The Atlantic County Library System/Hammonton is located at 451 S. Egg Harbor Rd. and may be reached by calling (609) 561-2264. Follow the Atlantic County Library System on Facebook (facebook.com/atlanticlibrary), X (@ACLSLibrarian) and Instagram (@aclslibrarian).
Many library services are available 24/7 at atlanticlibrary.org.
To view their full calendar of events, visit atlanticlibrary.org. Registration required for all programs.
The library will be closed March 29 for Good Friday.
All programs are subject to change or cancellation.
Preschool Storytime: Tuesdays, March 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 10:30 a.m. Open to ages 3-5.
Registration required. Children and their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs, crafts, games and movement while building language and literacy skills. All materials and snacks are provided. Please alert staff to food allergies.
Lego Club: Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. Open to ages 5 and older. Registration required. Join the Lego Club and create your own Lego designs. All supplies are provided.
Collaborative Art Puzzle Collage: Wednesday, March 6 at 6:30 p.m. Open to ages 6-17. Registration required. Use your artistic skills to create an art puzzle collage. Make one to share and one to take home. All materials are provided.
Crafting Social Hour: Saturday, March 9 at 1:30 p.m. 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. Please advise staff on food allergies.
Decoupage Eggs: Wednesday, March 20 at 6:30 a.m. Open to adults. Registration required. Learn how to make decoupage eggs for your spring home décor. All materials are provided.
Makers Space Sewing: Saturday, March 23 at 1:30 p.m. Open to teens and adults. Registration required. Discover how to sew both by hand, and with machines. Also learn how to take measurements, select a pattern and choose fabric. On March 23 make a stuffed bunny.
Family Movie Night: Tuesday, March 19 at 6 p.m. Open to all. Registration required. Join us for movies on the big screen. Check with the branch for upcoming titles. Refreshments will be provided; please advise staff of any food allergies. Guardians must remain with children age 9 and under.
Recommended Reading: Upcoming titles that will be circulating in our collection soon:
The Hunter
A Novel by Tana French
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.
Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago Police Department and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.
Fruit of the Dead
A Novel by Rachel Lyon
Camp counselor Cory Ansel, 18 and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.