Open to ages 1 1/2-3. Registration required. The latest books & some old favorites will help introduce new vocabulary & reinforce learning. Children and their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, crafts, games and movement while building language and literacy skills. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to adults. Appointment required. Contact the library to schedule an appointment.
Navigate the internet, learn to use e-mail, Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel.All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required. Learn, in-depth, how to use a computer. Each session will focus on a different computer class. Face masks are optional, but social distancing is still in effect. All programs are subject to change or cancellations
Open to ages 4-11. Registration required. Children aged 9 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Wondering what a Wonderbook is? It's a print book with a ready-to-play audiobook inside. Kids will press play to read along with their favorite books and then switch to learning mode for literacy learning and fun.
Open to ages 9 and older. Registration required. Enjoy crafting with friendly folk. All skill levels welcome. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages
6-14. Registration required. Read a story to therapy dogs, Erin, Kody, Fritz,
and Frieda, who love sharing stories with children. All programs subject to
change or cancellation.
Open to ages 8 and older, registration required. Put on your thinking cap! We'll be making construction paper rockets and using straws to test how far they can go. How will your rocket's size and shape impact how it flies? Masks are optional but social distancing remains in effect. We ask that parents and guardians remain present during the activity. All programs are subject to changes or cancellation.
Open to all ages. Registration required. Join us in celebrating the 9th annual NJ Makers Day by participating in fun and exciting hands-on STEM activities and games. Challenge yourself, be creative and apply personalized learning strategies to meet your goal. Games and supplies for activities will be supplied while they last. Children age 9 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Open to ages 6 and older. Registration required. Join us for a STEM building activity in honor of New Jersey's Makers Day. Bring your creativity and your thinking cap and we'll supply the rest. The build that can withstand the challenge earns a prize! Guardians must remain present for children under age 9. Masks are optional, but social distancing is still in effect. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Open to adults and interested teens and children, ages 8 & older.
Registration required.
Do you love chess? Have you always wanted to learn?
Our chess club is for all ages and levels of experience. Feel free to bring your own chess board or use one of ours. Guardians must remain present. Face masks are optional, however, social distancing guidelines are still
in effect. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Open to all ages. Drop by the children's area to make your own Lego creations. This is a self-guided activity. Ask for Legos at the front desk. Please remember to clean them up when you're done! Guardians must remain with children aged 9 and under during the event.
Open to ages 5 and older. Registration required. Celebrate New Jersey Makers Day by making a bank out of a few materials. Space is limited. We ask that guardians please remain present with children under age 9 during the event. Face masks are optional, however, social distancing guidelines are still in effect. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Open to all. Registration required. Come in from the cold and enjoy an afternoon
movie with us. Stop by or call for the movie title of the week. Food and drink are not
permitted. Children aged 9 and under must be accompanied by a guardian. All programs are
subject to change or cancellation. Face masks are optional, but social distancing is still in
effect.
Open to teens and adults. Registration required. Discover how to sew both by hand, and with machines. Also learn how to take measurements, select a pattern, and choose fabric. In accordance with CDC guidelines, masks are recommended for anyone that is not vaccinated. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.February 11th - Valentine sachetsMarch 25th - Stuffed BunnyApril 22nd - Spa KitMay 20th - Necktie PillowJune 10th & June 24th - Beach Cover-Up
Suggested for ages 5-12. Registration required. Embrace your inner maker at our unique makers stations. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. Guardians must remain present for children aged 9 and under. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Author: Schwartz, Dana, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y SCHWARTZ
Format: Books
Summary: When Hazel becomes the personal physician to Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III, she is dragged into the glamour and romance of the British court, but she soon realizes malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and she may be the only one capable of setting things right.
Author: Turner, Marion, 1976- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: 821.1
Format: Books
Summary: "From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, drama, fiction, and film. In The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer's favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. A sexually active and funny working woman, the Wife of Bath, also known as Alison, talks explicitly about sexual pleasure. She is also a victim of domestic abuse who tells a story of rape and redemption. Formed from misogynist sources, she plays with stereotypes. Turner sets Alison's fictional story alongside the lives of real medieval women-from a maid who travelled around Europe, abandoned her employer, and forged a new career in Rome to a duchess who married her fourth husband, a teenager, when she was sixty-five. Turner also tells the incredible story of Alison's post-medieval life, from seventeenth-century ballads and Polish communist pop art to her reclamation by postcolonial Black British women writers. Entertaining and enlightening, funny and provocative, The Wife of Bath is a one-of-a kind history of a literary and feminist icon who continues to capture the imagination of readers"--
Author: Deibel, Jennifer, 1978- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F DEIBEL
Format: Books
Summary: "The only home Brianna Kelly has ever known is Ballymacool Boarding School, but when the son of local gentry arrives at the school to deal with his unruly niece, an unexpected discovery uncovers the truth about her past--and the key to her future"--
Author: Jackson, Jenny (Editor), author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F JACKSON
Format: Books
Summary: "Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm, a first generation Korean American with a lucrative job in banking. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated from Brown and proud to think of herself as a "do-gooder," has enough money from her trust that she's able to work for a pittance at a not-for-profit, where she has started a secret love affair with a senior colleague. But when a scandal derails Malcolm's career, leaving Darley financially in the lurch, when Sasha glimpses the less-than-attractive attributes beneath the Stockton brood's carefully-guarded façade, and when Georgiana discovers her boyfriend is married and still in love with his wife, they must all come to terms with what money can't buy--the bonds of love that can make and unmake a family. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York and full of recognizable if fallible characters (and a couple of appalling ones!), it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family, about the haves and have-nots and the nuances in between, and the insanity of first love--Pineapple Street is a scintillating, wryly comic novel of race, class, wealth and privilege in an age that disdains all of it."--
Author: Roberts, Rebecca Boggs, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: B WILSON
Format: Books
Summary: "This portrait of the first acting woman president, written by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power, tracks the ascent of Edith Boling Galt Wilson, one of American history's most influential and complicated women"-- "A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power. While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president--and though history has downplayed her role--just over a century ago a woman became the nation's first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively acted as the first woman president of the U.S. (before women could even vote nationwide) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was. For the first time, we have a biography that takes an unflinching look at the woman whose ascent mirrors that of many powerful American women before and since, one full of the compromises and complicities women have undertaken throughout time in order to find security for themselves and make their mark on history. She was a shape-shifter who was obsessed with crafting her own reputation, at once deeply invested in exercising her own power while also opposing women's suffrage. With narrative verve and fresh eyes, Untold Power is a richly overdue examination of one of American history's most influential, complicated women as well as the surprising and often absurd realities of American politics.
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