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All the Light We Cannot See Read-Alikes
Barnes & Noble Book Club
Biographical Fiction
Strong Female Characters
Barnes & Noble Book Club
Biographical Fiction
Strong Female Characters
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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...
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English
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A gifted genetics research scientist discovers that someone will stop at nothing to keep her from making a major medical breakthrough
In Oklahoma, a woman scientist on the verge of a medical breakthrough in genetics becomes the target of a hired assassin. She is Kate Denby, a single mother in her thirties, and the incident leads to her becoming involved romantically with two men. One is a fellow scientist who spirits her away where she can continue...
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Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...
4) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
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Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A dragon naturalist and an explorer prone to igniting scandals, Lady Trent reveals what she discovered in the Sanctuary of Wings, behind the territory of Scirlands enemies.- Novelist
6) Reset
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文（繁體）
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When her son is kidnapped and killed, the scientist who has created a time machine uses her invention to travel in time to prevent the death of her son.
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Eileen Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and 70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale, where, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate, summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university's first two women to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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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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Brit in the FBI volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes a riveting thriller pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine against the head of a private space agency who has the power to end the world as we know it. It's Bastille Day in France, and the private French space agency Galactus--France's answer to Space X, owned by the eccentric treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard--has just sent a satellite payload...
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