The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending May 12.

MOST FAMILIES have at least a couple of skeletons in their closets, while others have trunkfuls—even roomfuls of corpses.

For mothers like Priscilla Gilman, finding those little moments of beauty even in the most trying of circumstances has kept her focused.

ROBERT CARO receives the most interesting mail. “I get letters, constantly, saying, ‘I see your book’s coming. I hope you’re going to prove in this book that LBJ did it,“’ the award-winning and ongoing biographer of Lyndon Johnson says during a recent interview at his midtown Manhattan office. “Did it,” as in killed President Kennedy.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending April 21.

IN A CULTURE permeated by the reality of “It’s all about ME!” young people are discouraged from making permanent commitments to each other and starting families.

Imagine never forgetting, always remembering. For women of a certain age, such recall and possession would be a comfort: the first kiss (sloppy, but sweet), the first wedding (evanescent, not so sweet), keys (on the sofa, under the cat on the pillow).

OCCUPY WOODSTOCK! is less a rallying cry for the 99 percent as it is a heralding of the third annual Woodstock Writers Festival, which does, in fact, occupy and preoccupy Woodstock from April 19 through 22.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending March 24.

On the one hand, former TV news anchor Susan Barnett can pound out copy if she’s under the gun.

ROBERT K. FITTS is a guy who loves a good thriller. He’s a huge fan of Stephen King and an equally devoted follower of Eric Larson.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending March 10.

IN MOST Sicilian homes, the kitchen is the woman’s domain.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending March 3.

“THE SECOND Time We Met” (Grand Central Publishing), by Leila Cobo: On a rainy evening in a small Colombian town, 16-year-old Rita Ortiz gets up from bed to close her bedroom window and meets the eyes of a young man dressed in fatigues. He smiles and she freezes in panic.

IT’S NEARLY impossible to imagine the petite, sweet-faced, soft-spoken young woman sitting across the table with a cup of coffee having the capacity for the extreme booze and out-of-bounds anger she details in her two memoirs.

WHAT: Young Writers Guild WHEN: 4:30-6 p.m. Fridays from March 2 through May 18

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Feb. 18.

WHAT: John Burroughs Quotation Contest WHEN: Submission deadline is March 2 WHERE: Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal St., Port Ewen

WHO: Shalom Auslander WHEN: Saturday at 6 p.m. WHERE: Oriole 9 Restaurant, 17 Tinker St., Woodstock

IN HER DECADE living with breast cancer, Elizabeth Holland Kern has turned a corner.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Feb. 11.

THEY’RE GORGEOUS. They’re tiny. They fly. They take their responsibilities as stewards of the environment seriously. Most particularly: They’re not fairies.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Feb. 4.

WILLIAM B. RHOADS’ nomadic wanderings and unrelenting curiosity, along with an exceptionally agreeable traveling companion, have led to the recent publication of his book, “Ulster County New York: The Architectural History & Guide.”

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Jan. 21.

IT’S HARD to believe that Americans will consume 1.25 billion chicken wings on the biggest football weekend of the year.

ONLINE: www.poughkeepsieday.org/enrich

Never judge a book by its cover. Although New Paltz author Anthony Robinson detests clichés, that surely can be said of his latest novel, “The Floodplain.”

WHAT: Women’s Writes WHEN: Mar. 3 at 3 p.m. to Mar. 4 at 4 p.m. WHERE: Venues throughout Huguenot Street, New Paltz

This story is not necessarily about shopaholics, although they might also benefit from the wisdom about to be imparted. Shopping junkies, you know who you are.

IN AN ODD triangulation of circumstances, two colleagues at the Kingston Trolley Museum ended up co-authoring a different kind of book on transportation, “Images of Rail: Ulster County Railroads.”

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Dec. 17.

BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD, fascinating to read, “Hudson River Towns: Highlights from the Capital Region to Sleepy Hollow Country,” with photos by Hardie Truesdale of Gardiner and text by Joanne Michaels of Woodstock is a captivating journey to communities along both sides of the mighty Hudson that lures the reader to give one, keep one.

THE RICH are different. And, never more so than when they play.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Dec. 3.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Nov. 26.

SOMETIMES, the stars or fate or faith line up perfectly in a trifecta of blessings as singer-songwriter-activist Judy Collins is open to suggesting.

Mr. Mom of New Paltz had a bomb dropped on him on Oct. 23.

NEW YORK  — Don DeLillo is among the world’s most influential and celebrated writers, but only close observers of his jacket photos are likely to recognize his face — roundish and dark-eyed, with lowered eyebrows and a watchful, withholding expression as if he were the bearer of classified information.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Nov. 12.

“11/22/63” (Scribner), by Stephen King: Some of Stephen King’s best books do double duty as doorstops and this one is no exception. At 849 pages, it may appeal more to the Kindle crowd, but just try to read the first sentence (“I have never been what you’d call a crying man.”) and not turn the page.

NEW YORK — Robert A. Caro’s quest to narrate the life of Lyndon Johnson, and document how Johnson handled and created political power, has lasted longer than LBJ’s time in government.

His empire of 2 million square miles, all of the known ancient world, stretched from central Europe, across all of the Middle East, into Central Asia, as far as India.

The Hudson River, like a willful child, has its many moods: exuberant, sulky, hostile, dangerous in its tantrums. One day, its surface is smooth as glass; the next, as turbulent as a storm at sea.

SHOKAN – Single-minded, purpose-driven, solitary. Decent, caring, soliticitous.

Shhh. Polite girls don’t say it or even discuss it.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Sept. 24.

The following is a list of the most requested books at your local libraries for the week ending Sept. 17.

“DESTINY OF the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President” (Doubleday), by Candice Millard: Author Candice Millard looks back at a forgotten time and president and brings the era and people involved to vivid life in “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President.”