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08/25/2026

📚GREAT ADAPTATIONS! Come see ORLANDO with us on Thursday, August 27th at 7:30pm The ShowRoom Cinema . This movie was a Q***r Book Club adaptation pick BUT fun fact: Q***r Book Club, Classically Unread Book Club and Feminist Book Club all read this fantastic book by Virginia Woolf! You do not want to miss this fantastic film. 🎥

🎟️Tickets are available in our linktree or at showroomcinemas.com 🎟️

🍿Also feel free to pop in and snag a ticket at the box office! 🥤

See you Thursday! 😘

08/23/2026

📚WE DID IT! Giving away books is ABC’s favorite thing to do! Thank you Community Karma for inviting us to your annual Backpack Drive Distribution Day! This year we were able to have three amazing local authors: Jen Salvato Doktorski, Author Khalid Uddin Raakhee Mirchandani sign their books and chat with the kids! THIS WAS SUCH A SPECIAL DAY! 🫶🏾

👉🏾And another big thank you to all of our donors! We could not have done this without you. ✨

Let’s keep spreading the love of reading. 💕

08/19/2026

✨nashBURY: an Asbury Park Songwriters Round | Wednesday, August 26th at 7:30PM ✨

🎶A place where songwriters share original music, their process, and inspiration. This is a space for absolutely everyone! Come support your local artists and enjoy fantastic music.🫶🏾

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✨Sydney Jones is an independent artist, singer-songwriter, and producer from New York City. She composes uplifting and empowering songs that often build to anthemic choruses packed with motivational and inspiring messages. Sydney calls her genre “Rhythm & Sunshine”—a vibrant blend centered on feel-good vibrations, rhythmic soulful grooves, and radiant energy that taps into gut instinct, self-transformation, spontaneity, and expressing our purest essence. Her music weaves themes of deep connectedness with nature, boundless possibility, and the power of staying grounded in the present moment. She continues to share high-vibrational energy through acoustic gigs around Asbury Park and Highlands, NJ, and performances with the blues-infused rock band Sweet Lou & The River Rats for electrifying shows that keep her artistry evolving and connecting with new audiences.

Sydney is actively expanding her catalog through collaborations and placements, with several songs featured in the lounge and coffeehouse scenes of the iconic soap opera The Young and the Restless via her sync licensing team. She’s pursuing a degree in Songwriting and Music Production from Berklee College of Music, where she’s honed her skills in writing specifically for TV, film, and advertising. Collaboration ignites her spirit—and at her core, she is driven to spread love and light, crafting music that uplifts listeners and creates a lasting, positive impact.✨

✨John-Michael (JM COOKS) is a local Asbury Park artist with a lively and “fun” musical style. Self described as “American-Britpop” JM takes inspiration from bands ranging from The Beatles to Oasis to Vampire Weekend

If you’re interested in his journey as a band leader follow his band page too The Jersey Drones who will be playing at the Low Dive Friday 9/18 at 9pm.✨

08/13/2026

✨nashBURY: an Asbury Park Songwriters Round | Wednesday, August 26th 7:30pm✨

💃🏾ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE is invited! This is a place where local songwriters come together to share original music and discuss the writing process. This is a place where people find community through their passion. Whether you’re a musician yourself or a proud fan, you are welcome!

👉🏾LINE UP DROPPING SOON. Stay tuned. 😘

📸Photo by Brett Heitmiller
🎤Featuring the talented Joseph Pellegrinelli

08/12/2026

😈IT’S OUT! Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman dropped yesterday and the ghosts and skeletons of Asbury Park are already reading it!

✨We are beyond excited to be hosting Clay McLeod Chapman in conversation with Cate Cooke on Saturday, September 12th at 5pm discussing DEVIL INSIDE! This book is also a Romance Readers Book Club pick! ✨

🎟️DO NOT MISS THIS 👆🏾Tickets available in Linktree in bio👆🏾Walk-ins are always welcome but space fills up fast so reserve your spot today!

“What if your soulmate…has no soul?”

08/11/2026

📚BOOKTAIL HOUR | Friday, August 14th 4:30pm 🥂

✨Come hang, chat, and cheers to THE JERSEY SHORE ON FILM by Marci Mazzarotto! Marci will be presenting a short reading from a segment on the film DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. There will be light fare and refreshments, followed by conversation and signing with the author herself, as well as a showing of the film at the Showroom Cinemas at 7:30pm. ✨

🎟️Let us know your coming or buy a copy of the book👆🏾RSVP through the linktree in bio👆🏾

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📖Learn about the book:

Explore the Shore on the Silver Screen!

