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 

  • A Hat for House: One Storm Many Helpers by Audrey Perrott
    One windy day, House’s hat blows clean off his head! His friends are happy to help him retrieve his hat but nothing they try seems to be quite right. Then the wind gets even stronger. Just in time more neighbors come and they have a plan for a new hat! Cleverly illustrated and studded with humor, this tale of community is perfect for letting readers know that during tough times neighbors can work together to help each other out. PK-2nd grade.

• JUVENILE FICTION

  • The Unteachables by Gordon Korman

    A hilarious middle grade novel about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher ever. The Unteachables never thought that they would find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did and the teacher never thought that he would actually care about teaching again. Over the course of a school year, though, room 117 will experience mayhem, destruction and maybe a shot at redemption. Donated by the Echols family.

• ADULT FICTION

  • The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
    This is the 20th mystery in the Chief Inspector Gamache series written by the beloved and multi-award winning author. Several weeks earlier, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete de Quebec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montreal, arresting the person behind it - a man they called the Black Wolf. But their relief is short- lived. In a sickening turn of events, Gamache has realized that the plot, as horrific as it was, was just the beginning…. There are 52 holds for this book at the DeKalb County Public Library! Donated by Shirley Silver.

• ADULT NON-FICTION

  • Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
    “In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain, acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune, and crafted his persona with meticulous care.” “Drawing on Twain’s bountiful archives, including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures the man whose career reflected the country’s westward expansion industrialization, and foreign wars, and who was the most important white author of his generation to grapple so fully with the legacy of slavery.” Publishers Weekly described this 1000 page book as “the new definitive biography of the revered author”.

Contact the Library

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