NEW BOOKS

Auslander, Shalom – Foreskin’s Lament
Bhutto, Benazir – Reconciliation
Carter, Jimmy – A Remarkable Mother
Downie, Ruth – Terra Incognita
Fairstein, Linda – Killer Heat
Garvey, Steve – My Bat Boy Days
Graham, Heather – Death Dealer
Kendall, Joshua – The Man Who Made Lists
Kinsella, Sophie – Remember Me?
Lahiri, Jumpa – Unaccustomed Earth
McCullough, Dennis – My Mother, Your Mother
Picoult, Jodi – Change of Heart

NEW DVDs

Angels in the Dust
Atonement
Death at a Funeral
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Enchanted
I’m Not There
Juno
The Kite Runner
Lake of Fire
No Country for Old Men
The Rape of Europe
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Willow Tree
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Second Chances
Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

City Delights

The library has passes for the Guggenheim, Whitney, Natural History and Cooper Hewitt museums, as well as discount tickets for Broadway and Off-Broadway theater. Reserve the museum passes at the circulation desk. Pick up the discount tickets at the reference desk.

Library Director's Memorial Service Held

Beatrice Agnew with her two children, Jean-Christophe, and Kim Dominique
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Born in Paris, daughter of painters Raymond Woog and Violette Picard, she met and married an American GI, Bill Agnew, in France. After World War II, she came to the United States, where she raised her two children, Jean-Christophe and Kim Dominique.

A Remembrance by Carol Elevitch

Beatrice Agnew 1923 - 2007
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When Beatrice and I met and became friends in the 1960s, she confided that upon first coming to the United States from France, newly married and with a small baby, she would sit in Washington Square and imagine how it would be to own a bookstore in Greenwich Village. But when she came to Palisades in the mid-1950s, it was through our small public library that she became involved with books.

Beatrice Agnew, in center, at groundbreaking for library addition in 1995
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PALISADES, N.Y. – At the corner of Oak Tree and Closter roads rises a very old building, once a comfortable house and now a comfortable library, still a home of delight, of interest and intellect, of curiosity and education. Its fireplace is without blaze, but books and magazines and comfortable chairs now draw you to what is still a hearth, one long tended to by a doting mistress. Beatrice Agnew, as French as an expatriate can be in America, with a critical, no-excuses eye for cultural standards and the reading component, has passed on, her nearly 40-year role as director of the Palisades Free Library over but long to be remembered.

Palisades Free Library

Member of the Ramapo Catskill Library System

19 Closter Road

Palisades, NY 10964

845-359-0136, Fax 845-359-6124, http://www.rcls.org/pal>www.rcls.org/pal

Hours: Mon-Thu 1-9, Fri 1-5, Sat 11-5, Sun 1-5

Closed Dec. 24, 25, 30, 31, Jan. 1, Feb. 19, Apr. 8

Member of the Ramapo Catskill Library System

19 Closter Road, Palisades, NY 10964

Tel: 845-359-0136, Fax: 845-359-6124, pal@rcls.org, www.rcls.org/pal

LIBRARY HOURS: Mon.–Thurs. 1:00-9:00

Friday 1:00-5:00

Saturday 11:00-5:00

Sunday 1:00-5:00

Library Closed: Columbus Day, October 8th and Thanksgiving, November 21st and 22nd

It Needs Some Music: Composing for Stage and Screen

Sunday, October 7: Composer David Shire, an Oscar and Grammy winner and multiple Tony and Emmy nominee, talks about and performs some of his music for stage musicals and the movies, assisted by Broadway and off-Broadway singer/actress Lynne Wintersteller.

In August, the Palisades Free Library’s “Sunday Symposia: A Community Cultural Series” was selected as the winner of the 2007 Member Library Adult Program of the Year Award from RCLS, the Ramapo Catskill Library System*. The award will be presented at the System’s Annual Meeting, Friday, October 5, at the West Point Club. The Library’s Board of Trustees President, Mary Ellen Ledwith, will make a brief presentation describing the program and provide a display highlighting the program for over 100 attendees who are library directors and trustees.

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19 Closter Road, Palisades, NY 10964
Phone: 845-359-0136, Fax: 845-359-6124
pal@rcls.org, www.rcls.org/pal
Closed May 28th, July 4th.
Closed Sundays from June 17th through September 2nd

The Palisades Free Library offers a variety of children's programs, as well a new books, new DVDs, and many reference materials.

Library news: summer programs for children, new books and DVDs, museum passes, and digitized resources.

New books and DVDs, upcoming library programs and events.