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July Book Chat with the Young Adult Team

Posted about 3 hours ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Book Reviews, For Teens, Teens | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, reading suggestions, teenreads, yabooks, yareads

Don’t know what to read next? Looking for YA book recommendations? Welcome to the Book Chat with the Young Adult Team. Each month, the YA Team recommends one book from […]

Celebrate Disability Pride Month with RPL’s YA Collection

Posted about 1 week ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Book Reviews, Disability Pride Month, diverse reads, For Teens, Teens | Tagged with #rplrecommends, #yareads, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, reading suggestions, teenreads, yabooks

Disability Pride Month is celebrated annually during the month of July, commemorating the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. This landmark civil rights law prohibits discrimination based […]

Adventure Begins @ Your Library!

Posted about 2 weeks ago by Lisa Crisman

Posted in Adult, Travel | Tagged with #camping, #travel, book recommendations, exploration, hiking

Summer is here and if you are thinking of adding a bit of adventure to your summer there is no better place to start than at your local Richmond Public […]

Celebrate Juneteenth with RPL’s YA Collection

Posted about 1 month ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Book Reviews, celebrations, diverse reads, For Teens, Juneteenth, Teens | Tagged with book recommendations, booksforteens, teenreads, yabooks

Juneteenth marks a very important day in American history. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger and around 2,000 Union troops ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation […]

Celebrating YA LGBTQ+ Voices

Posted about 1 month ago by Genevievre Gray

Posted in Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, For Teens, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, teenreads, yabooks

Happy Pride Month from Richmond Public Library! Celebrate by checking out some of our diverse YA books written by LGBTQ+ authors and/or featuring LGBTQ+ main characters.

Check out these new or updated booklists

Posted about 2 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, reading suggestions

Sometimes you need a little help finding titles you really want to read It’s Not Easy Working for a Living fiction about working for our corporate overlords Just a Cog […]

In honor of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage month, check out these new or updated fiction booklists:

Posted about 3 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Asian American, Book Reviews | Tagged with #bookrecs, book recommendations, reading suggestions

Asian-American Fiction: Dark or Dystopian Asian-American Fiction: Literary Asian-American Fiction: Mysteries and Historical Fiction Asian-American Fiction: Rom-Coms Check out the RPL Readers page for more lists. Or, if you’d prefer a hand-crafted, […]

Let’s Hear it for the Ladies

Posted about 4 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Fiction, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions, Women's History | Tagged with #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, reading suggestions

In honor of Women’s History Month, check out these newly updated biographical fiction booklists: Let’s Hear It For Bad Girls and Nasty Women: Ladies We Love to Loathe Let’s Hear […]

The (Possibly Loveable) Oddball

Posted about 5 months ago by Danny

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with book recommendations, reading suggestions

Thanks to Barry Keoghan and his performance in Saltburn, weirdos are enjoying their time in the spotlight. Why read about Prince Charming and his heroic adventures when you can enjoy […]

How it All Began – Series Starters

Posted about 9 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Book Reviews, Fiction, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, books in series, Fiction, reading suggestions

Are you mad for books in series? Me, too! I love books in series, but also have a compulsion that I. Must. Read. Series. In. Order. Sometimes this proves difficult. […]