Upcoming Event: Mastering Your Inner Critic, a Virtual Discussion with Susan MacKenty Brady

Perrot Memorial Library 

presents

 a Virtual Discussion with Susan MacKenty Brady

on her book Mastering Your Inner Critic and 7 Other High Hurdles to Advancement

Wednesday, January 6th 2021 at 7 PM via Zoom

Join Perrot Library for a virtual talk with renowned leadership coach, strategist, and author Susan MacKenty Brady on her book, Mastering Your Inner Critic and 7 Other High Hurdles to Advancement: How the Best Women Leaders Practice Self-Awareness to Change What Really Matters. Brady is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at Simmons University-- the first chief executive officer of the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership, which produces game-changing solutions for the purpose of intersecting leadership, equity, and inclusion. Susan advises executives on how to create gender parity in organizations and motivates women at all levels of organizational leadership to fully realize-- and manifest-- their leadership potential. Featured on ABC's Good Morning America, Susan is a celebrated speaker, and has keynoted or consulted at over 500 organizations around the world. 

Register today via Zoom

Upcoming Event: Virtual Discussion with Author Rachel Cohen on her book, Austen Years

Perrot Memorial Library 

presents

 a Virtual Discussion with author Rachel Cohen, 

on her book Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 at 7 PM via Zoom

Join Perrot in welcoming celebrated author Rachel Cohen for a virtual discussion of her book, Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels. Cohen is a Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. Her essays on artists and writers have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Art in America, Apollo Magazine, and Best American Essays. In Austen Years, Cohen hopes to provide "a nice reflective space for people going through unprecedented anxiety and real losses. I hope it's a quiet space to think. That's a lot of what I found in Austen." Named one of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020, The New York Times Book Review calls Austen Years "a thoroughly authentic, smart, and consoling account of one writer's commitment to another."

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Upcoming Event: Virtual Book Discussion on What Unites Us, by Dan Rather

Perrot Memorial Library & The Greenwich Pen Women

present a Virtual Book Discussion on

What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner 

Facilitated by Diane Tunick Morello of Greenwich Pen Women

Monday, January 25th, 2021 at 7 PM via Zoom

As the United States prepares to inaugurate a president after the divisive 2020 election, our better angels are begging for our attention, begging us to refocus our intentions on our country and what it stands for. In that spirit, Perrot Memorial Library and The Greenwich Pen Women offer What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism as the first book discussion of 2021. 

Through essays, profiles and personal experiences, intrepid journalist Dan Rather and his collaborator, Elliot Kirschner, examine patriotism through the dimensions of freedom, community, exploration, responsibility and character. Each section, each vignette, each story seeks to lift our national conversation out of our entrenched differences and to focus instead on shared values and experiences underpinning patriotism in America. 

Dan Rather sets the stage eloquently: 

Perhaps the path to what unites us could be paved with a recommitment to citizenship. ... Our times require a modern sense of citizenship. Citizenship is not merely a collection of conferred rights but a compact with each other to work for the well-being of all, to engage with our civic institutions, to support our schools, the democratic process, and the health of our environment.

What Unites Us is a mother lode of challenging and inspirational discussions, with stories and images that remain in our heads and hearts. Bring your favorite passage or experiences to an adult conversation on patriotism, citizenship and the experiment that is the United States of America. 

Register for this event today via Zoom

For more information, contact lending@perrotlibrary.org

Winners of the YCC Jeopardy Tournament

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Young Critics' Club Jeopardy Tournament! 

The winners are Team Name:  Marley, Audrey, Annie, Aaditya, and Skylar. They have showed their mastery of trivia questions related to books that YCC (our book club for Grades 6, 7, and 8) has read over the past year.

Winners of the Semi-Annual Y2C2 Jeopardy Tournament

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Semi-Annual Young Young Critics' Club (Y2C2) Jeopardy Tournament!

The winning team is Team Anonymous, from left to right and top to bottom: Kaitlyn, Catherine, Wyatt, Diya, and Rithik

The winners have demonstrated their mastery of trivia questions related to the books that the Young Young Critics' Club (our book club for 4th- and 5th-graders) has read during the past year.