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Kindred Spirits: a Hazel Best & Gabriel Ash Mystery - Jo Bannister
The Guest Book - Sarah Blake
Resistance Women - Jennifer Chiaverini
The Big Kahuna: a Fox and O'Hare novel - Janet Evanovich & Peter Evanovich
The Road Home - Richard Paul Evans
Queen Bee - Dorothea Benton Frank
Cari Mora - Thomas Harris
The Night Window - Dean Koontz
If She Wakes - Michael Koryta
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
Blessing in Disguise - Danielle Steel
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit: a Kopp Sisters novel - Amy Stewart
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions: a Kopp Sisters novel - Amy Stewart
Women Talking - Miriam Toews
Black Berry & Wild Rose - Sonia Velton
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New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent - ed. by Margaret Busby
The Official SAT Study Guide - CollegeBoard
The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook - Amy K. Fewell
The Netherlands - Lonely Planet
Truth Worth Telling: a Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times - Scott Pelley
The Mediterranean Diabetes Cookbook - Amy Riolo
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer - Bren Smith
Complete Guide to Pet Health, Behavior, and Happiness - Gary Weitzman
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Redemption - David Baldacci
The Kermlin Strike - Dale Brown
Run Away - Harlan Coben
Celtic Empire: a Dirk Pitt novel - Clive Cussler
The Never Game -
Jeffery Deaver
Liar Liar -
James Patterson
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In a Gilded Cage: a Molly Murphy Mystery - Rhys Bowen
The Secret Knowledge of Water - Craig Childs
The Foreign Student - Susan Choi
Trust Exercise - Susan Choi
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World - Melinda Gates
Springfiels 1880 - William W Johnstone
The Pioneers - David McCullough
Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting - Anna Quindlen
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
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Apollo 11 - Documentary
Blaze - Ben Dickey, Aliz Shawkat
Call the Midwife - season 8
Everybody Knows - Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem
Greta - Cloe Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert
Oh, Lucy - Josh Hartnett, Shimobu Terajima
Outlander - season 4
Shetland - season 3 & 4
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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.
Published more recently:
Albert, Susan Wittig - The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush
Alexander, Tasha - Lady Emily mysteries
Allende, Isabel - In the midst of Winter ; The Japanese Lover, Ripper
Archer, Jeffery - Mightier than the Sword
Atkinson, Kate - Transcription ; A God in Ruins
Aubray, Camille - Cooking for Picasso
Barker, Pat - The Silence of the Girls
Barry, Sebastian - Days Without End ; The Temporary Gentleman
Belfer, Lauren - And After the Fire
Benedict, Marie - The Only Woman in the Room
Benjamin, Chloe - The Immortalists
Benioff, David - City of Thieves
Blake, Sarah - The Guest Book ; The Postmistress
Bohjalian, Chris - The Light in the Ruins ; The Sandcastle Girls
Bowen, Rhys - The Tuscan Child ; Molly Murphy mysteries
Boyd, William - Love is Blind : The Rapture of Brodie Moncur
Brooks, Geraldine - The Secret Chord ; Caleb's Crossing
Caldwell, Ian - The Fifth Gospel
Carey, Peter - A Long Way from Home ; Parrot and Olivier in America
Carter, Betsy - The Puzzle King
Chevalier, Tracy - At the Edge of the Orchard ; The Last Runaway ; Remarkable Creatures
Chiaverini, Jennifer - Resistance Women ; Enchantress of Numbers
Cleverly, Barbara - Fall of Angels ; Diana's Alter
Colin, Beatrice - To Capture What we Cannot Keep
Cornwell, Bernard - Fools and Mortals ; War of the Wolf
Dallas, Sandra - The Bride's House ; Prayers for Sale
Danticat, Edwidge - The Farming of Bones
Delaney, Frank - Last Storyteller
Dempsey, Eoin - White Rose, Black Forest
Diamant, Anita - The Boston Girl
Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See
Donati, Sara - The Gilded Hour ; The Wilderness series
Donnelly, Jennifer - The Tea Rose Trilogy
Donoghue, Emma - Frog music
Dray, Stephanie - My dear Hamilton : a novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
