If you’ve already read plenty of fiction this summer, how about some local New Jersey history? Here is a selection of books newly cataloged to the Sinclair New Jersey Collection in Special Collections and University Archives. All can be read by appointment in our lovely air conditioned reading room with views of the College Avenue Campus. Contact us at scua_ref@libraries.rutgers.edu if you need a break from the beach (or just want to read about it)!
Douglas G. Abbott. Just a Kid from Paterson
Yael Aravah. Pineys: The People of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Peter Astras. Lake Hopatcong: A History of New Jersey’s Largest Lake
James M. Carter: Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties
Patricia Chappine. New Jersey Women During World War II
Danny DiMauro and Johan Kugelberg. I Heard There Were No Waves in New Jersey: Surfing on the Jersey Shore 1888-1984
Elizabeth Colmant Estes: Global Grace Cafe: A Love Story About Battles Lost and Won to Keep Families Together in America’s War on Immigrants
Peter Genovese. The Ultimate Guide to the Jersey Shore: Where to Eat, What to Do, and So Much More
Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald. Urban Biodiversity: The Natural History of the New Jersey Meadowlands
Helen Lippman. Hidden History of Newark, New Jersey
Mafia Library. The Decavalcante Mafia Crime Family: The Complete History of a New Jersey Crime Organization
K.A. Nelson. Killing Shore: The True Story of Hitler’s U-Boats Off the New Jersey Coast
Michael Aaron Rockland. The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel (Revised and Expanded)