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Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes
A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
By Karen Piper
Edition
By Karen Piper
Hardcover edition
Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint Viking (Adult) ISBN9780399564543
A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
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The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert, created during World War II, has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles are regular working people, and four of them were Karen Piper’s parents, her sister, and—when she needed summer jobs—herself. Author’s note. Source notes. Black-and-white photo insert.
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