Book Reviews

Posted about 6 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with Fiction, LGBT

While the library buildings are closed to the public for everyone’s safety, mail delivery never stopped! Library staff have been working behind the scenes, receiving and processing books and other […]

Posted about 6 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Book Reviews

President Donald Trump’s warning to use the Insurrection Act in answer to protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers means the law might be […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with antiracism, black authors, diverse books, social justice, teenreads

An Anti-Racist Reading List for Teens (But Good for Adults, Too)                                 On Monday, in […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations

This list is by no means comprehensive. I am not an academic, an expert, nor am I a person of color. These are books that I personally read and recommend […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with anxiety relief, cabin fever, Covid-19, Dr. Huberman, habits, health and wellness, mental health, New Normal, nostalgia, stress relief

Habit was a dirty word. Like hope, waiting, and boundaries, the idea of habit was a form of discipline I scoffed at as being confining, restricting, and limiting. As a […]

Posted about 6 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Book Reviews

The following is from my ongoing research on World War II Prisoner of War Camps in Virginia. It’s a steamy summer night in 1943 in Alexandria, Virginia,…and another Army bus […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and we have a ton of fantastic fiction for you to immerse yourself in. I’m going to unpack of some of my favorite fiction […]

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 […]