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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Nesbit, TaraShea.     Subjects     Military spouses -- Fiction.     Married women -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- Fiction.     Deception (Military science) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Research and development projects -- Fiction.     Atomic bomb -- Fiction.     Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Nesbit, TaraShea.       by title:      The wives of Los Ala...       by call number:      FICTION NES     Search the Web     Nesbit, TaraShea.     Military spouses -- Fiction.     Married women -- Fiction.     World War, 1939-1945 -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- Fiction.     Deception (Military science) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Research and development projects -- Fiction.     Atomic bomb -- Fiction.     Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The wives of Los Alamos : a novel / TaraShea Nesbit. by Nesbit, TaraShea. Bloomsbury, c2014. Call #: FICTION NES Subjects Military spouses -- Fiction.   Married women -- Fiction.   World War, 1939-1945 -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- Fiction.   Deception (Military science) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.   Research and development projects -- Fiction.   Atomic bomb -- Fiction.   Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781620405031 1620405032 Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  233 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of a project that didn't exist as far as the public knew. Though they were strangers, they joined together--adapting to a landscape as fierce as it was absorbing, full of the banalities of everyday life and the drama of scientific discovery. And while the bomb was being invented, babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up, and Los Alamos gradually transformed from an abandoned school on a hill into a real community: one that was strained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. But the end of the war would bring even bigger challenges to the people of Los Alamos, as the scientists and their families struggled with the burden of their contribution to the most destructive force in the history of mankind.The Wives of Los Alamos is a novel that sheds light onto one of the strangest and most monumental research projects in modern history. It's a testament to a remarkable group of women who carved out a life for themselves, in spite of the chaos of the war and the shroud of intense secrecy."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. War fiction First novel. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Tantallon Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION NES Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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