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ADULT BOOK CLUBS . . . 6 Congratulations! ADULT 7 WNPLD is proud to announce the following promotions: TECHNOLOGY . . . . 9 Steve Kline YOUTH ...... 10 Digital Services Manager THE STUDIO . . . . 14 Steve has been with the District since 2019, and was recently promoted into the newly-created Digital Services Manager position. In his new role, Steve will oversee The Studio, technology classes, device help, and How to Register tech outreach at both branches, in addition to managing our database subscriptions and overseeing collection For An Event development for technology books. ONLINE RESERVATION Log onto www.wnpld.org and under "events" you will find the events calendar. Locate the program of Nick Mall interest and register. Adult Services Manager PHONE/EMAIL REGISTRATION Nick has been a part of the Adult Services Department You may call (847) 446-7220 or email at WNPLD for 12 years. He initially joined the team [email protected]. as a librarian, was promoted to the Adult Collections Librarian and most recently, to the Adult Services CANCELLATION Manager. He and his team are responsible for the adult If your plans change after registering, collections, programming and digital books. please let us know 24 hours in advance so we can invite another guest to take your spot. Melissa Morgan Branch Services Manager Do You Have a Melissa has been sharing her expertise with the District for the past 17 years. We are thrilled to announce Library Card? that she has been promoted to the Branch Services Manager. In her role, Melissa will oversee operations How to get one: at our Northfield branch as well as the Northfield Residents and property owners of team. The Northfield team has been working hard to the Winnetka-Northfield Public rearrange shelving in order to make the collections more Library District are taxed for library accessible while promoting social distancing. They hope services on their real estate tax bills. to see you (safely) soon! A Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District card can be obtained upon display of a valid government-issued photo identification card and proof Nominate a WNPLD Staff Member for the of current address within the District. 2021 Illinois Library Association's Awards All District library cards expire after The ILA Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2021 ILA three years and will be auto-renewed Awards. The Illinois Library Association’s awards program recognizes excellence for residents who still reside in the in librarianship and library service in Illinois. The program increases awareness of District. Learn more at: wnpld.org/ the contributions of all Association participants, including recipients, sponsors, library-info/get-a-library-card. co-sponsors, and committees/forums.

The complete list of ILA Awards, including criteria and eligibility for each award, is available on the ILA website. The deadline for all award nominations is May 15, 2021. For more information, visit www.ila.org/about/awards-and-scholarships.

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WNPLD's Very Own Movie Expert Scott Siegel Scott has been with the District for 11 years. He started as a Circulation Clerk, and has been promoted to a Customer Relations Assistant. For those of you who don’t know, Scott is our resident movie aficionado. When staff and patrons want a recommendation for a movie, Scott is THE guy. Next time you pop into Winnetka, say “hi” to Scott and ask him for a recommendation.

When did you become Hitchcock’s Psycho by critic interested in movies? Raymond Durgnat. My dad showed me Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time in Favorite Food? the West, and that’s when I truly Pizza, best is Pequod’s in realized what a director does. Morton Grove. I’ve been hooked ever since. What is something you Favorite Movie? learned in the last week? Blue Velvet That having someone who appreciates your work is a What’s your favorite ? great morale boost. I have three: Noir, Westerns, and Horror. What is your favorite thing about working at the What’s something most Winnetka-Northfield Public people don’t know about you? Library District? I auditioned for the kid in The My fun, funny coworkers. Shining (I was too tall). What do you love about your job? What’s your secret talent that no one knows about? I love helping people find what they want, even if they don’t I can name old songs faster know what that is yet. than Shazam.

What are you reading now? A long-form analysis of Alfred

Scott's Top 5 Fave Scott's Top 10 Best Picture Oscars Movies of 2020 1. No Country for Old Men The Coen Brothers' best is this modern- 1. Bacurau day , with drug cartel angel of death Javier Bardem 2. Color Out of Space relentlessly chasing down money-grabber Josh Brolin through the 3. Fourteen Tex-Mex badlands; from the novel by Cormac McCarthy. 4. Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2. Unforgiven This 19th century Western looks at whether an outlaw 5. Possessor can ever really be redeemed, and is the best script Clint Eastwood ever shot. 6. Tommaso 7. The Traitor 3. The Godfather You may have heard of this one. 8. A White, White Day 4. The French Connection Gene Hackman as the original cop-on- 9. The Wolf of Snow Hollow the-edge, and still the greatest car chase ever. 10. Zombi Child 5. The Silence of the Lambs Not the first serial killer movie, but the All on DVD at Winnetka Library. one most imitated and rarely equaled. From Thomas Harris' novel. Oscars are Bacurau and Tomasso also on Kanopy. Color Out of Space on Hoopla. A ll on DVD at Winnetka Library. April 25! 3 STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS

Some Less-Famous Titles in Our Collection We love the new releases and bestsellers lists like everyone else, HIDDEN but what about those hidden gems that fly just below the radar? Our staff is serious about books, and they’ve described their favorites among those underappreciated gems in our collection that shouldn’t be missed. Feel free to stop in and let them know GEMS what you thought of their picks! ADULT FICTION ADULT NON-FICTION

