Open to ages 8-12. Registration required. Learn to make yummy, healthy treats as The Community Food Bank of New Jersey introduces basic cooking and nutritional skills in a series of five classes. Please notify staff of any food allergies. Guardians must remain present.
Open to ages 5-12. Registration required. Stop in to the library to create a weekly fun summer craft. Pick Monday or Wednesday for the craft each week. We ask that guardians please remain present with children during the event. All programs are subject to changes and cancellation.
Open to adults. Registration required. Contact the library to schedule an appointment--one hour maximum. Learn how to search the Internet, navigate email accounts, social media, and other programs such as Microsoft Word. Have a special need? Please ask. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages 6-12. Registration required. The Summer Play is back! Do you want to be an actor? Now is your chance! Join us in an original play, that will be practiced and performed by you! All programs subject to cancellation and changes.
7/28= Auditions7/31, 8/1, 8/2, 8/3, 8/4, 8/7= General Play Practice8/8= Dress Rehearsal8/9= Live Play Performance
Open to ages 4 & older. Registration required. Join us for Summer Reading fun, with crafts, and activities!
Open to adults. Registration requested. Disconnect from the screen and connect over board games. Play a variety of exciting and complex board games, socialize and have fun. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Open to adults. Registration required. Jigsaw puzzles are relaxing and inspire great conversation. Join us as we work together in groups to see who can complete their puzzle the fastest! Jigsaw puzzles and fun prizes provided. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open
to all ages. Registration required. Register by call or visiting our branch. It's game night! Join us in some
board game fun for the evening. Don't miss this exciting event that the
whole family can enjoy together. Board games are provided. Children 9 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.
Open to children ages 3 1/2 - 7, siblings welcome. Registration
required. This interactive story hour includes stories, songs, finger
plays and a craft. Library story times are a fun way to help your child
develop skills they will need to be ready to read. Children must be
accompanied by an adult.
All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Open to ages 2-4. Registration required. The latest books & some old favorites will help introduce new vocabulary & reinforce learning.
Children & their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, crafts, games & movement while building language & literacy skills.We ask that guardians please remain present with children under age 9 during the event.
Face masks are optional.
All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages 5-12. Registration required. Stop in to the library to create a weekly fun summer craft. Pick Monday or Wednesday for the craft each week. We ask that guardians please remain present with children during the event. All programs are subject to changes and cancellation.
Open to ages 6-12. Registration required. The Summer Play is back! Do you want to be an actor? Now is your chance! Join us in an original play, that will be practiced and performed by you! All programs subject to cancellation and changes.
7/28= Auditions7/31, 8/1, 8/2, 8/3, 8/4, 8/7= General Play Practice8/8= Dress Rehearsal8/9= Live Play Performance
Author: Goodyear, C. W., author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: B GARFIELD
Format: Books
Summary: "In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixer and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all these things and more. Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era--Reconstruction and the Gilded Age--Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected President to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so"--
Author: Cross-Smith, Leesa, 1978- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F CROSSSMI
Format: Books
Summary: "Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart. In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible...from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be. In 2019, Kasey has returned to her small Southern hometown of Goldie for the first time since high school--and she still hasn't told even her closest friends the truth of what really happened that summer after graduation, or what made her leave so abruptly without looking back. Now reunited with her friends in Goldie for a wedding, she's determined to focus on the simple joy of being together again. But when she notices troubling signs that one of them might be in danger, she is catapulted back to that fateful summer. This time, Kasey refuses to let the worst moments of her past define her; this time, she knows how to protect those she loves at all costs. Uplifting, sharp-edged, and unapologetic, Goodbye Earl is a funeral for all the "Earls" out there--the abusive men who think they can get away with anything, but are wrong--and a celebration of enduring sisterhood"--
Author: Mendelson, Charlotte, 1972- author.
Published: 2023 2022
Call Number: F MENDELSO
Format: Books
Summary: "Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist is a "furiously funny" novel (Sunday Express, UK) about a marriage between two artists, Lucia and Ray, which begins to unravel over the course of one weekend. Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art--the first in many decades--and one he is sure will burnish his reputation for good. His three children will be there: eldest daughter Leah, always her father's biggest champion; son Patrick, who has finally decided to strike out on his own; and daughter Jess, the youngest, who has her own momentous decision to make. And what of Lucia, Ray's steadfast and selfless wife? She is an artist, too, but has always had to put her roles as wife and mother first. What will happen if she decides to change? For Lucia is hiding secrets of her own, and as the weekend unfolds and the exhibition approaches, she must finally make a choice about which desires to follow."--
Author: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F WHITEHEA
Format: Books
Summary: "It s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated and deadly. 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney s endearingly violent partner in crime. It's getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carney s tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted."--From book jacket.
Author: Macomber, Debbie, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: LP F MACOMBER
Format: Large print
Summary: "Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting out a room to a local college student. Before long Joan is starting to feel a little like herself again..."--
Author: Bunn, T. Davis, 1952- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F BUNN
Format: Books
Summary: A Rowan tree with mysterious and unique powers is extending its grip over humanity, and investigative writer Valentina Garnier is caught up in a battle between supernatural forces and the federal government.
Author: Bateman, Rachel, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: Y BATEMAN
Format: Books
Summary: After being kissed by a stranger in a dark theater, hopeless romantic Quincy Walker looks for the mystery kisser, but instead falls for a guy who definitely isn't the one she's been searching for. When she's kissed by a stranger in a dark theater, Quincy Walker's her rom-com obsessed imagination begins plotting the perfect movie-version ending to her senior year (which ends, like all great high school rom-coms, with the prom). With the help of her friends, Operation Mystery Kisser is born: a plan to set Quin up on dates with all the guys who were at the theater that night so she can discover who kissed her. The only problem? Her friends insist on blind dates, and Quin hates letting go of control. As prom draws nearer, Quin is no closer to finding who her mystery kisser was, and she's not sure she wants to continue looking. - adapted from jacket
Author: Tyuna, author. Hur, Anton, translator.
Published: 2023 2021
Call Number: F TYUNA
Format: Books
Summary: "For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan--and much to the ire of the Patusan natives--the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth's orbit, gradually turning this one-time tropical resort town into a teeming travel hub: a gateway to and from our planet. Up in space, holding the elevator's "spider cable" taut, is a mass of space junk known as the counterweight. And it's here that lies the key--a trove of personal data left by LK's former CEO, of dire consequence to the company's, and humanity's, future..."--
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