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Join us virtually on Thursday, September 23 at 7:30pm for A CONVERSATION WITH KILEY REID, author of Such a Fun Age.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating Kiley Reid is a recent graduate new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big- of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young where she was the recipient of the black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a Truman Capote Fellowship. She surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Such A Fun Age is her first novel. With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone “family,” and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
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BOOK CLUBS FOOD FOR THOUGHT: COOKBOOK BOOK CLUB TRUE STORY: NONFICTION BOOK CLUB MONDAYS, 7PM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY STEPHANIE GIRARDI WEDNESDAYS, 7PM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY MOLLY SCHOENHERR Do you love browsing through cookbooks and trying new recipes? Explore critically acclaimed nonfiction books with us. Find out for Check out one of the spotlighted cookbooks, try some recipes yourself that sometimes fact truly is stranger than fiction. and bring a dish to share. The books are available for checkout at the Library and through Hoopla, when available. SEPTEMBER 8 • HYBRID (WINNETKA LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by SEPTEMBER 13 • WINNETKA LIBRARY Patrick Radden Keefe The Great British Baking Show OCTOBER 13 • HYBRID (WINNETKA LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) 100 Great Breads, by Paul Hollywood The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Cooking with Mary Berry: Simple Recipes, Great for Family and Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson Friends, by Mary Berry Time to Eat: Delicious Meals for Busy Lives: A Cookbook, by NOVEMBER 10 • HYBRID (WINNETKA LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) Nadiya Hussain Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton One Tin Bakes: Sweet and Simple Traybakes, Pies, Bars, and Buns, by Edd Kimber OCTOBER 11 • WINNETKA LIBRARY The Cheese Stands Alone THE NEXT CHAPTER: FICTION BOOK CLUB A Field Guide to Cheese: How to Select, Enjoy, and Pair the THURSDAYS, 2PM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY BRANDON MARSHALL World's Best Cheeses, by Tristan Sicard & BETSY GRIEBENOW That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life, by Marissa Mullen and We're making our getaway and hope you'll join us as we explore Sara Gilanchi all that popular fiction has to offer. We'll meet characters both The Eli's Cheesecake Cookbook: Remarkable Recipes from a saintly and shady, we'll visit places ordinary and other-worldly, Chicago Legend, by Maureen Schulman and we'll bring books to life through colorful conversation.
NOVEMBER 8 • WINNETKA LIBRARY OCTOBER 21 • HYBRID (WINNETKA LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) A Little Help from My Friends Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid A Table for Friends: The Art of Cooking for Two or Twenty, by NOVEMBER 18 • HYBRID (WINNETKA LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) Skye McAlpine Deacon King Kong, by James McBride Food Between Friends: A Cookbook, by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Julie Tanous DECEMBER 13 • WINNETKA LIBRARY Unofficially Magical Food CLUE: A MYSTERY BOOK CLUB The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook, by Ashley Craft TUESDAYS, 7:30PM • ADULTS • REGISTER • LED BY MELISSA MORGAN The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook, by Dinah Bucholz Join a lively discussion about all types of mystery books, ranging from true crime, dark thrillers, police procedurals and historical mysteries.
SEPTEMBER 14 • HYBRID (NORTHFIELD LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) Under the Harrow, by Flynn Berry Holiday Cookie Exchange OCTOBER 12 • HYBRID (NORTHFIELD LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) Join us for a holiday cookie exchange The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale on Saturday, December 4. and the Russborough House Art Heist, by Anthony Amore Details on page 6. NOVEMBER 9 • HYBRID (NORTHFIELD LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) The Butterfly House, by Katrine Engberg
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ART & CULTURE emotionally charged, and humor and the savvy intelligence utterly original essays that with which she meets her Highlights of the Art Institute explore Asian American demanding obligations. of Chicago: Impressionism, consciousness. Time magazine Post-Impressionism and featured Minor Feelings as one Mary Shelley: The Intricate American Art of the best books of 2020. Riddle of Life TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 7PM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7PM ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER The Navigation Case: ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY REGISTER As one of America’s great Training, Flying and comprehensive museums, Fighting the 1942 to 1945 Mary Shelley, author of The Art Institute of Chicago New Guinea War Frankenstein, was the daughter of social revolutionaries proudly displays collections THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 7PM that represent the history of ADULTS • HYBRID (WINNETKA William Godwin and Mary civilization. This slide lecture LIBRARY + VIRTUAL) • REGISTER Wollstonecraft, and wife of presented by Jeff Mishur of Art romantic poet Percy Shelley. neighborhoods one mural at Local author John E. Happ Excursions covers a selection Join Mary, as portrayed by a time. Hear unique details will discuss his new book, The of museum highlights from actress Debra Miller, as she about Chicago's history and Navigation Case, and reveal the the nineteenth and twentieth tells the true story of her uplifting stories about the drama and sacrifice expended centuries. Attending this tumultuous life beneath the artists and what drove them by America’s pioneering pilots’ program offers a chance to sweeping romantic tale of to create these murals about first ever demonstration of air learn the stories behind works love unbound by societal communities, celebrities, and superiority, during the greatest by artists such as Monet, convention. whimsical characters. campaign in U.S. Air Force history. Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Picasso, Wood, Hopper, HEALTH & WELLNESS Bad Art Night Cassatt, and others. DRAMATIC Chair Yoga TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 6:30PM Winnetka Newsboy: ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY PERFORMANCES FRIDAYS, SEPTEMBER 3 & 17, REGISTER OCTOBER 1 & 15, NOVEMBER 5 Reading the Detectives Queen Elizabeth II: Leslie & 19, 11AM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL Good art is subjective, but SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2PM Goddard Historical REGISTER what is bad art? Join us as we ADULTS & YOUTH • WINNETKA Join certified yoga instructor review a brief history of what Portrayal LIBRARY • REGISTER Isabel Raci for gentle chair constitutes bad art and then MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 7PM This event brings to life the yoga and guided meditation. participate in making your ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER young narrator of Newsboy, own! We will provide multiple In this portrayal, historian the acclaimed Winnetka Back to School and the images for inspiration and end Leslie Goddard, Ph.D., explores boyhood memoir by author Office: Navigating Your with an exhibition. the life of Britain’s famous Gary D. Cole, and the detective monarch from her childhood, New Normal stories of Encyclopedia Brown, the abdication of her uncle, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 6PM Sherlock Holmes, and more, her marriage to a naval officer ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER that he eagerly checks out AUTHOR VISITS named Philip, her World War Get help navigating the return from the Winnetka Public Chris Bohjalian II service, and her struggle to to school, work and in-person Library. This one-actor staged WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2PM balance her roles as queen and social events. Therapist reading of passages from the ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER mother. Get to know the woman and Clinical Director of the memoir and these beloved Author Chris Bohjalian, the #1 behind the images, her sense of Counseling Center of the detective stories is ideal for New York Times bestselling young readers ages 8–12, author of 22 books adapted into as well as their parents and three movies and a TV series, grandparents, who will fondly will speak in this live virtual The Reluctant Princess: recall their own childhood event about his newest release, Lady Diana Reflects on Her Life reading passions. The Hour of the Witch. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7PM • ADULTS WINNETKA LIBRARY • REGISTER Chicago’s Newest Murals: Minor Feelings: An Asian Join the royal frenzy as award-winning Communities, Celebrities American Reckoning storyteller Megan Wells brings to life and Whimsical Characters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 7PM the charismatic Princess of Wales. From deep research into the complex TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 7PM ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY Cathy Park Hong discusses her accounts of Diana’s short life, REGISTER New York Times bestselling Megan’s impersonation is a Travel through Chicagoland book, Minor Feelings: An trip to Buckingham Palace with historian Beth Sair to Asian American Reckoning, you will not soon forget. learn how artists are improving a collection of honest,
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North Shore, Kim Hassenfeld HISTORY FOOD & DRINK LCSW, will help you understand why the “return Great Chicago Fire Curating Your Charcuterie to normal” might feel so MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 7PM Board with Cheers to stressful and will provide tools ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Cheese LLC to help you make the best In October of 1871, the city MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 7PM decisions for you and your of Chicago burned for two ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY family. Kim will discuss some days, destroying thousands REGISTER psychological and biological of buildings, and killing Do you have charcuterie phenomena that influence our an estimated 300 people. envy? You, too, can create an ability to deal with stress and Commemorating the 150th Instragram-worthy charcuterie make decisions. anniversary of the blaze, board for your next gathering! game with expert player Ivan historian Jim Gibbons Bring the ingredients and join Figueredo. He will provide a will discuss the theories our expert, Sanaiya Khatwani, lesson and supervise games. Caregiving Basics: A Guide surrounding the start of the for a step-by-step tutorial in Bring your own bidding box or to Looking After Your fire, as well as the aftermath. arranging the perfect fanciful use the Library's. Loved One and Yourself feast. Ingredient