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House of Secrets - VC Andrews
End Game - David Baldacci
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place - Alan Bradlwy
Robicheaux - James Lee Burke
Emergence - C.J. Cherryh
Fools and Mortals - Bernard Cornwell
The Wanted - Robert Crais
The Marsh King's Daughter - Karen Dionne
The Mitford Murders - Jessica Fellowes
Quiet Until the Thaw - Alexandra Fuller
Shroud of Eternity - Terry Goodkind
Say My Name - Allegra Huston
A Book of Nonsense - Edward Lear
Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire
Points North - Howard Frank Mosher
Still Me - Jojo Moyes
Elmet - Fiona Mozley
A State of Freedom - Neel Mukherjee
The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Dark in Death - J.D. Robb
The Muralist - B.A. Shapiro
The Winter Station - Jody Shields
Fall From Grace - Danielle Steel
The Infinite Future - Tim Wirkus
Unbound - Stuart Woods
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1100 Words You Need to Know - Barron's
Grant - Ron Chernow
Australia 2018 - Frommer's Easy
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta - Kushanava Choudhury
The Monk of Mokha - Dave Eggers
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Ciries, and the Remaking of the Civilized World - Jeff Goodell
Whole 30 Fast & Easy - Melissa Hartwig
You Need a Budget - Jesse Mecham
The Joy of Yoga - Emma Silverman
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition - Paul Watson
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End Game - David Baldacci
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Watership Down - Richard Adams
Star Wars Canto Bight - Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A Distant Heart - Sonali Dev
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Iliad - Homer
Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
World and Town - Gish Jen
The Demon Crown - James Rollins
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame - Vol. 1, 1929-1964
Iron Dawn: The Monitor, The Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle That Changed History - Richard Snow
Treasure Island - Robert L. Stevenson
A Question of Honor - Charles Todd
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American Made - Tom Cruise
Battle of the Sexes - Emma Stone, Steve Carell
Blade Runner 2049 - Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford
Brad's Status - Ben Stiller
Breathe - Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Diana Rigg
The Crown, season 1 - Claire Foy, Matt Smith
Despicable Me 3
I, Daniel Blake - Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - season 2
Goodbye Christopher Robin - Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robie, Kelly Macdonald
Killing of a Sacred Deer - Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell
Loving Vincent - Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn
Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman - Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall
A Year by the Sea - Karen Allen, Celia Imrie
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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.
Oversize Books
This month we are highlighting some of our oversized books. Look for the display in the Fiction room of the Library.
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Newsletter Febr
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2018 Rochester Memberships
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We have a few memberships left
The Town of Rochester has contracted with the Stone Ridge Library to provide 238 paid family memberships to its Rochester residents. Additionally, the Library is providing free memberships to all Rondout Valley Students.
Rochester patrons can renew their memberships in person beginning January 2018. They are given out on a first come, first served basis. Due to demand for memberships we will not be able to automatically renew membership cards.
Non-subsidized family memberships will be available after the 238 free memberships have been given out. Non-subsidized family memberships are available at $52.45. per year. The rate schedule below shows the cost of a family membership for the balance of the year depending on which month it begins.
January - $52.45
February - $48.08
March - $43.74
April - $39.36
May - $34.99
June - $30.62
July - $26.24
August - $21.87
Sept - $17.49
Oct - $13.12
Nov - $8.74
Dec - $4.37
If you have questions please feel free to email Stone Ridge Library Director
Jody Ford.
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We cannot accept book donations this Winter. Please hold any donations until after April 1, 2018.
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Become a Library Champion!
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Governor Cuomo's budget proposal includes a 3% cut in library aid from 2017 as well as a 42% cut in proposed library construction aid. This means a $378,392. decrease in funds for the Mid-Hudson region alone. But when library aid is threatened the New York Library Community pulls together! The New York Library Association has provided customizable letters that can be sent to your representatives in Albany and to the Governor through their Online Advocacy Center.
NYLA gets you started, feel free to change the letter and add in something specific about your library and your community. Thank you.
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Fight the February Blahs - Visit the Library!
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We will have a sampling of "every day" items from the Library's Local History Collection on display in the Reference Room this month..., among them "Spectacles of Dr. Lewis Hasbrouck, ca. 1800," a "Calling Card Case" owned by Miss Sarah C. Lounsbery, a tortoise shell card case, hat pins, a glass ink well and ink from Italy, and more.
