Girl Waits with Gun
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Fiction | FICTION STEWART | Checked Out | June 27, 2024 |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Black Hand (United States) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Families -- Fiction
Historical fiction
New Jersey -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Organized crime -- New Jersey -- Fiction
Policewomen -- New Jersey -- Hackensack -- Fiction
Sheriffs -- New Jersey -- Paterson -- Fiction
Silk Workers' Strike, Paterson, N.J., 1913 -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Families -- Fiction
Historical fiction
New Jersey -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Organized crime -- New Jersey -- Fiction
Policewomen -- New Jersey -- Hackensack -- Fiction
Sheriffs -- New Jersey -- Paterson -- Fiction
Silk Workers' Strike, Paterson, N.J., 1913 -- Fiction
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Physical Desc
408 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
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Living in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance Kopp is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the norm for early twentieth-century women
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp doesn't quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters from city to country fifteen years ago. When a powerful, ruthless factory owner runs down their buggy, a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm. The sheriff enlists her help, and it turns out Constance has a knack for outwitting (and disarming) the criminal element which might just take her back out into the world and onto a new path in life. Quick-witted and full of madcap escapades, Girl Waits with Gun is a story about one woman rallying the courage to stand up for and grow into herself--with a little help from sisters and sheriffs along the way. Through Amy Stewart's exuberant storytelling, Constance Kopp catapults from forgotten historical anecdote to unforgettable historical fiction heroine-- an outsized woman not only ahead of her time, but sometimes even ahead of ours.--Dust jacket
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Stewart, A. (2015). Girl Waits with Gun . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stewart, Amy. 2015. Girl Waits With Gun. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stewart, Amy. Girl Waits With Gun Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stewart, Amy. Girl Waits With Gun Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
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