Summary: Best-selling author, culinary adventurer and self-proclaimed hedonist, Anthony Bourdain has carved out a distinct place as a gastronomic Indiana Jones. In this series, his journey introduces viewers to people and places far beyond the realm of food as he travels the world sampling local foods and culture. Paris: Take an unusual tour of the city of light and love as Tony ventures from a hardcore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Celebrate 50 years of female excellence in sports through the eyes of athletes who changed the system. Hosted by tennis legend and activist Billie Jean King, the film weaves together stories of eight icons to discuss how their own struggles and achievements shaped women's sports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV GROMorlock, Rachael
Summary: "Snacks are an important-and enjoyable-part of a person's diet. They give us energy, help us grow, and keep us from getting too hungry between meals. However, some snacks provide more energy and nutrients than others, and learning to be smart about snacks is important. Readers are given the tools to be smarter snackers as they find the facts about a variety of common snack foods. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5 MORLee, Deb J. J.
Summary: Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Kora to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 LEECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEEWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "Kamala Khan has vanished! But where has she gone, and why? Jersey City still has a need for heroes, and in the wake of Ms. Marvel's disappearance, dozens have begun stepping up to the plate. The city's newest super hero Red Dagger and even ordinary citizens attempt to carry on the brave fight in Kamala's honor. Somehow, Ms. Marvel is nowhere ... but also everywhere at once! Absent but not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 MSSummary: Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie War 2005Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WARMoss, Michael
Summary: "Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers, to find the true peril in our food. In Hooked, Moss explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 MOSYomtov, Nelson
Summary: "This book details the history, culture, geography and government of New Jersey."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.9 YOMKrasner, Barbara
Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the New Jersey Colony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.9 KRAMattern, Joanne
Summary: Follow Hershey's success story from his apprenticeship at Royer's Ice Cream Parlor and Garden to his establishment of the Lancaster Caramel Company. Hershey's discovery of chocolate and determined creation of the Hershey bar also highlighted. Engaging text familiarizes readers with topics of interest including the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the Milton Hershey School. An entertaining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MATSummary: Season 4 of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series The Mind of a Chef takes you into the mind of Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, best-selling author of "Blood, bones, and butter", as she runs her restaurant, explores her roots in Pennsylvania, and ventures to Rome and Milan, all the while retracing the inspiration for her culinary career ad exploring what it truly means to cook, think, create,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GABJohanson, Paula.
Summary: This book describes how processed foods get to the point that they are no longer healthy, natural food and how foods that are deep-fried put extra calories into human bodies that become obese and have health problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 642 JOHSpurlock, Morgan
Summary: Do you dare find out what's happening behind the counters of your neighborhood fast-food joint? Then grab a bucket and dive into one of the creepiest graphic novels of the year! Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture is an entertaining-and at times gut-wrenching-series of stories focusing on America's ubiquitous and potentially destructive fast-food culture. A perfect companion to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2007
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Waters, Alice
Summary: "From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 WATNorton, James S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.S. Norton 1973
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3749 NortonSinatra, Stephen T.
Contents: The 80/20 rule -- Why regular diets fail -- The secrets of easy weight-loss success -- The fast-food diet restaurant-by-restaurant guide -- Smart sit-down dining -- The fast food diet at the mall -- The six-week fast-food diet -- Fast food at home -- The fast-food diet for kids -- The fast-food diet vitamins and supplements -- The fast-food diet for business travelers -- The fast- food diet for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 SINZijl, Annejet van der
Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZIJL ZIJSummary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCASummary: Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ITSPollack, Jesse P.
Summary: As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2015
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Howe, Ben Ryder.
Summary: It starts with a gift. When Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store, Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 920 HOWRingstad, Arnold
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Hoover Dam. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 RINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMScheller, Kay
Summary: "Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, let New Jersey Off the Beaten Path show you the Garden State you never knew existed. Visit Fort Nonsense in Morristown and find out why the locals named it after George Washington's nonsense; ride on the Black River & Western Railroad in Phillipsburg; ride high at the Cowtown Rodeo in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot 2023