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August is Virginia Craft Beer Month
Posted about 2 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Adult, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction
| Tagged with book recommendations, local, RVA
There’s a story poured into every pint of Virginia craft beer. One sip can take you to a tasting room looking out at a beautiful mountain vista while another […]
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PERSONAL FINANCE for EVERYONE
Posted about 2 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Events, For Teens, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with adulting, Author Talk, authors, consumer, Financial Literacy, first job, Home Economics, Law Library, local authors, nonfiction, Personal Finance, reading suggestions, saving and investment, teenreads, teens
Since when is Personal Finance a thing? When the world got super complicated, apparently. No longer is it just a decision of whether to put your money under the mattress, […]
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Innovative Women in History
Posted about 2 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Asian American, Biographies, Book Reviews, Children's, Events, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, nonfiction, Teens, Women's History
| Tagged with book recommendations, Dr. Patricia Bath, Ellen Ochoa, Frances Perkins, Grace Hopper, Law Library, Michelle Khine, minimum wage, social security, unemployment insurance, Women Astronauts, women innovators, women inventors, Women scientists, Women's History Month
INVENTIVE WOMEN IN HISTORY According to the old proverb, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention,” and Mothers of invention have frequently been women. Throughout March, Women’s History Month, Richmond Public […]
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HARRIET TUBMAN, INSPIRING AMERICAN HERO
Posted about 2 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Biographies, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Children's, Events, Fiction, Film, Graphic Novels, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, Movies, nonfiction, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations, Teens, Women's History
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, Abolition, African Americans, Black History Month, children, Civil Rights Activist, Civil War, Courage, Emancipation, Escape, Freedom, graphic novels, Harriet, Hero, Humanitarian, law, Law Library, Liberation, nonfiction, picture books, reading suggestions, Slavery, Spy, Suffragist, Underground Railroad, Women's History
Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1822 – March 10, 1913) is an icon of courage, a true American hero. Born Araminta “Minty” Ross, she was enslaved at birth in Maryland. In 1849 […]
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A New You in 2022
Posted about 2 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones
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Adult, Book Reviews, Cooking, Families, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction
| Tagged with celebrity, clean eating, cookbook, diet, endometriosis, flavor, food, food is medicine, healing, health and wellness, immune system, junk food, lifestyle, migraines, plant-based, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
So, we’ve come through well over a year of quarantine. It has become clear that physical health, including astrong immune system, is very important. This is a good time to revisit, […]
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NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH
Posted about 2 years 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 2 years 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 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bookrecommendations, 2021rplteenreadingchallenge, booksforteens, ireadya, readingchallenge, recommendedreads, teenentrepreneur, teenreadingchallenge, teenreads
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 3 years 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 3 years 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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