Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POLSummary: Like Watergate and Vietnam, it is an icon of recent history. Gov. Rockefeller's brutal re-taking of the prison--a nine-minute, 1600 bullet assault that took the lives of 29 inmates and 10 guards held hostage--put an end to the four-day rebellion. But the struggles for justice, by both prisoners and guards, endured for three decades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHOSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRPierson, David Lawrence
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3749 PiersHolbert, Steve
Summary: An objective, research-based examination presented from the perspective of victims, civil rights advocates, and the police. Discusses racial awareness in formative years; use of race to fight crime, drugs, and terror; police response to racial profiling accusations; special interest groups and legislative efforts to end the practice; effectiveness of data collection programs; use of race in law...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Marque Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.23 HOLSummary: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2021
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos manoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS EVAMcGarrity, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGRosenfelt, David
Summary: "The K Team is back in the second installment in this spinoff series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt's beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries. Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, a German shepherd named Simon Garfunkel, are recently retired police officers turned private investigators. Along with fellow former cop Laurie Collins and her investigating partner, Marcus, they call themselves the K...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Rosenfelt 2021Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ROSSummary: Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PBooker, Cory
Summary: An energetic new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker sounds a stirring call to reorient our civic discourse around the principles of empathy and solidarity. Telling candid, inspiring stories from his life and career, and imparting lessons learned from people who motivated him to serve, he speaks of rising above discord, tending to our shared resources, and embracing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328 BOOMichaels, Fern.
Summary: Lorrie Ryan looks forward to taking her young nephew on a camping trip, even though it has been arranged for the sole purpose of keeping him out of harm's way while his father testifies for the prosecution in a big drug trial.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICMcGarrity, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MCGBooker, Cory.
Summary: U.S. Senator Cory Booker draws on personal experience to issue a stirring call to reorient our nation and our politics around the principles of compassion and solidarity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 328 BOORocco, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 ROCMcGarrity, Michael
Summary: "Given a chance to salvage his law enforcement career, Dona Ana County Sheriff's Detective Clayton Istee catches a bizarre late-night double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel. Both victims, a man and a woman, have been scalped with their throats cut.The murders show all the signs of a signature hit, but national and state crime databases reveal no similar profiles. Digging into the victims'...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCGSummary: 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Dou RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DoubtMcGarrity, Michael
Summary: "Detective Clayton Istee investigates New Mexico borderland killings by an elusive Mexican assassin with ties to a drug cartel. In Michael McGarrity's final, propulsive Kevin Kerney novel, the nightmare of the Mexican drug wars spills across the border with the discovery of a couple in a Las Cruces hotel, scalped with their throats cut. Because of the unusual MO, Detective Clayton Istee...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGRoth, Philip.
Summary: "Published together for the first time as the author intended, Nemeses is a quartet of novels whose terrain is the human body and whose subject, the common experience that terrifies us all"--Publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTSummary: Dennis Peck knows how to get around the law, because he is a cop. Raymond Avilla is the investigator who is determined to bring Peck to justice, even as Peck threatens Avilla's career, marriage, and sanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY INTRosenfelt, David
Summary: After getting shot in the line of duty, New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock has been busy rebuilding his life. He's reunited with his fiance and started to get some of his memories back. He hopes he can continue to recover with the help of an amnesia support group and that the damage from his past isn't permanent. It isn't until fellow group member Sean Conner approaches him after a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ROSPrice, Richard
Summary: In the dark depths of a New Jersey city, a burnt-out homicide detective obsessed with justice chases a street-smart teenaged "clocker" through the streets of hell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIParks, Brad
Summary: Rushing to scoop the story of a local policeman's death, Newark investigative journalist Carter Ross doubts the official suicide ruling and resolves to uncover the truth when his inquiries are repeatedly blocked.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARRosenfelt, David
Summary: "The K Team enjoys investigating cold cases for the Paterson Police Department. Corey Douglas, his K-9 partner Simon Garfunkel, Laurie Collins, and Marcus Clark even get to choose which cases they'd like to pursue. When Corey sees the latest list of possibilities, there's no question which one to look into next. Corey's former mentor, Jimmy Dietrich, had his whole identity wrapped up in being a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023