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 

  • Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan
    Toad drives a tow truck for his dad’s car repair shop. He is busy all day long until his tow truck breaks down and he realizes that everyone needs help sometimes. Young readers will be pulled in by the humorous text and equally humorous digital illustrations.

• JUVENILE FICTION

  • Lola by Karla Valenti

    “A simmering tale of magic, adventure, and the extraordinary bond between a brother and sister who’d journey to the ends of the Earth to save each other.” A Pura Belpre Award (for recognition of a Latino or Latina author or illustrator whose work best portrays the Latino cultural experience) and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year.

• ADULT FICTION

  • Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff
    “A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this captivating novel of love and survival.” There are many holds for this book in the DeKalb Library System, so be first in line to get it at your church library!

• ADULT NON-FICTION

  • Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by Adam Lazarus
    by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey Bestseller Grisham teams up with Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion (which since the early1980’s has been dedicated to freeing people who have been wrongly convicted) to look at 10 cases of miscarriage of justice in America and their aftermaths. “A powerful and infuriating must-read about ineptitude and injustice in America’s legal system.”

Contact the Library

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