Adult Services Coordinator Tracy McPeck recommends wonderful new titles to help you enjoy your next escape.
A Guide to Local Parks
Although the Rappahannock area has industrialized rapidly over the last thirty years, it still possesses ample green space and natural beauty, and there is no better place to see this than in our local parks. Many of these parks were only recently created, some within the last ten years. This guide provides a list of…
Staying Fit For Those 55+
If you’re looking for a fun way to help make your golden years shine a little brighter, look no further than your local library!
5 Hot New Titles for August 2019
Check out these five popular adult titles that hit the shelves in August. To see more titles, including new titles in popular series, check out the booklist New August '19 Books You'll Want to Read and our new titles page. Find out what happens after The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. Rowan Caine acquires a live-in nannying post…
Book Corner: Shoot for the Moon When Choosing Your Next Read
Today, we take for granted the knowledge that the Moon is a solid chunk of rock that rotates around the Earth, and the mystical Man in the Moon is just a collection of craters (thank Galileo for that tidbit). We also know that the Moon rotates on its axis in synchronicity with the Earth, which…
Book Corner: Books Give Kids Taste of Travel Before Start of Vacation
Planes, trains, cars; beaches, mountains, cities; friends and family or brand-new faces. Whether summer travel takes children just down the road or across the world, it can be an adventure. Or, honestly, sometimes it can be frustrating or frightening. For children, traveling can bring a mix of emotions. They may be excited to see relatives…
My Librarian: The Benefits of a Local Writers’ Group
Writing tends to be a solitary activity. From hours of research to even more hours of honing one’s prose or choosing just the right word for a new poem, writers spend a lot of their time working alone. That’s what makes a writers' group so helpful and refreshing. You get together with other writers who understand…
Road Trip! Family-Friendly Audiobooks for the Long Haul
By Rachel Placchetti Summer is here, and with those long, hot days comes the warm-weather institution of the family road trip. Be your children in car seats or high school, an annual dogpile into the minivan can often signal the beginning of summer vacation. This year, avoid a family sing-along to the Frozen soundtrack* by checking out…
My Librarian: The Roaring Twenties
After the horrors of World War I and the resulting social trauma, young men and women who survived came to be known as The Lost Generation because they never recovered from all of their losses and suffering. To deal with their pain, many of them lived by the adage, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we…
Learn to Keyboard
By Mary Buck "Keyboarding is a motor skill," Nansen noted. "It is a matter of training fingers to respond correctly and quickly to press the correct key — kind of like in athletics where you keep doing it over and over again until it becomes habit." —"Teaching Keyboarding — When? Why? How?" Education World, 2/02/2001…
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