Book Reviews

Posted about 6 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Book Reviews

According to a 2005 survey, American institutions retain over 4 billion items like books, manuscripts, photographs, oral history, maps, sound recordings, and digital collections. Libraries own 63 percent of them. […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews, Teens

May is National Foster Care Month. It is a time to acknowledge all the helpers involved in the foster care system, but more importantly to recognize and support the children […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with Fiction, pandemic, reading suggestions

Is this pandemic messing with your reading habits? It’s messing with mine. I have more time for reading, but reading has gotten so much more difficult. I am one of […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Alexandra Zukas

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with Family history, Preservation

There’s no doubt that many of us are feeling isolated right now, looking forward to being able to see friends and family again.   Of course, one way of coping […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Events | Tagged with 19th Amendment, Constitution, law, Law Day, Law Library, May 1, Representative democracy, rule of law, Vote, Women's Suffrage

What is Law Day? Law Day was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 as a national day set aside to celebrate the rule of law in the United […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Robyn Webb

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with antidote for reality, book recommendations, book recs, Hoopla, romance

Together, let’s take a moment to step back from being inundated with news and worry. In this new series of blog posts about escapist reads, we’ll introduce you to new […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews, Teens

Please note that I did not make the title of this post “YA Reads for Autism Awareness Month.”  This was intentional.  Even though April is Autism Awareness Month, and it […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews

So many of us have suddenly found ourselves spending a lot more time at home with our families, and one of the best things we can do to entertain ourselves, […]

Posted about 6 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Book Reviews

This is the second post in a two part series on the fight for woman suffrage in Virginia. Before Virginia’s Coralie Franklin Cook published her 1915 article, “Votes for Mothers,” […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Alexandra Zukas

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with Fantasy, Fiction

Really great books have a way of making the world fall away. They can transport you to somewhere more interesting, more whimsical, more surreal–somewhere that is just more. You turn […]