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After School Art Club: Love Monsters

Events: What's Happening 2 - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 12:08am

Open to ages 5 and older, registration required. Join us for a special Valentine's Day edition of Afterschool Art Club, we'll be making cute and silly love monsters. All materials provided. We ask that guardians remain present with children 9 and younger. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.

Wednesday Family Game Night

Events: What's Happening 2 - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 12:08am

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.

Ventnor Murder Club

Events: What's Happening 2 - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 12:08am

Open to adults. Registration required. Enjoy a good whodunit? Our Murder Club will include a variety of murder-mystery-related events, with book, film, and true-crime discussions. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.

Playdate at the Library

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Open to ages 6-36 months. Registration required. Enjoy stories, rhymes & songs designed to develop early literacy skills with your little one. Guardians must remain present.

Playdate at the Library

Events: Mays Landing - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 12:08am

Open to ages 6-36 months. Registration required. Enjoy stories, rhymes & songs designed to develop early literacy skills with your little one. Guardians must remain present.

Grim Readers

Events: Egg Harbor Township - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 9:08pm

Open to adults. Registration required. Come out to explore the darker side of books. Get your blood flowing as we focus on dark fiction, thrillers, mysteries, science fiction and horror. All programs subject to change or cancellation.
February - None of This is True by Lisa JewellMarch - We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin

Toddler Tuesday

Events: Brigantine - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 9:08pm

Open to ages up to 36 months, accompanied by an adult. Registration required. Enjoy an interactive program that promotes early learning and a happy heart and mind! Stories, songs, activities, plus social time for kids and caregivers alike!

. Guardians must remain present.

. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation

. All programs subject to change or cancellation

Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Pioneer of Evangelical Feminism, Dies at 88

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:54pm

In books like “All We’re Meant to Be” and “Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?” she used the Bible to challenge beliefs that women were inferior to men and that homosexuality was a sin.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Pioneer of Evangelical Feminism, Dies at 88

New York Times Book News - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:54pm

In books like “All We’re Meant to Be” and “Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?” she used the Bible to challenge beliefs that women were inferior to men and that homosexuality was a sin.

The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 1:18pm

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator

New York Times Book News - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 1:18pm

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

'Your Utopia' considers surveillance and the perils of advanced technology

NPR Book Reviews - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:08pm

The best of Bora Chung's new stories impart a feeling of disorientation, evoking worlds that seem at first like utopias only to disclose, upon deeper inspection, dystopias.

'Your Utopia' considers surveillance and the perils of advanced technology

NPR Book Reviews - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:08pm

The best of Bora Chung's new stories impart a feeling of disorientation, evoking worlds that seem at first like utopias only to disclose, upon deeper inspection, dystopias.

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The Most Powerful Person in Publishing Doesn’t Like to Talk About Himself

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:00am

Nihar Malaviya, Penguin Random House’s C.E.O., is a behind-the-scenes operator with a significant task: leading the company after a period of messy, and expensive, turbulence.

The Most Powerful Person in Publishing Doesn’t Like to Talk About Himself

New York Times Book News - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:00am

Nihar Malaviya, Penguin Random House’s C.E.O., is a behind-the-scenes operator with a significant task: leading the company after a period of messy, and expensive, turbulence.

Book Review: ‘Hard by a Great Forest,’ by Leo Vardiashvili

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:00am

In Leo Vardiashvili’s first novel, “Hard by a Great Forest,” a young man begins a fraught quest in the country he once fled.

Book Review: ‘One Nation Under Guns,’ by Dominic Erdozain; ‘What We’ve Become,’ by Jonathan M. Metzl

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:00am

Two new books consider how the country’s obsession with firearms has become an existential threat.

Book Review: ‘Hard by a Great Forest,’ by Leo Vardiashvili

New York Times Book News - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:00am

In Leo Vardiashvili’s first novel, “Hard by a Great Forest,” a young man begins a fraught quest in the country he once fled.

Book Review: ‘One Nation Under Guns,’ by Dominic Erdozain; ‘What We’ve Become,’ by Jonathan M. Metzl

New York Times Book News - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:00am

Two new books consider how the country’s obsession with firearms has become an existential threat.

Basic Computer Help by Appointment

Events: Absecon - Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:06am

Open to adults.
Please call us to schedule a 30 minute appointment.
Got a tech issue? Interested in accessing Digital Library materials?
Let us help.
Basic computer knowledge is required.
We are unable to assist with in-depth technology issues. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.

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