Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Learning
In “Maya and the Robot,” a shy brainiac finds, fixes and brings to life an artificially intelligent robot named Ralph.
An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong
Kwame Mbalia and 16 author friends, including Jason Reynolds, Varian Johnson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Dean Atta and Jerry Craft, make an anthology.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Graphic Novelists Who Show Us What Loneliness Means
In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at new books from Kristen Radtke and Lizzy Stewart, as well as a first graphic novel from Anne Carson.
Everything Old Is New Again and Other Best-Selling Wisdom
A look at this week’s popular novels reminds us that good writing runs in families, wet T-shirts attract attention and you can’t hide from your past.
Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
“Holden Caulfield irritated me massively.”
Storytime in the Park
Recommended for ages 3 1/2-5. Registration required. Join us for fun stories & a simple craft, designed to develop early literacy skills. We'll meet in Gaskill Park near the pavilion. Bring your own towel, blanket, or lawn chairs to sit on. Guardians must remain present. This is an outdoor event and is weather dependent.
Side by Side With Sondheim: Alan Cumming Reviews a New Book About ‘Sunday in the Park’
In “Putting It Together,” James Lapine recounts how he and Stephen Sondheim created the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
New & Noteworthy, From Horse Girls to an E.R. Doctor’s View of Covid
A selection of recent titles of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Playdate at the Library...in the Park!
Suggested for ages 6-36 months. Registration required. Enjoy stories, rhymes & songs designed to develop early literacy skills with your little one. We'll meet in the park near the pavilion. Bring your own towel, blanket, or lawn chairs to sit on. Guardians must remain present. This is an outdoor event and is weather dependent.
LEGO Contest Awards Ceremony
Open to all. Registration required. Come check out the amazing LEGO projects created by our contest participants and cheer them on as we announce this year's winners. Guardians must remain present. In accordance with CDC guidelines, masks are recommended for anyone that is unvaccinated. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation.
One Woman Takes A 'Wayward' Approach To Menopause In This Smart New Novel
Messy and floundering in late midlife, Dana Spiotta's heroine is roiling — along with the rest of the country — amid the 2016 election and the rise of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements.
(Image credit: Penguin Random House)
Finding the ‘Believers’ Who Will Remake a Damaged Earth
In a travelogue, Lisa Wells searches for communities and individuals committed to healing the damage of climate change.
A New John Oliver Killens Novel Arrives, Three Decades After His Death
Killens’s posthumously released novel, “The Minister Primarily,” is a searing and satirical look at race in America.
Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’
Jin’s new novel follows a Beijing opera singer who flees to the United States after he gets in trouble with the Chinese state.
Stepping Stone Craft
Recommended for ages 3-12. Registration required. Join us out front of the library to create a lovely stepping stone. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library System. Guardians must remain present. This event will be held outdoors and is weather dependent.
The Humans
UnCovered
review by Debbie Brahmi, ACLS Pleasantville Branch
The Humans is a science fiction book for people (like me) who HATE science fiction!
I picked it up because I thoroughly enjoyed The Midnight Library, also written by Matt Haig, and I was intrigued by the fact that The Humans was described as a “funny, compulsively readable novel” about an alien who is sent to Earth to inhabit the body of the deceased Professor Andrew Martin and destroy all evidence that Martin had solved a major mathematical problem that would advance human civilization. The aliens are superior lifeforms, and they want to preserve their dominance in the universe.
The “funny” begins when the alien sent to Earth starts to enjoy his new life as a human (he even falls in love with Martin’s wife, who has NO idea he is not her husband!), and he must then decide to either complete his mission and return to his home planet or remain on Earth and live the remainder of his life as a less than superior human. What would you do??
For July, 3 Romances Packed With Pulse-Pounding Peril
This month, romance columnist Maya Rodale brings us three tales of danger and mystery, political intrigues, airship pirates, angry Scotsmen, and of course, the essential ingredient: passion.
(Image credit: Avon)
New Graphic Novel 'Celestia' Wanders An Earth That's No Longer Home
Manuele Fior's latest, Celestia, is set on a far-future Earth, wracked by climate change — but the terrors of flood and fire stay under the surface of his dreamy, hazy, philosophical story.
(Image credit: Fantagraphics)
'What Strange Paradise' Focuses On The Human Stories At The Heart Of A Crisis
Omar El-Akkad's new novel is fully aware of the larger forces that lead people to migrate — but it leaves those aside, focusing instead on the smaller human stories at the core of the migrant crisis.
(Image credit: Knopf)
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