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By Frank Finale: Join acclaimed author and poet, Frank Finale on a journey through the past and present as he once again captures life along the shore while exploring universal themes that touch us all. These graceful personal essays and poems elicit an emotional response and lingering memory. They are also perfect for reading aloud throughout the year. The essays and poems are organized from north to south taking places in all four seasons in many towns and regions along the coast. This second volume contains over 180 pages of text and 144 full-color paintings by more than forty area artists. -
By Michael Grisi: A work of fiction based on actual historic facts. This book gives a realistic description of the prison ships that existed during the American Revolution. The Jersey, which was anchored in New York harbor and the inhumane treatment of prisoners is described. Although historians cannot agree on a number, it is estimated that as many as 11,000 men died on board the Jersey in a three-year span. This is more than the 7,200 men that died in battle during the seven-year conflict. You’ll read about the privateers who helped destroy British commerce along the coast. The murder of Joshua Huddy of Toms River, a real person, resulted in the first international incident involving the United State. -
By Patricia B. Mitchell: Get a taste of tea history in the first section of this book. The second section gives information about the kinds of tea. In the final section you have many recipes that will tempt you. The author has, also, included notes for you to learn even more about tea. -
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By Gail and Roni Goodhart: A delightful children’s book about the adventures of Double Trouble, the tree frog who hates trees. He searches for a new home among his animal friends without success. Learn which of the animals saves the day for Double Trouble. Photos and text are the work of the authors. -
By Margaret Thomas Buchholz: Island Album depicts the island and its people from the late 1800s to the present. It includes many images that disappeared into attics generations ago have never been seen before by the public. Both an oral and pictorial history of the 18-mile sandbar at the center of the Jersey Shore, the book is an ode to a pioneering way of life that vanished long ago. -
1878 Communities of Ocean County from Atlas of Historical and Biographical New Jersey Coast by Woolman and Rose -
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By John Bailey Lloyd: Rediscover Tucker’s Island and the lost resort of Sea Haven; ride the Tuckerton and Long Beach railroads to the new resort of Beach Haven and stroll along its elegant boardwalk. Experience the fear of the famous 1916 shark attacks, visit the early gunning and yacht clubs. Read about whalers, watch the pound fisherman haul in boats brimming with fish caught just off the beach. This is the book that resurrected Island history. -
By Gretchen F. Coyle and Deborah C. Whitcraft: It was the great disaster of the 1930s, a horrific experience for all those aboard the ill-fated liner sailing to New York from exotic, anything-goes Cuba. The luxurious ship was filled with passengers finding escape from the Great Depression but, the night before arrival, the ship was a scene of panic as a raging fire quickly spread, killing 137 and sending many overboard. The aftermath floated onto the beach at Asbury Park, where the Jersey Shore resort town filled with rescuers, press, and curiosity-seekers. The smoldering ship became a macabre tourist attraction, and the dramatic story filled front pages for week. Controversy surrounded the tragedy and much of the mystery of the Morro Castle fire has endured. -
By Christopher J. Vaz: Seaside Heights tells the history of a timeless seashore resort community located on a barrier island nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay. The 224-acre town was settled by residents of Philadelphia and Camden, who purchased white-sand lots to escape city life for the brisk ocean breezes and tranquility that Seaside Heights offered prior to World War II. Seaside Heights uses the scenes captured in vintage postcards, some of them very rare, as a study of the changes that have occurred in the town since its incorporation in 1913. -
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By Joseph G. Bilby, James M. Madden, & Harry Ziegler: Explore the lesser-known stories that make up New Jersey's compelling hidden history. Uncover the meaning of "Jersey Blues", celebrate some of the state's bravest Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers and investigate Jersey City's most infamous ghost. From the inferno that engulfed Asbury Park, to the benevolent side of Frank Hague, to the equestrienne who plunged forty feet into a pool of water on horseback in Atlantic City, rediscover these and many other events from New Jersey's storied past. -
By Ronald Edward Negra: Agnes Joan Negra played a role during World War II that helped families to learn the fate of their relatives missing in action. Read the numerous post cards and letters that Mrs. Negra received from numerous loved ones. -
By John Calu & Dave Hart: A fictionalized story about Emilio Carranza, nicknamed the “Lindberg of Mexico” died tragically in 1928. His plane crashed deep in the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning home from his celebrated goodwill flight to the United States.
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