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: 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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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WARKrasner, 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 KRANorton, 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 NortonSummary: 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 ITSScheller, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.49 NEWAgthe, Claire Keenan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2009
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3749 AGTMcPhee, 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 MCPHedges, Chris
Summary: "Chris Hedges's powerful memoir of his year of teaching inmates in a maximum-security New Jersey prison takes readers into the lives of men who were all but destined to become incarcerated because of their impoverished and dangerous childhoods and shows why criminal justice reform is so essential"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 HEDSummary: The deluxe two-disc DVD set includes a new 2K restoration of Ghost Town (1935) an astonishing and haunting amateur documentary about post-cinema Fort Lee. Disc One also features five films made at Champion Studios, recovered thanks to the efforts of the Library of Congress and the Fort Lee Film Commission. Disc Two includes exciting NJ film rediscoveries, a slapstick comedy from director Mack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHAKerrey, 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 KERMattern, Joanne
Summary: Describes the early lives of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company, explains how they built their business, and discusses their later life and the causes they support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Co. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 MATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB MATAlleman, 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 ALLDrayton, Tiffanie
Summary: "After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRAYTON, TIFFANIE DRAKurson, Robert.
Summary: Who knew that German submarine U-869, long thought to have been sunk off Gibraltar in 1945, was actually sunk by its own torpedo less than 60 miles from Brielle, New Jersey? No one--until 1991, when two death-cheating wreck-divers began exploring the boat's wrecked hull, 230 feet underwater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5451 KURPierson, David Lawrence
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3749 PiersSchiller, Lawrence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 SCHSummary: Against the backdrop of a pandemic that is disproportionately killing Black people, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police in 2020 sparked a push for racial justice and calls for change. The film explores the story of Newark, New Jersey which has been undergoing an experiment in police reform for several years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POLKurson, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 KURKurson, Robert.
Summary: The story of two deep wreck divers and their 1991 discovery of a lost World War II German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperback 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 KURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.5451 KurRocco, Giovanni
Summary: Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos." Giovanni spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 ROCSummary: Follows the 2002 race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between 32-year-old Cory Booker and four-term incumbent Sharpe James. Fought in Newark's neighborhoods and housing projects, the election pits the young challenger against an old style political machine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRBranigan, Cynthia A.
Summary: "It was the signature attraction of Atlantic City's Steel Pier from the 1930s to the 1970s, the golden age of "America's Favorite Playground"--Doc Carver's High Diving Horses. Four times a day, seven days a week, a trained horse wearing only a harness ran up a ramp; a diving girl jumped on its back, and both sailed forty feet through the air, plunging into a ten foot deep tank of water. Decades...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021