lists will be WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 6PM Unsolved Hollywood emailed to registrants one Halloween Horror Trivia ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY Murders week prior to the event. Night REGISTER MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 6:30PM In this class/presentation, you ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY Foray Into Fall Cocktails ADULTS & TEENS • VIRTUAL will learn how to recognize REGISTER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 7PM REGISTER that you are a family In these unsolved murders, ADULTS 21+ • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Join with friends or individually caregiver, what to expect on fame couldn't save these Crisper temperatures and to test your knowledge the caregiving journey, the celebrities...or find their autumnal colors beg for of popular horror topics, challenges and rewards of killers. Even decades later, cocktails with deeper flavors including famous horror caregiving, resources available authorities are still trying to and darker spirits. Join local stories, movies, characters, to you through North Shore figure out whodunit. Author mixologist Cheryl Heisler of and more. Winners of each Senior Center, strategies for Susan Gibberman will discuss Mixed metaPours as she ladles trivia round will receive a managing stress and self-care, three cases in-depth: William the bounty of the season into bundle of popular horror and tips to help you thrive (not Desmond Taylor, George libations and demonstrates how movies and books. just survive). Reeves, and Natalie Wood. to make them. Ingredient lists will be emailed to registrants one Jigsaw Puzzle Solving week in advance for all those Tournament who want to mix with Cheryl. Fall Film Series: Scary Movies SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1PM 2ND FRIDAY OF THE MONTH • ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER ADULTS & TEENS • WINNETKA Cookie Exchange LIBRARY • REGISTER Register to receive a pre-recorded introduction and criticism SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2PM Do you enjoy jigsaw puzzles? by our resident film expert, Scott Siegel, along with a link ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY Take your puzzling to the next to watch the film at home through our Hoopla or Kanopy REGISTER level by joining our competitive streaming services. Bring a batch of your favorite event! Each team will get home-made cookies, and the same jigsaw puzzle and Willow Creek a copy of the recipe, to a two-hour time limit. The September 10 • Virtual share and exchange with winning team will be the first to A couple get a lot more than they bargained for fellow baking enthusiasts. complete their puzzle, or the while searching for Bigfoot. Hot chocolate, coffee, and team that has the least loose containers to take home the pieces when the time runs out. cookies will be provided. Hereditary Sign up as a team or individually. October 8 • Virtual Catch this terrifying modern classic starring Toni GARDENING Collette just in time for Halloween. GAMES Learn & Play Bridge Making the Most of Your Herbal Bounty Day of the Dead SATURDAYS, SEPTEMBER 18 & 25, OCTOBER 16 & 23, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7PM November 12 • Virtual NOVEMBER 20 & 27, 7PM ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY Discover the overlooked final ADULTS • WINNETKA REGISTER chapter of George Romero's LIBRARY • REGISTER Has your garden produced a zombie trilogy. Learn to play or improve bumper crop of herbs? Mark your duplicate bridge Lyons, a master gardener, will
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show you how to harvest and Michalski illuminates ten months Schedule a free, one-hour or cryptocurrency works? store your herbal treasures as of backpacking and working in consultation with a Certified Mike Gershbein of Very well as how to use them to the Land Down Under. Learn Financial Planner®. Smart People will help you prepare butters, vinegars, oils, about the country’s fascinating understand the underlying teas, potpourri, sachets, and history, grand traditions, chic Small Business Mentoring blockchain technology other herbal delights. urban life, charming slang, with SCORE behind Bitcoin and other deadly animals and Aboriginal WEDNESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 22, cryptocurrencies as well as influences. This is one adventure OCTOBER 20 & NOVEMBER online currency exchanges, POETRY you won’t want to miss. 17, 7PM • ADULTS • WINNETKA digital wallets and the various LIBRARY • REGISTER challenges and opportunities Writing Haiku & Senryu Get free small business advice facing these currencies. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2PM MUSIC from SCORE, the nation's ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER The History of James largest network of volunteer Serving Up a Slice Learn all about the art of Taylor & Carly Simon business mentors and a haiku and senryu. These short resource partner of the U.S. of Retirement Pie: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 7PM poems are about life, nature, ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Small Business Administration. Understanding Your seasons, and human nature. One-on-one mentoring by In the early 1970s the singer/ Social Security Benefits Led by Charlotte Digregorio, business experts who have songwriter ruled the radio. The THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 7PM author of Haiku and Senryu: A had experience in all aspects era’s ultimate power couple ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Simple Guide for All. of