Allen Memorial Library

First Baptist Church Decatur Media Center

About Our Library

Located on the second floor of our Sanctuary building, The Allen Memorial Library and Media Center provides quality reading selections and media resources for church members and the local Decatur community.

Our church library contains over 15,323 cataloged items, including 

• Books

• Bibles and Commentaries 

• Periodicals

• Audiobooks

• Movies and films

• A/V equipment rental

• Reading programs and curriculum

• And much more!

Library Collections

Books for Adults  

We have books about our world, the latest fiction bestsellers, non-fiction texts to help with Sunday School study, self-help books, history, biography, periodicals, large-print books, audio-books, and computers to look stuff up. Books we can’t use in our collection, we offer for sale.

Books for Children and Youth

We’re your children’s source for the latest award-winners! Our volunteer staff includes people who know children’s books inside-and-out and can recommend top fiction and non-fiction titles to put in your collection (pre-K—Young Adult). 

Resources for the Decatur Reading Community

The Library is an information source and cheerleader for book festivals (Decatur Book Festival) and author talks (Georgia Center for the Book, Conversations, local bookstores). We post calendars for community book sales, book recommendations, interesting websites — all things BOOK.

Beth’s Books

Each month, Beth Withers, one of our library volunteers, shares the newest books that have been added to our church library this past month:

• PICTURE BOOK 

  • Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
    This “is a story about cats and people who couldn’t get along until a night of rioting bring them together.”   It was written by Eve Bunting and illustrated by David Diaz and was winner of the 1995 Caldecott Medal, which somehow we missed when it was first published.  It was also an ALA Notable Children’s Book Award and a School Library Journal Best Book of the year.

• JUVENILE FICTION

  • The Frindle Files by Andrew Clements

    This is a sequel to master storyteller Andrew Clements’ most beloved book, Frindle.  “It is a story that’s both timeless and timely - about the importance of language, of digging deep to find answers, and of challenging what you think you know to imagine what is possible.”

• ADULT FICTION

  • The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
    The 19th mystery in the New York Times’ bestselling Armand Gamache series, this is a follow up to A World of Curiosities, but it can be read on its own.  “A routine break-in at the home of Sûreté homicide chief Armand Gamache leads slowly to the revelation of a potentially calamitous threat to all Quebec.”  A cliffhanger, “it’s a frightening novel of duality, of good versus evil, with an allegorical tale for today’s world, as only Penny can write.”  Consistently excellent reviews!

• ADULT NON-FICTION

  • Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
    In this latest book by the authors’ Killing series, they “explore the lives, the legacies and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the twentieth century, “Elvis Presley,
    John Lennon and Muhammad Ali.  These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film and sports, but the world itself.”  Donated by Linda and Freddy Bailey.

Contact the Library

Give us a call at 404.373.1653 (ext. 2229) or send us a message using the form below.