Jackson, Jeffrey H.
Summary: "The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler andcalls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACRowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHTrudel, Marcel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hurtubise HMH 1983
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 TRULacalle, Joseph M.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: E.B. Marks Music Corp. 1940
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMattern, 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, Call number: JB MATMarsico, Katie
Summary: "Learn all about the highest and lowest places on Earth and find out what it takes for life to survive in these extreme locations."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.8 MARErnaux, Annie
Summary: "In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ERNAUX ERNDrayton, 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 DRAChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHAMurray, Julie
Summary: Explore New Jersey in this comprehensive title! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized photos showcase the beauty and diversity of this state. Readers learn about the state's history, cities, land features, animals, industries, sports, famous people, and more! A Tour Book spread highlights kid-friendly things to do in New Jersey. Other features include a table of contents, fun facts, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.9 MURMcPhee, 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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Summary: "A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier--a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was incollege. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Foreign CollinsBlume, Lesley M. M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century--the true effects of the atom bomb--potentially saving millions of lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BLUErnaux, Annie
Summary: "In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It is the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18. And then the man she gave herself to moves on. She has submitted her will to his, and now she finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, fifty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ARNAgthe, 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 AGTAuricchio, Laura.
Summary: A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice commemorated in America’s towns, streets, parks, and schools...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE AURKerrey, 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 Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 KERVenezia, Mike.
Summary: Briefly examines the life and work of the renowned twentieth-century artist, describing and giving examples from his various periods or styles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1988
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB PICASSO VENSummary: Somewhere on the South Jersey coast, Dr. Weird, a mad scientist, plots his latest hair-brained scheme against the planet. A team of heroes must rise up and stop him. Filling this need are Frylock, a wise and supernaturally gifted carton of French Fries; Meatwad, an amiable and not too smart wad of burger meat; and Master Shake, a sharp-tongued and bullying milkshake, come forward. Together,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AQUJohnson, George M. (George Matthew)
Summary: "This is a memoir of George's boyhood in New Jersey, growing up with their brother and two cousins, all under the supervision of their larger-than-life grandmother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 JOHLebovitz, David
Summary: "Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes. When David Lebovitz began the project of updating his apartment in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LEBSeuss
Summary: "Voici l'histoire de Sam-c'est moi, qui tente désespérément de faire goûter un plat étrange à un vieux grincheux têtu"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE Set French Seuss 2009Ernaux, Annie
Summary: "Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERNBard, Elizabeth.
Summary: This a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Bard packs her bags to begin a new life in the most romantic of cities. She finds that the deeper she immerses herself in French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010