Shelf Respect
News, reviews, and ideas you can use from librarians and library staff at RPL
Music of the Month – April 2021
Posted about 5 years ago by Ben Himmelfarb
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Book Reviews
Music of the Month is a monthly round-up of RPL’s programs and resources related to music. April 2021 Gellman Room Concerts @ RPL Saturday, April 10, 2021, at 2:00 pm, […]
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Taste of Passion
Posted about 5 years ago by April Freeman
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Book Reviews
(sometimes, you get what you crave) I would not consider myself a love story fanatic. However, Mrs. Brenda Jackson had me wanting to check out ten more of her books. […]
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Celebrate the Days – April
Posted about 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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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