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - is They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Uncrowned Queen: The Life of an oldie but goodie—and the movie Hanif Abdurraqib - Abdurraqib's recent love Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the probably interested some in the novel. letter to A Tribe Called Quest was long- Tudors by Nicola Tallis - A gripping A gray, stone mansion on the Cornish listed for a National Book Award, so it's safe account of the life of Margaret Coast is the backdrop for the young to say he isn't under the radar any longer, Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, bride, Mrs. Maxin de Winter; the sinister but They Can't Kill Us... feels like it was whose fierce ambition and devotion house keeper, Mrs. Danvers; and the late written for me. A collection of essays about helped her son Henry win the of and beautiful Rebecca. Delve into the music, the suburbs, and the intersection the Roses and ascend to the throne of shattering truth of Rebecca...and Maxin of these places and cultures. (Amanda) England as the first king of the Tudor de Winter. (Mary) dynasty. (Jill) The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank One Second After by William Forstchen - America's Best—and Worst—Chief Demagogue: The Life and Long This story chronicles one man’s struggle Executives by Brian Lamb - Each chapter Shadow of Senator Joseph McCarthy to save himself—and his small town— is written from interviews, testimony by Larry Tye - A thoroughly researched following an electromagnetic pulse and documents about the presidents by biography of one of the most dangerous attack on modern-day America and its historians. The book lists the presidents demagogues in American history. far-reaching effects on life. I liked this from best to worst, a subjective rating by McCarthy was a tireless worker and a book because I learned a lot while being the editors. There are some surprising real war hero but was also capable of entertained by an engrossing story of war, ratings in there. Each article is 10–15 great evil. This timely book should be of family, justice, humanity, resilience, loss, pages on the average. Note that there is interest to anyone who wants to learn and survival. I could not put this book an article about Donald Trump, although of the destructiveness of demagoguery. down—nor its two sequels, One Year After it was written in April 2019. (Jim) (Jill) and The Final Day, and recommend the The Eighty-Dollar Champion: trilogy for anyone who likes fiction The Women with Wings: The Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a or post-apocalyptic stories. (Monica) Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II Nation by Elizabeth Letts - Marvelous South of Broad by Pat Conroy - In case by Katherine Sharp Landdeck - This long non-fiction book about a horse and the you missed it—a classic sprawling drama overdue history of the female pilots who man who saved it. Harry de Leyer first set in Charleston, which is as much a helped win World War II reads more like a saw the horse he would name Snowman character in this book as the people novel and offers some belated recognition on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. are. If you liked The Great Believers by to those who served despite all efforts to He paid $80 for him and turned him into Rebecca Makkai, you're sure to love demean and diminish them. (Jill) a champion show jumper. The love and this friends-as-family saga. Vintage Pat respect of their relationship is wonderful Conroy! (Sydney) An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What and moving. There is also a children’s Science Taught Me About What We Do version of the book with most of the Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey by and Who We Are by Camilla Pang - A same information but in a shorter form. Kathleen Rooney - This novel is based on unique take on life's big questions from a (Stephanie) the true story of the Lost Battalion. Nine scientist who was diagnosed with autism companies of the 77th Division, roughly spectrum disorder at age eight. (Jill) 554 men, were isolated by German forces during World War I after an American The Heart is a Shifting Sea by Elisabeth attack in the Argonne Forest in October Flock - A look at love, marriage and 1918. This little-known story is told by the shifting cultural norms in India that alternating voices of Cher Ami, a homing follows three married couples over a ten- pigeon, and Charles Whittlesey, an army year period. The personal stories of the officer. It is an inspiring tale of bravery couples are sad, lovely, and often riveting. and loyalty. (Stephanie) (Jill)

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TEEN YOUTH PICTURE BOOKS

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - Rot, the Cutest in the World by National Regular Average Ordinary This twisted thriller follows a girl who takes it upon Ben Clanton - Rot is a mutant potato Day by Lisa Katzenberge - A fun take herself to reopen a recent local murder investigation— who enters a "cutest in the world" on showing kids that there is joy in my jaw was on the floor by the end! This is a must- competition. That's really all that small, ordinary pleasures. (Anny) read for fans of One of Us is Lying. (Lindsay) needs to be said about this subtly sweet and funny read aloud. One of Me and Mama by Cozbi Cabrera - A Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson - Jackson has my all-time favorites! (Amanda) heartwarming tale of quiet moments quickly become one of my favorite teen authors, shared between a mother and and this title, her debut, sets the tone for what has Swish by Suzanne Slade - This daughter during a rainy morning while become a signature brand of knock-you-off-your- book highlights the skills of black the rest of the family members sleep feet fast paced, psychological thrillers about teens athletes at a time when the US was in. Told from the little girl's point of in tricky (to say the least) situations. (Amanda) still segregated. It also shows how view, it's a great read to be shared by the Globetrotters brought blacks and mother and daughter. (Anny) whites together through their mutual YOUTH NON-FICTION love of basketball. (Anny) Saturdays Are for Stella by Candy Wellins - A book that manages to The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned Maud and Grand-Maud by Sara perfectly weave a grandson's joyous to Read, by Rita L. Hubbard - The inspiring true O'Leary - A charming book celebrating relationship with his grandmother story of a woman who learned to read—at 116 the special relationship between with his grief over losing her. Love, years old! This picture book biography has stunning grandparents and grandchildren. loss, family—a truly special book! illustrations and is great for ages 4–8. (Lindsay) (Sydney) (Sydney)

