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A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert Cover Image Book Book

A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert

Piper, Karen Lynnea 1965- (author.).

Summary: The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were the Piper family. Her dad designed the Sidewinder. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, set off down a Los Angeles freeway, and even stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper's memoir also reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe.--

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  • ISBN: 9780399564543
  • ISBN: 0399564543
  • ISBN: 9780735220386
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322).
Formatted Contents Note: Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons.
Language Note:
Text in English.

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Athens Regional Library System:
      Athens-Clarke County Library 		NONFIC 358.1709 PIPER ( Send Text)
 31001003659951 NONFICTION Available
Flint River Regional Library System:
      Peachtree City Library 		358.17 PIPER ( Send Text)
 31022009272730 ADULT Available
Middle Georgia Regional Library:
      Washington Memorial Library 		BIOG PIPER K ( Send Text)
 31033011169004 Adult Nonfiction Available
Northeast Georgia Regional Library:
      Toccoa-Stephens County Library 		358.17 PIP ( Send Text)
 31037007527331 NONFIC Available
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      White County Library - Cleveland Branch 		358.1709 PIP ( Send Text)
 31037007459634 NONFIC Available
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      Rockmart Public Library 		358.17 092 PIPER P ( Send Text)
 31047003210857 NONFIC Available
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      Rome-Floyd County Library 		BIO PIPER P ( Send Text)
 31047003215294 BIOGRAPHY Available
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      Miller County Public Library 		358.1 PIP 2018 ( Send Text)
 31052007494820 STACKS Available
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      Charlton County Library 		NON FIC 358.17 P ( Send Text)
 31006003722675 Stacks Available
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