business. Whether you are were James Taylor and Carly This is a free, educational, and just getting started or you have Simon. Join Gary Wenstrup informational presentation on Poetry Critique Roundtable been in business over 20 years, for a presentation using Social Security to help adults set up an appointment to SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2PM performance and interview better understand their Social ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER discuss questions and strategy. clips to trace the arc of their Security benefits and options. Have you written a poem Join us to learn more about careers. The marriage didn’t Investigating for publication, a family last, but the hits sure have! how Social Security benefits scrapbook, a greeting card, or Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin work. The seminar will cover for a special occasion? If you WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 7PM how benefits are determined, would like input from fellow BUSINESS & FINANCIAL ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY how to decide when to collect writers on how to improve REGISTER spousal benefits, and how it, attend this helpful critique Medicare 101 Curious to know how Bitcoin survivor benefits work. led by Charlotte Digregorio, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 7PM author of Ripples of Air: Poems ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY of Healing and other books. REGISTER Medicare can be confusing. Medicare Solutions Network TRAVEL will present a free educational Training Your New Dog Great American Trailways- seminar to get you up to speed on what Medicare covers, what Are you the proud, new owner of a Mississippi River to the it doesn't and your potential pandemic pooch? Worried about what Pacific out of pocket exposure. you are going to do now that life is TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 7PM They’ll discuss Supplements, almost back to normal? ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Advantage Plans, Part D Travel across the U.S. by Prescription coverage and Come join Animal Sense Training foot, bicycle, and canoe cost saving strategies for the owner Nancy Paolucci (and her furry with photographer John Lynn. years ahead. Whether you are companion) as she demonstrates the Explore the beauty of America's currently enrolled in Medicare, basics of dog ownership and answers historic trailways, including the will be enrolling in the future, your tricky questions about your Mississippi River, the KATY Trail, or are helping a loved one, this own four-legged friend. the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon seminar is for you. Trail, and the Lewis and Clark Trail. Financial Planning SUNDAY, Appointments Awesome Australia TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 14, OCTOBER 17 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 7PM OCTOBER 12, NOVEMBER 9, 10AM ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY 2PM REGISTER REGISTER ADULTS G’day, mate! With original Do you have questions about WINNETKA LIBRARY photographs and a deep well how to invest, budget, or REGISTER of stories, world traveler Brian safeguard your finances?
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youth families 0–8 Family Storytime THURSDAYS, SEPTEMBER 9– NOVEMBER 18, 10AM • AGES Stuffed Animal Sleepover 0–5 WITH PARENT/CAREGIVER WINNETKA LIBRARY • DROP IN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5–SATURDAY, Singing, dancing, stories, and NOVEMBER 6, 9AM–5PM • AGES 0–8 • WINNETKA LIBRARY bubbles! Space is limited, stop DROP IN by the Youth Desk for a ticket Ever wonder what happens to enter. when the library is closed? Drop off your favorite stuffed Craft and Give Back toy at the library on Friday SUNDAYS, SEPTEMBER 26, and return Saturday for a OCTOBER 24 & NOVEMBER 21, slideshow of their late-night 1PM • FAMILIES • WINNETKA LIBRARY • DROP IN shenanigans. Join us as we work on fun projects to help local charitable causes! We'll learn about each charity organization and then create items to donate.
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Preschool Storytime Bright Beginnings birth TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 7– WEDNESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 8– NOVEMBER 16, 10AM • AGES NOVEMBER 17, 10AM • AGES to 3–5 WITH PARENT/CAREGIVER 0–18 MONTHS WITH PARENT/ WINNETKA LIBRARY • DROP IN CAREGIVER • WINNETKA LIBRARY Seasonal Snacks and 4 years Join us for an energetic DROP IN Stories on the Patio and interactive storytime, Let's read some stories and WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 6PM complete with stories, songs, sing some songs with your FAMILIES • WINNETKA LIBRARY little one! This is the perfect Baby Doll Storytime and more that are perfect for REGISTER preschoolers. Space is limited, storytime for infants and Let’s celebrate fall with FRIDAYS, SEPTEMBER 17, stop by the Youth Desk for a toddlers. Space is limited, stop OCTOBER 15 & NOVEMBER 19, seasonally themed snacks ticket to enter. by the Youth Desk for a ticket 10AM • AGES 0–4 WITH PARENT/ and stories on our patio at the to enter. CAREGIVER • WINNETKA LIBRARY Winnetka Library. REGISTER Family Halloween Bring your own baby doll and join us for a special Spooktacular storytime where we'll learn FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29–SUNDAY, how to interact with our babies OCTOBER 31 • FAMILIES through song and play. A great WINNETKA LIBRARY • DROP IN practice for children expecting Stop by the Youth Department a new sibling! to show off your costumes! We will have festive activities and treat bags!
