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Author Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965- author.

Title A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert / Karen Piper.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY PIPER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B PIPER, KAREN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  358.17 PIP    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  B PIPER, KAREN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  358.17 PIPER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  358.17 PIP    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 PIPER, KAR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B PIPER, K.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B PIPER    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG PIPER, KAREN    Check Shelf

Description x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322).
Contents Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons.
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.-- Adapted from publisher information.
Subject Piper, Karen.
Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.) -- Employees -- Biography.
Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005.
Piper, Mary Dahlstrom.
United States. Office of Strategic Services -- Biography.
Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.) (OCoLC)fst00565611
United States. Office of Strategic Services. (OCoLC)fst00542242
Cold War (1945-1989) (OCoLC)fst01754978
Guided missiles -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
Electronic technicians -- United States -- Biography.
California, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Young women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Cold War.
Employees. (OCoLC)fst00909111
Guided missiles. (OCoLC)fst00949004
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Young women. (OCoLC)fst01183301
California, Southern. (OCoLC)fst01692638
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Nonfiction.
Autobiographies.
Added Title Growing up in America's secret desert
Other Form: Online version: Piper, Karen, author. Girl's guide to missiles New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018] 9780735220386 (DLC) 2018027674
ISBN 9780399564543 (hardcover)
0399564543 (hardcover)
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