Book Reviews

Posted about 5 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with aging, golden years

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made…”             Robert Browning The official start of autumn, also known […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, animal shelters, archives, arthritis, be nice, blind, celebrations, checklists, dictionaries, failure, fire prevention, Friendship, frugal, handwashing, health and wellness, magic, make a difference, octopuses, origami, poetry, positive attitude, reading suggestions, sarcasm, shelter dogs, stuttering, tacos, War of the Worlds

THERE ARE HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH — SO MANY REASONS TO CELEBRATE! I’M NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAKE EVERY DAY, BUT I’M NOT SAYING THERE […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Nico D'Archangel

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with banned book week, banned books, book recommendations

This year’s Banned Books Week theme is Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us. I personally find this to be a universal truth. With a book I can be a cyborg […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb

Posted in Book Reviews, Events, Reading Recommendations

First Chapters is about building reading skills and community. On the last Wednesday of each month at 12:00 pm online via Zoom, we read the first chapter of a recent […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Events, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with book recs, local authors, poet laureate, public programs, reading suggestions, urban fiction, writing workshop

Experience urban fiction at its finest with New York Times Best-Selling Author Nikki Turner, Richmond Poet Laureate Roscoe Burnems, and other notable urban fiction authors. This free program features author […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Events, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with anarchists, bombings, capitalism, corporations, corruption, Goddess of Anarchy, Haymarket, I.W.W., Jess Walter, labor rights, Labor unions, law, Lucy Parsons, radicals, socialists, strikes, William D. (“Big Bill”) Haywood, Wobblies, workers, working conditions

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, ireadya, teenreads, volunteen

Have you been enjoying our VolunTEENs’ book reviews? We hope so! Teen nonfiction lovers will definitely want to check today’s post out. These reveiws were written by Jennings C., Age […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Families, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with banned books, beards, book recommendations, celebrations, classical music, courtesy, currentevents, encouragement, Fiction, Grandparents, gratitude, HBUCs, library cards, make your bed, neighbor, new releases, nonfiction, online learning, positive thinking, procrastination, reading suggestions, reflexology, resumes, self care, sewing, talk like a pirate, voter registration

THERE ARE HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH — SO MANY REASONS TO CELEBRATE! I’M NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAKE EVERY DAY, BUT I’M NOT SAYING THERE […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, ireadya, teenreads, volunteen

Our VolunTEENs have been hard at work reading and writing a ton of awesome reviews for you this summer!  Here are two more written by Isabelle R., age 16. Book […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with artistappreciation, behappy, bekind, belazy, bookloversday, celebrations, dogdaysofsummer, holidays, lizzieborden, matchmaker, nationalfriendshipday, nationallighthouseday, nomad, poetry, reading suggestions, romancereaders

THERE ARE HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES ALMOST EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH – SO MANY REASONS TO CELEBRATE. I’M NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAKE EVERY DAY, BUT I’M NOT SAYING […]