nonfiction
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NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH
Posted about 1 day ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Biographies, environment, Events, Families, Health and Wellness, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens, Women's History
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Something You’ve Always Wanted to Learn About
Posted about 3 weeks ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, 2021rplteenreadingchallenge, booksforteens, ireadya, readingchallenge, recommendedreads, teenreadingchallenge, teenreads
Well readers, we’ve made it to the end of the 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge! This post highlights Prompt #12, our last official prompt. Prompt #12 asks you to read […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Books About Teen Entrepreneurship
Posted about 2 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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Wow! This is our next-to-last prompt for the 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge. It’s hard to believe that we are so close to the end. Like our last prompt, Prompt […]
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Haunted Houses and Things That Go Bump in the Night
Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Fiction, ghosts, haunted houses, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, book recommendations, Fiction, ghosts, haunted houses, Hoopla, nonfiction
As the days get shorter and the weather gets cooler (please, let it get cooler!) I want to spend even more time nested in at home reading. It’s October, so […]
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CELEBRATE INDIGENEOUS PEOPLES DAY WITH DR. GREGORY SMITHERS
Posted about 2 months ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, environment, Events, Families, Health and Wellness, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Writing
“Of all the Cherokee origin narratives, the most famous is that which tells the tale of a time when everything was covered by water.” Gregory Smithers “Stories matter. Stories tell […]
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Celebrate the Days – October
Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Book Reviews, Fiction, Health and Wellness, Holidays, holidays; celebrations, nonfiction, Poetry, poetry, 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 […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Books By or About a Senior Citizen
Posted about 3 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, 2021rplteenreadingchallenge, booksforteens, ireadya, readingchallenge, recommendedreads, teenreadingchallenge, teenreads
Readers, we are in the last quarter of our 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge! If you’ve made it this far, I have complete confidence that you will finish. You may […]
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Unusual Book Lists
Posted about 3 months ago by Nae D'Archangel
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with book recommendations, LGBT, new releases, reading suggestions
Every person at a circulation desk can tell you a story or thirty about a patron who can’t remember a title but remembers part of the cover. Sometimes we can […]
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Wobblies and Walter’s The Cold Millions
Posted about 3 months ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Events, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Women's History
| 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
By Teens, For Teens – Bag Man & Too Much and Never Enough
Posted about 3 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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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 […]
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