YOUTH FICTION COOKBOOKS

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica old Dagmar, who learns how to Fuss-Free Vegan by Sam Turnbull - If you are trying Kim - A sweet middle-grade story deal with things that are out of to eat healthier this year or reduce your cholesterol about a shy 11-year-old girl who her control by being forced to live consumption from animal products, this book is for you! harbors secret dreams of being a in a tiny house in the redwoods All the recipes are simple, easy, use common ingredients, stand-up comedienne. I fear this with her annoying family, and and are SUPER tasty. As the only vegan in my family, it’s one will fall under the radar—don't an assorted crew of crazy and hard to find things that everyone else will like but these miss out! (Amanda) engaging forest residents. (Anny) recipes do the trick! My family’s favorite was the black bean sliders with slaw… not a leftover to be had! (Monica) Because of Khalid by Carolyn Reeni's Turn by Carol Coven Armstrong - 12-year-old Chris is Grannick - An engaging story that Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the adjusting to his relocation from shows the toll that body image Eye and the Palate by Lauren Ko - An amazing book Chicago to the Seregeti, where issues can take on tweens, but also of creative ways to bake pies. Even if you have no desire his parents now run a safari camp. how they can come through the to bake, the photos of the amazing and intricate pies When an elephant is killed near struggle with a new sense of self- are beautiful and inspiring. (Stephanie) their property, his eyes are opened acceptance despite societal and The Good Book of Southern Baking: A Revival of to the new world around him. Well peer pressure. (Anny) Biscuits, Cakes, and Cornbread by Kelly Fields and researched, including a Swahili Kate Heddings - It is a beautiful book with a fresh take glossary. I love how much I learned, Cape and Mask both by Kate on baking and innovative techniques that let you easily even as an adult reading this. Hannigan - Both books are in The make classic baked goods at home. (Stephanie) (Sydney) League of Secret Heroes Series and are intriguing with a nice BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts by Stella Parks - An The Tiny Mansion by Keir Graff - A mix of history, adventure, and entertaining, informative and the winner of the 2018 fun and quirky tale about 12-year- superheroes. (Anny) James Beard Foundation Book Award for baking and desserts. (Stephanie)

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VirtualBOOK CLUBS FOOD FOR THOUGHT: COOKBOOK BOOK CLUB Register for a book discussion on MONDAYS, 7PM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY STEPHANIE GIRARDI Do you love browsing through cookbooks and trying new recipes? our website or by giving us a call. Check out one of the spotlighted cookbooks, try some recipes and Information about how to join will be discuss with us over Zoom. The books are available for checkout at Join us emailed to registrants on the day of the Library and digitally through Hoopla, when available. via Zoom the discussion. MARCH 8 • VIRTUAL Waste Not, Want Not Secrets of Great Second Meals by Sara Dickerman CLUE: A MYSTERY BOOK CLUB TUESDAYS, 7:30PM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY MELISSA MORGAN Cooking with Scraps by Lindsay-Jean Hard Join a lively discussion about all types of mystery books, ranging from APRIL 12 • VIRTUAL true crime, dark thrillers, police procedurals and historical mysteries. Please Pass the Condiments MARCH 9 • VIRTUAL Duke's Mayonnaise Cookbook by Ashley Strickland Freeman Murder in Chianti by Camilla Trinchieri The Food in Jars Kitchen by Marisa McClellan APRIL 13 • VIRTUAL Foolproof Preserving: A Guide to Small Batch Jams, Jellies, Hunting Game by Helene Tursten Pickles, Condiments & More by America’s Test Kitchen MAY 11 • VIRTUAL MAY 10 • VIRTUAL The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman Be Prepared Skinnytaste Meal Prep: Healthy Make-Ahead Meals and Freezer Recipes to Simplify Your Life by Gina Homolka FOUL PLAY: MYSTERY BOOK DISCUSSION Cook Once, Eat All Week by Cassy Joy Garcia WEDNESDAYS, 11:30AM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY ERIN COLLINS & BETSY GRIEBENOW This book group chews over mysteries from around the globe. MARCH 17 • VIRTUAL The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny APRIL 21 • VIRTUAL The The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz Digital MAY 19 • VIRTUAL Library The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey is Always TRUE STORY: NONFICTION BOOK DISCUSSION WEDNESDAYS, 7PM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY ERIN COLLINS Open Book lovers come together to talk about books on a variety of topics like true crime, medicine, memoirs, biographies, science, economics, and much more. eBooks & eAudiobooks MARCH 10 • VIRTUAL Streaming Movies Untamed by Glennon Doyle Digital Periodicals APRIL 14 • VIRTUAL Streaming Music Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis MAY 12 • VIRTUAL wnpld.org Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

