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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965- author.     Subjects     Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-     Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005.     Piper, Mary Dahlstrom.     Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.) -- Employees -- Biography.     United States. Office of Strategic Services -- Biography.     Guided missiles -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes.     Electronic technicians -- United States -- Biography.     Young women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.     Cold War.     California, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965- author.       by title:      A girl's guide to mi...         MARC Display

A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert / Karen Piper. by Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965- author. New York, New York : Viking, [2018] Subjects Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-   Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005.   Piper, Mary Dahlstrom.   Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.) -- Employees -- Biography.   United States. Office of Strategic Services -- Biography.   Guided missiles -- United States -- History -- Anecdotes.   Electronic technicians -- United States -- Biography.   Young women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.   Cold War.   California, Southern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780399564543 (hardcover) : 0399564543 (hardcover) Description:  x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons. Requests:  0 Summary:  The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert 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 the Piper family. Her dad designed the Sidewinder. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, set off down a Los Angeles freeway, and even stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper's memoir also reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe.--Adapted from publisher information.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 358.17092 Piper Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 358.17092 Piper Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waimea Public Library (Kauai) Adult Nonfiction 358.17092 Piper Pi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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