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The sound of a thousand stars : a novel  Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

The sound of a thousand stars : a novel / Rachel Robbins.

Summary:

"Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country's call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert. No one seems to know exactly what they are working on--what they do know is that it is a race and that they must beat the Nazis in developing an unspeakable weapon. In this atmosphere of fear and uncertainty, and despite their many differences, Alice and Caleb find themselves drawn to one another"-- Back cover of book.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798891643598
  • Physical Description: 559 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Regular print version previously published by Crooked Lane Books.
Includes historical notes.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 > Fiction.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > Fiction.
Women physicists > Fiction.
Official secrets > Fiction.
Atomic bomb victims > Japan > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Jews > United States > Fiction.
Scientists > Fiction.
Engineers > Fiction.
Weapons > Fiction.
United States > Politics and government > Fiction.
Los Alamos (Calif.) > Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Large print books.

Available copies

  • 4 of 7 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Brookfield Public Library System. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Brookfield Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Brookfield Public Library FIC ROB Large Print (Text) 32512909441608 Large Print Fiction Checked out 01/24/2025


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