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BUSINESS & FINANCIAL Supplements, Advantage costume designer with daughter who resorted to Plans, Part D Prescription eight Oscars to prove it, murder... or an innocent victim Financial Planning coverage and cost saving Edith Head’s dazzling career who could never escape her Appointments strategies for the years ahead. continues to inspire new own trauma? TUESDAYS, MARCH 9, APRIL 13 Whether you are currently generations of designers. & MAY 11, 10AM–11AM • ADULTS enrolled in Medicare, will She dressed the biggest stars VIRTUAL • REGISTER be enrolling in the future, or to shine over Hollywood. FOOD & DRINK Do you have questions about are helping a loved one, this Adored by some, hated by how to invest, budget, or seminar is for you. others, Edith Head’s highly Learn The A, B, Cs (and safeguard your finances? competitive and secretive mainly Ds) of Mixology Schedule a free, virtual, one- Serving Up a Slice nature drove her career MONDAY, MARCH 15, 7PM hour consultation with a of Retirement Pie: to a meteoric height. Join ADULTS AGE 21+ • VIRTUAL Certified Financial Planner®. Understanding Your educational entertainer, REGISTER Appointments are offered via Social Security Benefits Martina Mathisen, to discover Dreaming of daiquiris? Dying Zoom or by phone. why Edith Head was the most for dirty martinis? Demanding WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 7PM influential costume designer in dark and stormy? If it starts ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Business Mentoring with Hollywood history. with the letter D and you SCORE This is a free, educational, and request it, we will make it informational presentation on Lizzie Borden: A Living together with mixologist THURSDAYS, MARCH 18, APRIL 15 Social Security to help adults History Portrayal by Cheryl Heisler. & MAY 20, 9AM–12PM • ADULTS better understand their Social VIRTUAL • REGISTER Leslie Goddard Security benefits and options. Heavenly Homemade Get free small business advice Join us to learn more about MONDAY, MAY 3, 7PM • ADULTS VIRTUAL • REGISTER Dairy Products from SCORE, the nation's how Social Security benefits largest network of volunteer work. The seminar will cover The story of Lizzie Borden THURSDAY, MAY 13, 7PM • ADULTS VIRTUAL • REGISTER business mentors and a how benefits are determined, comes alive in this historical resource partner of the U.S. how to decide when to collect portrayal set in 1892. Accused There is more to dairy than just Small Business Administration. benefits, how to collect of murdering her father milk. In this class, Mark Lyons, One-on-one mentoring by spousal benefits, and how and stepmother, Lizzie an experienced cheesemaker, business experts who have survivor benefits work. looks back on her painful will show you how to turn that experience in all aspects of childhood, her life in Fall milk into wonderful treats such business. Whether you're just River, Massachusetts, and her as butter, cheese, buttermilk, getting started or you've been troubled relationship with her crème fraîche, and Devonshire in business over 20 years, set DIY father. Was Lizzie a desperate clotted cream. up an appointment to discuss Write and Publish Great questions and strategy. Poetry Women, Wealth and SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2PM • ADULTS Pizza @Home VIRTUAL • REGISTER MONDAY, MAY 24, 7PM • ALL AGES • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Well-Being Poetry heals. It validates your FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 7PM • ADULTS life and challenges. You’ll learn Join Andrea Pracht, of My Kitchen Clatter, in her own VIRTUAL • REGISTER about what makes a poem kitchen as she teaches us how to make pizza at home. Financial planner Elizabeth great: finding ideas to write Great tips and tricks for a fun family activity. Kuroski will guide you about; crafting relatable and through the essential tasks moving poems; and getting and potential blind spots that them published. Beginners/ women should focus on as published attendees may they build wealth and prepare share their poems (optional). for retirement. Presented by Charlotte Digregorio, local award- Medicare 101 winning author and educator. TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 7PM • ADULTS VIRTUAL • REGISTER Medicare can be confusing. DRAMATIC Medicare Solutions Network PERFORMANCE will present a free educational seminar to get you up to Edith Head: The Woman speed on what Medicare Who Dressed Hollywood covers, what it doesn't and TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 7PM • ADULTS your potential out-of-pocket VIRTUAL • REGISTER exposure. They'll discuss An incredibly successful

