Sudden Sea

Sudden Sea

Author: R. A. Scotti

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2008-12-02

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 031605478X

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The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.


Thirty-Eight

Thirty-Eight

Author: Stephen Long

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 030022088X

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The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever. To call it “New England’s Katrina” might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Island and New England, killing hundreds of people and destroying roads, bridges, dams, and buildings that stood in its path. Not yet spent, the hurricane then raced inland, maintaining high winds into Vermont and New Hampshire and uprooting millions of acres of forest. This book is the first to investigate how the hurricane of ’38 transformed New England, bringing about social and ecological changes that can still be observed these many decades later. The hurricane’s impact was erratic—some swaths of forest were destroyed while others nearby remained unscathed; some stricken forests retain their prehurricane character, others have been transformed. Stephen Long explores these contradictions, drawing on survivors’ vivid memories of the storm and its aftermath and on his own familiarity with New England’s forests, where he discovers clues to the storm’s legacies even now. Thirty-Eight is a gripping story of a singularly destructive hurricane. It also provides important and insightful information on how best to prepare for the inevitable next great storm.


The Great Hurricane: 1938

The Great Hurricane: 1938

Author: Cherie Burns

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2006-06-05

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780802142542

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With masterful storytelling skill, Burns follows the punishing path of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which hit the eastern seaboard, from Long Island to Connecticut and Rhode Island, in a seamless and suspenseful narrative, preserving for posterity the personal stories of survivors and the legend of the storm.


A Hundred Summers

A Hundred Summers

Author: Beatriz Williams

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-05-30

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1101596511

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As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestselling beach read from the author of The Golden Hour and Husbands & Lovers. Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It’s an escape not only from New York’s social scene but from a heartbreak that still haunts her. Here, among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer. But this summer is different. Budgie and Nick Greenwald—Lily’s former best friend and former fiancé—have arrived, too, and Seaview’s elite are abuzz. Under Budgie’s glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing. As a cataclysmic hurricane churns north through the Atlantic, and uneasy secrets slowly reveal themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED


A Wind to Shake the World

A Wind to Shake the World

Author: Everett S. Allen

Publisher: PediaPress

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13:

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The thrilling story of the hurricane of 1938, the worst New England storm of the 20th century, as told by a reporter whose first day on the New Bedford waterfront was the day the storm blew in.


The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm

Author: Sebastian Junger

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780393040166

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A true story of men against the sea.


Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century

Author: Christopher J. Haraden

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780972784504

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The record-setting storm's impact on the area is explored through first-hand accounts from survivors, relief workers and former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, among others.


Moon Tide

Moon Tide

Author: Dawn Clifton Tripp

Publisher: Random House Trade

Published: 2004-05-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0375761160

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A debut novel, set in a small fishing town on the Massachusetts coast, chronicles the lives of three very different women--Eve, a beautiful artist; her wealthy, eccentric grandmother, Elizabeth; and Maggie, an exotic stranger involved with a ruthless rum smuggler--from 1913 to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.


Storms and Shipwrecks of New England

Storms and Shipwrecks of New England

Author: Edward Rowe Snow

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2005-08-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1933212217

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A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls ""stories of stormy adventure."" Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's chapters, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, the 1938 hurricane, and more, bringing the information about the storms and shipwrecks up to date.