Open to all. Registration required. Put on your PJs & join us for an evening of festive tales, a sing-along featuring Grandfather Joe & yummy holiday treats. Please advise staff of any food allergies. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages 3 1/2-5, siblings welcome. Registration required, space limited. Stop in for a few quick stories, songs, an easy craft, plus a treat. We ask that guardians please remain present with children 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 children 2-6 accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Join us for an interactive adventure, featuring games, songs, and special surprises. Elf and Elfie will coach the reindeer (kids) through a series of activities with the help of the reindeer caretakers (adults).* Guardians must remain present.* Face masks are optional. Social distancing still in effect. * Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation
Suggested for ages 5 and older. Registration required. Come meet up with other LEGO enthusiasts and build your own LEGO creations. All materials provided. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
Open to ages 5 and older, registration required. Roll up your sleeves, we're making a slime that smells like the holidays.We ask that parents and guardians remain present during the activity. Face masks are optional but social distancing remains in effect. Programs are subject to changes or cancellation.
Open to ages 5-12. Registration required. Create your very own holiday ornament. So many shapes,sizes, and colored foams to choose from to make yours unique. Supplies are provided.
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 children & teens, aged 10 and older. Registration required. Stop by with your friends for a fun afternoon at the library for delicious pizza and a variety of exciting board games. All programs are subject to change or cancellations.
Open to ages 4 and up. Registration required. Stop by the library to enjoy a family-friendly, Saturday afternoon movie. Ask at the library or call for movie title. Face masks are optional, however, social distancing guidelines are still in effect. We ask that guardians please remain present with children during the event. All programs are subject to change or cancellation
Author: Chutkan, Robynne, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 612.3
Format: Books
Summary: "A practical plan for strengthening the incredible antiviral defenses located in your gut and resolving symptoms-from a renowned gastroenterologist and the author of Gutbliss"--
Author: Garten, Ina, author. Bacon, Quentin, photographer.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 641.5
Format: Books
Summary: The popular cooking show host and New York times bestselling author shares her strategies for making delicious, satisfying, and uncomplicated dinners, including such dishes as overnight mac & cheese, Tuscan white bean soup, chicken in a pot with orzo, and roasted vegetables with jammy eggs. Cooking during the pandemic inspired Garten to rethink the way she approached dinner. Here shares strategies for making delicious, satisfying, and uncomplicated dinners. Many of the recipes are freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, or simply assembled from leftovers from another dinner. She even shows you how to assemble amazing boards using store-bought ingredients! -- adapted from front flap
Author: Rubin, Lyle Jeremy, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: B RUBIN
Format: Books
Summary: "An honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone. When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the "war on terror" was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man's personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed"--Amazon.
Author: Freeman, Brian, 1963- author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F FREEMAN
Format: Books
Summary: "Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom money to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they've disappeared with the cash, and she's still missing. Gavin claims to be desperate to find her--but Stride discovers that the lawyer had plenty of motive to be the mastermind behind the crime. Even as Stride digs for the truth about Gavin Webster and his wife, he must also deal with a crisis in his own marriage. But all he can do is keep moving forward--because Stride fears the Webster kidnapping may be only one part of a horrific murder conspiracy"--Publisher marketing.
Author: Prusa, Carolyn, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F PRUSA
Format: Books
Summary: Ramona's got a bratty boss, a toddler teetering through toilet training, a critical mom who doesn't mind sharing, and oops, a cheating husband. That's how a Category Four hurricane bearing down on her life in Savannah becomes just another item on her to-do list. In the next forty-eight hours she'll add a neighborhood child and the class guinea pig named Clarence Thomas to her entourage as she struggles to evacuate town. Ignoring the persistent glow of her minivan's check engine light, Ramona navigates police check points, bathroom emergencies, demands from her boss, and torrential downpours while fielding calls and apology texts from her cheating husband and longing for the days when her life was like a Prince song, full of sexy creativity and joy.
Author: Evans, Richard Paul, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F EVANS
Format: Books
Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling King of Christmas Fiction is back this holiday season with another heartwarming and wintery tale of rediscovering faith and love. A coming-of-age holiday tale based on Richard Paul Evans's own childhood that shows us how hope and acceptance can be found in the most unexpected of places. -- From the publisher. It's 1967, and for young Richard it's a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother's abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision to separate. With uncertainty rattling every corner of his life, Richard does his best to remain strong--but when he's run down by bullies at his new school, he meets Mr. Foster, an elderly neighbor who chases off the bullies and invites Richard in for a cup of cocoa. Richard becomes fast friends with the wise, solitary man who inspires Richard's love for books and whose dog, Gollum, becomes his closest companion. As the holidays approach, the joy and light of Christmas seem unlikely to permeate the Evans home as things take a grim turn for the worse. And just when it seems like he has nothing left to lose, Richard is confronted by a startling revelation. But with Mr. Foster's wisdom and kindness, he learns for the first time what truly matters about the spirit of the season: that forgiveness can heal even the deepest wounds, and love endures long after the pain of loss subsides.
Author: Hinkson, Jake, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: F HINKSON
Format: Books
Summary: "Up until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, but her insular Arkansas congregation is scandalized when Lily announces she's pregnant with the baby of Peter Cutchin, a young man in the church. When Peter disappears before they can get married, Lily's life is thrown into even greater turmoil. Everyone in their small town, including Peter's furious mother, thinks the boy has simply run off and abandoned her, but Lily, furiously headstrong and determined to find the father of her child, refuses to believe it. Help comes in the unlikely form of Allan Woodson, an uncle that her family will not acknowledge but a man who may know where to begin looking for Peter. Their search will lead them out of Lily's safe world of the church and into the darkest corners of the criminal underworld on the Arkansas/Tennessee border, where neither Allan nor Lily can foresee the unsettling secrets they will uncover."--Flyleaf.
Author: Keay, John, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 954
Format: Books
Summary: More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Him?laya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. Thirty-five percent of the global population depend on Him?laya's freshwater for crop irrigation, protein, and, increasingly, hydropower. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates consider to shift and the region remains gridlocked in a global debate surrounding climate change. Keay shows that, without our commitment to an ethos of respect for it confounding, fascinating features, Him?laya will soon cease to exist. -- adapted from jacket
Author: Meacham, Jon, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 973.711
Format: Large print
Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen in popular minds as the greatest of American presidents--a remote icon--or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln--an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America. Here is the Lincoln who, as a boy, was steeped in the sermons of emancipation by Baptist preachers; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him light to see the right. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on Good Friday 1865: his rise, his self-education through reading, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans of the nineteenth century, Lincoln's story illuminates the ways and means of politics, the marshaling of power in a belligerent democracy, the durability of white supremacy in America, and the capacity of conscience to shape the maelstrom of events"--
Author: Boyer, Susan Azim, author.
Published: 2022
Call Number: Y BOYER
Format: Books
Summary: A fresh spin on the cult-classic Election meets Darius the Great Is Not Okay in Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win when an international incident crashes into a high school election, and Jasmine is caught between doing the right thing and chasing her dream.
It's 1979, and Jasmine Zumideh is ready to get the heck out of her stale, Southern California suburb and into her dream school, NYU, where she'll major in journalism and cover New York City's exploding music scene. There's just one teeny problem: Due to a deadline snafu, she maaaaaaybe said she was Senior Class President-Elect on her application--before the election takes place. But honestly, she's running against Gerald Thomas, a rigid rule-follower whose platform includes reinstating a dress code--there's no way she can lose. And she better not, or she'll never get into NYU. But then, a real-life international incident turns the election upside down. Iran suddenly dominates the nightly news, and her opponent seizes the opportunity to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria at school and turn the electorate against her. Her brother, Ali, is no help. He's become an outspoken advocate for Iran just as she's trying to downplay her heritage. Now, as the white lie she told snowballs into an avalanche, Jasmine is stuck between claiming her heritage or hiding it, standing by her outspoken brother or turning her back on him, winning the election or abandoning her dreams for good. Told with biting insight and fierce humor, Susan Azim Boyer's Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win is a fresh, unforgettable story of one Iranian-American young woman's experience navigating her identity, friendship, family, her future, and a budding romance, all set against life-changing historical events with present-day relevance.
Author: Marsh, Ryan, illustrator. Mojang AB (Firm), sponsoring body.
Published: 2022
Call Number: 794.8
Format: Books
Summary: Introduces such redstone components as dust and power sources, and provides directions for building a mob farm trap, automatic firework display, and armor swapper. "This classic Minecraft game guide is now completely revamped with 100% new information for the latest version of the game! Discover all the insider tips and tricks in this definitive, fully illustrated guide to creating with redstone in Minecraft. Learn the art of redstone and become a master engineer with Minecraft: Guide to Redstone, and put theory into practice to construct intricate contraptions in Minecraft. Pick up the basics of the redstone components and their uses, discover how to make working circuits, and create incredibly complex builds using your new skills, taught by game-creator Mojang -- Amazon.
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