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Learn and Play Chess ages SUNDAYS, SEPTEMBER 12, OCTOBER 10 & NOVEMBER 14, 3PM • AGES 7+ • WINNETKA 5–8 LIBRARY • REGISTER Build critical thinking, logic Little Librarian Club and memory skills with chess. TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 21, Expert chess player Ivan OCTOBER 19 & NOVEMBER 16, Figueredo provides a lesson 4PM • AGES 5–8 • WINNETKA and supervises play. Play with a LIBRARY • REGISTER board and pieces provided by Pumpkin Decorating Calling all future librarians! the Library or bring a tablet or SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 10AM Learn more about what it computer to play on lichess.org. AGES 5–8 • WINNETKA LIBRARY means to be a librarian and REGISTER help with simple in-house Full STEAM Ahead! Use paint and other craft projects. THURSDAYS, SEPTEMBER 2, materials to decorate mini OCTOBER 7 & NOVEMBER 4, pumpkins. LEGO Mania! Jr . 4PM • AGES 5–8 WITH PARENT/ CAREGIVER • WINNETKA LIBRARY WEDNESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 15, DiNovember Dinosaur Dig REGISTER OCTOBER 20 & NOVEMBER 17, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 4PM 4PM • AGES 5–8 WITH PARENT/ Learn all about how science, AGES 5–8 • WINNETKA LIBRARY CAREGIVER • WINNETKA LIBRARY technology, math, art, and REGISTER REGISTER engineering affect our lives Let’s talk about dinosaurs! Love to build with LEGOs? Join every day through cool Together we’ll learn about us for LEGO Mania! We’ll build experiments! fossils and excavate to find cool contraptions with a fun dinosaurs. theme every month. Art Explorers Jr . TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 14, OCTOBER 12, & NOVEMBER 9, 3:30PM • AGES 5–8 • WINNETKA LIBRARY • REGISTER Make a beautiful painting! Jigsaw Puzzle Solving Tournament Do you enjoy jigsaw puzzles? Take your puzzling to the next level by joining our competitive event! Each team will get the same jigsaw puzzle and a one-hour time limit. The winning team will be the first to complete their puzzle, or the team that has the least loose pieces when the time runs out. Teams of up to three children 12 and under with 1 adult will have an hour to complete their puzzle. Saturday, November 13, 11am • 12 & Under Winnetka Library • Register
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DESIGN A BOOKMARK CONTEST Calling all aspiring CRAFTERNOON! artists and designers! ages Want to see your No school today? artwork on a bookmark? 9–13 Join us for an afternoon of crafting fun . Youth from PreK–12th Stay the whole time or drop in when you’d like! grade are invited to Mega LEGO! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2PM participate in the month of September. Winning THURSDAYS, SEPTEMBER 9, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2PM OCTOBER 14 & NOVEMBER 11, bookmarks will be printed 4PM • AGES 9–13 • WINNETKA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2PM and available for library LIBRARY • REGISTER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2PM users to pick up at Calling all LEGO masters! TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2PM both locations. We’re going to work together on a complex Lego build each month this fall. The final WINNETKA DROP product will be displayed in AGes LIBRARY the Library! 5-13 IN Young Writers Club TUESDAYS, OCTOBER 5 & Dungeons & Dragons process, and tips she’s learned see adult section about how to stay positive NOVEMBER 2, 4PM • AGES 9–13 TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 21, for more teen WINNETKA LIBRARY • REGISTER OCTOBER 19 & NOVEMBER 16, in the pursuit of creativity. programs Learn how to craft your own 4PM • AGES 9–13 • WINNETKA Cestari is the author of The unique stories. Each month LIBRARY • REGISTER Best Kind of Magic, a 2021 members of the Young Writers Join with others to play the Illinois Reads selection, and teen Club get a story prompt to work fifth edition of Dungeons & most recently, Super Adjacent. on and share with the group. Dragons. Tell a story together, Super Smash Bros Minecraft Mania guiding your heroes through Tournament Art Explorers quests for treasure, battles TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 28, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 14, with deadly foes, daring OCTOBER 26 & NOVEMBER 30, 3:30PM • AGES 9–18 • WINNETKA OCTOBER 12 & NOVEMBER 9, 4PM • AGES 9–13 • WINNETKA rescues, courtly intrigue, and LIBRARY • REGISTER 4:30PM • AGES 9–13 • WINNETKA much more! LIBRARY • REGISTER LIBRARY • REGISTER Join us for some Minecraft Test your battle skills against Make a beautiful painting and VIRTUAL: Author Talk with fun. No account needed to other elite players to see who learn about an interesting era Crystal Cestari play. We will do a fun activity the ultimate champion is. of art history. together, organized by the WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, Minecraft Mania team. Queer History & Heroes 6PM • AGES 9+ • REGISTER TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 7PM Join local author Crystal AGES 13+ • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Cestari as she talks about how In honor of National Coming Out she got published, her writing Day, learn about these history- makers with local historian and expert John D’Emilio. UV Resin Jewelry THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 & TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 4PM AGES 14–18 • WINNETKA LIBRARY REGISTER Create your own sparkly hairclips using UV Resin.
