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Library Resources for Children’s Gardening

Posted about 1 month 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 3 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 4 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 6 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. […]

Dark Academia and Gothic fiction

Posted about 7 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

Hispanic Heritage month 9/15-10/15

Posted about 8 months 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 […]

Earth Day 2023 – Invest in Our Planet

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 […]

Read Like a President

Posted about 1 year 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 […]

Black History Books: A 2023 Review

Posted about 1 year ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Award Winners, Black History Month, diverse reads, History and Preservation, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, Black History Month, nonfiction, reading suggestions

In Virginia, it is generally believed that African American History began with the importation of West Africans into Jamestown in 1619. After the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy […]

Cozy Reads for these Long Winter Nights

Posted about 1 year ago by Lindy Gellings

Posted in Adult, crafts and hobbies, Health and Wellness, Inform * Enrich * Empower, nonfiction, Reading Recommendations, reading suggestions | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, book recommendations, health and wellness, nonfiction, reading suggestions