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November Book Chat with Youth Services Team

Posted about 4 weeks 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 […]

It’s National Nacho Day!

Posted about 1 month ago by Laura Price

Posted in Book Reviews, Cooking | Tagged with #bookrecommendations

National Nacho Day celebrates the birth of nachos. It was a happy accident--a result of quick thinking, a missing cook, and a group of peckish military wives.

October Book Chat with Youth Services Team

Posted about 2 months ago by Lisa Wiertel

Arpilleras from Chile–When Words Are Not Enough

Posted about 2 months ago by Laura Price

Posted in Book Reviews, hispanic heritage month | Tagged with #bookrecommendations

While “a picture is worth a thousand words” is a cliche, in the case of arpilleras, creative projects started by Chilean women in the 1970s, their compelling pictures and thoughtful compositions are easily worth thousands of words.

September Book Chat with Youth Services Team

Posted about 3 months ago by Lisa Wiertel

Libraries, Then and Now

Posted about 3 months 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.

Library Resources for Children’s Gardening

Posted about 9 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 […]

Let’s Celebrate Black History!

Posted about 11 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!

HIDDEN TREASURES

Posted about 12 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 […]

How it All Began – Series Starters

Posted about 1 year 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. […]