Author: Lin, Judy I., author. Hong, Sija, illustrator.
Published: 2022
Call Number: Y LIN
Format: Books
Summary: Ning enters a cutthroat magical competition to find the kingdom's greatest master of the art of brewing tea, but political schemes and secrets make her goal of gaining access to royal physicians to cure her dying sister far more dangerous than she imagined. "For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that killed her--the poison tea that now threatens to also take her sister, Shu. When Ning hears of a competition to find the kingdom's greatest shennong-shi--masters of the ancient and magical art of tea-making--she travels to the imperial city to compete. The winner will receive a favor from the princess, which may be Ning's only chance to save her sister's life. But between the backstabbing competitors, bloody court politics, and a mysterious (and handsome) boy with a shocking secret, Ning might actually be the one in more danger." --
Author: Itō, Junji, 1963- author, artist. Allen, Jocelyne, 1974- translator. Erbes, Eric, letterer.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: GN ITO
Format: Books
Summary: "After abruptly departing from a train in a small town, a couple encounters a "weeping woman"--a professional mourner--sobbing inconsolably at a funeral. Mako changes afterward--she can't stop crying! In another tale, having decided to die together, a couple enters Aokigahara, the infamous suicide forest. What is the shocking otherworldly torrent that they discover there? One of horror's greatest talents, Junji Ito beckons readers to join him in an experience of ultimate terror with four transcendently terrifying tales."--Amazon.
Author: MacNeal, Susan Elia.
Published: 2012
Call Number: F MACNEAL
Format: Books
Summary: After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope--trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary--uses the access her position demands to try to unravel an assassinate plot.
Author: Morrison, Toni.
Published: 2004 1987
Call Number: F MORRISON
Format: Books
Summary: Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. After the Civil War ends, Sethe longingly recalls the two-year-old daughter whom she killed when threatened with recapture after escaping from slavery 18 years before.
Author: Gregory, Philippa author.
Published: 2004
Call Number: F GREGORY
Format: Books
Summary: In 1553, Hannah Green, a young Jewish girl, flees to London to escape the Spanish Inquisition and catches the attention of Robert Dudley, who plans to use her talents for observation and second sight.
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.
Open to adults. Registration required. Wake up and shine during this fun morning yoga class. Wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a mat or towel for class. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
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.
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.
Open to ages 3 1/2-5. Registration required, space limited. Kids, join for a few quick stories, songs, an easy craft, plus a treat. We ask that guardians please remain present with children during the event. All programs are subject to change or cancellation. Please inform staff of any food allergies.
Open to ages 5 and older. Registration required. Come meet up with other LEGO enthusiasts and build your own LEGO creations. All materials provided. Guardians must remain with children 9 and under. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to children ages 5 and older, interested teens welcome. Registration is required. Join us for an adventure to ancient Egypt and learn about the exciting world of pharaohs, pyramids, and mummies (oh my!). We ask that guardians present with children ages 9 and younger. All programs are subject to changes or cancellation.
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. 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 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.
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.
Author: Hazelwood, Ali, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F HAZELWOO
Format: Books
Summary: "Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through--and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him. Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business--one that plays for keeps"--
Author: Questlove, author. Greenman, Ben, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 782.42
Format: Books
Summary: "A comprehensive fifty-year history of the hip-hop genre, from renowned artist and author of Music is history, Questlove"-- "When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to try to make his own songs. That kid was Questlove, and decades later, he is a six-time Grammy Award?winning musician, an Academy Award?winning filmmaker, a New York Times bestselling author, a producer, an entrepreneur, a cofounder of one of hip-hop's defining acts (the Roots), and the genre's unofficial in-house historian." --Amazon.com
Author: Miles, Tiya, 1970- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: 306.362
Format: Books
Summary: "From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero--the woman who, despite being barely five-feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others North to freedom, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some 750 people without loss of life. You could almost say she's America's Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles's extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that..."--
Author: Fauci, Anthony S., 1940- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: B FAUCI
Format: Books
Summary: "The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents"--
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