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Book Title:		Bayonne Boy Drowns
Record Number:		1161
Author:		Richard Taylor
Author Bio:		Richard Taylor, B.A., M.A., M.S., is a writer of short fiction, novels, non-fiction for boating magazines, poetry, and poignant pleas to Publishers. A few of his successful works include Shakespeare Thy Name is Woman, The Fleischer, The Psychiatrist, and The Post War Bride. As a boy, the sea scout was a favorite of the U.S. Coast Guard station in Bayonne, New Jersey, where he spent many hours learning the ways of the sea. He began writing in high school, encouraged by his English teacher. Throughout his high school days he was a sports writer for the Cranford Times, in Cranford New Jersey. On more than one occasion, although under age, the youth passed for eighteen and so was able to get a summer job as a seaman on an oil tanker. He spent many months as a deck hand traveling between Bayonne, New Jersey and various Gulf seaports. College vacations were spent as a Waterfront Director and Sailing Instructor in East Hampton, Long Island summer camps. He was an editor, writer, and cartoonist for his college newspaper, The Montclarion, at Montclair University, in Montclair, New Jersey. His short fiction appeared regularly in The Quarterly, a literary magazine. A feature editor, restaurant reviewer and food critic, he wrote for The Palisadan, a newspaper in Palisades Park, New Jersey. During that time he penned non-fiction about boating safety for the American Red Cross and for a national magazine, Motorboating and Sailing Magazine. An on-going project was writing film scripts of scientific educational nature for the Saudi Arabian government and American films for Denoyer-Geppert, USA.
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Binding:		Ebook format
Author Email ID:		jfinni@msn.com
Book Description:		Based upon historical facts, Bayonne Boy Drowns tells of the exciting adventures of Max, a ten-year-old Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who lives in the United States during World War II. He is captured in American waters by an enemy U-boat and is used as a guide to a Prisoner Of War camp where Nazi scientists await liberation. A bumbling lad with no direction when under the thumb of his stern father, Max becomes transformed for the better when left to his own devices. Included in the plot is authentic, factual information about life aboard a Nazi U-boat, the life of a pre-teen growing up in America in the 1940's, the relationship between Max and his father, and a love story. Each character learns something about himself and about life. Each is changed by what is learned.
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Ebook Format Available		Doc
Ebook Price		$5.00