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All experience levels are welcome to join us. Our Digital Services staff will be in The Studio to help guide you through each step YOUTH of your project’s creation. Laser Engraving - Choose Your Create a Spooky Temporary Tattoo One-hour in-person or virtual Own Adventure FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2PM • YOUTH appointments must be made at least THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 6PM • YOUTH THE STUDIO 24 hours in advance. You can make an VIRTUAL • REGISTER Color an existing spooky temporary appointment by emailing us at studio@ Learn how to use the Library's laser tattoo design or create your own, watch wnpld.org or calling us at 847-446-7220. engraver by choosing from a set of as it is cut using the Library's vinyl cutter, Available equipment: provided surprise items. and let everyone see your new art. • Laser cutter Laser Engrave Your Constellation • Embroidery machine Learn to Use the Embroidery • 3D printer Machine Chart • Photo, film, and slide scanner SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 3:30PM • YOUTH SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14, 3:30PM • YOUTH THE STUDIO • REGISTER THE STUDIO • REGISTER • Sewing machine Learn how to find and read your • Vinyl cutter Learn how to use the Library's sewing or embroidery machine by constellation chart and then engrave • The Adobe Creative Suite choosing from a set of provided your sun sign, moon sign, and rising • VHS-to-digital conversion station surprise items. sign onto a provided Studio item.
Artober ADULT & TEEN Laser Engraving - Choose ADULTS & TEENS • THE STUDIO Daily Sketch Journal Challenge Your Own Adventure REGISTER Draw or sketch every day in October to grow your skills Learn to use the Library's vinyl WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 9:30AM cutter to make a constellation and explore the world of drawing. Sign up for ART-ober ADULTS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER sticker and let everyone know daily sketch prompts and pick up your 30-page journal WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 11AM and basic sample sketch tool kit at the Library. ADULTS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER your sign! THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 7:30PM Sketch Events ADULTS & TEENS • THE STUDIO Vinyl Stickers and Iron Ons REGISTER Come in to meet fellow sketchers and try new materi- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2PM Learn how to use the Library's ADULTS & TEENS • THE STUDIO als to add to your sketchbook with some simple guided laser engraver by choosing from REGISTER exercises and idea prompts. Each participant will receive a set of provided surprise items. Hand cut or learn to use our vinyl accompanying kit of supplies to take home. cutter to make permanent iron- Pencil Sketching Learn to Use the Embroidery ons for fabric. Bring a shirt from SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2PM & WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, Machine home to affix your new creations. 10AM • ADULTS & TEENS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1:30PM Ink Sketching ADULTS & TEENS • THE STUDIO Laser Engrave Your SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2PM & WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, REGISTER Constellation Chart 10AM • ADULTS & TEENS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER Learn how to use the Library's WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 3, 9:30AM sewing or embroidery machine ADULTS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER by choosing from a set of Screen Printing Drop-in WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 9:30AM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2PM & WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13, provided surprise items. ADULTS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER 4PM • ALL AGES • THE STUDIO • DROP-IN SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14, 1:30PM Try out screen printing an ART-ober poster from a Vinyl Cut a Constellation ADULTS & TEENS • THE STUDIO selection of ink colors. We'll explain the process of how Symbol REGISTER to use vinyl cut and a screen press to print to paper. Take WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 9:30AM Learn how to find and read your your 12x24 inch poster home to hang or decorate it ADULTS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER constellation chart and then further with pen and ink and submit a picture to enter a WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 11AM engrave your sun sign, moon grand prize drawing. ADULTS • THE STUDIO • REGISTER sign, and rising sign onto a MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 6PM provided Studio item.
