Heirs of the Founders: Henry Clay, Hohn Calhoun and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants -
H.W. Brands
Past Tense: a Jack Reacher novel
- Lee Child
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- Stephen Hawking
The Colors of All the Cattle - Alexander McCall Smith
Fire and Blood - George R.R. Martin
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Target Alex Cross -
James Patterson
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Bel Canto - Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe
BlacKkKlansman - John David Washington, Adam Driver
The Children's Act - Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead
Christopher Robin - Ewan McGregor
Crazy Rich Asians - Constance Wu, Harry Shombe, Awkwa Fina
The Crown - season 2
Father Brown - sea. 5
The Incredibles 2 - Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell
Juliet, Naked - Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Dowd
Little Stranger - Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Charlotte Rampling
Poldark - 4th season
Puzzle - Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan
Searching - John Cho, Debra Messing
Sharp Objects - Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson
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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.
Quick Reads for a Busy Month 2018
The Turkish Gambit - Boris Akunin
The Five People You Meet in Heaven ; For One More Day - Mitch Albom
Old Herbaceous - Reginald Arkell
The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
The Tent - Margaret Atwood
The Headmaster's Dilemma - Louis Auchincloss
The Morning Star - Nick Bantock
The Sense of An Ending - Julian Barnes
Jane Austin's Charlotte - Julia Barrett
The Shepherd, the Angel and Walter The Christmas Miracle Dog - Dave Barry
Oh! To be in England - H. E. Bates
Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin books - M.C. Beaton
Wartime Lies - Louis Begley
A Place Where the Sea Remembers - Sandra Benitez
Jacob the Baker - Noah BenShea
Durable Goods ; True to Form ; The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg
Lilac and Flag - John Berger
The Moon Opera - Bi Feiyu
Civil War Stories - Ambrose Bierce
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You - Amy Bloom
If the River was Whiskey - T. C. Boyle
Leaving Home - Anita Brookner
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Matisse Stories - A.S. Byatt
The Smell of the Night - Andrea Camilleri
Carry Me Across the Water - Ethan Canin
The Signal - Ron Carlson
A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
Pancake Hollow Primer - Laurence Carr
Novels of Regency England series - Marion Chesney
The A.B.C. Murders ; other mysteries - Agatha Christie
Elm Creek Quilts novels - Jennifer Chiaverini
Dashing Through the Snow - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
Silent Night - Carol Higgins Clark
Manuscript Found in Accra - Paulo Coelho
Foe ; Youth - J.M. Coetzee
Every Day if For the Thief - Teju Cole
Dr Siri series - Colin Cotterill
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
The Persian Pickle Club - Sandra Dallas
Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
Netsuke - Rikki Ducornet
1914 - Jean Echenoz
Walking Across Egypt - Clyde Edgerton
Twilight of the Superheroes - Deborah Eisenberg
Dot in the Universe - Lucy Ellmann
A Cup of Tea - Amy Ephron
The Gift ; Finding Noel - Richard Paul Evans
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells ; Girl at the Lion D'or - Sebastian Faulks
Elza's Kitchen - Marc Fitten
The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
Dame Frevisse Medieval Mysteries - Margaret Frazer
The Curse of the Appropriate Man - Lynn Freed
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
Evenings at Five - Gail Godwin
Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and other stories - Nadine Gordimer
Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
Falling Out of Time - David Grossman
The Haunted Monastary ; Poets and Murder - Robert Van Gulik
Rain - Kirsty Gunn
Married Love and other stories - Tessa Hadley
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Double Happiness - Mary-Beth Hughes
High Bonnet- Idwal Jones
Esther's Gift - Jan Karon
A Christmas Blizzard ; Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny - Garrison Keillor
The Haunted Life & Other Stories - Jack Kerouac
The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
The Gangster we are all Looking For - Le Thi Diem Thuy
A Sea of Troubles - Donna Leon
How it all Began - Penelope Lively
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series ; Isabel Dalhousie series - Alexander McCall-Smith
Someone - Alice McDermott
Twisted River - Siobhan MacDonald
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
McKay's Bees - Thomas McMahon
Music of a Life - Andrei Makine
The Pleasure of My Company ; Shopgirl - Steve Martin
Italian Fever - Valerie Martin
Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It ; Half in Love - Maile Meloy
Personal Velocity - Rebecca Miller
The Last Chinese Chef - Nicole Mones
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
A Mercy - Toni Morrison
Rumpole novels - John Mortimer
Animal Farm - George Orwel
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
Scenes from Village Life - Amos Oz
Jane Austen Ruined my Life - Beth Pattillo
The Raven and Other Stories - Edgar Allen Poe
