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Author Benedict, Marie, author.

Title The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.

Publication Info. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2019.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F BENEDICT, M.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION BENEDICT    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F BENEDICT, M.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F BENEDICT    DUE 03-26-24
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F BENEDICT    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction Overflow Collection  F BENEDICT    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction Overflow Collection  F BENEDICT    DUE 04-19-24
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F BENEDICT    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION BENEDICT    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION BENEDICT    DUE 02-24-24

Description 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes a reading group guide on (pages [252]-254).
Summary Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands in Hollywood, where she becomes Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But Hedy is keeping a secret even more shocking than her Jewish heritage: she is a scientist. She has an idea that might help the country and that might ease her guilt for escaping alone -- if anyone will listen to her. A powerful novel based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication.
Subject World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000 -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Women scientists -- Fiction.
Jewish women -- Fiction.
Jewish women. (OCoLC)fst00983062
Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
Women scientists -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Jewish women -- Fiction.
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781492666868 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
1492666866
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