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What Is a VPN and Do You family pictures sitting in your Protecting Yourself those who have never used Need One? basement, or slides that mom Against Ransomware Microsoft Word on an iPhone and dad took to document or iPad. At the end of the WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL your childhood? Learn how 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL class, you will be able to REGISTER to easily digitize photos and REGISTER create, format, and print a If you use a VPN (Virtual slides and share them with your Ransomware is a type professional document. Private Network) service, you family. of malware that infects can substantially improve your computers and encrypts Using Word on Your privacy and internet security. What Is New in iOS 15 for computer files until a ransom iPhone or iPad – Part 2 This class will explore how Your iPhone or iPad is paid—you may have heard WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, VPNs work and which services WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, of cities, hospitals, businesses 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL to consider. 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL and individuals that have REGISTER REGISTER been successfully attacked. This class is designed for those Android Photos: Using the The latest version of Apple's After the initial infection, who have some familiarity with Camera on Your Android operating system for iPhones ransomware will attempt to Microsoft Word on an iPhone Phone or Tablet and iPads introduces new spread to connected systems, or iPad, or who have taken the including shared storage WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, ways to stay connected, previous week’s class. Learn 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL and powerful features that drives and other accessible more advanced features to REGISTER help users focus, explore, computers. Learn to minimize really make your document If you have a smartphone or and do more with on-device your exposure to ransomware sparkle. tablet that is not an Apple intelligence. Apple has and other types of malicious brand, it is likely an Android announced major updates to malware. Holiday Shopping for a device—common brands are FaceTime, new Focus features New Digital Device Samsung, LG, Moto, Pixel, and to reduce distraction, and more Using Word on Your WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, Nokia. This class will look at ways to explore the world using iPhone or iPad – Part 1 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL how to best take advantage Maps, Weather, and Wallet. This WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, REGISTER class will teach you how to use 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL of the camera on Android Your old phone, tablet or the latest and greatest features REGISTER devices, and how to edit the computer just isn’t cutting of your devices. This class is designed for photos you take. it anymore—it’s time for an upgrade. But what to buy? This Android Photos: class will guide you through Organizing and Sharing the pros and cons of what Photos with Your Android Mobile Payment Apps is out there and give you Phone or Tablet Do you owe someone enough information to make WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, for dinner, or a shared an intelligent decision for your 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL purchase? needs. REGISTER This class will focus on Payment apps make paying back What Is New in Windows organizing and sharing the friends and family members as easy WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, photos you take on your as sending a tweet. This class will 1:30PM • ADULTS • VIRTUAL Android device, primarily using discuss the features, benefits, and REGISTER the Google Photos app. security considerations of the best Learn how to get and use the smartphone payment systems. latest version of Windows. Digitizing and Archiving This class will explore its new Family Photos WED, SEPT 15, 1:30PM features, including a revamped WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1:30PM ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER Start Menu and new ways to ADULTS • VIRTUAL • REGISTER connect with others. Do you have tubs of old
13 BANNED BOOKS WEEK
Banned Books Week (September 26-October 2, 2021) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. Which Banned Books Have You Read?
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Banned as obscene in France (1956-1959), in England (1955-59), 1984 by George Orwell in Argentina (1959), South Africa (1974-1982), and in New Zealand Challenged in a Florida school district for being “pro-communist” (1960). It was also challenged at a school district in Florida in 2006 for and containing “explicit sexual matter.” containing “themes of pedophilia and incest.” READ THIS BANNED BOOK READ THIS BANNED BOOK
Lord of the Flies by William Golding Beloved by Toni Morrison Challenged for “excessive violence and bad language,” for being Challenged and banned from several high schools for containing “demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an profanities, sexual material, references to bestiality, rape, racism, animal,” for “lurid passages about sex, and statements defamatory to and violence. Parents at a school district in Idaho asserted that the minorities, God, women and the disabled.” book should require parental permission for students to read. READ THIS BANNED BOOK READ THIS BANNED BOOK
Ulysses by James Joyce The Color Purple by Alice Walker Art
Burned in the US (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) Banned for sexual explicitness, homosexuality, violence, rape, work © and banned in the US and England in the late 1920s for obscenity and profanity, and drug abuse. Other reasons include its "troubling ideas that it might cause American readers to harbor “impure and lustful about race relations, man's relationship to God, African history, and
thoughts.” human sexuality” and for its “negative image of Black men.” 2021 A READ THIS BANNED BOOK READ THIS BANNED BOOK meri c
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck an
Banned and challenged for profanity, racial slurs, its presentation Reasons for banning or challenging included portraying “a pastor Library of integration, violence against Black people, conflicting with “the who took advantage of a young woman”, “profanities”, and using the values of the community”, “degradation of African Americans,” and name of God and Jesus in a "vain and profane manner along with
containing “adult themes such as sexual intercourse, rape, and incest.” inappropriate sexual references.” Ass ocia t READ THIS BANNED BOOK READ THIS BANNED BOOK ion • The Catcher in the Rye by J .D . Salinger The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Challenged and banned from the 1960s to today throughout the US Banned in Boston, MA (1930), Ireland (1953), Riverside, CA (1960), ala .
for reasons such as the book is “obscene”, “vulgar”, “anti-white”, and San Jose, CA (1960). Burned in Nazi bonfires in Germany (1933). The org / “filthy.” The book was also challenged for containing sexual scenes, book was banned for portrayals of promiscuity, its focus on sex, and profanity, negative behavior, and references to the occult. the decadence of its characters. bboo ks READ THIS BANNED BOOK READ THIS BANNED BOOK
Come to the library to discover which banned classic has a North Shore connection! BANNED BOOKS WEEK • Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2021 Censorship Divides Us 14 | REGISTER @ WINNETKALIBRARY.ORG #bannedbooksweek • bannedbooksweek.org LIBRARY NEWS
WNPLD Is Leveling Up! We are excited to announce the launch of our new video game collection, available now at both locations. Currently we have over 60 games and new titles will be The Winnetka-Northfield Public added monthly. The initial collection is for the Nintendo Switch platform, with games for other consoles to be added in Library District Is Fine Free! the future. Exciting news! We will no longer be charging fines on overdue items checked out at our Library.