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Supreme Court Justice for MUSIC HEALTH & WELLNESS 27 years. Ginsburg was an inspiration to many. Her Simon & Garfunkel: Sound Chair Yoga strong will, persistence, and and Then Silence MONDAYS, MARCH 2 & 15, APRIL influential role in women’s WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 7PM 5 & 19, MAY 3 & 17, 11AM • ADULTS rights led to her becoming an ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER VIRTUAL • REGISTER icon to many Americans. If you took the musicality of Join certified yoga instructor The Beatles and matched it Isabel Raci for gentle chair with the lyricism of Bob Dylan, yoga and guided meditation. the result might be Simon & Stretch, breathe, flexibility, HOME & GARDEN Garfunkel. Often considered and strengthen the body The Joy of Perennials the thinking person’s rock ‘n’ through seated poses. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 7PM rollers, they were also one of ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER the most successful musical Revolution U: Change Your Perennial flowers, with their acts of the 1960s. Using Habits, Change Your Life, bright colors and long life, audio and visual content, we a Journey to Discover the are an excellent addition that will trace the arc of Simon & Best You can liven up any garden. In Garfunkel’s career from their MONDAY, APRIL 26, 7PM • ADULTS this class, Mark Lyons, an surprise teenybopper hit “Hey VIRTUAL • REGISTER experienced garden coach, Schoolgirl” to the folk-rock Author and Glencoe resident (flappers) whose rebellious will show you how to grow classic “Sound of Silence” Melissa Novack, LCSW, RYT, attitude inspired flashy fashions, and cultivate these beautiful to the ever popular “Mrs. will discuss her newly released unorthodox behavior, and garden gems, along with Robinson” to the majesty of book Revolution U: Change a demand for equality. The how to choose the best and “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” your Habits, Change your Life. program also touches on the hardiest specimens for our Grab a notebook as Melissa Art Deco design trends of the region. Gardener's Melody— guides attendees through a period and on painters from the Virtual Concert with Jazz journey to uncover where they Harlem Renaissance. Slides will How to Organize and Singer Petra are stuck, discover how they be shown of posters, dresses, Downsize Your Home SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2PM • ADULTS would truly like to feel each hats, period photographs, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 7PM VIRTUAL • REGISTER and every day, and create a paintings, fashion accessories, ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Listen to jazz vocal/guitar duo plan to stay on track. advertisements, and John Held, Organizing and downsizing Petra van Nuis and guitarist Jr. illustrations. Presented by a home can be a chronic Andy Brown in a virtual concert art historian Jeff Mishur of Art problem for many people, to be enjoyed from the comfort Excursions. HISTORY but there is a solution, and of your own home. Petra and Images of the Roaring it is never too soon to start. Andy will create a beautiful Notorious: The Life of Ruth auditory landscape with Twenties: A Centennial Please join a virtual lecture Bader Ginsburg with author and home "Gardener's Melody"—flower Celebration TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 7PM • ADULTS organizing professional, and tree themed tunes from TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 7PM VIRTUAL • REGISTER Caralyn Kempner. She will the Great American Songbook. ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Historian Jim Gibbons discusses offer detailed guidance on This illustrated lecture the life and legacy of Ruth letting go of clutter and offer concentrates on the newly Bader Ginsburg, a woman strategies on how to downsize TRAVEL "liberated" women of the 1920s who flourished in the role of and organize your home. Pristine Patagonia TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 7PM ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Have you ever wondered what it's like to venture to the ends of the earth? Through his stunning photos and entertaining The North Shore and Responsible Local News anecdotes, world traveler Brian Michalski takes us along on his MONDAY, MARCH 29, 7PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER spellbinding five-week journey Join the founder(s) of The Record North Shore, a nonprofit news through Patagonia. We will outlet from former editors of The Winnetka Current, in a conversation examine this remote region's about the importance of reliable local information in complicated wildlife, vegetation, climate, and unsettling times. Discuss the duty of local news, how you can get sprawling topography, Chilean involved, and what is important in your community on the North Shore. and Argentinian influences, delightful cuisine and much more. 8 | REGISTER @ WNPLD.ORG TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS

Introduction to Zoom and context or just to meet up Online Health and Cut the Cord – Videoconferencing with friends. We will discuss Medical Information Alternatives to Premium Zoom etiquette, show you WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1:30PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1:30PM Cable Services how to schedule and set ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1:30PM up meetings, and review Zoom allows you to This class will review the ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER the settings needed to run communicate via video call, quickly expanding trends in Are you paying hundreds a meeting smoothly and either with friends and family, online medical information. of dollars a month for a securely. or to attend an event or Learn how to evaluate the thousand channels that you meeting. Using Zoom, you Buying and Using a validity of online sources, and never watch? This class will can watch a live instructor, a how to find reliable, up-to- review the many alternative demonstration screen, or a Webcam date information. ways to get broadcast and PowerPoint presentation. This WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1:30PM premium TV, movies, etc. ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER class will teach you how to use Mobile Payment Apps without having to pay a Now that you are using Zoom Zoom and a few competitive WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1:30PM fortune. products such as FaceTime and or other videoconferencing ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Skype. services, you want to Do you owe someone for look your best. Built-in dinner, or a shared purchase? How to Host a Successful laptop cameras have many Payment apps make paying Zoom Meeting limitations that can lead to back friends and family poor audio and video quality. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1:30PM members as easy as sending a ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER This class will discuss what to tweet. This class will discuss the look for when shopping for a This class will teach you how features, benefits, and security high-quality webcam. to host a successful Zoom considerations of the best event, either in a business smartphone payment systems.

IPHONE/IPAD SERIES Upgrading from an Old iPhone Basic Settings How to Get Around Using Uber, Interface WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1:30PM • ADULTS Lyft, etc. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1:30PM • ADULTS VIRTUAL • REGISTER WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1:30PM • ADULTS VIRTUAL • REGISTER This class focuses on the settings of your VIRTUAL • REGISTER Using the iPhone X, 11 or 12 is different iPhone and iPad. Includes Wi-Fi, sounds, Learn how to travel safely, conveniently, from any previous iPhone. This class will locking, notifications, backups, and more. and inexpensively using your help you master the new interface on the Using the Calendar smartphone or tablet. This class will iPhone X, 11 or 12 and help you feel at explore Uber, Lyft, Metra, Pace, and home on all the iPhone models that do WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1:30PM • ADULTS traditional taxis. not have a home button. VIRTUAL • REGISTER Learn how to add, edit, and arrange Using Apple's iCloud calendar entries to help you organize WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1:30PM • ADULTS The Basics your various activities. VIRTUAL • REGISTER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1:30PM • ADULTS VIRTUAL • REGISTER Using GPS/Maps The iCloud securely and safely stores Just starting out with an iPhone or iPad? WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1:30PM • ADULTS your photos, videos, documents, apps, This class is for you. We will go over the VIRTUAL • REGISTER and more. Learn how to quickly and fundamentals of navigating the device, Your iPhone and iPad have powerful safely access what you want, when you including connecting to the internet and mapping and GPS capabilities. Learn how want it. basic security steps. to use them and never be lost again. 9 YOUTH PROGRAMS

