Take Your Child to the Library Day

Stop by for Take Your Child to the Library Day, this Saturday, February 1st, 2020. We'll have stickers to give out, bookmarks to color, and a raffle to enter!

Upcoming Event: Author Talk with Christine Coulson

Upcoming Event: Author Talk with Christine Coulson

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020, at 7:30 PM

Join Perrot in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art! Christine Coulson will discuss her new novel, METROPOLITAN STORIES, with Page Knox, adjunct professor of art history at Columbia University, and a lecturer and educator at the Met. Couslon's enchanting novel, inspired by her 25-year career at the Met, takes us behind the scenes in the museum with amusing and poignant vignettes that reveal larger-than-life characters, surreal situations,and the powerful voices of the art itself.

Top Circulating Titles at Perrot 2018-2019

Perrot Library salutes our colleagues at the New York Public Library on the occasion of their 125^th Anniversary https://125.nypl.org/125/topcheckouts

Here are the top circulating books, movies and music from Perrot’s collection last fiscal year (2018-2019). Cheers!

Top Circulating Adult Books: 
1. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou
2. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate
3. The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware
4. There There, by Tommy Orange
5. Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje


Top Circulating Children's Books:
1.-5. A Big Guy Took My Ball! and other Elephant & Piggie books, by Mo Willems
6. Fly Guy and the Alienzz by Tedd Arnold
7. Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties, by Dav Pilkey
8. Dog Man: Unleashed, by Dav Pilkey
9. The Itchy Book!, by LeUyen Pham
10. Llama Llama Loves to Read, by Anna Dewdney


Top Circulating DVDs
1. Chappaquiddick
2. 7 Days in Entebbe
3. Mile 22
4. The Girl in the Spider’s Web
5. The Catcher Was a Spy

Top Circulating CDs
1. Diamonds, by Elton John
2. The Beatles. 1967-1970
3. Beatles for Sale
4. The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
5. Classic Stax

Upcoming Event: Author Talk with Mary Calvi

Upcoming Event: Author Talk with Mary Calvi on her book Dear George, Dear Mary

Wednesday, February 5th, 2020, at 7:30 PM

Perrot Memorial Library

In advance of Presidents Day, join Perrot in welcoming Mary Calvi, a television news anchor and winner of ten New York Emmy Awards, who will discuss her debut novel, Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love. Based on thousands of archived letters, eyewitness accounts, and journal entries, the novel explores the relationship between George Washington and Mary Eliza Philipse, his first love and the richest belle of colonial America. This never-before-told store, hidden away for centuries, reveals the unrequited love that helped to ignite a cause that became the American Revolution.

Children's Winter/Spring Program Lottery/Program Openings

Registration cards for our Winter/Spring 2020 children's programs were mailed back today! If you don't receive your card in the next few days, please call us (203-637-8802).

Also, we still have room in our 2s and 3s Together, Fun for 4s and 5s, Stuff & Nonsense (K/Grade 1) and Spotlight programs (Grades 2/3). Please call us if you are interested in signing up!

Upcoming Event: Book Discussion on City of Light, by Lauren Belfer

Upcoming Event:

Book Discussion on City of Light, by Lauren Belfer

Facilitated by Barbara Ehrentreu of Greenwich Pen Women

Monday, January 27th, 2020, at 7 PM (Snow Date is Monday, February 3rd, 2020)

The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly-electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. 

Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of Buffalo's most prestigious school, Louisa is at ease in a world of men, protected by the titans of her city. But nothing prepares her for a startling discovery: evidence of a murder tied to the city's cathedral-like power plant at nearby Niagara Falls. This shocking crime-- followed by another mysterious death-- will ignite an explosive chain of events. For in this city of seething intrigue and dazzling progress, a battle rages among politicians, power brokers, and industrialists for control of Niagara. And one extraordinary woman in their midst must protect a dark secret that implicates them all. As Louisa struggles with her own problems and attempts to solve the mystery of the unusual murders and deaths, Buffalo is preparing for the Great Exposition and the visit of President McKinley and his wife, which will end in his assassination. 

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the Circulation Desk. Seating for the event is limited!