Reading Recommendations

Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult, Events, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens

“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 […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in 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 […]

Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Events, Families, Reading Recommendations

Introduction National American Indian Heritage Month has particular significance to Virginia, home to eleven state recognized American Indian tribes. “State recognition is the formal declaration of recognition to an American […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb

Posted in Adult, Children's, Events, Families, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with adults, book discussions, children, halloween, programs, public programs, teens

The last two weeks of October are undoubtedly the spookiest time of the year. Each day, the sun goes down earlier and earlier. The wind seems to follow us down […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in 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 […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, 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 […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Laura Price

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with aging, golden years

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made…”             Robert Browning The official start of autumn, also known […]

Posted about 4 years ago by Phil Shepard

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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 […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in 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 […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb

Posted in Book Reviews, Events, Reading Recommendations

First Chapters is about building reading skills and community. On the last Wednesday of each month at 12:00 pm online via Zoom, we read the first chapter of a recent […]