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:

• CHILDREN’S BIOGRAPHY

  • She’s Got This by Laurie Hernandez
    “In this heartwarming and inspirational story, Olympian Laurie Hernandez shares the most important lesson she learned on her way to Olympic glory:  what matters isn’t how often you fall but how often you get back up”.

• JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY

  • Touch the Sky:  Alice Coachman. Olympic High Jumper by Ann Malaspina
    A wonderful story of the first African-American woman to win Olympic Gold.

• ADULT FICTION

  • The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
    The New York Times bestselling author weaves a captivating tale about Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore who when she dies is not only North Carolina’s richest woman but also the most notorious.  Ten years after her death, questions about her four husbands who died under mysterious circumstances and her adopted son, Cam, come to light.  According to The New York Times Book Review this is “a high-octane thriller”.

• ADULT NON-FICTION

  • Life Undercover:  Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
    The author’s memoir tells the story of her training and deployment in the CIA and her eight years hunting the world’s most dangerous terrorists in 16 countries.  Life Undercover is astonishing, exhilarating and impossible to put down - an extraordinary record of a life of passion and almost unfathomable courage.  A must read memoir donated by Joyce Cotton.

Contact the Library

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