03813cam a2200649 4500 531294904 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780735220386 0735220387 d30088ca-767f-4470-b2f9-2da54758b8a5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3656331 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Piper, Karen. A Girl's Guide to Missiles [Libby eBook] : Growing Up in America's Secret Desert. Penguin Publishing Group, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 12MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. father's day gifts for grandpa. inspirational books for women. fathers day gifts for grandpa. biographies of famous people. valentines gifts for girls. biographies and memoirs. historical biographies. military history books. biographies of women. fathers day gifts. Military History. women in history. autobiographies. political books. books for women. military books. Autobiography. gifts for dad. grandpa gifts. biographies. Biography. war books. dad gifts. politics. Military. feminism. Memoirs. memoir. women. War. HTML:<b>A surreal and poignant coming of age on a secretive missile facility, and "an incredible view of...life in a town built for war."—<i>Booklist</i></b><br /> <br /> The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and—when she needed summer jobs—herself. Her dad designed the Sidewinder, which was ultimately used catastrophically in Vietnam. When her mom got tired of being a stay-at-home mom, she went to work on the Tomahawk. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, and set off down a Los Angeles freeway. Traffic was heavy, and so she stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot.<br /> <br /> Piper sketches in the belief systems—from Amway's get-rich schemes to propaganda in <i>The Rocketeer</i> to evangelism, along with fears of a Lemurian takeover and Charles Manson—that governed their lives. Her memoir is also a search for the truth of the past and what really brought her parents to China Lake with two young daughters, a story that reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe. Finally, it recounts the crossroads moment in a young woman's life when she finally found a way out of a culture of secrets and fear, and out of the desert. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Military. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d30088ca-767f-4470-b2f9-2da54758b8a5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d30088ca-767f-4470-b2f9-2da54758b8a5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)