Open to ages 8 and older, registration required. Join us for STEM Saturday, we'll be learning about seed germination and building our own "chia pets" houses from sponges. We ask that guardians remain 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.
Face masks are optional, however, social distancing guidelines are
still
in effect. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Open to all. Registration required. Come in from the cold and enjoy an afternoon movie suitable for the family with us.
Contact the branch for movie title. Food and drink are welcomed. Children aged 9 and under must
be accompanied by a guardian. All programs are subject to change or
cancellation.
Open to teens and adults. Registration requested. Do you like to chat with others while crafting? Bring your projects with you, (knit, crochet, cross-stitch, embroider, stencil, jewelry-making, etc.) and pass your creative time with new friends .Join us each month while working on individual projects. Refreshments provided. Plesase advise staff on food allergies. All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
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 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.
Open to adults. Registration required. Diamond Painting is similar to both cross-stitch and paint-by-numbers. Discover the joy and stress- relieving benefits of this craft. Sponsored by the Atlantic County Library Foundation.
Author: Ancrum, K. (Kayla), 1991- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F ANCRUM
Format: Books
Summary: A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son--the boy he's come to love. "Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years, one man--the wealthy Mr. Black--has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus's mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don't let anyone close. Don't let anyone touch you. And, above all, don't get caught. Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black but by his mysterious son, Helios, now living under house arrest in the Black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios bargains for something even more dangerous--a friendship that breaks every single one of Icarus's rules. As reluctance and distrust become closeness and something more, they uncover the gilded cage that has trapped both their families for years. One Icarus is determined to escape. But his father's thirst for revenge shows no sign of fading, and soon it may force Icarus to choose: the escape he's dreamed of, or the boy he's come to love. Reaching for both could be his greatest triumph--or it could be his downfall." --
Author: Garvis Graves, Tracey, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F GARVISGR
Format: Books
Summary: "Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn't see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No one is more surprised than Wren when she discovers that geocaching-the outdoor activity of using GPS to look for hidden objects--is the only thing getting her out of bed and out of her head. She decides that a weeklong solo quest geocaching in Oregon is exactly what she needs to take back control of her life. Enter Marshall Hendricks, a psychologist searching for distraction as he struggles with a life-altering blow of his own..."--
Author: Flower, Amanda, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F FLOWER
Format: Books
Summary: December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated by the gender inequality in academia and is looking for a new challenge. She never suspects it will be sleuthing... Returning home to Dayton, Wilbur and Orville accept an invitation to a friend's party. Nervous about leaving their as-yet-unpatented flyer plans unattended, Wilbur decides to bring them to the festivities... where they are stolen right out from under his nose. As always, it's Katharine's job to problem solve--and in this case, crime-solve. As she sets out to uncover the thief among their circle of friends, Katharine soon gets more than she bargained for: She finds her number one suspect dead with a letter opener lodged in his chest. It seems the patent is the least of her brothers' worries. They have a far more earthbound concern--prison. Now Katharine will have to keep her feet on the ground and put all her skills to work to make sure Wilbur and Orville are free to fly another day. --
Author: Dray, Stephanie, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: LP F DRAY
Format: Large print
Summary: "Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century determined to make a difference. When Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, she thinks he's a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. But over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House. Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR's most trusted lieutenant. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she's willing to sacrifice to save a nation"--
Author: Le, Vanessa, 1999- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: Y LE
Format: Books
Summary: "Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch. In the industrial city of Theumas, Nhika is seen not as a healer, but a monster that kills for pleasure. And in the city's criminal underbelly, the rarest of monsters are traded for gold. When Nhika is finally caught by the infamous Butchers, she's forced to heal the last witness to a high-profile murder. As Nhika delves into the investigation, all signs point to Ven Kochin, an alluring yet entitled physician's aide. Despite his relentless attempts to push her out of his opulent world, something inexplicable draws Nhika to him. But when she discovers Kochin is not who he claims to be, Nhika will be faced with a greater, more terrifying evil lurking in the city's center. Her only chance to survive lies in a terrible choice—become the dreaded monster the city fears, or risk jeopardizing the future of her kind." --
Author: Dykstra, Natalie, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: B GARDNER
Format: Books
Summary: Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected. "Isabella Stewart Gardner?s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston?s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella?s wishes in the exact placements she initially curated..." --Amazon.com
Author: Ackerman, Elliot, author. Stavridis, James, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F ACKERMAN
Format: Books
Summary: "Military fiction that imagines a geopolitical conflict in the year 2054"-- It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that's held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he'll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues, conspiracy theories abound, and the country descends into a new type of civil war. A handful of elite actors from the worlds of computer science, intelligence, and business have a fairly good idea what happened. All signs point to a profound breakthrough in AI, of which the remote assassination of an American president is hardly the most game-changing ramification. The trail leads to an outpost in the Amazon rainforest, the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this breakthrough. As some of the world's great powers, old and new, state and nonstate alike, struggle to outmaneuver one another in this new Great Game of scientific discovery, the outcome becomes entangled with the fate of American democracy.
Author: Scottoline, Lisa, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F SCOTTOLI
Format: Books
Summary: "TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin. TJ plunges into the investigation, seizing the chance to prove his worth and save his brother. But in no time, TJ and John find themselves entangled in a lethal web of deception and murder. TJ will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first"--
Author: Braunstein, Sarah, 1976- author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F BRAUNSTE
Format: Books
Summary: A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name.
Author: Greer, Sierra, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F GREER
Format: Books
Summary: "Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard. She's learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie's relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?"--
Author: Serle, Rebecca, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F SERLE
Format: Books
Summary: "Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night. That's how she met her ex-boyfriend and current best friend, Hugo, the only person in Daphne's life who knows of her secret. Followed by a string of men and countless dates, Daphne resigned herself to the fact that she was never meant to find the one, to be in love, until one night when she receives a paper on her way to a blind date, except this time, the paper is blank. Jake is everything you want in a guy--kind, hard-working, and perfectly handsome. But as they get to know each other and their relationship becomes increasingly more serious, Daphne wonders if this is the right path for her, and worries about the secrets she's hiding from Jake. When part of Daphne's past becomes a part of her present, she is forced to confront everything she's been hiding from the those she loves most and must make a pivotal decision to choose whether to live her life according to others, or herself. This story is about being single and searching for love, but it's also a story about destiny and what people mean to us."--
Author: Gudenkauf, Heather, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F GUDENKAU
Format: Books
Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated. When long-kept secrets begin to rise to the surface, the contestants realize this is no longer just a reality show--someone is out for blood. And the game can't end until the world knows who the contestants really are..."--
Author: Monroe, Mary, author.
Published: 2024
Call Number: F MONROE
Format: Books
Summary: "The latest twist-filled novel in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's Depression-era Alabama saga tells the riveting tale of identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results--until one risk too many changes the game forever . . . Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in--and out--of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn't be more different. Outspoken Leona lives to break rules, have a good time, and scandalize their respectable hometown of Lexington. Fiona is a seemingly-demure churchgoing girl who is the apple of her domineering, widowed mother Mavis's eye. But together, the twins have fooled teachers, boyfriends, bosses, racist police--and most importantly, strait-laced Mavis. Even when Leona does jail time for Fiona, their unbreakable bond keeps them fiercely loyal. . . . So when Fiona feels stifled in her passionless marriage, and Leona is heartbroken over losing her one true love, it's perfect timing to change places once again . . ."--
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