Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Celebrate the Days – April
Posted about 3 years ago by Meg Raymond
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers! Rain, rain, go away – come again another day. April is the kindest (or is it the cruelest?) month. Maybe we all need […]
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By Teens, For Teens – Eleanor & Park, Dead Wake, and Keeper of the Lost Cities
Posted about 3 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, Middle grade fiction, teenreads, volunteen
Welcome to a new series on our Shelf Respect blog called “By Teens, For Teens.” In these special blog posts, we’ll be sharing recommendations made by some of our VolunTEENS. […]
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Get Growing!
Posted about 3 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Families, Fiction, Gardening, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, Teens
Spring is here, bulbs are popping, trees are budding and the birds are busy! Working with seeds and plants is a great way to relieve stress and to focus on […]
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AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATOR AND ACTIVIST: NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS
Posted about 3 years ago by kathryn Coker
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Black History Month, History and Preservation, Law Library, Women's History
| Tagged with Anna Julia Cooper, Cooperative Industries, law, Law Library, M Street Colored High School, Mary Church Terrell, Nannie Helen Burroughs, National Association of Wage Earners, National Baptist Convention, National Baptist Women's Convention, Women's Industrial Club
Another trailblazing woman I discovered recently is Nannie Helen Burroughs, an educator, orator, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist and businesswoman from Orange, Virginia. Why Remember This Native Virginian? Burroughs […]
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Memories of Ireland
Posted about 3 years ago by Laura Price
With a great-great-grandmother named Margaret Mary Murphy, it was a sure bet that I would someday see Ireland. Even though over 30 years have passed since I visited, the overall […]
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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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