holidays; celebrations
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Posted about 5 days ago by Jennifer Deuell
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holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated each year on the third Monday of January. It is meant to honor the life and achievements of the great civil rights leader, […]
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Jamestown Firsts
Posted about 2 months ago by Lisa Wiertel
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Adult, Book Reviews, celebrations, Events, holidays, Holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Uncategorized
| Tagged with berkley plantation, book recommendations, general assembly, jamestown, mayflower, plymouth, thanksgiving, virginia
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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YA Reads: Native American and Indigenous Peoples Month
Posted about 2 months ago by Genevievre Gray
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Book Reviews, diverse reads, For Teens, holidays; celebrations, Native American Heritage, Teens, young adult
| Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yareads, young adult
Richmond Public Library celebrates our Indigenous community members by recognizing Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month (also celebrated as Native American Heritage Month in the US), which takes place annually during the […]
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October Book Chat with the YA Team
Posted about 3 months ago by Genevievre Gray
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Fiction, For Teens, ghosts, Graphic Novels, holidays; celebrations, horror, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens, young adult
| Tagged with #bookchat, #bookrecs, #halloween, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, halloween, halloweenbooks, reading suggestions, spookybooks, spookyseason, teenreads, ya, youngadult
Don’t know what to read next? Looking for YA book recommendations? Welcome to the Book Chat with the Young Adult Team. Every month, the YA Team each recommends a favorite […]
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with RPL’s YA Reads
Posted about 4 months ago by Genevievre Gray
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Fiction, For Teens, hispanic heritage month, holidays; celebrations, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens
| Tagged with #bookrecs, #teens, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, forteens, hispanicheritage, latino, latinx, reading suggestions, teenreads, teens, ya, yabooks, yareads
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually in the United States starting on September 15, which was chosen to coincide with the Independence Days of several Hispanic nations, and ending on […]
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Let’s Hear it for the Ladies
Posted about 10 months ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Book Reviews, Fiction, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Women's History
| Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions
In honor of Women’s History Month, check out these newly updated biographical fiction booklists: Let’s Hear It For Bad Girls and Nasty Women: Ladies We Love to Loathe Let’s Hear […]
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Books to Celebrate the Year of the Dragon
Posted about 12 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Asian American, celebrations, Children's, diverse reads, Graphic Novels, holidays, holidays; celebrations, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations, Teens
HIDDEN TREASURES
Posted about 1 year ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Biographies, Book Reviews, Cooking, crafts and hobbies, diverse reads, Health and Wellness, holidays; celebrations, How-To, mystery, Poetry
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, Breast Cancer, christmas, Computers, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Intermittent Fasting, Memoir, nonfiction, reading suggestions, recipes
Hidden Treasures – Part 1: A Taste of Treasure By Meldon Jenkins-Jones Browsing through the stacks at Hull Street Branch Library, my fingers stumbled upon some books that I had […]
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Celebrate Spooky Season With RPL
Posted about 1 year ago by Jennifer Deuell
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celebrations, Children's, Events, Families, holidays, holidays; celebrations, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Teens
| Tagged with halloween
If you love spooky season like I do, then you are loving life right now. It’s the best time of year (IMO). A time when the weather gets little chilly, […]
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Hispanic Heritage month 9/15-10/15
Posted about 1 year ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Book Reviews, books in translation, celebrations, Children's, Events, Families, hispanic heritage month, holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, September
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, celebrations, hispanic heritage month, latino
National Hispanic Heritage Month was established in 1968 as “Hispanic Heritage Week” under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in in 1988 to cover a 30-day […]
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