New!! Downloadable Songs - Free For You

HKDPL is pleased to announce that we are now offering Library Ideas' FreegalMusic service, which will allow our patrons to download three songs each week from the vast Sony Music catalog. Look for the link on our website, www.hkdpl.org. You'll need your library barcode number and your PIN, which is generally the last four digits of the telephone number we have on record for you.

If you have a question, please feel free to call 786-3800 ext 18 or email information@hkdpl.org, and we will try to help.

Learn a New Language with Mango!

Learn over 29 languages from around the world from Spanish, French, Chinese and more. ESL lessons also available! To start, go to our Online Databases, and click on Manga Language Learning. Start learning a new language today!




Senior Book Discussion Group

This small but active group meets on the 4th Thursday of each month at the Rosman Center in the afternoon. Occasionally we compare books and their movie counterparts.

Online Book Club



Monday through Friday, receive an email and read five minutes a day. Finish 2-3 chapters every week. We start a new book every Monday.
Sign up and start reading!

Programs & Useful Links

Adult Programs
Computer Classes

Boomers & Beyond
Reference Sites & Job Resources

Adult Services @ Facebook
Haverstraw Water Supply Project

 

Waiting For You Book Club

Patrons who join the WAITING FOR YOU BOOK CLUB @ the Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library will automatically be put on the list for new books by their favorite fiction authors. Consider it one less thing you have to think about!

How It Works:
Place a check mark next to the names of up to 5 authors from the preselected list of best-selling authors in our form. Each time your chosen author publishes a new novel, you will be added to the reserve list for the new release. While we cannot guarantee how close to the top of the list you will be, you’ll be on it without having to place the reserve. Staff at Haverstraw King’s Daughters Library will inform you when something new is waiting for you.

How to Join:
Complete and submit our online form or pick up a form from the Reference or Circulation desk. Paper forms can be submitted at the Reference Desk.

More About the Service:
This service is available to HKDPL cardholders only and is for new titles only; reprints will generally not be included. Please pick up books promptly when notified of their availability. Because of their popularity, these books are in high demand. We ask that you be considerate of those who are waiting.

Municipal Codes

Are you looking for local town and village codes? Do you need to know when trash pickup is, or when overnight street parking is no longer allowed? All this information and more can be found in the codes of your municipality. While we will no longer provide access to these bulky and often hard-to-use books, codes for Rockland County, the Town of Haverstraw, and the Villages of Haverstraw and West Haverstraw are now available online in a clear and easy-to-use format.

The links are as follows:
County of Rockland: http://www.ecode360.com/?custId=RO1021
Town of Haverstraw: http://www.townofhaverstraw.us/
Village of Haverstraw: http://www.ecode360.com/?custId=HA0171
Village of West Haverstraw: http://www.ecode360.com/?custId=WE1502

Books Coming Soon

Author Title
January 2012 (Fiction):
Auslander, Shalom
George, Elizabeth
Lescroart, John
Mosley, Walter
O'Connell, Carol

January 2012 (Non-Fiction):
Ross, Carne


February 2012 (Fiction):
Davidson, Mary Janice
Fluke, Joanne
Flynn, Vice
Gardner, Lisa
Kellerman, Jonathan

February 2012 (Non-Fiction):         
Amen, Daniel
January 2012 (Fiction):
Hope: A Tragedy
Believing the Lie
The Hunter
All I Did Was Shoot My Man
The Chalk Girl

January 2012 (Non-Fiction):
The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Charge and Change Politics in the 21st Century

February 2012 (Fiction):
Yours, Mine, and Ours
Cinnamon Roll Murder
Kill Shot
Catch Me
Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel

February 2012 (Non-Fiction):
Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day

 

Books Coming Soon Preview

Hope: A Tragedy
by Shalom Auslander

Synopsis: The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way. His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one he bought. And when, one night, Kugel discovers history-a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead ...



New Movies (January-February 2012)

7 Movies for 7 Days!

Duplicate copies of recent popular movies, old favorites, classics, and gems you missed are available for 7-day loan. Look for them on the shelves next to the new arrivals. The 7-day discs can be requested online and renewed. Up to 7 can be borrowed as well as 4 regular 3-day discs.
 

Movies on DVD

Titles DVD Preview TV Series
30 Minutes or Less
Atlas Shrugged - Part I
Colombiana
Conan the Barbarian
Cowboys & Aliens

The Debt
Friends with Benefits
The Help
Larry Crowne
Margin Call

Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
Mr. Popper's Penguins
One Day
Our Idiot Brother

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strange Tides
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
Blue Bloods: 1st Season
Borgias: Season One
Hot in Cleveland: Season One
Mike & Molly: 1st Season

New Audio Books (January - February 2012)

Audio Books (Fiction)

Author
Title
Audio Book (Fiction) Preview
Tom Clancy
Michael Connelly
Patricia Cornwall
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler

Don Delillo
Janet Evanovich
Richard Paul Evans
Sue Grafton
W.E.B. Griffin

Steven Hunter
Dean Koontz
James Patterson
Nora Roberts
Danielle Steele

Woods, Stuart
Locked On
The Drop
Red Mist
Micro
Devil's Gate

Angel Esmeralda
Explosive Eighteen
Lost December
V is for Vengeance
Covert Warriors

Soft Target
77 Shadow Street
Kill Alex Cross
Next Always
Hotel Vendome

D.C. Dead
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
by Don DeLillo

Synopsis: Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories.

In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda.

Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it.

Audio Books (Non-Fiction)

Call No.
Title
330.973 Sus
973.7 O'Re
B Jobs

 
Confidence Men by Ronald Suskind
Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

 

Audio Book (Non-Fiction) Preview

Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson

Synopsis: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

New Music CDs (February 2012)

Music CDs

Artist Album Title Music CD Previews
Zuill Bailey
Andrea Bocelli
Susan Boyle
Ron Carter
Celtic Thunder

Coldplay
Il Divo
Florence + The Machine
Jennifer Hudson
Charles Ives

Hugh Laurie
Franz Liszt
Joe Lovano
Hossam Ramzy
Leann Rimes

Boz Scaggs
SuperHeavy
Wilco
Hank Williams
Johnny Winter
Spanish Masters
Concerto: One Night in Central Park
Someone Watch Over Me
This is Jazz
Storm

Mylo Xyloto
Wicked Game
Ceremonials
I Remember Me
Four Sonatas

Let Them Talk
Liszt, My Piano Hero
Bird Song
Rock the Tabla
Lady & Gentleman

The Very Best of Boz Scaggs
SuperHeavy
The Whole Love
The Lost Notebooks
Roots

Franz Liszt
Liszt, My Piano Hero


Il Divo
Wicked Game


Jennifer Hudson
I Remember Me

Boz Scaggs
The Very Best of Boz Scaggs


Super Heavy
Super Heavy


Zuill Bailey
Spanish Masters

Susan Boyle
Someone to Watch Over Me


Joe Levano
Bird Song


Coldplay
Mylo Xyloto