Dunant, Sarah - Blood and Beauty
Egan, Jennifer - Manhattan Beach
Erdrich, Louise - The Plague of Doves
Erickson, Carolly - The Spanish Queen
Fellowes, Julian - Belgravia
Ferrante, Elena - Neapolotan novels
Finch, Charles - Charles Lenox mysteries
Follett, Ken - A Collumn of fire ; Edge of Eternity ; Winter of the World
Frazier, Charles - Varina
Fuller, Alexandra - Quiet Until the Thaw
Furst, Alan - A Hero of France ; Midnight in Europe
Gabaldon, Diana - Outlander series
Gear, W. Michael - People of the Songtrail
George, Margaret - Elizabeth I
Ghosh, Amitav - River of smoke ; Sea of Poppies
Goldberg, Myla - Feast Your Eyes
Goodwin, Jason - The Baklava Club: Yashim Togalu mysteries
Gordon, Mary - There Your Heart Lies ; The Liar's Wife
Gortner, C.W. - Mademoiselle Chanel
Gregory, Philippa - The Taming of the Queen ; Tudor novels
Grey, Iona - Letters to the Lost
Gruen, Sara - At the Water's Edge
Hamilton, Jane - The Excellent Lombards
Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone
Harris, C. S. - Who Buries the Dead ; Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries
Harris, Joanne - The Gospel of Loki
Harris, Robert - Munich
Hearn, Lian - Tales of the Otori series
Hicks, Robert - A Separate Country
Higginbotham, Susan - The Queen of Last Hopes
Hijuelos, Oscar - Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Buried Giant
Jiles, Paulette - News of the World
Kanon, Joseph - Leaving Berlin
Keane, Mary Beth - Fever
Kearsley, Susanna - Bellewether
Kelly, Martha Hall - Lilac Girls
Keneally, Thomas - Shame and the Captives
Kidd, Sue Monk - The Invention of Wings
King, Laurie R. - The Murder of Mary Russell
Kingsolver, Barbara - Unsheltered ; The Lacuna
Lehane, Dennis - World Gone By ; Live by Night
Llywelyn, Morgan - After Rome
McCoy, Sarah - Marilla of Green Gables
McCullough, Colleen - Bittersweet
McLain, Paula - Love and Ruin ; Circling the Sun
Makkai, Rebecca - The Great Believers
Mandanna, Sarita - Tiger Hills
Mantel, Hilary - Bring up the Bodies
Martin, Valerie - The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
Mathis, Ayana - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Mitchell, David - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Moore, Christopher - Sacré Bleu
Morgan, Robert - Chasing the North Star
Morris, Heather - The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Morrison, Toni - Home
Morton, Kate - The Clockmaker's Daughter
Mukherjee, Abir - A Rising Man
Naslund, Sena Jeter - The fountain of St. James Court
Ondaatje, Michael - Warlight
Otsuka, Julie - The Buddha in the Attic
Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo - Pirates of the Levant
Perry, Anne - Triple Jeopardy ; Daniel Pitt novels ; William Monk novels
Proulx, Annie - Barkskins
Rose, Laura - The Passion of Marie Romanov: a Tale of Anastasia's Sister
Rosnay, Tatiana de - The House I Loved
Russell, Mary Doria - Epitaph: a novel of the O.K. Corral
Rutherfurd, Edward - Paris ; New York
Sansom, C. J. - Heartstone
Saunders, George - Lincoln in the Bardo
Scott, Joanna - De Potter's Grand Tour
See, Lisa - The Island of Sea Women ; China Dolls
Seton, Anya - Dragonwyck
Shaara, Jeff - The Frozen Hours ; The Fateful Lightning
Shreve, Anita - The Stars are Fire ; Stella Bain
Sierra, Javier - The Master of the Prado
Smiley, Jane - Golden Age
Smith, April - A Star for Mrs. Blake
Smith, Wilbur - The Tiger's Prey
Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans
Steel, Danielle - The Award ; In His Father's Footsteps
Stewart, Amy - Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit ; Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions
Thompson, Victoria - Murder on Union Square ; Gaslight mysteries
Tompkins, Mark - The Last Days of Magic
Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow
Trigiani, Adriana - Tony's Wife ; The Shoemaker's Wife
Unsworth, Barry - The Quality of Mercy
Vreeland, Susan - Clara and Mr. Tiffany
Waters, Sarah - The Paying Guests
Weir, Alison - Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen ; Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen
Winspear, Jacqueline - Maisie Dobbs novels
White, Randy Wayne - Cuba Straits
Whyte, Jack - Robert the Bruce
Wiseman, Ellen Marie - Coal River
Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab - The Map of Salt and Stars
