Reading Recommendations
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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
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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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National American Indian Heritage Month
Posted about 2 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Book Reviews, environment, Events, Families, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, 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 […]
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Programs That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine!
Posted about 3 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Adult, Children's, crafts and hobbies, Events, Families, Fiction, ghosts, haunted houses, holidays; celebrations, Reading Recommendations, Teens
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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 […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Books About Teen Entrepreneurship
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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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 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Fiction, ghosts, haunted houses, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
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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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Learning to Love Our Autumn Years
Posted about 3 years ago by Laura Price
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Adult, Aging, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Golden Years, Picturebooks, Reading Recommendations
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“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 […]
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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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Celebrate the Days – October
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Book Reviews, Fiction, Health and Wellness, Holidays, holidays; celebrations, nonfiction, Poetry, poetry, Reading Recommendations
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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 […]
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2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Books By or About a Senior Citizen
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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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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