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Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronovitch
Heads You Win - Jeffrey Archer
Night of Miracles - Elizabeth Berg
Carnegie's Maid - Marie Benedict
Master of His Fate - Barbara Taylor Bradford
You Don't Own Me - Mary Higgins Clark
Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
Pandemic - Robin Cook
Saving Miss Oliver's - Stephen Davenport
Gone So Long - Andre Dubus III
Look Alive Twenty-Five - Janet Evanovich
The Noel Stranger - Richard Paul Evans
Lethal White: a Cormoran Strike novel - Robert Galbraith
Forever and a Day: a James Bond novel - Anthony Horowitz
Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud - Mike Lupica
The Colors of All the Cattle - Alexander McCall Smith
Sold on a Monday - Kristina McMorris
Fire & Blood - George R.R. Martin
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
A Christmas Revelation - Anne Perry
Bearchamp Hall - Danielle Steel
City of Secrets - Victoria Thompson
Tony's Wife - Adriana Trigiani
A Delicate Touch - Stuart Woods
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Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada -
Timothy J. Baroni
Rose's Baking Basics - Rose Levy Beranbaum
VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 - Mark Bittman
The VB6 Cookbook - Mark Bittman
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat - John P. Carlin
The 100: Count only Sugar Caloties and Lose up to 18 Lbx. in 2 Weeks - Jorge Cruise
Almanac 2019: Hot New Science, Incredible Photographs, Maps, Facts, Infographics & More - National Geographic
Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter - Ben Goldfarb
Milk Street Tuesday Nights - Christopher Kimball
Ottolenghi Simple - Yotam Ottolenghi
Aperitif: Cocktail Hour the French Way - Rebekah Peppler
Almonds, Anchovies, and Pancetta - Cal Peternell
The Story of Greece and Rome - Tony Spawforth
Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook - Pamela Strobel
Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward
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Long Road to Mercy: an Atlee Pine Thriller - David Baldacci
Past Tense: a Jack Reacher novel - Lee Child
Sea of Greed - Clive Cussler
Target Alex Cross - James Patterson
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The Dead Ringer - M.C. Beaton
Night of Miracles - Elizabeth Berg
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion - Joseph Campbell
Pandemic - Robin Cook
Leadership in turbulent Times - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward
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Colette - Keira Knightly, Dominic West
Death in Paradise, season 7
Fahrenheit 11/9 - Michael Moore
Father Brown - sea. 6
Handmaids Tale - season 2
The House with a Clock in its Walls - Jack Black, Cate Blanchette
Mission Impossible: Fallout - Tom Cruise
A Simple Favor - Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively
The Sinner - season 2
Top of the Lake: China Girl - Elizabeth Moss, Holly Hunter
Unbroken: Path to Redemption - Samuel Hunt
We the Animals - Evan Rosado, Raul Castillo, Sheila Vand
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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.
An American Bride in Kabul: a memoir by Phyllis Chesler BIO Che
Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey by V.S. Naipaul 297 Nai
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell -Audio
The Big Year: a Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik 598.072 Obm
Bird cloud: a memoir by Annie Proulx BIO Pro
Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz 910.92 Hor
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X Pham Bio Pham
City of Falling Angels by John Berendt 945.31Ber
Cross Country by Robert Sullivan
Displacement by Lucy Knisley 741.597 KNI
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 910.4 Gil
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman by Alice Steinbach
Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France by Peter Mayle 944.3 May
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux 915.044 The
Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss
The Great Railway Bazaar: by Train through Asia by Paul Theroux 915.044 The
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux 919.504 The
Honeymoon with my Brother by Franz Wisner
A House in Sicily by Daphne Phelps 945.8 Phe
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 919.404 Bry
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin 918.2 Cha
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams 591.529 Ada
Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World by Ewan McGregor
Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins
The Man who Loved China by Simon Winchester 509.2 Win
Muddling Through in Madagascar by Dervla Murphy 916.9 Mur
Mumbai New York Scranton: a memoir by Tamara Shopsin 974.7 Sho
My Reach: a Hudson River memoir by Susan Fox 974.73 ROG
Neither Here nor There : Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson 914.04 Bry
No Reservations : Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain 641.013 Bou
Nowhere is a Place : Travels in Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux 918.2 cha
Old Glory, an American Voyage by Jonathan Raban 914.7 Rab
On Rue Tatin by Susan Herrmann Loomis 641.594 Loo
On the Road by Jack Kerouac Fic Ker
One Day I Will Write about this Place: a memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina BIO Wai
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 916.76 Din
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik 944.36 Gop
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart 915.81 Ste
The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart 956.7044 Ste
River Horse: A Logbook of a Boat Across America by William Least Heat-Moon 917.304 Hea
The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard 918.113 Mil
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler 915.138 H
Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran
Roads: driving America's great highways by Larry McMurtry
Seasons in Basilicata by David Yeadon 945 Yea
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron 915.8 Thu
Sicilian Odyssey by Francine Prose 914.5 Pro
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson 371.823 Mor
Stringer: a Reporter's journey in the Congo by Anjan Sundaram 967.51 SUN
Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels & Discoveries, 1964-1984 by Paul Theroux 818.54 The
Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman 910.4 Gel
A Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlene De Blasi
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlene De Blasi 945.31 DeB
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson 371.822 Mor
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle 944.08 May
Travels by Michael Crichton
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier 957 Fra
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck 818.52 Ste
A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul 974.04 Nai
Ultimate Journey by Richard Bernstein 294.392 Ber
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Up the Amazon without a paddle by Doug Lansky
A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson 917.404 Bry
What am I Doing Here by Bruce Chatwin 824.914 Cha
Wide-Open World : How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever by John Marshall
Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed BIO Strayed
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 944.9 May
A Year in the World : Journeys of a Passionate Traveler by Frances Mayes 914.045 May
The books listed with call numbers are in the Stone Ridge Library collection. Others can be ordered through the Mid-Hudson Library System.