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 We will have our red knitted goods available for sale for your sweeties.
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Ulster Chamber Concert Ticket Raffle to Benefit Stone Ridge Library
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The Ulster Chamber Music Series has donated two subscriptions to their 2018 season to benefit the Stone Ridge Library. The Series is celebrating their 50th year, with a wonderful and diverse lineup of concerts.
 Performances include the
Chiara String Quartet, Sunday February 25 and
Strata, Sunday, March 25, both at 3:00 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Cross, 30 Pine Grove Avenue, Kingston and
Nexus Percussion with Garry Kvistad on Sunday, April 22 at 3:00 pm at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 104 Wurts Street, Kingston.
"We are grateful that the Ulster Chamber Music Series has once again generously donated tickets to their upcoming season to benefit the Library," said Library Director Jody Ford. "We wish them every success on their 50th anniversary and appreciate their long history in the cultural life of our community."
Raffle tickets are available at the Library Circulation Desk, costing $5 each and five for $20. Winners will be selected on Friday, February 23. The face value of the subscription is $150. The winner may use the six tickets in any combination. Additional information is available at the Library's Facebook page and at
UlsterChamberMusicSeries.org.
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 Tuesday, February 13 at 1:30pm
Friday, February 2 & 16 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. We will decide on a permanent schedule soon.
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 Tuesdays: 10:00-11:00
February 6, 13, 20, 27
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, February 14
4pm in the Biography Room
Our book for February is
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group |
 Wednesday, February 21
4pm in the Biography Room
This month we will be reading Dead Anyway by Chris Knopf. Arthur Cathcart considered himself a lucky man. A self-proclaimed nerd and a meticulous market researcher, he somehow won the affections of the lovely Florencia, owner of an insurance-brokerage firm, and their marriage was solid and happy, built on mutual respect, admiration, and love. Then his world implodes. He survives the carnage but decides to let the world assume he's dead, the better to stay safe while he tries to discover what happened and who's responsible.
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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club |
 Saturday, February 10
12:45pm in the Biography Room
The reading selection for February is America's Bank: the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein. Chronicles the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that created the Federal Reserve, tracing the financial panic and widespread distrust of bankers that prompted the landmark 1913 Federal Reserve Act and launched America's first steps onto the world financial stage.
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 Conversational Spanish
Tuesday, February 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, February 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, February 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, February 5, 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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February 9, 2018
Movie Title:
The 15:17 to Paris
Where: Theaters, Biopic
Based on:
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone, Jeffrey E. Stern
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Judy Greer, Jenna Fischer, Thomas Lennon, Book's authors co-star.
February 9, 2018
Movie Title:
Fifty Shades Freed
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
Director: James Foley
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan
February 9, 2018
Movie Title:
Peter Rabbit
Where: Theaters, Childrens
Based on:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, Rose Byrne
February 16, 2018
Movie Title:
Black Panther
Where: Theaters, Marvel Superhero
Based on:
Black Panther Comics by Jack Kirby & Stan Lee
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Chadwick Boseman
February 23, 2018
Movie Title:
Annihilation
Where: Theaters, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Based on:
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar Isaac, David Gyasi
February 23, 2018
Movie Title:
You Were Never Really Here
Where: Theaters, Drama
Based on: You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, Alessandro Nivola
February 23, 2018
Movie Title:
The War with Grandpa
Where: Theaters, Comedy, Family
Based on:
The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
Director: Tim Hill
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken. Eugene Levy
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Judy Stanger - Winter Artist
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 Through March 16
The Stone Ridge Library is pleased to welcome Judy Stanger as the Winter 2017/18 artist. Judy has been painting with pastel for more than 25 years, and finds inspiration in Atlantic seascapes as well as the Hudson Valley Landscape. Her show will be on view from December 22 through March 16.
Judy lives in Stone Ridge, NY and is a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Albany with a Doctorate of the Arts, an interdisciplinary degree in the Humanities. Her colorful landscapes distill images represented in nature - mountains, rivers, and barns - through their interaction with light and color. Judy exhibited her work in the library in 2015, and is returning with some new work in addition to favorites that were part of the earlier show. The art will be available for purchase. Visit
jstanger.org.
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