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📚 Cast your vote for the Library of Virginia’s annual People’s Choice Award for Fiction! 📚 Our finalists represent the most-requested fiction titles by Virginia authors published in 2025.

Vote online by July 15, 2026: https://lvafoundation.org/peopleschoiceawards

The 2026 People's Choice Award for Fiction finalists are:
• David Baldacci | Strangers in Time A World War II Novel
• S.A. Cosby | King of Ashes
• Virginia Evans | The Correspondent
• Bruce Holsinger | Culpability
• Corinne Michaels | All Too Well
• Adriana Trigiani | The View from Lake Como

Winners will be announced on Sept. 19, 2026, at the 29th Annual Virginia Literary Awards Celebration, the Commonwealth’s biggest night honoring its authors and their stories.

Learn more & purchase tickets here: https://lvafoundation.org/literaryawards/

David Baldacci Adriana Trigiani S.A.Cosby Author Author Corinne Michaels

📚Cast your vote for the Library of Virginia’s annual People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction! 📚 Our finalists represent the most-requested nonfiction titles by Virginia authors published in 2025.

Vote online by July 15, 2026: https://lvafoundation.org/peopleschoiceawards

The 2026 People's Choice Award for Nonfiction finalists are:
• Stephen Starring Grant | Mailman
• Jane Harrington | Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance
• Andrew Lawler - Author | A Perfect Frenzy
• Douglas Waller | The Determined Spy
• Paula Whyman | Bad Naturalist
• Gerri Willis | Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster

Winners will be announced on Sept. 19, 2026, at the 29th Annual Virginia Literary Awards Celebration, the Commonwealth’s biggest night honoring its authors and their stories.

Learn more & purchase tickets here: https://lvafoundation.org/literaryawards/

The Library will be closed on Saturday, June 6.
View our upcoming hours at https://www.lva.virginia.gov/use/plan

Curious to learn more about the recent additions to the Library of Virginia's collections? Read all about it in today's The UncommonWealth.

https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2026/06/01/newly-available-archival-accessions-january-1-march-31-2026/

Please join us in welcoming two appointees to the Library of Virginia Board, announced last Friday by Governor Spanberger: genealogist Barbara Vines Little of Orange, Virginia, who has previously served on the board, and retired president of the Virginia Public Safety Foundation, Nancy Rodrigues of Surry, Virginia. Both appointees will begin the term in July of this year. Congratulations, Barbara and Nancy!

Happy Birthday to Patrick Henry, who served as governor of Virginia from July 6, 1776, to June 1, 1779.

Henry's executive papers are held within the Library of Virginia collections. Learn more in this guide about the Governors’ Letters Received, 1776-1784 collection https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/governors-letters and view Henry’s letters at https://lva.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01LVA_INST:01LVA&collectionId=81118979910005756

Portrait of Patrick Henry: copy of Thomas Sully original by George B. Matthews, ca. 1883, State Art Collection, Library of Virginia

VA250 - American Revolution 250 Commission

The first decades of the 20th century were pivotal years in the development of the United States. Thanks to a man named Shadrick Easter, we have a first-hand view of some of the watershed events of that era. Read more in today's The UncommonWealth.

https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2026/05/29/3-journals/

Many thanks to our audience members and to historian Kathleen DuVal for sharing her book “Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution.”

More photos from the event are available in the Library’s Flickr album at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lvaevents/albums/72177720333925359/ and a recording of the talk is now available on YouTube at
https://youtu.be/KhOPnlY9i8o.

VA250 - American Revolution 250 Commission