Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
2021 Teen Reading Challenge: Body Positivity
Posted about 3 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with 2021rplteenreadingchallenge, bodydiversity, bodyimage, bodypositivity, booksforteens, currentevents, ireadya, readingchallenge, teenreadingchallenge, teenreads
We’ve already arrived at month three of our 2021 RPL Teen Reading Challenge and it feels like time is flying by! How have things been going for you so far? […]
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Women’s History for Kids: Picturebook Biographies
Posted about 3 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Biographies, Children's, Picturebooks
| Tagged with Anne-France Dautheville, Aretha, Bessie Coleman, biographies for children, Chicago Defender, Emily Dickinson, ENIAC, Goodnight Moon, Green Belt Movement, Gwendolyn Brooks, Hedy Lamarr, Katherine Johnson, Margarita Engle, picturebooks, Shirley Chisholm, Thunberg, Toll House Cookies, West Side Story, Zora Neale Hurston
It’s Women’s History Month! To discover someone new to you or read a current title about someone familiar, browse the recently published books listed below. Picturebook biographies are an excellent […]
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What’s new and (possibly) good in literary fiction?
Posted about 3 years ago by Alexandra Zukas
Stuck in a book rut and need some fresh picks? Want to know what you need to read to maintain your highbrow literary street cred? I’ll admit I haven’t read […]
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Book Horoscopes – Pisces
Posted about 3 years ago by Robyn Webb
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Book Horoscopes, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with astrology, book horoscopes, book recommendations, book recs, book reviews, reading suggestions
Every month of 2021 we will be sharing a tailored horoscope blog post for the current sun sign plus some extra recommendations so the rest of the signs can be […]
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Jailed For Freedom: Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse
Posted about 3 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Events, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Law Library, Women's History
| Tagged with 19th Amendment, Alice Paul, Angela Dodson, Doris Stevens, Forced Feeding, Jailed For Freedom, Kate Heffelfinger, law, Law Library, Lucy Burns, Maud Powell Jamison, Meldon Jenkins-Jones, National Women's Party, Night of Terror, Occoquan Workhouse, Oliver W. Hill Book Club, Pauline Adams, Silent Sentinels, Turning Point Suffrage Memorial, Women's Suffrage, Women's Suffrage Banners, Women's Suffrage Prison Special, Woodrow Wilson
Lorton, Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse,built in 1910 and originally used to hold prisoners completing short sentences for offenses like disorderly conduct, played a key role in women’s suffrage history. National Woman’s […]
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Focus on the New: Middle Grade Fiction, ages 8-12
Posted about 3 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Fiction, poetry, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with Award winners, Children's fantasy, Kid's fiction, Middle grade fiction, National Reading Month
Calling all readers ages 8-12…it’s National Reading Month! Listed below are new titles from 2020 and 2021. A wide range of genres include fantasy, friends, and family. Some are set […]
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Book Horoscopes – Aquarius
Posted about 3 years ago by Robyn Webb
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Book Horoscopes, Book Reviews, Fiction, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with book horoscopes, book recommendations, book recs, Fiction, nonfiction, reading suggestions
Every month of 2021 we will be sharing a tailored horoscope blog post for the current sun sign plus some extra goodies for the rest of us. (Yes, this is […]
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Celebrate the Days – March
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Reading Recommendations
| Tagged with celebrations
March “comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb”. This month can have all four seasons! There are holidays and observances every day of the month – […]
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Help! Taxes!
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
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Inform * Enrich * Empower
| Tagged with taxes
Last year, the IRS pushed the tax filing deadline to July 15, 2020, for 2019 returns. So far, the April 15th deadline is in place this year for filing 2020 […]
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Black Suffragists and Activists: Addie Waites Hunton
Posted about 3 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Adult, Black History Month, History and Preservation, Law Library, Women's History
| Tagged with Addie Waited Hunton, African American Suffragist, Law Library, Natioanl Association of Colored Women, Suffragist, William A. Hunton
In preparation for Black History Month, I did a little research and uncovered some fascinating people like Addie Waites Hunton, an African American suffragist, activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. […]
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