Death in St. Petersburg - Tasha Alexander
In the Midst of Winter - Isabel Allende
Crazy Like a Fox - Rita Mae Brown
Two Kinds of Truth: a Bosch novel - Michael Connelly
Smile - Roddy Doyle
Pulse - Felix Francis
The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
Uncommon Type: Some Stories - Tom Hanks
Winter Solstice - Elin Hilderbrand
Mind Game - Iris Johansen
Killing Season - Faye Kellerman
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
Hiddensee: a Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker - Gregory Maguire
This Census-Taker - China Mieville
Deep Freeze: a Virgil Flowers novel - John Sanford
For Two Thousand Years - Mihail Sebastian
Mr. Dickens and His Carol - Samantha Silva
The Tiger's Prey - Wilbur Smith
Where the Past Begins: a Writer's Memoir - Amy Tan
Quick & Dirty: a Stone Barrington novel - Stuart Woods
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Lidia's Celebrate Like and Italian: 220 Folproof Recipes that make Every Meal a Party - Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2018
Frommer's Ireland
Paris 2018 - Frommer's
Consumer Guide to Continuing Care - LeadingAge New York
Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory - Michael Korda
South Africa - Lonley Planet
Dare Not Linger: the Presidential Years - Nelson Mandela
Sense of Occasion - Harold Prince
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Merry and Bright - Debbie Macomber
Deep Freeze: a Virgil Flowers novel - John Sanford
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The Indigo Girl - Natasha Boyd
A Legacy of Spies - John LeCarre
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Baby Driver - Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James
The Beguiled - Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning
Landline - Jenny Slate, Edie Falco, Abby Quinn, Jay Duplass, John Tuturro
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush
The Wizard of Lies - Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pheiffer
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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.
100 Great Reads Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime
Included are some children's books, some classics, as well as some more modern options. As recommended by the Amazon Books editors.
1. 1984, by George Orwell
2. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
5. The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!, by Lemony Snicket
6. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
7. Selected Stories, 1968-1994, by Alice Munro
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
9. All the President's Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
10. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt
11. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
12. Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
13. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
14. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall
15. Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat
16. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
17. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
18. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
19. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
20. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené Brown
21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1, by Jeff Kinney
22. Dune, by Frank Herbert
23. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
25. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
26. Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
27. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
28. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond, Ph.D.
29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling
30. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
31. Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
32. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
33. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware
34. Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
35. Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
36 Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
38. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
39. Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
40. Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
41. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
42. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
43. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
44. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
45. Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
46. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
47. Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
48. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi
49. Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
50. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
51. Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
52. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
53. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
54. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
55. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
56. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
57. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
58. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
59. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
60. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, by James McBride
61. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
62. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
63. The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
64. The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
65. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
66. The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
67. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
68. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
69. The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne
70. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
71. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
72. The Liars' Club: A Memoir, by Mary Karr
73. The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
74. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
75. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
76. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright
77. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
78. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks
79. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan
80. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
81. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
82. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert A. Caro
83. The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
84. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
85. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
86. The Shining, by Stephen King
87. The Stranger, by Albert Camus
88. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
89. The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
90. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
91. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
92. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
93. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
94. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
95. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
96. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
97. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand
98. Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann
99. Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein, by Shel Silverstein
100. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
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 November 7
1:30 pm
The first meeting of Mahjong. We will set a schedule for a regular sessions at this meeting. Lesson available. We have two sets available but welcome additional sets if available to loan. Registration on line or at the Circulation Desk in the Library.
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SUNKSKWA! Women Leaders of the Esopus Munsee and other First Nations -
Evan Pritchard, Native American Scholar
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 Sunday, November 12
3-5 pm
Marbletown Community Center
In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote in New York, Evan Pritchard will offer a power point lecture discussing the lives and lifestyles of Algonquin women of influence in New York during the late1600s. He will focus on several leading (but now forgotten) "Sunkskwas"--women who became sachems through the death of their husbands. He will also discuss how Mohawk and Seneca women inspired the suffrage movement in New York State, starting in the 1840s and leading to votes for women in 1917. A reception and book sale/signing will follow the talk.
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The A, B, Cs and Ds of Medicare
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 November 14, 2017
3:30 - 4:45pm
Peter Rein, Licensed Medicare Insurance Specialist will review new guidlines for Medicare. This program is free and open to the public.
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The Library will be closed on the following dates:
Veterans' Day - Saturday, November 11
Close at 3pm - Wednesday, November 22
Thanksgiving - Thursday, November 23
Day after Thanksgiving - Friday, November 24
Christmas Day - Monday, December 25
Christmas Holiday - Tuesday, December 26
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We will be accepting book donations until Saturday, December 16. Please hold any other donations until after April 1, 2018.
 We welcome donations of books, books on CD, and DVDs in saleable condition. We cannot take VHS or Cassette Tapes.
Novels, paperbacks and non-fiction books are very welcome.
Please be sure the items are not musty, mildewed or damaged. The library can not accept textbooks, records, Reader's Digest Condensed books, encyclopedias, old computer books or magazines.
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Wednesday, November 8
4pm in the Biography Room
Our book for October is
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson. This book follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young woman who was recently orphaned. In the summer of 1914, she moves to Rye to escape the clutches of the oppressive relatives who administer her inheritance. Over the next few months, as she establishes herself as a Latin teacher, the war slowly drains the town of its vitality. Through Rye's decline, despite hardships and sadness, Beatrice undergoes a period of positive personal growth.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group |
 Wednesday, November 15
4pm in the Biography Room
This month we will be discussing A Question of Honor by Charles Todd. World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, a search for the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: How can facts lie?
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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club |
 Saturday, December 16
12:45pm in the Biography Room
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 Conversational Spanish
Tuesday, November 28
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, November 21 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, November 9
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, November 13, 27
4:00-6:30pm
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 Cathy Arra to place your name on a waiting list.
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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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November 3, 2017
Where: TV Series - Netflix
Director: Sarah Polley, Mary Harron
Cast: Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Zachary Levi, Anna Paquin
November 3, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne
November 3, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Marc Meyers
Cast: Anne Heche, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Wolf
November 3, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett
November 10, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Leslie Odom Jr., Judi Dench, Daisy Ridley, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Pena, Sir Derek Jacobi, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Penelope Cruz
November 10, 2017
Where: Film, Documentary - Netflix
Director: Jacob Kornbluth
Cast: Robert Reich
November 17, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa
November 17, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Nora Twomey
Cast: Soma Bhatia, Saara Chaudry, Laara Sadiq
November 17, 2017
Where: Movie - Netflix and limited theatrical release
Director: Dee Rees
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke
November 17, 2017
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson
November 22, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Cast: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce
November 23, 2017
Where: TV Movie - PBS
Director: John Kent Harrison
Cast: Ella Ballentine, Sara Botsford, Martin Sheen
November 23, 2017
Where: Theaters
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg
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