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The only woman in the room Cover Image Book Book

The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.

Benedict, Marie, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1492666890
  • ISBN: 9781492666899
  • Physical Description: 315 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2019]

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Includes discussion questions.
Summary, etc.:
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. Based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication.

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World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Women scientists > Fiction.
Jewish women > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
  • 6 of 6 copies available at John P. Webster Library - West Hartford.

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John P. Webster Library - West Hartford BOOK GROUP Benedict Only (Text) 30401154273753 Ruth Dudley Resource Center Available -
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John P. Webster Library - West Hartford PS 3620 .E75 O55 2019 (Text) 30401154271500 Adult Fiction Available -

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