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: 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 SCAAlleman, Frederick R.
Summary: Land titles from Warren and Sussex County Estates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GE 929.3749 ALLMcPhee, Martha
Summary: "A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist--a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCPHEE, MARTHA MCPMcCorkindale, Susan.
Summary: A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don't mix.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCORKINDALE MCCKooser, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.2 KOOAnastasia, George
Summary: "Dr. James Kauffman and his wife, April, were the perfect couple: a respected endocrinologist and a beautiful radio host. But under the surface lurked a world of drugs, sex, and biker gangs--and Dr. Kauffman would kill to keep it secret. In May 2012, April Kauffman, a well-known local radio personality and staunch advocate of military veterans rights, was found shot to death in the bedroom of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 ANABergen, Teunis G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polyanthos 1973
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3747 BERPollack, 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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Summary: 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 Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WARDamm, Peter L.
Summary: Stories of a young boy's journey to adulthood in small town rural Upper Midwest in the 1950s and 60s. A funny, poignant, moving and beautifully written memoir about the challenges, mischief, fears and lessons of growing up as the youngest of five brothers and one sister, Catholic education, the natural world, trying to understand religious and adult mysteries, honor, family, truth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: O'Brien & Whitaker 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAMM, PETER DAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B DAMM DAMKrasner, 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 KRAMullen, Jim (Jim R.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MULKalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Summary: Mildred Armstrong Kalish's "Little Heathens" is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.7 KALKorda, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORDA, MICHAEL KORSummary: 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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Summary: Grandma Mazur is a widow ... again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen ... well, the waiting's over. It's a sad day, but if she can't have Jimmy at least Grandma can have all the attention she wants as the dutiful widow. But some kinds of attention are not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVANorton, 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 NortonMulvihill, Andy
Summary: "The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son Often called "Accident Park," "Class Action Park," or "Traction Park," Action Park was an American icon. Entertaining more than a million people a year in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Recreation MulvihillMeldrum, Charlotte D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willow Bend Books 1999
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3749 MEL Vol.1Call number: R-GEN 929.3749 MEL Vol.2
Kerrey, Robert
Summary: The author traces his experiences as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, which led to his being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and describes his sheltered childhood and his search for the truth about his uncle's death in World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.70 KERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 KERKimball, Kristin
Summary: Farming has many ups and downs, and the middle years were hard for the Kimballs. Mark got injured, the weather turned against them, and the farm faced financial pressures. Meanwhile, they had two small children to care for. How does one traverse the terrain of a maturing marriage and the transition from being a couple to being a family? How will the farm survive? What does a family need in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIMBALL, KRISTIN KIMSummary: 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