Mighty Girls Storytime MONDAY, MARCH 22, 10:30AM ALL AGES • VIRTUAL • REGISTER In honor of Women's History Month, we present a special storytime celebrating books and songs about strong, smart, influential females. Go Green Storytime all MONDAY, APRIL 19, 10:30AM ALL AGES • VIRTUAL • REGISTER ages In celebration of Earth Day, we present a special storytime about the world around us. All Ages Storytime THURSDAYS, MARCH 4–MAY 27, Star Day 10:30AM • ALL AGES • VIRTUAL TUESDAY, MAY 4, 5PM • ALL AGES REGISTER VIRTUAL • REGISTER Singing, dancing, stories, and May the Fourth be with you! bubbles! Let’s celebrate all of the things that make our favorite sci-fi Wendy & DB in Concert film franchise the best with SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 10AM stories, music and crafts. ALL AGES • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Supply kits will be provided to Join Wendy & DB for their registrants. acclaimed family music program. Let your imagination Storytime Graduation soar and your positivity shine MONDAY, MAY 17, 10:30AM at this interactive musical ALL AGES • VIRTUAL • REGISTER experience! In this special All Ages Storytime, we recognize our friends who are off to school in the fall and will no longer be able to attend Storytime.

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Kits are released monthly on a first come, first served basis and will be available for pick up outside the Library entrance in the purple bin. Pick up the kits at the Winnetka Library, follow the included instructions and send us photos of your masterpieces.

families learn about each charity organization and then create items to donate. Supply kits Pipe Cleaners, Paper Plates and Yarn—Oh My! Let’s Make! at Home will be provided to registrants. MARCH, APRIL & MAY • AGES 5–8 SATURDAYS, MARCH 6, APRIL 3 & MAY 1 • FAMILIES • REGISTER Get back to the basics with these simple art projects that Family Science create something fabulous! What will you make? Pick up a MONDAYS, MARCH 22, APRIL 26 kit with supplies and activities & MAY 24, 6:30 PM • FAMILIES MARCH, APRIL & MAY • AGES 5–13 for creating a family-friendly VIRTUAL • REGISTER It’s Alive! "Living” Crafts craft at home. Supply kits will Calling scientists of all ages! Everyone loves an object that has a little personality! Create be provided to registrants. Every month, we’ll do an a craft that adds some life to the world around you, whether experiment together that’s it be a ninja stress ball, a googly eyed succulent or a unicorn Craft and Give Back fun for the whole family. with finger legs! SUNDAYS, MARCH 21, APRIL 18 & Supply kits will be provided to MAY 16 • FAMILIES • REGISTER registrants. Rainbow Celebration MARCH, APRIL & MAY • AGES 5–8 Join us as we work on Let's CELEBRATE rainbows by making some of our own! Join fun projects to help local us in "growing" a rainbow, making a 3D rainbow paper craft charitable causes! We'll and a beautiful rainbow suncatcher.

Puppets MARCH, APRIL & MAY • AGES 5–8 If talking to yourself is a sign of intelligence, why not give yourself an excuse to do it more by making these great puppet crafts! We'll tackle a crab, baby Yoda or "The Child" and a pirate.

Recycled Crafts MARCH, APRIL & MAY • AGES 5–8 Let’s reuse some common household recyclables and turn them into art! Each month, we’ll transform a different ordinary object, such as toilet paper or paper towel rolls, cardboard boxes, and old t-shirts.

Friendship Bracelets MARCH, APRIL & MAY • AGES 9–13 Missing camp, summer, and your best friends? Make them a fun bracelet with embroidery floss! Each month, you'll learn a new embroidery stitch to create your own DIY jewelry.

Teen Social DIYs MARCH, APRIL & MAY • TEENS Inspired by Instagram and TikTok trends, we’ll make three fun DIY projects for your room or locker!

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MAY 10 Nature Explorers We'll read The Empanadas WEDNESDAYS, MARCH 24, APRIL That Abuela Made by Diane 21 & MAY 26, 4PM • AGES 5–8 Gonzales Bertrand and VIRTUAL • REGISTER make Abuela’s Awesome The world around us is an birth Corn Empanadas, Argentine incredible place—let's learn Chimichurri Sauce and Lime about it together! Supply kits to ages Melon Fresca. will be provided to registrants. 4 years 5–8 LEGO Mania! Jr. WEDNESDAYS, MARCH 10, APRIL 7 & MAY 12, 4:30PM • AGES 5–8 Bright Beginnings Cooks and Books! VIRTUAL • REGISTER WEDNESDAYS, MARCH 3–MAY 26, MONDAYS, MARCH 8, APRIL 12 & We're back with more LEGO 10:30AM • AGES 0-18 MONTHS MAY 10, 4PM • AGES 5–8 fun—virtually! We'll host a fun VIRTUAL • REGISTER VIRTUAL • REGISTER themed build every month, Join us for stories and songs Join our friends from Sticky using the LEGO bricks and with your little one! Fingers Cooking for a story other building blocks you have ages and cooking lesson based at home. Bedtime Stories upon that book! 9–13 TUESDAYS, MARCH 9–MAY 18, Learn and Play Chess MARCH 8 6:30PM • AGES 0–4 • VIRTUAL SUNDAYS, MARCH 14, APRIL We'll read Monkey with a REGISTER 11 & MAY 9, 3PM • AGES 7 & UP Young Writers Club Join us for some of our Toolbelt and the Maniac VIRTUAL • REGISTER TUESDAYS, MARCH 2, APRIL 6 & favorite bedtime stories, songs, Muffins by Chris Monroe and Build critical thinking, logic, make Chico Bon Bon Banana MAY 4, 4PM • AGES 9–13 and rhymes—pajamas and and memory skills with chess. VIRTUAL • REGISTER stuffed animals welcome! Split Blueberry Muffins and Expert chess player Ivan Learn how to craft your own Monkey Milkshakes. Figueredo provides a lesson unique stories! Each month Storytime At Home Kits and supervises play. APRIL 12 members of the Young Writers FRIDAYS, MARCH 5, 19, APRIL 2, 16, We'll read Thelonius Monster's Club get a story prompt to MAY 7 & 21 • AGES 0–4 • REGISTER Full STEAM Ahead! Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra work on and share with the Sing, talk, read, write, play: and make Thelonius Monster's WEDNESDAYS, MARCH 17, APRIL group. 14 & MAY 19, 4PM • AGES 5–8 build early literacy skills at Sensational Pie, Fly-High VIRTUAL • REGISTER home with our storytime kits. Salad, Pie Monster Ranch and Art Explorers Register to pick up a kit filled Let's learn all about STEAM Monster Party Limeade. TUESDAYS, MARCH 9 & APRIL together! We'll do a simple, with fun, age-appropriate 13, 4PM • AGES 9–13 • VIRTUAL materials and activities. fun experiment with items REGISTER found around the house, and Make a beautiful painting. learn the science behind why Supply kits will be provided it works. Supply kits will be to registrants. provided to registrants. Dungeons and Dragons

