Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Do you HOOPLA?
Posted about 2 days ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Audiobooks, Children's, Comics, Families, Film, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Manga, Movies
| Tagged with Hoopla
Do you HOOPLA? Hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service that allows Richmond Public Library card holders to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows – up to […]
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Read a Graphic Novel — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens
Posted about 3 days ago by Jennifer Deuell
Welcome back! I hope my intro post to this year’s RAD Reading Challenge has you all excited and ready to dive in! I’m starting out my challenge with the first […]
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2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens!
Posted about 6 days ago by Jennifer Deuell
For me, the new year always brings a new reading challenge. In 2020 I completed and wrote about the Read Harder Reading Challenge. And last year I created my very […]
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A New You in 2022
Posted about 1 week ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Book Reviews, Cooking, Families, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction
| Tagged with celebrity, clean eating, cookbook, diet, endometriosis, flavor, food, food is medicine, healing, health and wellness, immune system, junk food, lifestyle, migraines, plant-based, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
So, we’ve come through well over a year of quarantine. It has become clear that physical health, including astrong immune system, is very important. This is a good time to revisit, […]
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Most Anticipated YA Books of 2022 (the first half)
Posted about 4 weeks ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #2022releases, #2022yareleases, #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #ireadya, #mostanticipated, #yabooks, #yareads, tbr
Wow! It has been quite a year for YA books. Would you agree? I’ve enjoyed some great new YA titles this year including A Complicated Love Story Set in Space […]
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Bah! Humbug!
Posted about 1 month ago by Meg Raymond
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Book Reviews
| Tagged with #bahhumbug, #bookrecommendations, #cookies, Fiction, holidays, reading suggestions
Bah! Humbug! How did this phrase come to convey curmudgeonly displeasure? The origin of the word humbug is unknown. It emerged in England in the mid-18th century, with a first […]
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NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH
Posted about 2 months ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Biographies, environment, Events, Families, Health and Wellness, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens, Women's History
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the […]
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Music of the Month – December 2021
Posted about 2 months ago by Ben Himmelfarb
MUSIC OF THE MONTH IS A MONTHLY ROUND-UP OF RPL’S MUSIC-RELATED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES. Gellman Room Concerts The 2021-2022 Gellman Room Concert season is here! You can always watch […]
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Master Gardener Virtual Help Desk
Posted about 2 months ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, crafts and hobbies, Gardening, Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with cooperative extension, gardening, gardens, master gardener
When the pandemic began in Spring 2020, the Richmond Public Library and Richmond Master Gardeners created the Virtual Help Desk, a way for people to connect with experts for all […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Something You’ve Always Wanted to Learn About
Posted about 2 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, 2021rplteenreadingchallenge, booksforteens, ireadya, readingchallenge, recommendedreads, teenreadingchallenge, teenreads
Well readers, we’ve made it to the end of the 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge! This post highlights Prompt #12, our last official prompt. Prompt #12 asks you to read […]
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