What does it mean to be fine free? How will overdue items be treated now? We are no longer charging fines for While you will no longer be charged a overdue items to any patrons (including fine, after a WNPLD item is two weeks those who visit us from other libraries) overdue, your account will be blocked who check out items at our Library. from any further checkouts until you return the item. The account block What if I currently have overdue fines on includes checking out physical items my account? (books, CDs, DVDs, etc.), as well as We have removed all existing fines for access to our digital collections (including overdue Winnetka-Northfield Library downloads from Libby, Hoopla, Kanopy, materials, and we will no longer be etc) and research databases. charging fines for any materials checked If an item is more than 45 days past due, out from our Library in the future. you will need to either return the item or New eResource pay the replacement cost to unlock your Tutorials Available on What are some of the benefits of going account. fine free? Our Website We strive to provide excellent service Items borrowed from other libraries are We’ve added a collection of video to all residents in our District. Overdue subject to the lending policies of their tutorials that will teach you how to fines create barriers to service and often home libraries. use library services like Overdrive/ stop people from using their library. By Libby, Cloud Library, Hoopla, Kanopy, eliminating fines, we hope to share our Will I have to wait longer for popular and Pressreader to name a few. collection and services with even more of items to be returned? our community members. Libraries that have gone fine free have The tutorials are a quick and easy not seen any difference in when items are way to become more comfortable Do items still have due dates? returned. Most items are returned within a using eBook apps, language learning Yes, each item will still have a due date, week of their due date. tools, streaming movies, and research and you are still responsible for honoring databases. the due date or renewing the item. When What happens if I lose or damage an item you return items on time, it helps your I checked out? Look for the blue tab on the side of neighbors borrow items sooner. You will be charged a fee to replace the item. WNPLD's homepage.
STAFF NEWS
Meet Molly, WNPLD's Newest Adult Services Librarian!
Molly Schoenherr joined us in July as an Adult Services Librarian. Molly came to us from the Lake Forest Library, where she enjoyed leading book clubs, doing outreach, launching a new summer reading program, and starting their graphic novels collection.
15 NON-PROFIT ORG. Winnetka-Northfield ECRWSS Public Library District U.S. POSTAGE PAID www.wnpld.org PERMIT NO. 85 WINNETKA, IL Winnetka Library 768 Oak Street, Winnetka, IL 60093 (847) 446-7220 [email protected] POSTAL PATRON Northfield Library 1785 Orchard Lane, Northfield, IL 60093 (847) 446-5990 Library Trustees [email protected] Jean-Paul Ruiz-Funes, President | Travis Gosselin, Vice President | Deborah Vandergrift, Treasurer | Thomas Sundell, Secretary | Melissa Mitchell | Sarah Munoz | Todd Van Neck Library Administration Monica Dombrowski Director Nick Mall Adult Services Manager Amanda Garrity Youth Services Manager Melissa Morgan Branch Services Manager Steve Kline Digital Services Manager Courtney Volny Customer Relations Manager Mark Swenson IT Manager Register for a Fall Program Today! Sarah Quish Marketing & PR Manager We are happy to be offering a variety of ways for you to participate in our programs. In each of the program descriptions you will see one of Friends of the Library the following locations listed: P.O. Box 8146, Northfield, IL 60093 Winnetka Library/Northfield Library: The program will be in person at the specified Library Closings location. August 30**...... Staff Training Virtual: The program will be online only and streamed over Zoom. Event codes will be September 5 & 6...... Labor Day sent to all registrants for participation. November 24* & 25... Thanksgiving November 30**...... Staff Training Hybrid: The program will be held in person (at the specified location) and streamed *Early close at 5pm over Zoom – you can attend either by coming to the Library or staying at home! **Late open at 1pm Due to the changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, programming locations and Library Updates details may be subject to change. For the latest news and updates, please visit wnpld.org. Connect With Us Voter Registration Day Presented by The League of Women Voters The Source is published in March, June, September & December. Interested in registering to vote, or checking on your registration status? The LWV of The Library reserves the right to take Winnetka-Northfield-Kenilworth will be available to help, from 9:30AM until 6:30PM, photographs and video program participants. on our new patio at the Winnetka Library. Please bring two pieces of identification, at Photos and videos are for Library use and least one of which includes a current address. may be used in Library publicity materials. Patrons who do not wish to be part of photographs or videos should notify Library Tuesday, September 28, starting 9:30AM staff. Any individual who plans to attend any ADULTS • WINNETKA LIBRARY • DROP-IN program at the Library and requires a special accommodation may phone the Winnetka Library at (847) 446-7220 or the Northfield 16Branch Library at (847) 446-5990.