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 

  • Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds
    Jasper Rabbit loves carrots.  The best place to find them is Crackenhopper Field.  All is well until the carrot start following him home! Soon Jasper has a plan.  The artwork intensifies the creepiness of the story.

• JUVENILE FICTION

  • Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

    In a modern take on the classic, Peter Pan, the author weaves an unforgettable story of two step-sisters taken by a boy who had been watching them from the tree outside their bedroom window.  He takes them to an island filled with wild animals, faeries, merfolk, pirates and a giant crocodile.  The two girls are faced with impossible dangers and inexplicable wonders.  Can they find their way back to the family they love?  Themes of the importance of family and the powerful bonds of sisterhood are woven in to a satisfying bit of magic. Donated by the Village School.

• ADULT FICTION

  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
    This book is one of my 10 favorite books that I have ever read and to quote Janet Maslin of the New York Times, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry “is not just a book about lost love.  It is about all the wonderful everyday things Harold discovers through the mere process of putting one foot in front of the other”.  Donated by Joyce Cotton.

• ADULT NON-FICTION

  • Confronting the Presidents:  No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
    The authors present forty five entertaining and insightful portraits of each president - their lives, policies, foibles and legacies. 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.