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"For fans of Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Severance: an offbeat, wryly funny debut novel that follows an eccentric product engineer who works for a hip furniture company where sweeping corporate change lands her under the purview of a startlingly charismatic boss who seems determined to get close to her at all costs ..."--
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2023.
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"A delightful new contemporary romance by Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Ayesha at Last. Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. And while Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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The twelve scientists who are profiled here are women from all sorts of backgrounds who are currently rocking science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each of them has a different story to tell about how she got to where she is today, but the one thing they have in common is that they are truly wonder women of science. Around the world there are many more women doing incredible work and breaking new ground in STEM fields--not to mention...
5) The rancher
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Searching for her place in her birth family, engineer Rachel Ford Morgan goes up against her family's rival, Cauy Lymond, when she discovers worrisome fault lines around an abandoned silver mine on his property, which threatens all their futures.
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"She mixed danger, desperation, and deception together. Love was not the expected outcome. With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother's unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away--far and fast--to find better matches to legally claim their portion of their father's lumber dynasty and seize...
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"After years of following her best friend's lead, Mary Davies finds a whimsical trip back to Austen's Regency England paves the way towards a new future"--
Working as an engineer, Mary Davies genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues-- particularly a certain good-looking and intelligent consultant. But she knows something is missing in her ordered life. When Mary's estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer, offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous...
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"She's finally claimed her independence . . . how far will she go to keep it? A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father's lumber dynasty. With the company safe from her stepfather after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can now focus on her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and never marry.Nick Ryder came into Jilly's life when he saved her mother from her no-good stepfather, and he's...
10) Change of heart
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Best laid plans: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody had ever seen, yet structural engineer Abra also had a will as strong as a steel girder. But he has plans for her that even this spirited beauty could not resist.
From this day: B.J. Clark, the manager of an inn in Vermont, resents the efforts of the inn's new owner, Taylor Reynolds, to modernize it, while Taylor's fascination with B.J. makes him think about abandoning his...
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Center Point Large Print
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2023.
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English
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"Under One Roof: An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell - a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone. -- Stuck with You: A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry - and love - to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator. -- Below Zero: A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded...
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Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Loving Jack: Somehow her own fictional brooding hero had turned up in person right under her own roof, and now all romance writer Jackie MacNamara had to do was convince stubborn Nathan Powell that happily-ever-after began at home-- and in her arms.
Best laid plans: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody Johnson had ever seen, but structural engineer Abra Wilson also had a will as strong as a steel girder - and just about as...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This STEM/STEAM picture book tells the story of Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper, an accomplishment that helped her become of the first woman electrical engineer in America"--
Edith Clarke devoured numbers, puzzles, and brainteasers. She was an innovator who dreams of how mathematics could modernize America. Fascinated by electricity, Clarke solved an electrical mystery...
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2017.
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"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"--!cProvided by publisher.
A software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions, Lois Clary codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. When the brothers have Visa issues, they...
15) Hearts in Hiding
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Engineer Edie Michaels loves her life - she has a good job, close friends, even a chance at romance with former soldier Beau Daniels. But she could lose everything if her secret comes out...that she's the German daughter of a devoted Nazi.
And when her father sends spies to force her loyalty, everything Edie values is at risk.
Time in a Nazi POW camp changed army medic Beau Daniels. When he discovers a letter of Edie's written in German, he can't...
16) A love by design
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Secret scientists of London volume 3
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Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"You couldn't design a better hero than the very eligible and extremely charming Earl Grantham. Unless, of course, you are Margaret Gault, who wants nothing to do with the man who broke her youthful heart. Widowed and determined, Margaret Gault has returned to Athena's Retreat and the welcoming arms of her fellow secret scientists with an ambitious plan in mind: to establish England's first woman-owned engineering firm. But from the moment she sets...
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The Dial Press
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[2022]
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English
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"At her day job in a Christian bakery and with her conservative family, Amy plays the role of a straight, church-going young woman-exactly what's expected in mid-2010s Tulsa, Oklahoma, the "Buckle of the Bible Belt." But at night, she tends bar at the only place in town that truly feels like home: Ruby Red's, a lovably grungy queer bar with a group of regulars who have become her chosen family. Amy's spent a lifetime learning how to walk this fine...
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Español
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"La historia de Sylvia Acevedo es un recordatorio deslumbrante de la necesidad de soąr a lo grande, uno que inspirar ̀a lectores de todas las deades. Su trayecto de Girl Scouts y Hed Start a trabajar en el Laboratoro̕ de Propulsin̤ a Chorro de la NASA y ms̀ ayudar ̀a forjar un camino para los jv̤enes que se sienten atrad̕os a sueǫs aparentemente imposibles."--Back cover.
"The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist...