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By Emily on January 23, 2012
Chinese New Year, often referred to as the Lunar New Year, begins today! It’s the Year of the Dragon, which is said to be an especially lucky year in the Chinese Zodiac. The 15 day festival ends with the Lantern Festival (February 6th this year), where families come together, eat yuanxiao (a glutinous rice ball), hang colorful lanterns and solve riddles on them.
Here are some titles from our children’s collection that celebrate Chinese New Year:
The Runaway Wok: a Chinese New Year Tale by Ying Chang Compestine, illustrated by Sebastià Serra
On Chinese New Year’s Eve, a poor man who works for the richest businessman in Beijing sends his son to market to trade their last few eggs for a bag of rice, but instead he brings home an empty – but magic – wok that changes their fortunes forever.
The Star Maker by Laurence Yep
With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954.
 A New Year’s Reunion by Yu Li-Qiong, illustrated by Zhu Cheng-Liang
Little Maomao’s father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family is happily making sticky rice balls, listening to firecrackers, and watching the dragon dance in the streets below.
Chinese New Year by Alice K. Flanagan, illustrated by Svetlana Zhurkina
This book explores the history, customs, and symbols of Chinese New Year. Learn how Chinese New Year has changed over time and how it is celebrated around the world. This beautifully illustrated history is also filled with interesting and unusual facts about the holiday such as what foods can be found on the Tray of Togetherness and why the color red is important.
And the following is a title graciously donated to our bilingual children’s collection in honor of this year’s Chinese New Year:
Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes: Share and Sing in Two Languages by Faye-Lynn Wu, illustrations by Kieren Dutcher
In Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes, an innovative collection of favorite rhymes are put in pairs—one from China and the next in English—to show how the things that kids love are the same, no matter where in the world they live. Whether your native language is English or Chinese, you can learn the rhymes along with your children. Just follow the words on the page, or play the CD and sing along!
By Emily on January 5, 2012
 artwork by Arlene Boehm The Book Sale Room will be open 1st and 3rd Saturdays this month from 10am-1pm – January 7 and January 21. Keep an eye out for their Blackboard Specials – special pricing on certain genres, formats, or categories of books!
The newly refurbished Book Sale Room holds thousands of books on a myriad of subjects, including cooking, art, travel, gardening, autobiography, classics, fiction, humor, mystery, business, politics, health, science and more. Premium magazines, audiobooks and VHS tapes are also available for purchase at discounted prices.
The Friends welcome your donation of gently-used books and other media throughout the year. Please, no text books, encyclopedias, trade journals or damaged items. Please call the library in advance of donating at 518.828.1792 to arrange a drop-off time Tuesdays through Saturdays.
The Friends of the Hudson Area Library is a 501c(3) non-profit organization and all proceeds from its fundraising go to the Library for the acquisition of books and other media and for the development and delivery of the Library’s services to the community.
By Emily on January 3, 2012
The Hudson Area Library book club is open to new members! The group meets around once per month at the Hudson Area Library to discuss a book chosen by the group at the previous meeting. This month’s book club pick is Sue Miller’s The Senator’s Wife. A description of the book can be found below. The group will be meeting to discuss this book on Tuesday, January 10th at 5:45pm. All are welcome.
Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love. The author of the iconic The Good Mother and the best-selling While I Was Gone brings her marvelous gifts to a powerful story of two unconventional women who unexpectedly change each other’s lives.
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri’s new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia’s husband’s chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong. What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun.
Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved—the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, the superb economy of style—fused with an utterly engrossing story that has a great deal to say to women, and men, of all ages
By Emily on December 21, 2011
In memory of Kathleen Hintze, longtime employee of the Hudson Area Library, the Friends of the Library recently purchased and donated over forty newly-released and classic DVDs for the Library’s collection. Kathleen loved the Hudson Area Library and old movies and was a familiar voice and face to hundreds of Library patrons and visitors for over twenty years.
