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MRLS Newsletter — March 2024 |
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We are excited to announce a special offer for Meherrin Regional Library Patrons from our partners at USA TODAY and NewsBank! The first 100 patrons to sign up will receive a complimentary one-year subscription! An unlimited digital access subscription includes: •Full access to subscriber-only content on your desktop, tablet and mobile device •Exclusive subscriber newsletters •Full access to USA TODAY Sports+ stories and app •The eNewspaper, a digital replica of the print edition |
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How to Catch a Leprechaun
by Adam Wallace - Picture Book
Kids are invited to start a St. Patrick's Day tradition with this fun-filled, lively book in verse that offers advice on how to craft the perfect trap to catch a leprechaun.
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The Great Leprechaun Chase
by James Dean - Picture Book
When Pete the Cat opens a leprechaun catching business on St. Patrick's Day, his efforts are complicated by Clover, a leprechaun who's full of tricks.
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Legends & Lore: Ireland's Folk Tales
by Michael Scott - Juvenile Fiction
The author combines mythology and magic in a high-action collection inspired by nine Irish legends, from a competition to become King of the Leprechauns to a trick designed to fool the Queen of the Fairies.
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She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World
by Chelsea Clinton - Juvenile Nonfiction
Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what's right, even when they have to fight to be heard. With vivid, compelling art, this book shows readers that no matter what obstacles may be in their paths, they shouldn't give up on their dreams. Persistence is power.
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Science Superstars: 30 Brilliant Women Who Changed the World
by Jennifer Calvert - Juvenile Nonfiction
Women scientists are not new, but they haven't always gotten credit for being so stellar. This book introduces 30 remarkable women whose passion and dedication to all things science led to groundbreaking discoveries, vital medicine, essential technology, and cutting-edge inventions that changed the world.
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Women's Suffrage
by Duchess Harris - Juvenile Nonfiction
Discusses the history of women's voting rights, how women campaigned for full voting rights across the United States, and how their efforts led to gains in equality for women in other areas as well.
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
by Pamela D. Toler - Adult Nonfiction
Women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why they did it and what happened when they stepped out of their traditional female roles to take on other identities.
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
by Danielle Dreilinger - Adult Nonfiction
Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from small farms to the White House, from Victorian suffragists to Palo Alto techies. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them; Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by Black women who were influential leaders and innovators. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a maligned subject to its rightful importance.
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The American queen : a novel
by Vanessa Miller
In the 1969 South, enslaved woman Louella marries a reverend and leads her people off the plantation, starting her own self-proclaimed kingdom.
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The guest
by B. A. Paris
When their friend Laure moves in after her husband reveals he's had a child with another woman, Iris and Gabriel, with Laure acting increasingly unhinged and broken relationships and hidden motives linked to a recent tragedy piling up around them, must reckon with whether their happy life has been an illusion.
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The bad weather friend
by Dean R. Koontz
When he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of– a seven-foot-tall self-described“bad weather friend” named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.
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The women
by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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Lawrenceville, Virginia 23868
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