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Stone Ridge Library Fair, Saturday, June 8
Bag Sale, Sunday, June 9
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Saturday, June 8 from 10 am to 3 pm
Sunday, June 9 from 10-2 - Bag Sale
Monday, June 10, from 3 - 5pm Grab Bag*
Join us for the
73rd Annual Library Fair on Saturday, June 8 from 10 am to 3 pm, rain or shine, on the Library grounds. The festivities will include a
phenomenal 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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Grab Bag on Monday from 3 - 5pm leftover books will be offered for FREE. Early arrivals will not be accommodated because we will be sorting for Fair Day 2020 until 3pm.
For shoppers' convenience, the Library will accept purchases of books and plants via credit card on Saturday. Parking will be available at the High Meadow School, located across Route 209. A NYS Trooper will be stationed at the pedestrian crossing.
 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, and more. Art and special books--"coffee table books"--as well as children's books will be available, adjacent to the main book tent.
Flowering annuals, perennials, herbs and grasses, donated by local businesses as well as garden plants donated from home gardens will overflow the plant tent. And sensational
daylilies in a variety of colors and shapes will be on sale at great bargain prices. New this year, The Rondout Valley High School
Future Farmers of America are growing seedlings for the Library Fair.
Pots and
labels are available now at the garden gate for home gardeners who would like to donate.
 Cherries of Stone Ridge will join the Library team again this year with favorite summertime fare, including some vegetarian dishes. And the famous, not-to-be-missed show stopping strawberry shortcake, as well as root beer and coffee floats will surely spark memories of summers past. Home baked treats, coffee and tea will round out the menu.
Entertainment will be provided by
Trio Mio,
Cheryl & Kurt joined by
Larry Packer on violin,
BLOOM directed by Debbie Lan,
Breakaway with Robin Baker, and the
Rondout Valley High School Jazz Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Lucas Rau. Please check the Library's Facebook page for the music lineup details. Master of Ceremonies Lisa St. John will be on hand again this year.
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.
 The Stone Ridge Library Foundation will host a wine raffle, and the 50/50 cash raffle will take place.
Please leave Fido at home. As much as we love our pooches, the Fair is not the best environment for them, and we are asking everyone to leave the little four-legged friends home safe and sound this year.
Thanks for your cooperation.
"We hope that everyone will come out to enjoy the festivities on this 73rd Library Fair said Director Jody Ford. "The Fair is a wonderful community event, and we are thankful for all of our dedicated volunteers as well as the community that keeps it going strong."
There is still time to volunteer! see below
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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 for the Library Fair
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Our BOOK BARNS ARE FULL! Please hold any other book donations until after July 4. Our storage for
gift items is at capacity too! We will take gift donations next year. But we are happy to accept
Toy donations right up to Fair day.
Plant Donations from your garden - bulbs, perennials, etc. can be brought to the Library the week prior to the June 8 Library Fair.
Thank you very much!
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May was a busy month for the SRL Foundation!
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 We welcomed over 70 guests at our Sunday Tea on May 19th. It was a beautiful day to
recognize the efforts and achievements of two of the Library's most dedicated supporters, Sig Hack & Victoria Schulte. Thank you to all who came and joined us in honoring Sig & Vicky and their impact on our community. It was also a successful fundraiser for the Library, as guests generously showed their support on behalf of our honorees. Check out the
Foundation's page
for photos from the Tea!
