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Author:

Blanton-Stroud, Shelley, author.

Title:

Tomboy / Shelley Blanton-Stroud.

Publisher:

She Writes Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

250 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Women journalists--Fiction.
Gossip columns--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Notes:

Includes discussion questions.

Summary:

"It's 1939. On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as a scruffy, tomboy cub reporter. By night she secretly struggles to raise her toddler sister, Elsie, and protect her from their mother. But Jane's got a plan: she'll become the San Francisco Prospect's first gossip columnist and make enough money to care for Elsie. Jane finagles her way to the women's championship at Wimbledon, starring her hometown's tennis phenom and cover girl Tommie O'Rourke. She plans to write her first column there. But then she witnesses Edith "Coach" Carlson, Tommie's closest companion, drop dead in the stands of apparent heart attack, and her plan is thrown off track"-- Provided by publisher

Series:

A Jane Benjamin novel
Blanton-Stroud, Shelley. Jane Benjamin novel.

ISBN:

1647424070
9781647424077

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1333952954

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)