Some of the titles donated by the Friends include Arsenic and Old Lace, It’s a Wonderful Life, Roman Holiday, The Thorn Birds, It Happened One Night, Some Like it Hot, The Philadelphia Story, Vertigo, High Noon, The Searchers, Margin Call, 127 Hours, and True Grit.
Additional DVDs will be arriving in the new year, thanks to donations from both the Friends of the Hudson Area Library and other generous donors to the Kathleen Hintze Memorial Fund.
By Emily on December 10, 2011
The Friends of the Hudson Area Library has a book for every person on your gift list this holiday season! One of Hudson’s best kept secrets, the Book Sale Room is now offering a large selection of specialty and newly released books at discounted prices, ideal for gift giving. A great place to browse, the Sale Room has thousands of books to choose from in categories including art, fiction, humor, mystery, health, poetry, cooking, and many more. Plus, thousands of children’s books are offered at super discounted prices for every level of reader. The very popular Blackboard Specials of buy-one, get-one free will also continue throughout the holiday season. Premium magazines, music CDs, audio books and VCR tapes are available for purchase as well.
The Book Sale Room will be open the first three Saturdays in December from 10 until 1pm. Now everyone can afford to give generous gifts this holiday season by shopping at the Book Sale Room! A new selection of books is offered each Sale day.
The Friends welcomes your donation of gently-used books, magazines and other media throughout the year. Please, no textbooks, encyclopedias, trade journals or damaged items. Please call the library in advance of donating at 518.828.1792 to arrange a drop-off time Tuesday through Saturday.
The Friends of the Hudson Area Library is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and all proceeds from its fundraising go to the Library for the acquisition of books and other media and for the development and delivery of the Library’s services to the community.
By Emily on December 1, 2011
The Hudson Area Library will host “Affordability 101: The Basics of College Financial Aid,” a presentation for parents by independent educational consultant and former college admissions director Sandra M. Moore, M.A. The session will introduce basic financial aid terminology, types of available assistance and required forms and application time frames. Ms. Moore is founder and principal of Next Step College Counseling (Next Step CC, LLC).
Saturday, December 10, 1-2:30pm
Hudson Area Library, 400 State St., Hudson, NY
To reserve your place: 518-828-1792 or email hudsonarealibrary (at) gmail (dot) com
The presentation is free and open to the public, and questions are welcome.
By Emily on November 25, 2011
Congratulations to local poet, John Ashbery, on receiving the National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters! In his acceptance speech, Ashbery spoke about the joys of writing poetry, saying “Writing the poetry I write gives me a pleasure I can almost taste”. More information on Ashbery and the award is available on the National Book Foundation website.
Other 2011 National Book Award Winners:
FICTION: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
NONFICTION: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
POETRY: Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again
Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of the Miami Book Fair International, received the Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Literary Community.
By markorton on November 21, 2011
Emily Bennison Chameides  - Library Director
The Board of Trustees of Hudson Area Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Bennison Chameides as our new Library Director. She has been working at the library for the last year as Library Assistant and since August as the Library Manager. In this role she has carried out many of the day-to-day responsibilities of the Director’s position since the departure of the previous Library Director.
Previously, Ms. Chameides was the Youth Services and Program Coordinator at the Roeliff Jansen Community Library in Hillsdale, NY and Director of Media Education and Exhibitions at the Children’s Media Project in Poughkeepsie, NY. She holds a BA from Vassar College.
Ms. Chameides is also an active member of the Hudson community. Besides her earlier volunteer work at the library, she has been active with the Friends of the Hudson Area Library. She is the Youth Programs Coordinator & Workshop Facilitator at WGXC: Hands-On Radio. She and her husband Michael Chameides live in Hudson.
The Board looks forward to Ms. Chameides continuing the energetic and creative leadership she has shown over the last few months in her role as Library Manager. As the Library moves forward with work on the new library facility at the Armory on North Fifth Street, we expect to continue to improve the services we provide at 400 State St. We are confident that Ms. Chameides will be a driving force, with the Library’s staff and volunteers, in bringing both of these challenges to fruition.
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