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• December 2021 Newsletter • |
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Take and Make: Dahlia WreathCreate a festive fall or winter wreath with these lovely paper dahlias! Be sure to stop into the East End Branch anytime between December 1st to December 14th for your very own take & make kit with the supplies you'll need for this fun craft! **Kits will be available while supplies last.** *Note: This craft will require you to use your own glue gun or stapler. Date: December 1st - December 14th Time: All day Location: East End Branch |
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Take and Make: Hot Cocoa Ornaments Enjoy a festive holiday treat -- or give one away as a gift! Join us as we pack all the essential ingredients needed for a mug of hot chocolate inside these cute plastic tree ornaments. Be sure to stop into the East End Branch anytime between December 15th to December 22nd for your very own take & make kit with everything you'll need for this fun craft! **Kits will be available while supplies last. Limit of 3 per household.** Date: December 15th - December 22nd Time: All day Location: East End Branch
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Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Current and prospective TAG members, join us for our monthly meeting held on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Help us plan teen programs, give feedback on the YA collection, edit our teen zine and have your voices heard concerning all things TEEN at the library.
For more information or an invite to the meeting, contact Jenn Deuell at 646-4740 or jennifer.deuell@richmondgov.com
Date: Thursday, December 16th
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
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Book Buzz
Find your next great read here! Check out Book Buzz on RPL’s YouTube channel, a monthly video series that features some of the great books the library has to offer. New videos are uploaded on the third Monday of each month. This month's topic is...new books! Date: Monday, December 20th Time: All day Location: YouTube |
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RPL Local Authors: Sarah Newland Sarah Newland, a licensed veterinary technician, is the author of the new young adult/new adult adventure series The Coelacanth Project. Her books revolve around the difficult transition into adulthood, conquering inner demons, and discovering powerful friendships. She hopes to promote a love of reading and brain-active living. When she isn't writing or working, Newland and her husband love to travel and dote upon their three fur-babies: Big Kitty, Little Kitty, and Meowse. She's surprisingly good at pinball. Terrible at karaoke. You can connect with Sarah more through her monthly newsletter, Instagram (@sarahnewlandwrites), and Goodreads. Date: Wednesday, December 22nd
Time: 12:00 - 3:00 PM
Location: Main Library |
New Books to Get Excited About |
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You can go your own way
by Eric Smith
Trapped inside an arcade by a snowstorm, Adam, who is determined to save the arcade from Philadelphia’s newest tech mogul, and Whitney, the daughter of the tech mogul, find the tension between them turning into something else.
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A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.
Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.
Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries.
And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.
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Gilded
by Marissa Meyer
Ordered by the king to spin straw into gold or be killed for telling falsehoods, Serilda, known for her fantastical tales, unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to help her—for a price, in this haunting retelling of Rumpelstiltskin.
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Skin of the sea
by Natasha Bowen
Simi, a Mami Wata—a type of mermaid who collects the souls of those who die at sea—goes against an ancient decree by saving the life of a living boy and must now make amends in order to save the fate of all Mami Wata and the world as she knows it.
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The reckless kind
by Carly Heath
In 1904 Norway, after the man she is being forced to marry gravely injures her best friend, Asta Hedstrom moves him and her secret boyfriend to a secluded cabin above town, where they fight for the survival of their newfound family.
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The nobleman's guide to scandal and shipwrecks
by Mackenzi Lee
While trying to convince his long-lost brother Monty to take the weight of inheriting the family estate off his shoulders, Adrian Montague makes a discovery that could save them from a curse that threatens their lives.
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All of us villains
by Amanda Foody
When a tell-all book exposes a fight to the death to control a secret wellspring of high magick, seven new champions are armed with new information that gives them the choice to accept their fate or rewrite their legacy.
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You've reached Sam
by Dustin Thao
After her boyfriend, Sam, dies, Julie gets a second chance at goodbye but finds it hard to keep these otherworldly calls a secret, especially when she witnesses the suffering his family is going through.
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Terciel & Elinor
by Garth Nix
In a single day of fire, death and loss, 19-year-old Elinor is set on a path that takes her into the Old Kingdom where she fights alongside necromancer Terciel against the Dead who will not stay dead.
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