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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Book
GARMUS, BONNIE
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GARMUS, BONNIE
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Monroe Community Library - Adult Fiction Book
GARMUS, BONNIE
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GARMUS, BONNIE
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31 copies, 476 people are on the wait list.
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Book
AUSUBEL, RAMONA
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AUSUBEL, RAMONA
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Book
QUINN, KATE
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QUINN, KATE
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Books on CD
CD-BOOK QUINN, KATE
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CD-BOOK QUINN, KATE
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Philomath Community Library - Adult Books on CD
CD-BOOK QUINN, KATE
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CD-BOOK QUINN, KATE
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13 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Play Away
PRE- LOADED AUDIO QUINN, KATE
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PRE- LOADED AUDIO QUINN, KATE
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Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator...
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Corvallis Public Library - Reshelving
BENEDICT, MARIE
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BENEDICT, MARIE
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7 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Large Print
LP BENEDICT MARIE
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LP BENEDICT MARIE
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Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Book
BENEDICT, MARIE
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BENEDICT, MARIE
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Books on CD
CD-BOOK BENEDICT, MARIE
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CD-BOOK BENEDICT, MARIE
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
6) Lab girl
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Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Book
BENEDICT, MARIE
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BENEDICT, MARIE
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture-one more after thousands-she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens-the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Book
540.9252 EMLING
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540.9252 EMLING
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"Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Book
629.40973 GRUSH
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629.40973 GRUSH
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Books on CD
CD-BOOK 629.40973 GRUSH (10)
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CD-BOOK 629.40973 GRUSH (10)
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender....
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Book
520.92 SOBEL
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520.92 SOBEL
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Large Print
LP 520.92 SOBEL
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LP 520.92 SOBEL
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Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness,...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Book
ZEVIN, GABRIELL
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ZEVIN, GABRIELL
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Corvallis Public Library - New Fiction
ZEVIN, GABRIELL
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ZEVIN, GABRIELL
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Philomath Community Library - Reshelving
ZEVIN, GABRIELL
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ZEVIN, GABRIELL
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12 copies, 199 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 211 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 211 people are on the wait list.
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
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Philomath Community Library - Adult Non Fiction Book
629.4072 HOLT
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629.4072 HOLT
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"During World War II, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women--known as human computers--who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But they were never interested in developing weapons--their hearts lay in...
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"At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways to treat disease, while imagination blossomed, creating Art Nouveau, motion pictures, and modernist literature. A pivotal figure during this time, yet largely forgotten today, Loie Fuller was an American performance artist who became a living symbol of the Art Nouveau movement with her hypnotic dances...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Large Print
LP 510.9252 LEE-SHET
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LP 510.9252 LEE-SHET
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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Book Club
WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
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WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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0 copies available. 1 copy on order.
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Large Print
LP 940.54864 PURNELL
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LP 940.54864 PURNELL
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"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly...
17) radium girls
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Book
500.82 ZERNIKE
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500.82 ZERNIKE
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"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Book
921 CHILD, JULIA
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921 CHILD, JULIA
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Books on CD
CD-BOOK 921 CHILD, JULIA
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CD-BOOK 921 CHILD, JULIA
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A"rollicking biography" (People Magazine) and extraordinarily entertaining account of how Julia Child transformed herself into the cult figure who touched off a food revolution that has gripped the country for decades.
Spanning Pasadena to Paris, acclaimed author Bob Spitz reveals the history behind the woman who taught America how to cook. A genuine rebel who took the pretensions...
Spanning Pasadena to Paris, acclaimed author Bob Spitz reveals the history behind the woman who taught America how to cook. A genuine rebel who took the pretensions...
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Fiction Book
MCDANIEL, JULIET
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MCDANIEL, JULIET
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1 copy, 18 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 18 people are on the wait list.
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"The year is 1969. Dick Nixon was just sworn in as the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Neil Armstrong just took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. And notable Palm Springs socialite Maxine Simmons just found out that her husband is leaving her for his twenty-two-year-old secretary. After a public meltdown at Thanksgiving, Maxine finds herself not only divorced but exiled to Scottsdale, Arizona. However, these desert...