Reading Recommendations

Posted about 5 years ago by Robyn Webb

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with authors, book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, children, comics, graphic novels, interview

Starting this past September we’ve been offering a virtual comics meeting where we talk about, share, and create comics together! If you missed the last Tween Comics Club or just […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Children's, Events, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with #bekind, #worldkindnessday, #worldkindnessday2020

World Kindness Day takes place every year on November 13th. If you weren’t previously aware of this holiday, it’s time you get acquainted! This international holiday was started back in […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #halloween, #horror, #rplrecommends, #scarybooks

This Halloween, we’ve set out to bring you the scariest books we’ve ever read…and you know we read a lot of books!  The following is a list of books which […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Reading Recommendations

EVERY STORY MATTERS.  START WRITING YOURS. “Writing a novel alone can be difficult, even for seasoned writers. NaNoWriMo helps you track your progress, set milestones, connect with other writers in […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Reading Recommendations | Tagged with Vote

Every four years, the United States elects a new president. For the first 50 years or so of our nation’s history, voting was done in person at the local courthouse […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Robyn Webb

Posted in Reading Recommendations | Tagged with antidote for reality, book recommendations, book recs, Fiction, Library, reading suggestions

Together, let’s take a moment to step back from being inundated with news and worry. In this series of blog posts about escapist reads, explore stories that convey you to […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Reading Recommendations

At the Richmond Public Library, you can always peruse the Latest Releases page on the library’s website, which gives you digital options for browsing the new bookshelves. Add in curbside pickup, and […]

Posted about 5 years ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with #readinglist, #tiktok, #tiktokchallenge

Welcome back to the third and final installment of the “Best TikTok Trends: A Reading List” blog post. If you missed the first two posts in this series, you can […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Lisa Crisman

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with beekeeping, environment, gardening, graphics, immigration, nonfiction, parenting, teaching, writing

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines nonfiction as “writing or cinema that is about facts and real events.” Nonfiction titles may express an author’s point of view. Some nonfiction attempts to inform […]

Posted about 6 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Events, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with 19th Amendment, African American Women's Suffrage, elections, Law Library, States Rights, Suffrage, U.S. Constitution, VCU Common Book, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Women's Rights

Speaking of Constitution Day Constitution Day is September 17th. Join the Richmond Public Library (RPL) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries in celebrating the 19th Amendment this Constitution Day. The […]