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Amy Butler Greenfield

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Amy Butler Greenfield writes award-winning books about history, science, art, and spies. Her work has been published in ten languages.

Her history of the red dye cochineal, A Perfect Red, won the PEN/Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and France’s Prix du Livre Environnement. Her acclaimed biography of Elizabeth Smith Friedman, The Woman All Spies Fear, was optioned for film. Her first mystery for children, Ra the Mighty, was an Edgar Award finalist. Her next book, Code Name Purple, is about an underdog team of codebreakers who cracked a top WWII cipher machine and eavesdropped on Hitler.

An enthusiastic and experienced presenter, Amy has appeared on the History Channel, PBS’s American Experience, and other television and radio programs. Sh
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Oxford’s secret mapmakers

Oxford is a city of secrets, but every September it has an Open Doors weekend that lets us peek into hidden corners. This year I went to visit a college where women helped plan D-Day.

For the D-Day invasion to succeed, Britain had to know the precise lay of the land in Normandy: every inlet, cliff, wall, bridge, hill, village, and road. So it turned to a secret unit based at Manchester College

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Average rating: 3.93 · 9,124 ratings · 1,236 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors
A Perfect Red

3.88 avg rating — 3,116 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions
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Chantress (Chantress, #1)

3.80 avg rating — 2,407 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions
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The Woman All Spies Fear: C...

4.19 avg rating — 1,658 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions
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Chantress Alchemy (Chantres...

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The Great Tomb Robbery (Ra ...

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Chantress Fury (Chantress, #3)

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The Crocodile Caper (Ra the...

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Virginia Bound

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“Maybe I couldn't stop other people from judging me, but I could stop looking to them for approval. Maybe most people would never be able to accept me for who I really was - not the broadside makers, not the Court gossips, not even Nat - but I didn't have to follow suit.
I could still decide to accept myself.”
― Amy Butler Greenfield, Chantress Fury

“Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.”
― Amy Butler Greenfield, Chantress Alchemy

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message 3: by Amy

Amy Greenfield Thank you, Steph! What a lovely message to find waiting for me! I'm thrilled you enjoyed the books, and I hope you have a wonderful summer, too.

Best wishes,
Amy


message 2: by Steph

Steph Dear Amy

Thank you for accepting my friends request!! I loved your book series Chantress. I found all 3 books at my Library just sitting there.. I knew they were there for me to find. I love the covers and the concept. When I see someone looking for a book I tell them they need to read these:) Thank you for an AMAZING read. I look forward to seeing what you have next.
Have an Amazing Summer with Family
Steph


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L Dear Amy,
Thank you so much for acepting my friend request here on Goodreads! I look forward to reading and discovering your work.
Kind Regards
Lucinda F


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