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Redemption - David Baldacci
A Wonderful Stroke of Luck - Ann Beattie
Outside Looking In - T.C. Boyle
The Book of Dreams - Nina George
Feast Your Eyes - Myla Goldberg
Who Slays the Wicked - C.S. Harris
The Tale Teller - Anne Hillerman
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted - Robert Hillman
The Department of Sensitive Crimes - Alexander McCall Smith
Deep Harbor - Fern Michaels
Soon the Light Will Be Perfect - Dave Patterson
Triple Jeopardy - Anne Perry
Henry, Himself - Stewart O"Nan
The Affairs of the Falcons - Melissa Rivero
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Miss Julia Takes the Wheel - Ann B. Ross
The Editor - Steven Rowley
Alice's Island - Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
Someone Knows - Lisa Scottoline
King of Kings - Wilbur Smith
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Fast Cakes: Easy Bakes in Minutes - Mary Berry
Yoga for Everyone: 50 Poses for Every Type of Body - Dianne Bondy
American Moonshsot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race - Douglas Brinkley
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life - David Brooks
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America - Jared Cohen
Greek Islands - Eyewitness
How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding - Ted Floyd
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World - Melinda Gates
Explore Hawaii - Insight Guides
France - Lonely Planet
Germany - Lonely Planet
New York and the Mid-Atlantic - Lonely Planet
Attracting Birds, Buterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife - David Mizejewski
Weekend Makes: Stash Knitting: 25 Quick and Easy Projects to Make - Emma Osmond
Everything in It's Place: First Loves and Last Tales - Oliver Sacks
Cities: The First 6,000 Years -
Monica L. Smith
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The Limits of the World - Jennifer Acker
Wolf Pack - C.J. Box
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America - Jared Cohen
The Book of Dreams - Nina George
The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men who Went to the Moon - Basil Hero
The Editor - Steven Rowley
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose - Oprah Winfrey
The American Agent: a Maisie Dobbs Novel - Jacqueline Winspear
The Wife - Meg Wolitzer
The Time Collector - Gwendolyn Womack
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Arctic - Mads Mikkelsen
Destroyer - Nicole Kidman
Escape at Dannemora - Benicio DelToro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano
Killing Eve - season 1
Mary Poppins Returns - Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Mule - Clint Eastwood
On the Basis of Sex - Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux
Vice - Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell
Welcome to Marwen - Steve Carell
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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.
Book Club Favorites - 2019
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 2013
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 2012
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman 2013
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo 2012 305.5 boo
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown 2013 797.12 bro
Little Bee by Chris Cleave 2008
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 2011
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 1997
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh 2011
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2014
Room by Emma Donoghue 2010
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 2012
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 2009
Still Alice by Lisa Genova 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 2003
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 2018
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 2015
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 2015
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 2017
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 2007
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 1989
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 2012
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly 2016
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd 2014
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 2001
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline 2013
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson 2003 364.152 lar
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain 2011
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 2014
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 2011
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 2014
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty 2013
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty 2009
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 2012
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 2017
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 2016
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple 2012
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 2006
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 2008
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson 2010
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 2010 616.027 skl
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 1943
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman 2012
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 2008
The Help by Kathryn Stockett 2009
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 2012 Bio str
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 2013
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 2016
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 2009
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 2005 Bio wal
The Martian by Andy Weir 2012
Educated by Tara Westover 2018 Bio wes
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2016
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate 2017
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and
Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai 2012 371.822 you
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 2014
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2005
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SRLF Hosts May 19 Sunday Tea Honoring
Sig Hack & Victoria Schulte
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 This spring we will celebrate two of the Library's dedicated supporters and their impact on our community.
Sig Hack and
Victoria Schulte will be guests of honor at a Sunday Tea hosted by the Stone Ridge Library Foundation. Avid readers, patrons, and Library Board members, Sig & Victoria each have a long history of dedication to our Library. We look forward to recognizing their efforts and celebrating their achievements. Please join us!
Sunday, May 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Sandwiches, desserts and tea will be served in the library's recently restored 1798 stone building.
Tickets to the Tea - $30 per person and $50 per couple - are available at the circulation desk and
online.
Donations in honor of Sig & Victoria can also be made
online.
For more information, contact Aimee Bowe at the Stone Ridge Library Foundation Office at 845 687-7023, ext. 106, or email
[email protected].
Sunday Tea
Sign Up Online Now
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Wednesday, May 22
4-5:30pm in the Activity Room
 The Library will host a reading and author signing reception for Writing in the Ether, published by Dos Madres Press, 2018, the latest work of local memoirist, writer and poet, Catherine Arra. Arra taught English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District and serves as facilitator of the Stone Ridge Library Writers' Group, that meets weekly at the library.
Since leaving the classroom in 2012, Catherine's poetry and prose have appeared in numerous literary journals online and in print. She is the author of three chapbooks, Slamming and Splitting (Red Ochre Press, 2014); Loving from the Backbone (Flutter Press, 2015); and Tales of Intrigue & Plumage (Future Cycle Press, 2017). Writing in the Ether is her first full-length collection.
