Afternoons of Board Games and Puzzles
Open to children and teens,10 and older. Stop by with your friends for a fun afternoon of board games and puzzles. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Brigantine Ink: Writers Meet-up
Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Balloon Twisting and Face Painting by Ken the Magician and Jazzy Jen
Open to children and teens. Registration Required. Join us for an afternoon party featuring face-painting by Jazzy Jen and balloon twisting by Ken the Magician, marking the start of the 2024 Summer Reading Program: Adventure Begins at Your Library. Sign-Ups for the summer reading program will be available before and during the program.
NOTE: Preregistrants will have priority for face-painting.
NOTE: Preregistrants will have priority for face-painting.
Book Review: ‘I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself,’ by Glynnis MacNicol
In “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself,” Glynnis MacNicol ignores the pearl-clutchers and does just that.
Book Review: ‘I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself,’ by Glynnis MacNicol
In “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself,” Glynnis MacNicol ignores the pearl-clutchers and does just that.
Cormac McCarthy Did Not Talk Craft, Except With Roger Payne
Notoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a lifelong friend: Roger Payne, the marine biologist who introduced the world to whale song.
Cormac McCarthy Did Not Talk Craft, Except With Roger Payne
Notoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a lifelong friend: Roger Payne, the marine biologist who introduced the world to whale song.
Book Review: Best Graphic Novels June
Justice, feminism, freedom and cheap horror thrills make for an exciting month of reading.
Book Review: Best Graphic Novels June
Justice, feminism, freedom and cheap horror thrills make for an exciting month of reading.
Book Review: ‘Four Squares,’ by Bobby Finger
The second novel from the co-host of the “Who? Weekly” podcast follows a West Village writer in the early 1990s and today.
Book Review: ‘Four Squares,’ by Bobby Finger
The second novel from the co-host of the “Who? Weekly” podcast follows a West Village writer in the early 1990s and today.
Special Saturday Family Storytime Featuring Music with Ashleigh Ayres
Open to all ages. Registration required. Local music instructor, Ashleigh Ayres, presents a lively musical storytime fit for the whole family. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Drop-In Lego Playtime
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.
Teen Board Game and Pizza Afternoons
Open to children & teens, aged 10 and older. Registration required. Stop by with your friends for a fun afternoon at the library for pizza and a variety of exciting board games. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Afternoons of Board Games and Puzzles
Open to children and teens,10 and older. Stop by with your friends for a fun afternoon of board games and puzzles. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Adult Reading Reward--Weekly Drawing
Open to adults. Entries required. Celebrate your love of reading by entering our Summer Reading Program weekly drawing! Throughout the week, submit an entry in our designated bin for every book you read. One winner will be chosen and announced every Saturday morning. Prizes vary! Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to cancellation or change.
Sidewalk Book Sale: A Beach Read Blowout!
Open to all ages. We're celebrating the holiday weekend with blazing hot sidewalk sale. Snap up a bargain book and enjoy a great beach read. Proceeds benefit the Atlantic County Foundation's support of programming in your library branch.
Brigantine Ink: Writers Meet-up
Open to adults. Registration required. Indulge your imagination and flex your writing muscles! Bring your own writing supplies--laptop, journal, etc--and join us for afternoon coffee and quality company. Whether you write poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, or if you've never written before, this is the meet-up where you'll find the encouragement and inspiration to keep you going or get you started. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Middle of the night [large print] : a novel
Author: Sager, Riley, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: LP F SAGER
Format: Large print
Summary: The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy's presence keep appearing in Ethan's backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?
Published: 2024
Call Number: LP F SAGER
Format: Large print
Summary: The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy's presence keep appearing in Ethan's backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?
Neighbors and other stories
Author: Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F OLIVER
Format: Books
Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver's insightful stories reverberate into the present day. There's the nightmarish "The Closet on the Top Floor" in which Winifred, the first Black student at her newly integrated college, starts to physically disappear; "Mint Juleps Not Served Here" where a couple living deep in a forest with their son go to bloody lengths to protect him; "Spiders Cry Without Tears," in which a couple, Meg and Walt, are confronted by prejudices of interracial and extramarital love; and the titular story that follows a nervous older sister the night before her brother is set to desegregate his school. These are incisive and intimate portraits of African American families in everyday moments of anxiety and crisis that look at how they use agency to navigate their predicaments. As much a social and historical document as it is a taut, engrossing collection, Neighbors is an exceptional literary feat from a crucial once-lost figure of letters"--
Published: 2024
Call Number: F OLIVER
Format: Books
Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver's insightful stories reverberate into the present day. There's the nightmarish "The Closet on the Top Floor" in which Winifred, the first Black student at her newly integrated college, starts to physically disappear; "Mint Juleps Not Served Here" where a couple living deep in a forest with their son go to bloody lengths to protect him; "Spiders Cry Without Tears," in which a couple, Meg and Walt, are confronted by prejudices of interracial and extramarital love; and the titular story that follows a nervous older sister the night before her brother is set to desegregate his school. These are incisive and intimate portraits of African American families in everyday moments of anxiety and crisis that look at how they use agency to navigate their predicaments. As much a social and historical document as it is a taut, engrossing collection, Neighbors is an exceptional literary feat from a crucial once-lost figure of letters"--
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