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03659aim a22004815a 4500 001 BB8A1A20370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180216s2018 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 0062842390 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062842398 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT12006411 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Beard, Janet, $e author. 245 14 $a The Atomic City girls : $b a novel $h [electronic resource] / $c Janet Beard. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Harper Collins Publishers, $c 2018. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 47 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Xe Sands. 511 0 $a Performed by Xe Sands. 520 $a In the bestselling tradition of "Hidden Figures" and "The Wives of Los Alamos", comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here. In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders. The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government's plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June's search for answers. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Women employees $z Oak Ridge $z Oak Ridge $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Women $z Oak Ridge $z Oak Ridge $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z Oak Ridge $z Oak Ridge $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Uranium enrichment $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Official secrets $z United States $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Oak Ridge $z Oak Ridge $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Oak Ridge (Tenn.) $x Social life and customs $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Sands, Xe, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12006411 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062842398_180.jpeg 941 $a 2 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115711.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20180403014327.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BB8A1A20370411E887D7D95B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search