome. We have two sets available but welcome additional sets if available to loan. Register on line on the
calendar or at the Circulation Desk in the Library, or just walk in. Our group will meet every Friday at 10am.
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 Tuesdays: 10:00-11:00
March 6, 13, 20
April 3, 10, 17, 24
We are excited to welcome back Ms. Celeste to the Stone Ridge Library as our preschool story time presenter. Ms. Celeste's Story times are growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. She is imaginative, fun, energetic, and captures the imaginations of our littlest patrons. Story time is a exciting and fanciful introduction to the library, and a great opportunity to meet area children and parents . The Preschool story hour is open to children ages 3-5
The preschool story time is brought to you in partnership with the Marbletown Youth Commission. The children's room appreciates their continued support of our library's preschool programming.
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Wednesday, March 14
4pm in the Biography Room
Our book for February i
s The Little French Bistro by Nina George. Marianne Messman longs to escape her loveless marriage. On a trip to Paris, Marianne decides to leap into the Seine, but she is saved from drowning by a homeless man. While recovering in hospital, Marianne comes across a painting of the tiny port town of Kerdruc in Brittany and decides to try her luck on the coast. In Kerdruc, Marianne meets a host of colourful characters who all gravitate around the restaurant of Ar Mor (The Sea). It is this cast of true Bretons who become Marianne's new family, and among whom she will find love once again.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group |
 Wednesday, March 21
4pm in the Biography Room
This month we will be reading A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler. A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.
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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club |
Saturday, April 11
7pm in the Biography Room
The reading selection for February is The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore. A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism. A tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women's rights - a chain of events that begins with the women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later.
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 Conversational Spanish
Tuesday, March 27
1:30-3:00
Biography Room
Conversational Spanish is held on the fourth Tuesday of every month, from 1:30 - 3:00 in the Reference Room. Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for these sessions.
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 Conversational French
Tuesday, March 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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 POETRY
Thursday, March 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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 Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra
Monday, March 12, 26
4:00-6:30pm
Second Group starting in May
Two separate writers' groups meet on alternate Mondays at the library, with a maximum of 10 participants in each group. This program is designed for those who are actively writing and publishing work and who want to participate in a structured critical feedback process. Cathy Arra, a poet, writer, and former teacher of English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District, facilitates the groups. If you are interested in participating, please contact Cathy Arra to place your name on the waiting list. Group I is full. Group II will begin May 2018.
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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 This Month
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March 2, 2018
Movie Title:
Death Wish
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Death Wish by Brian Garfield
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Dean Norris
March 2, 2018
Movie Title:
Red Sparrow
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Sergei Polunin
March 9, 2018
Movie Title:
The Death of Stalin
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Death of Stalin by Fabien Nury
Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Andrea Riseborough, Adrian McLoughlin, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs
March 9, 2018
Movie Title:
The Leisure Seeker
Where: Theaters
Based on:
The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
Director: Paolo Virzì
Cast: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland
March 9, 2018
Movie Title:
A Wrinkle In Time
Where: Theaters
Based on:
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Zach Galifianakis
March 30, 2018
Movie Title:
Lean on Pete
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Charlie Plummer, Choe Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Travis Fimmell, Steve Zahn
March 30, 2018
Movie Title:
Ready Player One
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn
March 30, 2018
Movie Title:
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Where: TV Limited Series - Netflix
Based on:
A Series of Unfortunate Events, books 5-9 by Lemony Snicket
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld and Mark Palansky
Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Malina Weissman, Louis HynesKlaus
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