Adult
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The Busy Parents’ Book Club – “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells
Posted about 6 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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The Busy Parents’ Book Club – “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers
Posted about 8 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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The Best Books We Read in 2024
Posted about 9 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne, “The final book in John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn Saga, The Fury of the Gods rounds out a heart-pumping, epic fantasy trilogy filled with Vikings, gods, and […]
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Learn a New Language Month–Are You Up for the Challenge?
Posted about 9 months ago by Laura Price
December is Learn a New Language Month! See what RPL has to offer you in reaching this goal.
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The Busy Parents’ Book Club – “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros
Posted about 9 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Jamestown Firsts
Posted about 10 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Thanksgiving is a time when people look back and reflect on the beginnings of American colonial history with the arrival of settlers on the Mayflower in Plymouth in 1620. Most […]
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Expanded Memory Lab Hours
Posted about 10 months ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, Families, History and Preservation
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History Comes Out at the Holidays At this time of year, we are likely to see loved ones we do not see during the rest of the year. We might […]
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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
Posted about 11 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Every October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. The International Dyslexia Association defines dyslexia as the following: “Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by […]
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The Busy Parents’ Book Club – “The Three of Us” by Ore Agbaje-Williams
Posted about 11 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Welcome to the first installment of the blog post series “The Busy Parents’ Book Club.” I decided to start this series after having my second baby in two years and […]
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Meet the Community Memory Fellow: Marvin Hicks
Posted about 12 months ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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The Community Memory Fellow (CMF) position was created to broaden the notion of what public history is in Richmond and make that history accessible to everyone. Over the course of […]
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