Category: EBRPL Virtual

Virtual Author Series: Naomi Alderman November 30, 2023 2 PM

Thursday, November 30 at 2 pm -Bestselling and award-winning author, Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here. What are
you waiting for? Register now!

Career Center: YouTube Roundup

 

Get FREE, Certified Professional Career & Job Search Help Virtually! If you need help with your job search or career, but can’t make it in person, we can come to you through the power of our online videos. Our videos provide guidance on how to write resumes and cover letters, answer interview questions, complete online job applications, negotiate your salary, find work from home jobs, and much more. We even have dedicated playlists for teens, Spanish-speaking citizens, and the formerly incarcerated. Whatever type of help you need with your job search or career progression, we’ve got a video for that! Check out the following videos (and more! here.

How to Apply for a Job at Ross

This video walks you step by step through the process of applying for a job at Ross clothing store.

Career Center: YouTube Roundup

Get FREE, Certified Professional Career & Job Search Help Virtually! If you need help with your job search or career, but can’t make it in person, we can come to you through the power of our online videos. Our videos provide guidance on how to write resumes and cover letters, answer interview questions, complete online job applications, negotiate your salary, find work from home jobs, and much more. We even have dedicated playlists for teens, Spanish-speaking citizens, and the formerly incarcerated. Whatever type of help you need with your job search or career progression, we’ve got a video for that! Check out the following videos (and more! here.

How to Answer, “Why Should We Hire You Over Other Candidates?

Questions like this can really rattle your confidence…especially if you don’t have 100% of the qualifications they’re asking for. In this video, we demonstrate how to give a strong answer by focusing on what you do have to offer, rather than apologizing for what you don’t.

 

Virtual Author Talk: Joy Harjo – November 16, 2023 at 3 PM

Thursday, November 16 at 3 PM – United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light, and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet. In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing. In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen.

Home of the Happy: Murder on the Cajun Prairie

In 1983, in Mamou, Louisiana, local businessman and community leader Aubrey LaHaye was mysteriously kidnapped from his home and murdered. Forty years later, his great-granddaughter, Jordan told in her forthcoming book, Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie. She will talk about her experience interviewing family and community members, and the many theories that have emerged around how and why this tragedy took place ranging from the Cajun Mafia, to a hit job, to just a random act of violence. Jordan is the Managing Editor of Country Roads Magazine and a co-host of their podcast, Detours. Come meet Jordan and hear this extraordinary story at the Main Library at Goodwood on Wednesday, November 15 at 6 p.m. as part of the Library’s Special Collections Series.

Virtual Author Talk: Tiffany Aliche November 9, 2023 1 PM

Thursday, November 9 at 1 p.m. – We all want to live within our means, save for retirement, invest a little, and yet still have some left over each month for fun. But as most people know, real life can get in the way of even our best intentions! To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche has an invaluable 10-step action plan: Made Whole. With her signature down-to-earth style, her new workbook offers worksheets,
checklists, clear explanations of intimidating financial terminology, simple instruction on calculating our present situation and future needs, and handy hacks for increasing your credit score, making savings “hard to access,” and finding support to stay on track to your goals.

Virtual Author Talk Series: John Stamos – November 1, 2023 7 PM

Wednesday, November 1 at 7 p.m. Join us for an intimate conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his incredibly moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me. A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos’s memories is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life.

Virtual Author Talk Series: John Irving

Thursday, October 26 at 6 p.m. – You are in for a treat when you join us for an intimate conversation with John Irving as he chats about not only his most prolific body of work and a lifetime spent writing. The Last Chairlift, Irving’s self-proclaimed final long novel, begins in Aspen, Colorado in 1941, when Rachel Brewster, a slalom skier, competes at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, Adam will meet some ghosts; they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.

Ask-a-Lawyer, Saturday October 14 – Central Branch

Adults can come to the Library to take advantage of FREE, individual counseling sessions offered by the Pro Bono Project of Baton Rouge Bar Association. Area attorneys will be available for one-on-one, 15-minute sessions for legal advice on a first-come, first-served basis for advice on non-criminal matters involving Family Consumer, Housing, Social Security, Employment, Education, and Succession law on Saturday, October 14 at the Central Branch.

Can’t make it in person? The Baton Rouge Bar Association also provides assistance anytime through their Online Intake Application. Just visit here, complete an application, and a dedicated attorney will contact you shortly afterwards. For more information about this program, email lynn@brba.org or call (225)214-5564.

 

Virtual Author Talk Series: Rick Steves October 3

Tuesday, October 10 at 3 p.m. Join guidebook author and TV host Rick Steves as he shares the latest in smart European sightseeing and encourages Americans to broaden their perspective through travel. In this entertaining, information-packed slideshow lecture, Rick will teach you the secrets of safe, smart, inexpensive travel – low on stress and high on fun. You’ll learn how to venture smoothly and affordably by planning an efficient itinerary, eating and sleeping well, avoiding crowds, packing smartly, and more.