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 The Library will not be accepting book donations during the Winter.
We will begin taking books again on April 1.
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Town of Rochester Memberships
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 The Town of Rochester has contracted with the Stone Ridge Library to provide 238 paid family memberships to its Rochester residents
this year. Additionally, the Library is providing free memberships to all Rondout Valley Students.
Rochester patrons can renew their memberships in person beginning in January of 2019. They are given out on a first come, first served basis. Due to demand for memberships we will not be able to automatically renew 2018 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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Winter Artist:
Staats Fasoldt - Watercolors
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 We are pleased to present an exhibit of Watercolors by local artist Staats Fasoldt through March 21. The works are situated among the stacks in the 1798 library building as well as in the new Children's Wing.
 Staats Fasoldt is Executive Vice President of the Woodstock School of Art's Board of Directors, and has taught painting and drawing there for more than 35 years. He is an active member of the Woodstock Artist's Association and a member of The Art Society of Kingston. He is also a member and former Coordinator of Longreach Arts, the Hudson Valley's premier mobile Artists Co-op.
Staats has an MFA in painting from SUNY, New Paltz. He has had numerous one-person and group exhibits displaying his Watercolors and has won many awards for his work. Staats' paintings are interpretations of nature that stress spontaneity as method.
 He has published several books on his paintings and is represented by the Mark Gruber Gallery. His one-of-a-kind originals feature the hand of the artist, the crisp rag watercolor paper and the highest quality DaVinci artist's watercolors. The paintings in the library show are also available for purchase.
 "We are delighted to present this beautiful body of work as our winter exhibit, and thank Staats for sharing his paintings with our library patrons," said Diane DeChillo, Library Program Manager.
For additional information, visit staatsfasoldt.com
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 Wednesday, January 9
3pm in the Activity Room
The reading selection for January is The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick. Arthur Pepper lives a simple life, but on the one-year anniversary of his wife's death, something changes. Sorting through her possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met--a journey that leads him to find hope, healing, and self-discovery in the most unexpected places
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group |
 Wednesday, January 16
3pm in the Activity Room
The reading selection for January is And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander. For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and she immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek. Emily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. There, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind. As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated.
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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club |
Saturday, March 2
12:45pm in the Activity Room
The reading selection for March is Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow. A richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries  the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president.
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 Conversational Spanish
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
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, January 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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 POETRY
Thursday, January 10, 24
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
GROUP I:
Monday, January 14
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room
GROUP II:
Monday, January 7, 28
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room
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.
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Every Friday, at 10am
in the Activity Room
Beginners are welcome to join our Mahjong group. 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 meet every Friday at 10am in the new event space.
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Every Saturday
10am-noon
in the Activity Room
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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January 1, 2019
Where: TV Series -- Netflix
Cast: Marie Kondo
January 11, 2019
Movie: Ashes in the Snow
Where: Theaters
Based on: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Director: Marius Markevicius
Cast: Bel Powley, Jonah Hauer-King
January 11, 2019
Movie: A Dog's Way Home
Where: Theaters
Based on: A Dog's Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Cast: Ashley Judd, Barry Watson, Alexandra Shipp, Wes Studi, Edward James Olmos
January 11, 2019
Movie: The Upside
Where: Theaters
Based on: You Changed My Life by Abdel Sellou
Director: Neil Burger
Cast: Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, Bryan Cranston
January 14, 2019
Movie: The Passage
Where: TV Series -- Fox
Based on: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Director: Matt Reeves
Cast: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Vincent Piazza, Saniyya Sidney, Brianne Howey, Jamie McShane, Caroline Chikezie, Emmanuelle Chriqui
January 17, 2019
Movie: A Discovery of Witches
Where: TV Limited Series, 8 episodes -- Sundance Now
Based on: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Director: Kate Brooke
Cast: Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode
January 23, 2019
Movie: The Magicians, Season 4
Where: TV Limited Series -- Syfy
Based on: The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman
Director: Mike Cahill
Cast: Jason Ralph, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Summer Bishil, Hale Appleman, Jade Tailor, Stella Maeve
January 25, 2019
Movie: The Nightingale
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Director: Jennifer Kent
Cast: Sam Claflin, Aisling Franciosi, Ewen Leslie
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