THURSDAYS, MARCH 16, APRIL 27 & MAY 4, 4PM • AGES 9–13 VIRTUAL • REGISTER Join with others to play the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Tell a story together, guiding your heroes through quests for treasure, with deadly foes, daring rescues, courtly intrigue, and much more!

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Minecraft Mania TUESDAYS, MARCH 23, APRIL 20 & MAY 25, 4:30PM • AGES 9–13 VIRTUAL • REGISTER Join us for some Minecraft ON NINTENDO SWITCH fun! No account needed to play. We will do a fun activity together organized by the Minecraft Mania team. MARIO Improv Bootcamp SUPER SMASH KART WEDNESDAYS, MARCH 3, 10, 17 BROS & 24, 4:30PM • AGES 9–13 SUN, APRIL 25 SUN, MARCH 28, 1PM VIRTUAL • REGISTER 1PM Looking to learn more about FRI, APRIL 16, 5PM improv in a short amount of SAT, MAY 29, 4PM time? Join Northwestern grad Amara Leonard for a four-week VIRTUAL REGISTRATION REQUIRED intensive bootcamp including games, character creation, Game ownership and Nintendo Online subscription reuired. idea generation, and most of all, fun!

Improv for T(w)eens Among Us TUESDAYS, APRIL 6 & MAY 4, FRIDAYS, MARCH 26 & APRIL 4:30PM • AGES 9–13 • VIRTUAL 23, 4PM • TEENS • VIRTUAL AUTHOR REGISTER REGISTER This class is open to improv- Are you the Imposter? Can EVENTS newcomers, improv-lovers, you fool the librarians in a and anything in-between. game of Among Us? Join us We'll be playing short form for a game of mystery and improv games that encourage deception in space. the concepts of "yes, and," character creation, learning to Hodgepodge Art take initiative, scene dynamics, Challenge idea generation, general THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 6PM • TEENS silliness and more! Presented VIRTUAL • REGISTER by acclaimed Northwestern Calling all artists! What can grad Amara Leonard. you make with a canvas and hodgepodge of art supplies? Interactive Writing Workshop with Keir Graff We challenge you to pick up TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 4:30PM • AGES 9-13 • VIRTUAL • REGISTER a kit and create the best (or worst!) art you can imagine. Join local author Keir Graff for an interactive writing workshop titled “How to Write A Book Backward,” based Modern Hand Lettering 101 on his latest release Tiny Mansion. How do you write a see adult section whole book by starting with the title? In this funny and fast- SATURDAY, MAY 1, 11AM • TEENS moving presentation, Keir explains how he developed all the for more teen & ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER programs necessary elements for his latest middle-grade novel—setting, Learn the ins and outs of character, premise, conflict, and plot—starting with the words, modern hand lettering with “The Tiny Mansion.” One registration per family required. teen expert Michelle Maurer. Supply kits will be provided to Author Event with Award-Winning Author Alex Gino registrants. DIY Lip Gloss WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 6PM • AGES 9-13 • VIRTUAL • REGISTER FRIDAYS, MARCH 12 & APRIL 16 Join Alex Gino, award-winning author of George, You TEENS • YOUTUBE • REGISTER Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P., and Rick, for an engaging Learn how to make your own discussion about their books and writing process, including lip gloss. After you register, a creative writing activity. A Q&A will follow. One registration pick up a free kit with supplies per family required. from the Winnetka Library.

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THE STUDIO

Introduction to the Library App TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 5:30PM • ALL AGES We are happy to announce that The Studio is open again, and VIRTUAL • REGISTER we look forward to being part of your creative projects. We’ve Learn about the Library’s new digital missed you! app. Find books and eBooks, register for events, check your dates and more. All experience levels are welcome to join us, and our Digital Services staff has created several ways that you can safely interact with The Studio equipment. Try one of our new pick up or @Home programs or join us for a one-hour appointment in person or virtually.

