Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Black History Month
Posted about 2 years ago by Nico D'Archangel
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Book Reviews
While February is Black History Month, (celebrated in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.) black history can and should be learned/taught/acknowledged all year round by everyone. It’s about honoring the […]
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Music of the Month – February 2022
Posted about 2 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb
MUSIC OF THE MONTH IS A MONTHLY ROUND-UP OF RPL’S MUSIC-RELATED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES. Gellman Room Concerts The 2021-2022 Gellman Room Concert season is here! You can always watch […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Sherlock Holmes Read-Alikes
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, byteensforteens, ireadya, teenreads, volunteen
Welcome back to our By Teens, For Teens blog series! Apologies that it’s been awhile since our last post. We hope you’ve been reading some awesome books during the wait. […]
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2022 Youth Media Awards Winners
Posted about 2 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Award Winners, Children's, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #alayma, #alayma22, #awardwinners, alamya2022, book recommendations
For those of you who are fans of children’s and young adult literature, the Youth Media Awards are probably as exciting as the Oscars or the Grammys. The Youth Media […]
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Do you HOOPLA?
Posted about 2 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Adult, Audiobooks, Children's, Comics, Families, Film, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Manga, Movies
| Tagged with Hoopla
Do you HOOPLA? Hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service that allows Richmond Public Library card holders to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows – up to […]
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Read a Graphic Novel — 2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Book Reviews, Graphic Novels, Reading Challenge, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with aradreadingchallenge, book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, graphicnovels, ireadya, reachingchallenge, reading suggestions, readingchallenge2022, teenreads
Welcome back! I hope my intro post to this year’s RAD Reading Challenge has you all excited and ready to dive in! I’m starting out my challenge with the first […]
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2022 RAD Reading Challenge for Teens!
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Adult, Reading Challenge, Teens
| Tagged with aradreadingchallenge, book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, booksforteens, graphicnovels, ireadya, reading suggestions, readingchallenge2022, teenreads
For me, the new year always brings a new reading challenge. In 2020 I completed and wrote about the Read Harder Reading Challenge. And last year I created my very […]
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A New You in 2022
Posted about 3 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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Most Anticipated YA Books of 2022 (the first half)
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #2022releases, #2022yareleases, #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #ireadya, #mostanticipated, #yabooks, #yareads, tbr
Wow! It has been quite a year for YA books. Would you agree? I’ve enjoyed some great new YA titles this year including A Complicated Love Story Set in Space […]
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Bah! Humbug!
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Book Reviews
| Tagged with #bahhumbug, #bookrecommendations, #cookies, Fiction, holidays, reading suggestions
Bah! Humbug! How did this phrase come to convey curmudgeonly displeasure? The origin of the word humbug is unknown. It emerged in England in the mid-18th century, with a first […]
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