From the boardwalk to the bay, the Jersey Shore boasts a rich but somewhat overlooked history of filmmaking along its 130 miles of beautiful coastline.

Atlantic City, the Garden State’s most iconic town, has been featured in dozens of critically acclaimed films, including The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), Atlantic City (1980), and Desperately Seeking Susan (1985). Asbury Park, though largely known for its music scene, has graced the screen in numerous films, music videos, and television shows set and produced within the city’s mere 1.61 square miles of land and water, including The Wrestler (2008), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), and Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025). Cinematic gems like Coyote Ugly (2000), Amityville Horror (1979), A Complete Unknown (2024), and many others were produced on location from South Amboy to Cape May. And of course, there is Kevin Smith, the Red Bank native whose cinematic love letters to his home state helped change the face of independent film.

Marci Mazzarotto profiles more than 140 films, spanning 110 years, along with sundry TV shows and music videos that contribute to the richness of Jersey Shore’s film history.

✍🏼Learn about the author:

Marci Mazzarotto is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Communication at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey. She holds a PhD from the University of Central Florida in Orlando and an MFA from Asbury University in Kentucky. Her interests center on the intersection of media theory and creative practice with a focus on popular culture a

08/10/2026

☀️THANK YOU! We reached our goal of $15,000 for our SUNMER FUNDRAISER! Now we are off to buy new books for the kids in our community! 📚

✨1,300+ kiddos will go home with new books during Community Karma Backpack Distribution Day! 💃🏾

We could not have done it without YOU!🙌🏾

Lastly, so much love and gratitude to the amazing musicians and authors who made this day so special! 🫶🏾

08/07/2026

✨UPCOMING AUTHOR PANEL | Sunday, August 9th 6PM | Featuring Unsolicited Press ✨

✍🏾We are beyond excited to welcome Tim DeMarco (Release Me), Darci Schummer (The Ballad of Two Sisters), and Raki Kopernik (No One’s Leaving)📚

All are welcome! More info in Linktree in bio 👆🏾

See you Sunday!

08/05/2026

🙌🏾AUTHOR PANEL | Sunday, August 9th 6PM🙌🏾

✍🏾We are beyond excited to have Tim DeMarco (Release Me), Darci Schummer (The Ballad of Two Sisters), and Raki Kopernik (No One’s Leaving) talking craft, navigating the publishing world, and the passion behind creating something for people to read.

🎟️Tickets available through our linktree in bio 👆🏾Walk-ins are always welcome if space permits.

✨These authors were published through Unsolicited Press; a women-owned independent publisher based in Portland, Oregon. Their organization focuses on uplifting strong, risk-taking work and partnering with authors pushing to expose unique literature regardless of financial gain. Their authors have gone on to be nominated for and/or win awards such as the Push Cart Prize, Ohioana Book Award, Pen/Faulkner Award, International Book Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, LAMBDA, Independent Press Award, NYC Big Book Award, and many more.✨

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✍🏾Meet the authors:

✨TIM DEMARCO

Tim DeMarco is a teacher, translator, writer, and wannabe musician. Release Me is his first novel. He currently lives at the Jersey Shore, where—despite having such a big mouth— he constantly bites off more than he can chew. Visit him at timdemarco.com

✨DARCI SCHUMMER

Darci Schummer is the author of the forthcoming story collection Keystone Species, The Ballad of Two Sisters, Six Months in the Midwest, and The Book of Orion. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Folio, Jet Fuel Review, MAYDAY, Matchbook, Necessary Fiction, Sundog Lit, and Pithead Chapel, among other places. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and the Creative Writing Director at Colorado State University Pueblo, where she also curates the Southern Colorado Reading Series.

✨RAKI KOPERNIK

Raki is a first generation American, q***r, Jewish writer. She is the author of The Things You Left and The Memory House, both Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and has been shortlisted and nominated for several other awards, including the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Pen Faulkner Award

08/04/2026

✨A truly amazing author event! Thank you ChristinaHeatherton for presenting your newest title, ARISE!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution 📚

🙌🏾ARISE! is a book of fascinating discoveries of international, revolutionary rebellion through art and action in the early twentieth century; the catalyst being The Mexican Revolution. 👉🏾Add this to your TBR list. You will not be disappointed! Just a few signed copies left!👈🏾

✨Frontline Arts/The Printmaking Center of NJ presents this speaker series and follow-up workshops which are made possible by an A.R.T.–Phase II Grant from NJEDA in partnership with The Asbury Book Cooperative.😘

Address

644A Cookman Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ
07712

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 6pm
Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 7pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	11am - 7pm
Saturday	11am - 7pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Website

http://asburybookcoop.org/

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