Circe - Madeline Miller
The Storm - Arif Anwar
Probable Claws - Rita Mae Brown
Fall of Angels - Barbara Cleverly
The Sixth Day - Catherine Coulter
The Cutting Edge - Jeffery Deaver
The Ensemble - Aja Gabel
The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
Dread Nation - Justina Ireland
You Me Everything - Catherine Isaac
The Crooked Staircase - Dean Koontz
The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse - Alexander McCall Smith
Circe - Madeline Miller
Macbeth - Jo Nesbo
Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
The Other Lady Vanishes - Amanda Quick
Shadow Child - Rahna Reiko
After Anna - Lisa Scottoline
The Cast - Danielle Steel
Murder on Union Square - Victoria Thompson
Last Stories - William Trevor
Hotel on Shadow Lake - Daniela Tully
The Death of Mrs Westaway - Ruth Ware
Jane Seymour: the Haunted Queen - Alison Weir
Something Fresh - PG Wodehouse
Shoot First - Stuart Woods
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Confessions of a Bar Brat: Growing up in Rosendale, New York - Judith A Boggess
The Art of Winnie the Pooh: How E.H. Shepard Illustrated an Icon - James Campbell
Natural Causes: an Epidemic of Wellness, and the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer - Barbara Ehrenreich
Notes from a Public Thpewriter - edited by Michael Gustafson
Dinner's in the Oven: Simple One-Pan Meals - Rukmini Iyer
The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
At My Table: a Celebration of Home Cooking - Nigella Lawson
The Promise and the Dream: the Untole Story of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert F Kennedy - David Margolick
AIQ: How People and Machines are Smarter Together - Nick Polson
Who We Are and How We Got Here: ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past - David Reich
Retirement Reinvention: Make Your Next Act Your Best Act - Robin Ryan
Calypso - David Sedaris
Young Washington - Peter Stark
Educated: a Memoir - Tara Westover
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World - Simon Winchester
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The Rising Sea - Clive Cussler
By Invitation Only - Dorothea Benton Frank
The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse - Alexander McCall Smith
Fifty Fifty - James Paterson
Caribbean Rim - Randy Wayne White
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12 Strong - Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña
15:17 to Paris - Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone
Annihilation - Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriquez, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Beyond Iconic: Photographer Dennis Stock - documentary a film by Hannah Sawka
Black Panther - Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
Call the Midwife - Season 7
Don't Talk to Irene - Michelle McLeod, Geena Davis
Early Man - stop motion, Eddye Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston
I Kill Giants - Zoe Saldana, Madison Wolfe
In the Fade - Diane Kruger
The Insult - Adel Karem
Jane - Jane Goodall documentary
Kalaidoscope - Toby Jones
Little Women - Emily Watson, Maya Hawke
Peter Rabbit - James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie
Red Sparrow - Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton
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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.
THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part series on PBS that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America's 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey). It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these 100 different books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience. PBS Great American Read
1984 - George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Alex Cross Mysteries (series) - James Patterson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Another Country - James Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
The Call Of The Wild - Jack London
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia (series) - C.S. Lewis
Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Doña Bárbára - Rómulo Gallegos
Dune - Frank Herbert
Fifty Shades Of Grey (series) - E. L. James
Flowers In The Attic - V.C. Andrews
Foundation (series) - Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Game of Thrones - (series) George R. R. Martin
Ghost - Jason Reynolds
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter (series) - J.K. Rowling
Hatchet (series) - Gary Paulsen
Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games (series) - Suzanne Collins
The Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Left Behind (series) - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Looking for Alaska - John Green
The Lord of the Rings (series) - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Martian - Andy Weir
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Mind Invaders - Dave Hunt
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Outlander (series) - Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
The Pillars of The Earth - Ken Follett
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Shack - William P. Young
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Sirens Of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand - Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
Tales of The City (series) - Armistead Maupin
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
This Present Darkness - Frank. E. Peretti
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Twilight Saga (series) - Stephenie Meyer
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Watchers - Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time (series) - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
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Saturday, June 9 from 10am - 3pm! Sunday, June 10, The "Bag Sale" from 10am - 2pm Monday, June 11, from 3 - 6pm Grab Bag*
The 72nd Annual Library Fair will be held on Saturday, June 9 from 10 am to 3 pm, rain or shine, on the Library grounds. The festivities will include a giant book sale, 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 from 10-2. * New this year! On Monday from 3 - 6pm leftover books will be offered for FREE. Early arrivals will not be accommodated because we will be sorting for Fair Day 2019 until 3pm.
The main event of the Fair is Books! Displayed under the large striped tent, the selection will include everything from novels to history, cook books, biographies, poetry, art and specialty "coffee table" books, and children's books.
Flowering annuals, perennials, herbs and grasses, donated by local businesses as well as garden and house plants donated from home gardens will overflow the plant tent. Pots and labels are available now at the garden gate for home gardeners who would like to donate. Sensational hybrid daylilies will be on sale again this year.
Cherries of Stone Ridge will join the Library team again this year with favorite summertime fare. And show stopping strawberry shortcake, root beer floats and cotton candy will evoke memories of summers past. Home baked treats, coffee and tea will round out the menu.
Our music begins at 10 with Trio Mio, followed by Breakaway with Robin Baker at 11, then BLOOM directed by Debbie Lan at Noon, Cheryl & Kurt at 1, and wrap up with the Rondout Valley High School Jazz Band, directed by Randolph Loder.
