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Rise of the Rocket Girls
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible. For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women -- known as "human computers" -- who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading. "If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holt's lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls." -- Entertainment Weekly
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My year Of Cooking Dangerously
Nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life—lived with gusto.
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An Unfinished Life
While JFK remains the subject of endless media attention and national fascination more than 40 years after his assassination, Dallek's book provides fresh revelations and perspective. - AN UNFINISHED LIFE became an immediate #1 bestseller upon publication, spent two months on the "New York Times bestseller list, and is now in its fifth hardcover printing (295,000 copies).- The book's fresh revelations have prompted front-page stories in newspapers throughout the world.- The Kennedys remain America's royal family, the subject of endless media attention and national fascination.- Rights already sold in 12 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the UK.
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The Historian
Propelled by the discovery of an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters, a young woman plunges into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. the search for the truth becomes and adventure of monumental propositions, taking us form monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe-in a feat of storytelling so rich, so exciting, so suspenseful that it has enthralled readers around the world.
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Girls
Girls is an erotic spree, a journey into the most forbidden corners of male desire, a story about men who have been rendered numb by their power, who have sacrificed everything for success, who have lost their souls and can find meaning only by living vicariously, obsessively through young women.