🎭📚💜💛💚Books on Parade! 💚💛💜📚🎭

Celebrate the season with some festive stories full of beads, masks, mysteries, and Cajun fun! 🎉✨ Check out these Mardi Gras favorites:

📖 Gaston Goes to Mardi Gras by James Rice
🌳 Beads on Trees by Ginger ...Grabert Spedale
🎭 Cajun Mardi Gras Masks by Carl Lindahl
🐶 Phoebe Cakes the Bulldog: A Mardi Gras Tail by Michelle Dumont
🕵️ Randolph Solves the Mardi Gras Mystery by Pat Hornsby Crochet
🐺 Rougarou at Mardi Gras by Vanessa Cano

📲 Call, visit, or use the RPL app to place a hold on one of these titles—or browse our collection for even more Mardi Gras magic!

Laissez les bons temps lire! 🎺📚👑

#MardiGrasReads #LibraryLove #RPL #LaissezLesBonsTempsRouler #MardiGrasBooks #BookRecommendations #CarnivalSpirit 💜💛💚

📣 Join Us for the AACHC Third Annual Celebration!

The Rapides Parish Library invites you to the Third Annual Central Louisiana African American Culture & Heritage Center Celebration on Saturday, February 21, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch (1115 Broadway ...Ave., Alexandria).

✨ This year’s theme: “Strength of Our Past, Power of Our Future.”

We will honor seven outstanding Central Louisiana leaders whose lives reflect excellence in education, public service, military service, and community leadership:

John E. Allen, Jr. • Levator Boyd • Israel B. Curtis • Herbert B. Dixon, Sr. • Randolph Holly, Jr. • Owen Monconduit • Freddie Price, Sr.

🎉 Special recognitions and presentations included.

📞 RSVP by Feb. 16: 318-445-3912
📍 Free and open to the public — everyone is welcome!

Come celebrate our history, honor our leaders, and inspire future generations.

💖📚 Happy Galentine’s Day! 📚💖

It’s Galentine’s Day — the perfect celebration of sisterhood, female friendship, and the best group of hype-women you could ever ask for! 💕✨

Grab your best gal pal and stop by the library to spend the day surrounded by stories,... new discoveries, and endless bookish fun. 📖🌸

Whether you’re picking out your next favorite read, exploring something totally new, or just enjoying a cozy day together, the library is the ultimate Galentine’s Day hangout spot! 💗

📅 Held annually on February 13th

#GalentinesDay #LibraryLove #BookBesties #CelebrateFriendship #GirlsWhoRead #RPLReads #SisterhoodStrong #BookishFun #LoveYourLibrary 💖📚✨

🎉✨ Get Excited! ✨🎉

Our 3rd Annual African American Cultural & Heritage Center Event is almost here — and we cannot wait to celebrate with YOU! 🙌🏾❤️💛💚

Join us as we honor culture, history, creativity, and community in a powerful and inspiring ...celebration. ✊🏾📚🎶

It’s going to be a day filled with meaningful moments, vibrant energy, and unforgettable experiences. Bring your friends, bring your family, and come ready to celebrate! 🎊

We can’t wait to see you there!

#AfricanAmericanHeritage #CulturalCelebration #CommunityStrong #CelebrateCulture #LibraryEvents #HeritageMatters ✨

📚✨ Preserving History, Honoring Community ✨📚

The Rapides Parish Library is proud to host a book talk and signing with Rev. Larry Douglas Smith featuring his powerful work, “The Rise and Fall of Lee Street: Stories History Forgot”.

📍 King Branch
📅 Saturday, ...February 28
⏰ 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM

This moving book reconstructs the vibrant Lee Street community, its people, culture, faith, and legacy—through personal memories, oral histories, and historical records. Rev. Smith shines a light on stories nearly erased, honoring a neighborhood that helped shape our city and reflecting on the experiences of Black communities across the South whose contributions deserve to be remembered.

📖 Meet the author
✍️ Book talk & signing
🖤 History, memory, and preservation brought to life

Join us for an important conversation about why preserving these stories matters—for today and for future generations.

📞 For more information, call 318-445-3912

#AuthorTalk #BookSigning #LocalHistory #PreservingOurStories #BlackHistory #KingBranch #RapidesParishLibrary #CommunityVoices #HistoryMatters 📚✨