The Great Big Book Sale is Back
Friends Spring Book Sale offering thousands of great hardbacks, paperbacks, CDs, DVDs and more, cheap! Friday: 10-12 for Members; 12-5, and 7-9 for public! Saturday: 10:00-4:00
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Mao’s Last Dancer – Tonight @ Main
In partnership with the Richmond Ballet, Tulsa-based dancer and choreographer discusses Li Cunxin’s captivating memoir, Mao’s Last Dancer. Cunxin, a Chinese dancer, captured the attention of the nation with his inspiring story of passion, perseverance, and devotion set against Communist China.
Randall Robinson Recalls Early Days of Civil Rights Movement
Richmond native Randall Robinson, formerly of TransAfrica, recalls the early days of the civil rights movement in Richmond in an interview with Democracy Now’s Juan Gonzalez. His new novel, Makeda “is the story of an extraordinary woman who is a poor, blind waitress in Richmond, Virginia, who remembers past lives“. Here is an excerpt, [...]
Ben Campbell @ the RPL Tonight
We invite you to join us at Main Library (101 East Franklin Street) on Friday at 7:00 pm for the first Richmond Writers Series program of 2012. The Reverend Ben Campbell will be on hand to discuss his book, Richmond’s Unhealed History, which examines the contradictions and crises that have formed our city over more [...]
Vintage School Bus for Sale
Books, Bikes and Beyond, our local thrift store extraordinaire, and their affiliated mobile operation, Books on Wheels are seeking to upgrade and putting their bus up for sale. Opportunites like this don’t come along often. If this little blurb doesn’t make you want to buy it, I don’t know what will. 1986 International School Bus [...]
Free Books
via Craigslist: Small bag of books, must take all. Includes authors: Anne Tyler, Ken Follett, Frederick Forsyth, Jonathan Kellerman, John Fowles, Leon Uris, Len Deighton, Michael Crichton, and more. Must take all – please donate or pass along what you do not want. I would like these to go tomorrow (Sunday) if possible. Please let [...]
The Big Book Sale Continues
From 10 – 4 today, then again on Monday. Via Facebook: We’ve had a busy Book Sale day at the Main Library! The sale continues tonight from 7 to 9, tomorrow from 10 to 4, and on Monday from 10 to 6. Come get some great deals–$2 hardbacks, 50 cent paperbacks, $1 DVD’s and CD’s, [...]
The Big Book Sale is Back!
Come one, come all. The Fall Book Sale is on this weekend at the Richmond Public Library’s Main Branch. Bring your bucks and bring home some books, yuck, yuck, yuck. No, seriously folks, I’ll be here all week. Sale hours: Friday, November 4 (three different sale times): 10:00 am – noon: This is our special [...]
Lost Communities of Virginia
Time Tuesday, May 17 · 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location Library of Virginia Conference Rooms 800 East Broad Street Richmond, Virginia Created By The Virginia Shop More Info Lost Communities of Virginia Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Time: Noon–1:00 PM Place: Conference Rooms
“Books on Broad” Featuring Joseph Papa
“Books on Broad” Featuring Joseph Papa: Elizabeth Taylor, A Passion for Life: The Wit and Wisdom of a Legend Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Time: 5:30 PM–7:30 PM Place: The Virginia Shop Joseph Papa will join us to discuss and sign his anthology that reveals the candor and honesty with which Elizabeth Taylor led her extraordinary [...]
RPL Targets Tots on Tuesdays
Programs take place every Tuesday through May. Book Babies - 10:30 am – 11:15 am Interactice story, music and play for infants from birth to 18 months with an adult. Toddler Time – 11:15 am – 12 noon Interactive storytime with songs, stories and rhymes for ages 18 months to 36 months with an adult. [...]
