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Jennie Fields

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When I was child, bookstores and libraries were sanctuaries, my invitation to adventure, escape, satisfaction. Wanting to be a part of the action, I wrote my first 'novel' when I was six. Years later, my first real book arrived in bookstores.

But it's taken me until my fifth novel to tackle a topic that's always called to me: women in science. My mother was trained as a biochemist at the University of Chicago during World War II, and remained at the University afterwards, researching cures for cancer. But as was typical in that era, when she married, she gave up her career to be a wife. She spent the rest of her life aching for science. As a result, science flowed into her cooking, cleaning, our healthcare. She measured, she weighed, she con ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 16,308 ratings · 2,007 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Atomic Love 3.62 avg rating — 14,163 ratings — published 2020 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Desire 3.51 avg rating — 1,733 ratings — published 2012 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 3.43 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Middle Ages 3.46 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lily Beach 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Böse Mädchen lieben besser. Erotisches. by Christine Proske (Editor), Jennie Fields (Goodreads Author), Gaby Hauptmann 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[The Age of Desire] [Author: Fields, Jennie] [May, 2013] by Jennie Fields (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Coming right up and coming to a city near you! If you live nearby these cities, or know people who do, I hope you’ll let them know about my readings. I’d love to meet all of you!

TUES MAY 28TH – 7:30-8:30 pm

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Cuyahoga Public Library

Berea Branch,

7 Berea Commons

Berea, Ohio

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WED MAY 29TH - 3:00-4:00 pm

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Theo of Golden

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This beautifully written book about two very different young women in post-WWII America will capture you from page one! Anne Bishop, battered by the antisemitism of the era, hides her Jewish identity from her friends at Vassar. Because of her Christi ...more
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“There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall.”
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“But passion and pride rarely occupy the same space.”
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“America isn’t the land of the brave. It’s the land of bravado. We’re show-offs. In this country, all we desire is things. America is a place that hoards and accumulates and boasts and compares. Meanwhile too many poor people are suffering.”
― Jennie Fields, Atomic Love

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“But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.”
― Edith Wharton, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

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