Publisher Dos Madres Press: "The poems and short prose in Catherine Arra's Writing in the Ether were born from the connective tissue of memory, the bones of the past, and the spirit that insists not only upon seeing and remembering, but upon reconciling 'the holy and the unholy' to embrace what is. Here is a story of a girl growing up in the 1960s with a mysteriously elusive mother, a second-generation immigrant father, and her immigrant grandparents living next door. At the center of the collection is a desire to reach back for clarity and continuity that becomes, in itself, an act of writing in the ether.
 "Through an exploration into her own story, Arra invites each of us to go back and become 'forever the sentinel' on the doorstep of our history, to find the sweetest joys, the most devastating betrayals, and in doing so, mark each with a cross, a prayer, and perhaps a poem, because, as Arra writes, 'Love eats you, and this is the only way home'."
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Volunteer for the Library Fair
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Volunteers are the Heart of the Fair: and it's so easy to sign up! Lots of help is needed, and there is something for everyone! Sign up
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Donations of
Books in excellent condition,
Plant Donations from your garden-bulbs, perennials, etc.-and
Tableware Items are all sought for the June 8 Library Fair.
Thank you very much! We love to see your gently used items find a new home while helping the Library!Please remember that we cannot sell dusty or moldy books or dated materials like textbooks and encyclopedias. Please help us by sorting those items from your donation. Thanks in advance for your consideration
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Library Fair - Saturday, June 8
Bag Sale, Sunday, June 9
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 The 73rd Annual Library Fair will take place on Saturday, June 8 from 10am - 3pm, rain or shine, on the Library grounds. The festivities will include a giant book sale, wonderful plant sale, children's activities, craft and gift booths, food and drink, and entertainment all day. The Bag Sale, offering a bag of books for $10 will take place on Sunday, June 9, from 10-2.
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Starting May 15th the Mid-Hudson Library System will be automatically renewing your checked out items, if available, two days before they are due.
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 May 15
Mark your calendars for MAY 15th! The Stone Ridge Library Foundation will participate in a 24-hour online fundraising initiative through
Hudson Valley Gives, an organization uniting hundreds of nonprofits across seven counties together in one common mission. Give Where You Live to support and enhance services and programs that our friends and neighbors turn to and depend upon. It's a fun way to get involved and support the Library! Stay tuned!
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 Wednesday, May 8
4pm in the Activity Room
The reading selection for May is Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris. 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of bread lines, bank runs, and broken dreams. Inspired by an actual newspaper photograph that stunned the nation, Sold on a Monday is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and the unexpected paths that bring us home.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group |
 Wednesday, May 15
4pm in the Activity Room
Our book for May is Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas. Nineteenth-century private detective Cyrus Barker teams up with Thomas Llewelyn, a young man with a murky past, to investigate the killing of a young scholar bearing a startling resemblance to artists' renderings of Jesus Christ.
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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club |
Saturday, June 15
12:45pm in the Activity Room
The reading selection for June is
The Silk Roads: a New History of the World by Peter Frankopan. The author realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward.
 He vividly
re-creates
the emergence of the first cities in Mesopotamia and the birth of empires in Persia, Rome and Constantinople, as well as the depredations by the Mongols, the transmission of the Black Death and the violent struggles over Western imperialism. Throughout the millennia, it was the appetite for foreign goods that brought East and West together, driving economies and the growth of nations.
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 Conversational Spanish
Tuesday, May 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, May 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, May 9, 23
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, May 6, 20
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room
GROUP II:
Monday, May 13
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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May 3, 2019
Movie:
UglyDolls
Where: Theaters, Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Based on:
Ugly Characters by David Horvath and Sun-min Kim
Director: Kelly Asbury
Cast: Voices of Kelly Clarkson, Janelle Monáe, Wanda Sykes, Emma Roberts, Gabriel Iglesias, Nick Jonas, Blake Shelton, Pitbull
May 10, 2019
Movie:
Tolkien
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Early life of author J.R.R. Tolkien
Director: Dome Karukoski
Cast: Nicholas Hoult. Lily Collins, Colm Meaney
May 17, 2019
Movie:
Catch-22
Where: TV Limited Series -- Hulu, 6 episodes
Based on:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Director: George Clooney &Grant Heslov
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie, George Clooney
May 17, 2019
Movie:
A Dog's Journey
Where: Theaters, Family
Based on:
A Dog's Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
Director: Gail Mancuso
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Betty Gilpin, Josh Gad
May 17, 2019
Movie:
The Sun Is Also a Star
Where: Theaters
Based on:
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Director: Ry Russo-Young and Charles Melton
Cast: Yara Shahidi
May 24, 2019
Movie:
Aladdin
Where: Theaters - Disney
Based on:
Arabian Nights, an Arabic folktale
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott
May 27, 2019
Movie:
Hot Zone
Where: TV Limited Series -- Nat Geo
Based on:
The Hot Zone by Ridhard Preston, plus info from his 2014 New Yorker article
Director: Ridley Scott and Lynda Obst
Cast: Julianna Margulies, Topher Grace, Liam Cunningham, Grace Gummer, Noah Emmerich
May 31, 2019
Movie:
Good Omens
Where: TV Limited Series -- Amazon Prime
Based on:
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Cast: Michael Sheen, David Tennant
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