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YA Reads: Antiracist Nonfiction

Posted about 2 weeks ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #ireadya, #rplrecommends, #yabooks, #yareads, #yatrends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, nonfiction, reading suggestions, teenreads, ya, yanonfiction, yareads

What does it mean to be antiracist? Members of the Black Panther Party coined the term “antiracist” during the 1960s/70s. With many different groups and organizations working similarly to fight […]

Love Takes the Stage: A Reading List Inspired by Bad Bunny

Posted about 1 month ago by Jennifer Deuell

Posted in Reading Recommendations | Tagged with Bad Bunny, Essays, Fiction, hope, Inspired Reading, Love Wins, nonfiction, poetry, resilience

YA Reads: Nonfiction November

Posted about 4 months ago by Genevievre Wood

Posted in Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations, Teens, young adult | Tagged with #bookrecs, #rplrecommends, #yareads, #yatrends, book recommendations, book recs, booksforteens, ireadya, nonfiction, reading suggestions, teenreads, ya, yabooks, yanonfiction, yareads, young adult, youngadultbooks

As the season again prepares for change and the air begins to carry a frosty chill, readers scramble to finish their 2025 reading goals. With end of year reading goals […]

HIDDEN TREASURES

Posted about 2 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Book Reviews, How-To | 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 […]

Read Like a President

Posted about 3 years ago by Lindy Gellings

Posted in 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 3 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, 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 3 years ago by Lindy Gellings

Posted in Adult, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #bookrecs, book recommendations, health and wellness, nonfiction, reading suggestions

Common Book Reading List

Posted about 4 years ago by Phil Shepard

Posted in Adult, book discussions, Book Reviews, Reading Recommendations | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, #rplrecommends, book recommendations, book recs, health and wellness, nonfiction, reading suggestions

We hope you are looking forward to the upcoming programs that the Richmond Public Library has planned in support of the 2022 VCU Common Book, The Organ Thieves. Whether you […]

PERSONAL FINANCE for EVERYONE

Posted about 4 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Events, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with adulting, Author Talk, authors, consumer, Financial Literacy, first job, Home Economics, Law Library, local authors, nonfiction, Personal Finance, reading suggestions, saving and investment, teenreads, teens

Since when is Personal Finance a thing? When the world got super complicated, apparently. No longer is it just a decision of whether to put your money under the mattress, […]

HARRIET TUBMAN, INSPIRING AMERICAN HERO

Posted about 4 years ago by Meldon Jenkins-Jones

Posted in Adult, Book Reviews, Children's, Events, Reading Recommendations, Teens | Tagged with #bookrecommendations, Abolition, African Americans, Black History Month, children, Civil Rights Activist, Civil War, Courage, Emancipation, Escape, Freedom, graphic novels, Harriet, Hero, Humanitarian, law, Law Library, Liberation, nonfiction, picture books, reading suggestions, Slavery, Spy, Suffragist, Underground Railroad, Women's History

Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1822 – March 10, 1913) is an icon of courage, a true American hero. Born Araminta “Minty” Ross, she was enslaved at birth in Maryland. In 1849 […]