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Posted about 6 days ago by Lisa Wiertel

Posted in Book Reviews, Children's, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, #kidsbooks, #rplrecommends, #youthservices, book reviews, children's books, picture books, reading suggestions

Welcome to another installment in our series of blog posts featuring children’s books we’re currently loving! “Book Chat with the Youth Services Team” features one book recommendation from each of […]

Posted about 1 week ago by Laura Price

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #LibraryCardSignUpMonth

September is officially Library Card Sign-Up Month, but to paraphrase a common saying, every month is a good one to sign up for a library card! Libraries have changed, adapted, grown, and improved. The more I think about what libraries used to provide, the more I marvel at all the wonderful options available to the library users of today.

Posted about 6 months ago by Lisa Wiertel

Posted in Children's, Earth Day, Gardening, Hoopla, Online Database | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #childrensbooks, #childrensgardening, #youthservices, Children's

A study done in 2021 detailed how a majority of children from ages 4-7 are confused if their food comes from a plant or animal.  Creating and planning a garden […]

Posted about 8 months ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Audiobooks, Biographies, Black History Month, book discussions, celebrations, Children's, Comics, diverse reads, Events, Families, For Teens, Graphic Novels, History and Preservation, Picturebooks, Poetry, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #childrensbooks, Afrofuturism, authors, Black History Month, celebrations, Harlem Renaissance, Hip Hop, Seniors, Teen Activities

Let’s celebrate Black History through the arts at the Richmond Public Library!

Posted about 9 months ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Biographies, Book Reviews, Cooking, crafts and hobbies, diverse reads, Health and Wellness, holidays; celebrations, How-To, mystery, Poetry | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, Breast Cancer, christmas, Computers, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Intermittent Fasting, Memoir, nonfiction, reading suggestions, recipes

Hidden Treasures – Part 1: A Taste of Treasure By Meldon Jenkins-Jones Browsing through the stacks at Hull Street Branch Library, my fingers stumbled upon some books that I had […]

Posted about 11 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.  […]

Posted about 12 months ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, diverse reads, Fiction, ghosts, haunted houses, horror, mystery, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #rplrecommends, dark academia, Fiction, gothic fiction, reading suggestions

Posted about 1 year ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, books in translation, celebrations, Children's, Events, Families, hispanic heritage month, holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, Reading Recommendations, September | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, celebrations, hispanic heritage month, latino

National Hispanic Heritage Month was established in 1968 as “Hispanic Heritage Week” under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in in 1988 to cover a 30-day […]

Posted about 1 year ago by Meg Raymond

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Earth Day, environment, Events, Families, Fiction, Health and Wellness, Holidays, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, celebrations, currentevents, health and wellness

It all started with a book by Rachel Carson.  Silent Spring was originally published in 1962, and became a New York Times bestseller. It raised awareness about the links between […]

Posted about 2 years ago by Lindy Gellings

Posted in Biographies, Fiction, History and Preservation, holidays; celebrations, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, celebrations, Fiction, history, Holiday, nonfiction

“Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” Barack Obama   Throughout our nation’s 247-year history, only 47 men have held […]