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A young woman's daring quest to free the ... PRISONER OF WALLABOUT BAY Sarah Barrett has only two choices ... She can bow to her mother's nagging and marry a handsome young lawyer who is well-connected to the British military occupying New York. Or she can stick to her inky grind as a lowly apprentice at a newspaper where her foul-mouthed, ill-tempered boss keeps assigning her stories on ladies' hair trends instead of the Revolutionary War intrigue she so wants to cover. Sarah's relentless digging uncovers a story that nobody wants to even talk about, no less print. The British have set up decaying prison ships in the waters off New York. Risking everything, Sarah fights to expose rampant cruelty and wretched conditions, and in the process just happens to find love.

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"""If you've never been to New York City in 1776, Jane Hulse's Prisoner of Wallabout Bay will take you there. Fueled by a propulsive, spy-versus-spy plot, the book is narrated by young Sarah Barrett, a bold, singularly ambitious would-be journalist navigating her way between the forces of the British Crown and George Washington's rebels. With its broad cast of lively characters, vivid descriptions of daily life in the roiling city, and impressive, meticulous research, the novel plunges the reader into a series of perilous adventures, at the same time opening our eyes to a little-known war crime that still haunts our history."" -Ellen Pall, author of more than a dozen novels including, Must Read Well and Among the Ginzburgs ""In Sarah Barrett, Jane Hulse has introduced a lively, precocious new character to young adult literature. Through Sarah's eyes, the reader learns about the least appreciated tragedy of the American Revolutionary War - the British prison ships off the New York waterfront. I found myself deeply immersed in the world that Hulse has created, with dialogue and historical situations that are both accurate and highly engaging. Prisoner of Wallabout Bay shows that it is possible to tell an engrossing story without sacrificing historical reality."" -Denver Brunsman, Chairman of the History Department at George Washington University and author of The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"

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"Growing up in Keene, New Hampshire, Jane Hulse was surrounded by history. From her family's 1795 home, she could see the former tavern where 29 Minutemen rallied before fighting the British at Lexington. With her father, she explored caves that served as hiding places for loyalists who had been hounded out of town during the American Revolution.After graduating from Syracuse University, Hulse worked for small newspapers in Colorado and then for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, where she covered major criminal trials. She did freelance writing for the Los Angeles Times and was city editor at the Santa Barbara News-Press. For her leadership there, she was one of six staffers who received the University of Oregon's Arcil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, an annual honor for journalists who ""report with integrity despite personal, political, or economic pressure."" Most recently, she was editor of a Southern California agricultural magazine. Hulse, who has a grown daughter, is married and lives in Ventura, California."

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