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Sara Paretsky
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Vienna in the 1930’s was both an exciting and a terrifying place to be a woman doing physics. Exciting because the Institute for Radium Research offered women opportunities that no lab before or since has provided. Terrifying because although the Nazi party was outlawed, pro-Nazi sentiment ran high. For a woman who was also a Jew, political events could...
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Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
— published 1982 — 40 editions |
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Blood Shot (V.I. Warshawski, #5)
— published 1988 — 25 editions |
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Body Work (V.I. Warshawski, #14)
— published 2010 — 29 editions |
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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski, #9)
— published 1999 — 28 editions |
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Hardball (V.I. Warshawski, #13)
— published 2009 — 36 editions |
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Fire Sale (V.I. Warshawski, #12)
— published 2005 — 33 editions |
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Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski, #11)
— published 2003 — 34 editions |
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Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2)
— published 1984 — 38 editions |
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Killing Orders (V.I. Warshawski, #3)
— published 1985 — 31 editions |
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Burn Marks (V.I. Warshawski, #6)
— published 1990 — 24 editions |
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| Powerful writing and a stomach-turning description of South AFrica as Apartheid legislation was ruthlessly put in place in the early Fifties. Must read on how a twisted ideology can pervert a country and its social/civil institutions | |
“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas
― Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas
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