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Celebrate the Days – October
Posted about 11 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 11 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 11 months ago by Nico 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 12 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 12 months ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, ireadya, teenreads, volunteen
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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Celebrate the Days – September
Posted about 12 months ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Book Reviews, crafts and hobbies, Families, Fiction, Health and Wellness, holidays; celebrations, nonfiction, poetry, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with banned books, beards, book recommendations, celebrations, classical music, courtesy, currentevents, encouragement, Fiction, Grandparents, gratitude, HBUCs, library cards, make your bed, neighbor, new releases, nonfiction, online learning, positive thinking, procrastination, reading suggestions, reflexology, resumes, self care, sewing, talk like a pirate, voter registration
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: Recommended by Someone You Admire
Posted about 12 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
Welcome back, readers, to this month’s 2021 Teen Reading Challenge post! The prompt this month is to “read something recommended by someone you admire.” Let me start off by saying […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Desert Solitaire & The Catcher in the Rye
Posted about 1 year ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, ireadya, teenreads, volunteen
Our VolunTEENs have been hard at work reading and writing a ton of awesome reviews for you this summer! Here are two more written by Isabelle R., age 16. Book […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Maus: A Survivor’s Tale & Lolita
Posted about 1 year ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, ireadya, teenreads, volunteen
Welcome back to our latest installment of By Teens, For Teens. This blog post series consists of all teen-generated content. This time we have two book reviews, both written by […]
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Bastille Day: À la France, avec Amour
Posted about 1 year ago by Laura Price
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Book Reviews, Children's, Fiction, Holidays, nonfiction, Teens, Travel
| Tagged with Bastille Day
The friendship between the United States and France spans decades. Generations of Americans have shown their amour for French fashion, food, architecture and people, to name just a few. And […]
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