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Author:

Benedict, Marie, author.

Title:

The only woman in the room / Marie Benedict.

Publisher:

Sourcebooks Landmark,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

254 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Lamarr, Hedy,--1913-2000--Fiction.
Antheil, George,--1900-1959--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Women scientists--Fiction.
Women inventors--Fiction.
Jewish women--Fiction.
Spread spectrum communications--Fiction.
Austria--History--1918-1938--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction
FICTION--Biographical.
FICTION--World War II.--World War II.
FICTION--Literary.
FICTION--Women.
Lamarr, Hedy,--1913-2000.
Women inventors.
Spread spectrum communications.
Jewish women.
Women scientists.
Austria.
Lamarr, Hedy,--1913-2000--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Women scientists--Fiction.
Jewish women--Fiction.
Antheil, George,--1900-1959.
1918-1945
History.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
World War, 1939-1945
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

"A novel"--Dust jacket.

Contents:

"A novel" -- dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1492666866
9781492666868

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1028611936

LCCN:

2018009020

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny) — Copies: 12

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls) — Copies: 6

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge) — Copies: 15 — Kit notes: LP

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo) — Copies: 17 — Kit notes: Third Age Set: 5 R 12 LP