Book Reviews

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 […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with audiobooks, ebooks

It all started with a traveling salesman who spent hours and hours on the road. Henry Trentman logged a lot of miles, listening to radio stations of varying quality fade […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Alexandra Zukas

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with museums, national parks, travel, virtual tourism, virtual travel

Tons of activities to keep you learning and traveling, virtually.

Posted about 6 years ago by Natalie Draper

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with crafts-and-hobbies, creativebug, elibrary

So, all of those things you wish you had the time to learn how to do? Knitting, crocheting, felting, quilting, mending, screen printing, weaving, rug hooking, painting, drawing, embroidery, pottery, […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Book Reviews

Some of you may be aware that just before the coronavirus hit we started an Adulting 101 series at the Main Library.  It was growing in popularity and we were […]