Pick Up Programs ALL AGES STUDIO PICK UP PROGRAMS Pick up the supplies before the program, and join the virtual group to create together. All supplies are at the Library and will be available for pickup before the program. @Home Programs Download the software and let a Digital Services staff member Mod-Podge Coasters teach your how to design your files at home. At the end of the THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 5:30PM & TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 5:30PM • ALL AGES program, submit your file and pick up your finished product at VIRTUAL • REGISTER the Library when complete. All supplies provided. In this kit, you will receive four cork coasters, some -cut fabric, stencils, paint, Mod-Podge, and paint brushes. Join this One-Hour Appointments virtual class to work together and show off the final project! In person or virtual appointments must be made at least 24 hours in advance. Available equipment: Create a Zine, Issue One • Laser cutter SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2PM • ALL AGES • VIRTUAL • REGISTER • Embroidery machine Pick up a kit of zine-making materials and attend the class to • Sewing machine exchange creative ideas and methods. Everyone who returns • Vinyl cutter their completed zine to the Library gets three bound copies made • Creation stations for them and a bonus copy of each of your fellow zine-makers' creations. Hand Embroidered Iron-On Patches Questions? THURSDAY, MAY 20, 6PM & TUESDAY, MAY 25, 6PM • ALL AGES • VIRTUAL If you have any questions or need help prior to your program REGISTER please contact our Digital Services Staff at [email protected] Iron-on interfacing, a patch, hand-embroidery thread, and a or by giving us a call at 847-446-7220. thimble will be provided. Together, we will follow patterns to create our own iron-on patches.

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PROGRAMS FOR ADULTSTHE STUDIO&TEENS

YOUTH STUDIO @HOME PROGRAMS All supplies provided by the Library. Finished projects will be available for pickup at the Library when complete.

Laser Laser Engrave a Mother’s Day Cutting Board THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 5:30PM • YOUTH • VIRTUAL • REGISTER SUNDAY, MAY 2, 3PM • YOUTH • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Design laser engraving files at home. At the end of the Design laser engraving files at home. At the end of the program, submit your file to be engraved onto , acrylic, program, you will submit your cutting board files to be up to two highball , or any other items that may be engraved. All supplies are at the Library and will be available available at the time of the program. Please download and for pick up when complete. Please download and install install Inkscape, a free design program found at Inkscape.org, Inkscape, a free design program found at Inkscape.org, to to participate in this event. participate in this event. Vinyl Cut Decals Cut A Puzzle WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 5:30PM • YOUTH • VIRTUAL • REGISTER SATURDAY, MAY 8, 11AM • YOUTH • VIRTUAL • REGISTER For this program, elementary-aged participants and their Download a puzzle template and watch a virtual demo of how families can vinyl cut decal stickers or iron-on decals. We will to create a wooden puzzle using the Studio's laser cutter. Send use Silhouette Studio, a free downloadable program that could us your completed template and curbside pickup your cut be found at www.silhouetteamerica.com/software. At the wooden puzzle. end of the program, you will submit your file to be vinyl cut! Please install Silhouette Studio onto your computer before the program.

ADULT & TEEN STUDIO @HOME PROGRAMS All supplies provided by the Library. Finished projects will be available for pickup at the Library when complete.

Laser Engrave Pint Glasses Two-Layer Laser Cut Keychain 3D Design and Print Mini Plant Pots SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 4:30PM • ADULTS & SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 10AM • ADULTS & THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 5:30PM • ADULTS & TEENS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER TEENS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER TEENS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Design laser engraving files from home. At Watch a demo on how to create a two- Design 3D printing files at home. At the the end of the program, submit your file layer wooden keychain using the Studio's end of the program, submit your file to be engraved onto a set of pint glasses. laser engraver. Curbside pickup one of to be 3D printed. Please create a free All supplies are at the Library and will two different pre-cut designs to assemble TinkerCAD.com account before the be available for pickup when complete. at home and learn how to create your program to follow along and submit your Please download and install Inkscape, a own unique keychain in a future Studio design. free design program found at Inkscape. appointment. org, to participate in this event. 3D Design and Print Useful Tools Vinyl Cut Decals THURSDAY, MAY 27, 5:30PM • ADULTS & TEENS Laser Engraving MONDAY, MARCH 29, 5:30PM & THURSDAY, VIRTUAL • REGISTER TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 5:30PM & THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 5:30PM • ADULTS & TEENS • VIRTUAL Design 3D printing files at home. For MARCH 11, 5:30PM • ADULTS & TEENS REGISTER this program, we will use TinkerCAD. VIRTUAL • REGISTER Participants can vinyl cut decal stickers com, a free online software. At the end Design laser engraving files at home. At or iron-on decals. We will use Silhouette of the program, you will submit your file the end of the program, submit your file Studio, a free downloadable program that to be 3D printed. We will design three to be engraved onto wood, acrylic, up to can be found at www.silhouetteamerica. main items: ear savers, no-touch tools, two highball glasses, or any other items com/software. At the end of the program, and grocery holders. Please create a that may be available at the time of the you will submit your file to be vinyl cut. Tinkercad.com account before the program. All supplies are at the Library Please install Silhouette Studio onto your program to follow along. and will be available for pickup when computer before the program. All supplies complete. Please install Inkscape onto are at the Library and will be available for your computer prior to the program. pickup when complete.

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