Perrot P.I.s April Meeting: “The Word Is Murder,” by Anthony Horowitz
Join us on Monday, April 21, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, for a discussion of The Word Is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz. This is a drop-in program. Registration is not required. Refreshments will be served.
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.
Anthony Horowitz is a prolific English novelist and screenwriter specializing in mystery and suspense.
To reserve a copy of The Word Is Murder, visit our catalog.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Environmental Book Group Discussion: “What If We Get It Right,” by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
The Environmental Book Group, a collaboration between the Perrot Memorial Library and the Conservation Commission, is happy to announce our April read: What If We Get it Right: Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. The discussion will take place in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Library, on Monday, April 7, 2025, at 7 pm.
This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financers, architects and advocates help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take–from all of us, with whatever we have to offer–to create. If you haven’t yet been able to picture a transformed and replenished world–or see yourself, your loved ones, and your community in it–this book is for you. If you haven’t yet found your role in shaping this new world, or you’re not sure how we can actually get there, this book is for you. With grace, humor, and humanity, Ayana invites readers to ask and answer this ultimate question, together: What if we get it right?
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and Brooklyn native. She co-founded and leads Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and is the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. Dr. Johnson co-edited the bestselling climate anthology All We Can Save, co-created and co-hosted the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet, and co-authored the Blue New Deal, a roadmap for including the ocean in climate policy. She serves on the board of directors for Patagonia and GreenWave, and on the advisory board of Environmental Voter Project. Above all: She is in love with climate solutions.
Copies of the book are available from our catalog, or for purchase from Athena Books.
Registration is required. Click here to register.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Sunday Jazz @ the Library Featuring The Margi Gianquinto Quartet
Join us for Sunday Jazz @ the Library featuring The Margi Gianquinto Jazz Quartet on Sunday, April 6, 2025, on the Green (the central carpeted area in our Youth Services Department), Radcliffe Building, 2 pm. This concert is for adults.
Margi has been building a reputation for authenticity and excellence on the New York jazz scene for over a decade. In Dec 2023 she joined the Chris Byars Quartet for their Christmas Eve performance at Smalls Jazz Club. In November of 2018 she played to a sold out room at Birdland Jazz Club, a self-created tribute show around the songs and legacy of the great Jo Stafford. In June of 2017 she made her debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing, and did her first international tour. She has performed at Mezzrow Jazz Club, Mohonk Mountain House and many other venues in and around NYC and is grateful to have had the good fortune to sing with some of the very best musicians on the New York Jazz scene. Locally, she was invited to perform as part of CT Ballet’s “Be My Valentine” show in Feb 2025, with performances in Hartford and Stamford.
Her sultry style, which many describe as “vintage,” and “transportive” is reminiscent of an earlier era when those marvelous big band singers and gifted vocalists sang the music of Berlin, Gershwin, Porter, Arlen and Rodgers & Hart. As far back as she can remember Margi listened lovingly to music from America’s Golden Age. With these songs at her core, she followed her own musical path, from classical piano to choral/harmony singing across multiple genres. Her true passion, however, has always been the timeless evergreens that she grew up listening to. When she’s not leading the band, Margi is half of a folk duo with her sister, Mary Pierce (singer/songwriter), leads and accompanies the men’s choir of the Stamford Senior Men’s Association, teaches individual piano lessons to children through adults and is currently organist at a church in Westchester.
Registration is required. Click here to register.
For more information, contact Lisa Thomas at 203-637-1066 x20 or lisat@perrotlibrary.org.
