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Let’s Hear it for the Ladies

Posted about 1 month ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Fiction, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Women's History | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions

In honor of Women’s History Month, check out these newly updated biographical fiction booklists: Let’s Hear It For Bad Girls and Nasty Women: Ladies We Love to Loathe Let’s Hear […]

Twelve Days of Richmond Public Library – Lifelong Learning

Posted about 5 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in eContent, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Online Database | Tagged with eresources, lifelonglearning, onlinedatabases, onlinelearning, research

Twelve Days of Richmond Public Library — Books and Reading

Posted about 5 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Inform * Enrich * Empower | Tagged with books, ilovemylibrary, librarycard, librarypatrons, libraryservices, readers

Richmond Public Library is your public library. Although books are in our DNA, public libraries of today are so much more. In the spirit of holiday giving, we are presenting […]

How it All Began – Series Starters

Posted about 6 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, books in series, Fiction, reading suggestions

Are you mad for books in series? Me, too! I love books in series, but also have a compulsion that I. Must. Read. Series. In. Order. Sometimes this proves difficult. […]

Dark Academia and Gothic fiction

Posted about 7 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, ghosts, haunted houses, horror, mystery, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #rplrecommends, dark academia, Fiction, gothic fiction, reading suggestions

Hispanic Heritage month 9/15-10/15

Posted about 8 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, books in translation, celebrations, Children's, Events, Families, hispanic heritage month, holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, September | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, celebrations, hispanic heritage month, latino

National Hispanic Heritage Month was established in 1968 as “Hispanic Heritage Week” under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in in 1988 to cover a 30-day […]

Self-Care September

Posted about 8 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Health and Wellness, holidays; celebrations, Hoopla, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Online Database, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Self-care, September

Self-Care September I am not a hot weather person, and summer is my Grumpy Season. I am looking forward to September for many reasons. It should be cooler, and September is […]

June: Go Outside or Stay Indoors: a Daily Guide

Posted about 11 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews, Families, Health and Wellness, Holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower | Tagged with #camping, #ice cream, #nature, #nice, #outdoors, #outside, celebrations, checklists, food

June is a month full of contradictions and changes. Spring changes to Summer. The sun sets later and later, and rises earlier. June 21st – the Summer Solstice – is […]

Earth Day 2023 – Invest in Our Planet

Posted about 1 year ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Earth Day, environment, Events, Families, Fiction, Health and Wellness, Holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, celebrations, currentevents, health and wellness

It all started with a book by Rachel Carson. Silent Spring was originally published in 1962, and became a New York Times bestseller. It raised awareness about the links between […]

Common Book Reading List

Posted about 2 years ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Award Winners, book discussions, Book Reviews, diverse reads, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, VCU Common Book | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, health and wellness, nonfiction, reading suggestions

We hope you are looking forward to the upcoming programs that the Richmond Public Library has planned in support of the 2022 VCU Common Book, The Organ Thieves. Whether you […]