Gifts and tableware, as well as art and jewelry will be available for purchase, and the Stone Ridge Saturday Knitters will be on hand to demonstrate their craft and sell their wares.
Parking will be available at the High Meadow School, Key Bank, Express Tech and the Marbletown Community Center. The NYS Troopers, Kingston Barracks and the Marbletown Rescue Squad will be available for traffic control and assistance.
Volunteers are the heart of the Fair; there is still time to sign up at stoneridgelibrary.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer.
For information, please visit stoneridgelibrary.org or the SRL Facebook page.
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The Plant Booth would love your plant donations!
Kay Sutka, our plant chairperson has made a couple of signs which are posted at the garden gate. There are also empty pots for your convenience. New this year is a little
I.D. card that will help the plant tent volunteers and buyers to understand the care. You can print it out or pick them up at the Library.
- Take home pot(s) and ID card.
- Fill them with your beautiful annuals/perennials/herbs, grasses, house plants, etc.
- Return the information card(s) with your plant(s).
- Drop them off Friday, June 1-Friday, June 8 to the Library.
- We will water the plants until the Library Fair.
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The Stone Ridge Library Foundation was delighted to host a tea and celebration honoring Priscilla Derven and Stephen MacDonald, a couple who have long dedicated themselves to making the Stone Ridge Library the center of life in Marbletown. More than 50 people applauded their contributions at the May 6 event, which brought in more than $3,400. The proceeds of the tea will help complete the preservation, restoration and modernization of the twin 200-year-old library buildings. They're targeted for the last major project, enlarging the Children's Room. Contractors are enclosing the existing cold storage area (mainly a narrow porch) between the 1798 and 1811 buildings; this will provide a larger program room, a small kitchenette and an ADA-compliant restroom. Ms. Derven and Mr. MacDonald received their awards from the hands of last year's honorees, Barbara Cazakoff and Vivi Hlavsa. Guests enjoyed a variety of teas, sandwiches and desserts, along with a lot of good company. The Library put on display historical artifacts from its extensive collection, as well as historical information about the village and the library buildings.
The Library Foundation thanks Anya Rogers, Micaela Warren, Hazel Parker-Myers, Claire Goldstein, Lara Goldstein, and Emily Rosakranse for helping at the event, as well as Emmanuel's Marketplace, Adam's Fairacre Farms and the Stone Ridge Rite Aid. Also many thanks to the Green Cottage in High Falls for the floral arrangements and corsages, as well as Stone Ridge Wine & Spirits. Special thanks to the Ulster County Historical Society, as well as to Harney & Sons Teas in Millbrook for a fine selection of teas. Further tax-deductible donations to this project - or to honor Priscilla Derven and Stephen MacDonald - can be made at stoneridgelibrary.org/donate.
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Tuesdays: 10:00-11:00
June 5, 12 For ages 3-5
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, June 13 4pm in the Biography Room
Our book for June is
Mr. Dickens and his Carol: a novel of Christmas Past by Samantha Silva. Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house.
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HOLMES & CO. Mystery Lovers Book Group |
Wednesday, June 20
4pm in the Biography Room
This month we will be reading Locked In by Marcia Muller. Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm's cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted. Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a locked-in detective, evaluating the clues from her staff's separate investigations and discovering unsettling truths that could put her life in jeopardy again. As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified.
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CLIO'S MUSE A History Reading Club |
Wednesday, June 20 7pm in the Biography Room
The reading selection for June is One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson. Bryson examines closely the events and personalities of the summer of 1927 when America's story was one of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy.
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Mahjong
Every Friday, at 10am
Beginners are welcome to join our new 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. Our group will meet every Friday at 10am.
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Conversational Spanish
Tuesday, June 26
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, June 19
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, June 14, 28 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, June 4, 18 4:00-6:30pm
Second Group starting in May GROUP II: Monday, June 11, 25 4:00-6:30pm
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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June 1, 1018
Movie Title:
Adrift
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea by Tami Oldham Ashcraft
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin
June 1, 2018
Movie Title:
C.B. Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling
Where: TV Movie -- Cinemax
Based on:
The Cuckoo's Calling by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith
Director: Michael Keillor
Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger
June 4, 2018
Movie Title:
Dietland
Where: TV Limited Series -- AMC, 10 episodes
Based on:
Dietland by Sarai Walker
Director: Marti Noxon
Cast: Joy Nash, Julianna Margulies, Rowena King and Adam Rothenberg
June 8, 2018
Movie Title:
C.B. Strike: Silkworm
Where: TV Movie -- Cinemax
Based on:
The Silkworm by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith
Director: Kieron Hawkes
Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger
June 15, 2018
Movie Title:
C.B. Strike: Career of Evil
Where: TV Movie -- Cinemax
Based on:
Career of Evil by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger
June 15, 2018
Movie Title:
Eating Animals
Where: Theaters
Based on:
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Director: Christopher Dillon Quinn
Cast: Natalie Portman (narrator)
June 15, 2018
Movie Title:
Loving Pablo
Where: Theaters
Based on: Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
Director: Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Cast: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz
June 22, 2018
Movie Title:
The Catcher Was a Spy
Where: Theaters
Based on:
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff
Director: Ben Lewin
Cast: Paul Rudd, Sienna Miller, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, Paul Giamatti
June 29, 2018
Movie Title:
Leave No Trace
Where: Theaters
Based on:
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
Director: Debra Granik
Cast: Ben Foster, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey
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