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  • The Firehouse Fraternity
    Neal Stoffers
    Why would anyone want to be a firefighter? If this question intrigues you, read on.This book will bring back personal memories to firefighters who read it. For those of you who are trying to understand why anyone would want to be a fireman, ''Becoming a Firefighter'' will introduce you to the special breed who quietly protect us everyday.Members of the NFD appointed from 1942 t...
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    15,11 €

  • The Firehouse Fraternity
    Neal Stoffers
    Read what life was like in Newark’s firehouses while waiting for the bell to hit. 'Life Between Alarms' takes you into the private world of the firehouse where firemen eat, sleep, drill, and do the housework (someone has to clean the place). The bonds formed last a lifetime as do the laughs (boys will be boys).Members of the NFD appointed from 1942 to 1978 talk about the daily...
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    16,19 €

  • A View from the Firehouse
    Neal Stoffers
    Members of the Newark Fire Department were in a unique position to view the tragedy of the Newark riots as they unfolded around them. Their firehouses were part of the neighborhoods wracked by the rioting. Primarily based on interviews with Newark firefighters who lived through the disturbances, this book recounts the experiences of the men who responded to the pulled firebox...
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    12,44 €

  • A-zou
    Neal Stoffers
    Victoria Phaff is facing many problems. Even though it’s the new millennium, her concerns are of the age old variety. She is a twenty-three year old Hapa, newly graduated from college, and heart broken. To distract herself and get some distance from a string of failed relationships, she goes to Taiwan to see her great-grandmother, A-zou. While there she unexpectedly finds herse...
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    25,10 €

  • An Eerie Silence
    Neal Stoffers
    Newark, NJ firefighters describe how they deployed to the World Trade Center the week of September 11, 2001, what they experienced while trying to help the FDNY deal with the disaster, and how doing so affected their health and lives. ...
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    18,11 €

  • Hervey’s Boys
    Neal Stoffers
    This is a history of New Jersey’s first Chinese community which existed in present day North Arlington between 1870 and 1886. The final chapter has a summary of the Chinese-American experience in New Jersey from 1886 to the present. ...
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    12,25 €

  • The Firebox Stalker
    Neal Stoffers
    A conflict rages within Newark firefighter Frank Helms. He loves his job, but knows a part of him needs more. He has plans to study for an MBA in international business and resign from the fire department. His wife Chingli wants him to resign now to take a position offered by her uncle. Is there a way to have both worlds? When a madman begins to shoot people who pull fireboxes,...
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    26,05 €

  • The Hand Life Dealt You
    Neal Stoffers
    It’s the mid-80’s and America’s inner cities are still burning. Firefighter Bob Brendler is helping the city of Newark, NJ deal with the problem. He is young, healthy, and loves his job. The only thing missing is female companionship and he has a plan to rectify that. His sights have been set on Kathy Stanley, an author who is compiling an oral history of the NFD. The frustrati...
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    34,04 €

  • A Hundred Battles
    Neal Stoffers
    Seventeen year old Huang Fu-Wen has been sent to America to avoid possible arrest in China, bringing with him a secret he must keep to himself or face permanent exile or execution. He takes a train from San Francisco to New Jersey with 51 hostile Chinese men. The Chinese workers do not trust Fu-Wen because he is not from their native province. One of them verbally assaults him....
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    14,04 €

  • Balancing Act
    Neal Stoffers
    The thought of mixing her two cousins makes Vicki Phaff nervous. Joey is a Phaff and Su-hui is a Wei. They each came from a different part of her dual heritage. Shehas always been able to keep these two worlds separate. When she is in Taiwan, she acts Chinese. In America, she is the all-American girl. With Su-hui coming for the vacation they had talked so much about and ...
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    12,34 €

  • The Firehouse Fraternity
    Neal Stoffers
    In this final book of the Firehouse Fraternity series, the changes experienced by Newark firefighters are discussed. Learn about the forces behind these changes and how men worked to bring them about--or to resist them. What conflicts were experienced within the firehouse as the NFD moved through the later half of the 20th Century? What was the union’s role and how did that ...
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    18,55 €

  • The Firehouse Fraternity
    Neal Stoffers
    In Riots to Renaissance the story of the NFD from that fateful July in 1967 to the experiences of 2003 are recounted. The men who fought the fires of the Riots describe in detail how they dealt with the societal chaos that was Newark in July of 1967. If you have read A View from the Firehouse: The Newark Riots, you are familiar with the history of those troubled nights. The sto...
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    18,09 €

  • The Firehouse Fraternity
    Neal Stoffers
    In Responding Newark firefighters bring you into the fire building and share the satisfaction and sacrifices inherent in the fire service. The reader is introduced to responding and firefighting procedures. Fires from 1942 to 1966 are remembered along with unusual responses. Vivid memories of tragedies and lost brothers are re-lived as the men continue to paint an unvarnishe...
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    17,99 €

  • A Broken Glass
    Neal Stoffers
    Dennis Carney is a fourteen year old high school freshman who loves baseball. When his mother mentions a vacation that could interfere with his summer baseball camp he responds unenthusiastically, needing the camp to ensure his place on the junior varsity team next year. He wonders if she’ll ask his ten year old sister Millie her view. During the discussion, a glass of water sl...
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    16,00 €

  • The Firehouse Fraternity
    Neal Stoffers
    From Ahrens-Fox rigs with chain drives, open cabs, steering wheels on the right, and firefighters hanging on the back step to the air conditioned crew cabs of today, trucks used by the NFD are recalled by the men who drove them. The turnout gear worn to protect them while crawling through burning buildings is described, as is the evolution of the hose they pulled in with them....
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    15,52 €