 Our Hudson Valley Gives online fundraising event was a big success thanks to the support of our community! We are thrilled to have raised nearly $2000 online in one day! We have big plans for this event next year, so mark your calendars for May 2020 and stay tuned for more details and ways you can help.
 In June the SRL Foundation will once again be hosting a wine raffle at the
Library Fair
on June 8th. Don't want to miss it! Be sure to stop by the Foundation's table and get your raffle tickets!
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Starting May 15th the Mid-Hudson Library System will automatically renew your checked out items,
if available, two days before they are due.
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 The Mango Languages database has been updated to make it easier for users to view their learning progress and explore new content.
New features include:
Expanded course content: Select languages now align with international proficiency standards.
Personalized review activities: Memorization activities adapt to the individuals learning progress and pace, helping users retain new words and phrases.
Listening and reading activities: Interactive listening and reading passages build new language skills through context clues and comprehension questions.
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CLEAN POWER EXPO:
Renewable Energy for All
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 Marbletown Community Center
Saturday June 23,
12 - 3pm
FREE event in Stone Ridge. Learn about affordable, creative renewable energy. Community EXPO/Forum presented by the Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission and Sustainable Hudson Valley. The event will feature green energy exhibitors, heat pump, solar and energy efficiency workshops, electric vehicle drive/display and healthy, local food samples. Doors open at 12 pm Saturday June 23rd at the Marbletown Community Center, 3564 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 12484. Event will run until 3:00 pm, workshops from 12:30-2:30. For more information, email To
info@nyforcleanpower.org
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Wednesday, June 12
4pm in the Activity Room
The reading selection for June is Gone So Long by Andre Dubus III. Daniel Ahearn, a man living a solitary existence in seaside New England, travels to a quaint Florida community in search of his traumatized, estranged daughter. Gone So Long explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become, and probes the limits of recovery and absolution.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group |
Wednesday, June 19
4pm in the Activity Room
Our book for June is Though Not Dead: a Kate Shugak novel by Dana Stabenow. The residents of Alaska's largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, 87 year old
Old Sam Dementieff, even private investigator Kate Shugak. Sam was especially close to Kate, his niece, but even she is surprised to discover that in his will he's left her everything, including a letter instructing her simply to, "find my father." Easier said than done, since Sam's father is something of a mystery. An outsider, he disappeared shortly after learning about Sam's existence, taking with him a priceless tribal artifact, a Russian icon.
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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, June 25
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 18
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 13, 27
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 10, 24
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room
GROUP II:
Monday, June 3, 17
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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June 2, 2019
Movie:
NOS4A2
Where: TV Limited Series, 10 episodes -- AMC
Based on:
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Director: Jami O'Brien
Cast: Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings
June 5, 2019
Movie:
The Handmaid's Tale - Season 3
Where: TV Limited Series -- Hulu. 13 episodes
Based on:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Director: Bruce Miller
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, O-T Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley, Bradley Whitford
June 7, 2019
Movie:
Tales of the City
Where: TV Limited Series -- Netflix,10 episodes
Based on:
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Director: Lauren Morelli
Cast: Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Paul Gross, Barbara Garrick, Ellen Page, Murray Bartlett, Charlie Barnett, Zosia Mamet, Victor Garber, Molly Ringwald
June 7, 2019
Movie:
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Where: Theaters
Based on:
The Dark Phoenix Saga by John Byrne & Chris Claremont
Director: Simon Kinberg
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence
June 8, 2019
Movie:
Very Valentine
Where: TV Movie -- Lifetime Channel
Based on:
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
Director: Menhaj Huda
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Kelen Coleman, Atanas Srebrev
June 9, 2019
Movie:
Big Little Lies, Season 2
Where: TV Limited Series -- HBO
Based on:
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Director: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard
June 21, 2019
Movie:
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Where: Theaters, Documentary
Based on:
Life of author Toni Morrison
Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Cast: Toni Morrison, Hilton Als, Oprah Winfrey
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