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Windows 8 tricks for every user  Word on the street is even the most savvy computer users feel like technosaurs when it comes to getting the hang of Windows 8.
Thankfully, PC World has published a list of shortcuts designed to make the sometimes puzzling operating system more user-friendly. Check them out today for valuable tips you can use to impress your fellow Windows 8 novices...like how to shut down! |
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You can help yourself by helping others
 | | Volunteers sort items donated to Hurricane Sandy victims last weekend in New Paltz. |
Charity, it seems, is not only good for the soul, but great for your health, as well! Studies have shown how performing kind acts boosts a person's immune system and promotes well-being. We're hard-wired to take care of one another!
If you're looking for more ways in which you can help others, UlsterCorps provides community members with a variety of opportunities to volunteer right in their own backyards. Whether you have an hour or a day available or want to become a part of an effort on a more regular basis (such as with a soup kitchen or - ahem - at the library), UlsterCorps has the cause for you. Subscribe to their monthly eNewsletter to see a fresh listing of opportunities every few weeks! |
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Prisoners decide their own fate in novel  Block 11, by Piero Degli Antoni
New York, the present: An old woman and her husband sit down for a breakfast of black bread and coffee at a table set for ten. Eight chairs remain empty.
Auschwitz, Spring 1944: Following a successful escape from the camp, a group of ten prisoners are rounded up for execution. But at the last minute, counter-orders are given. Since the camp needs every inmate for labor, only one prisoner will be sacrificed. And it is the job of the other nine prisoners, locked up in an empty building in Block 11 with nothing but a piece of paper and pencil, to decide by dawn who will die. Otherwise they will all go to the gallows.
Thus begins a night of storytelling with tales of horror, secrecy, and betrayal, but also of love and great humanity, as these ten prisoners debate who deserves to live and who deserves to die. The night is filled with violence, emotion, and shocking revelations. Degli Antoni wrestles with questions of guilt and forgiveness, selfishness and sacrifice, in this unforgettable novel set during the most trying of times. |
Those spared the heartache and destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy have come out in droves to support the storm's victims. 
Election Day wasn't just for the adults this year - the polls were open at the library all day Tuesday for our littlest voters, as well!
Congratulations to Hailey Donohue and Owen Turner, the winners of our Children's Magazine Month contest!
Jillian Landsman, veteran actor with the library's children's theater group, will be featured as the bellhop and soda clerk/jerk in 90 Miles Off Broadway's production of I Remember Mama on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Reformed Church of New Paltz.