Close Range: Wyoming stories - Annie Proulx
Tales from a Village School and other novels - Miss Read
Just Deserts - Carl Reiner
Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa Express ; African Passions - Beatriz Rivera
Holidays on Ice /813.54 sed ; Squirell Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
I think of You - Ahdaf Soueif
A Clue to the Exit - Edward St Aubyn
The Harry Houdini mysteries - Daniel Stashower
World of Pies - Karen Stolz
About Alice - Calvin Trillin
The Big Day - Barry Unsworth
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mysteries - Arthur W. Upfield
Murder in the Shawangunks - Norman J. VanValkenburg
The Stone Virgins - Yvonne Vera
The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
Half Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
Last Days of the Dog-Men - Brad Watson
The Code of the Woosters ; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit - P. G. Wodehouse
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Last Day for Book Donations: December 1st
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The Library will not be accepting book donations during the Winter, the last day to donate is Dec. 1. We will begin taking books again on April 1.
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This annual favorite will feature work created by Library staff and the Saturday Knitters throughout the month of December. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Library.
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Children's Room Construction Project - DONE
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The new room looks terrific! We have four small tables that are easy to move around into different configurations and easy to clean vinyl floor mats.
The little kitchenette will be a great asset, getting things ready for Library events will be much easier. And it's a convenient place (with running water and a fridge!) for the staff to have lunch.
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Wednesday, December 12
3pm in the Biography Room
The reading selection for December is Master of the Prado by Javier Sierra. A grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind some of the greatest paintings in the world--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts of artwork by Raphael, Boticelli, and other masters.
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HOLMES & CO. Mystery Lovers Book Group |
Wednesday, December 19
3pm in the Biography Room
The reading selection for December is Promised Land by Robert B. Parker. Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost his pretty wife -- and a very pretty quarter million bucks in real estate. Now a loan shark is putting on the bite. Spenser finds himself doing a slow burn in the Cape Cod sun. The wife has turned up as a hot suspect in a case of murder one...the in-hock hubby has 24 hours before the mob makes him dead...and suddenly Spenser is in so deep that the only way out is so risky it makes dying look like a sure thing.
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CLIO'S MUSE A History Reading Club |
Saturday, December 15 12:45pm in the Biography Room
The reading selection for December is Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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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, December 18
1:30-2:30pm Biography Room
The August meeting is cancelled.
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, December 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, December 3, 17 4:00-6:30pm
GROUP II: Monday, December 10 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.
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Every Friday, at 10am
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.
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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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December 2, 2018
Where: TV Limited Series, 10 episodes -- Syfy
Director: Dan Cerone
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Eoin Macken, David Ajala, Sam Strikem Phillip Rhys
December 7, 2018
Where: Theaters
Director: Josie Rourke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce, David Tennant, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Martin Compston, Brendan Coyle
December 7, 2018
Where: Theaters, Horror
Director: John R. Leonetti
Cast:
December 14, 2018
Where: Theaters, Sci-Fi
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Robbie Sheehan, Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Ronan Raftery
December 14, 2018
Where: Theaters, Superhero
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Mahershala Ali, Shameik Moore
December 19, 2018
Where: Theaters, Musical -- Disney
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda
December 21, 2018
Where: Theaters, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, Rosa Salazar
December 21, 2018
Where: Theaters, Superhero
Based on:
Aquaman comics by Geoff Johns
Director: James Wan
Cast: Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Jason Momoa
December 21, 2018
Where: Theaters, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Director: Etan Cohen
Cast: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Ralph Fiennes
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