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46661) Elizebeth Friedman: expert codebreaker of World War II

Author

Pagel-Hogan, Elizabeth

Series

Graphic library: women warriors of World War II
Graphic library women warriors of World War II

Pub. Date

[2023]

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"An inspiring graphic novel about Elizebeth Friedman, a codebreaking pioneer who changed the course of World War II. Nazi spy rings! No-good gangsters! Shakespearian lies! Discover the courageous woman who cracked all these cases and more-with only a pencil and paper. The youngest of ten siblings, Elizebeth Friedman stood out from an early age with brilliant language skills and a passion for English literature. Eventually, these talents led to a new...

46662) Full body burden (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats

Author

Iversen, Kristen

Pub. Date

2013.

Appears on list

CSL - Woman Authors

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Full body burden is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets -- both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what they made at Rocky Flats -- best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older,...

46663) Picturing America's national parks

Author

Allen, Jamie M

Pub. Date

[2016]

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Marking the centennial of America's National Park Service, this book brings together some of the finest landscape photographs in the history of the medium, from America's most magnificent places.