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	Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am 3.65 avg rating — 14,777 ratings — published 2021 — 4 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 Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba 3.73 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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
	Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World 3.97 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2026 — 4 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
	Thirty Times a Minute by Marc Bekoff (Goodreads Author), Jessica Pierce (Goodreads Author), Julia Cooke (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Michel Pérez by Julia Cooke (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michel Perez (Illustrations) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	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
	Michel P??rez Pollo: 2008-2014 by Julia Cooke (2015-08-05) 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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Julia Cooke liked Eileen Smith's review of No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century: "Just delightful. Well written. Engaging. Sorry that it wasn’t 1000 pages. An observer of the world around her. I have already started buying copies to send to friends "
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Julia Cooke made a comment on Mary’s review of No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century " For more Mickey, read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ...more "
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Julia Cooke liked Charles Bookman's review of No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century: "New Yorker correspondent Emily Hahn’s peripatetic life spanned most of the twentieth century. Her memoir includes tales of coming of age in Chicago, an extended sojourn in the Congo in 1932 and 1933, and an account of life in Shanghai as war came to " Read more of this review »
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Julia Cooke liked Marilyn Saul's review of No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century: "What an amazing life Emily Hahn led. She was traipsing into dangerous areas of the world well before there were any other female explorers. Though "autobiographical", this book is true to the word "memoir". Her story-telling is engaging, as well as, " Read more of this review »
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Julia Cooke liked Eric Piotrowski's review of No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century: "I stumbled upon Ms. Hahn while creating a slide for the "Author's Birthday of the Day" slideshow I share with my students at the start of every class. The more I read about her life, the more hooked I became. I snatched this book up and dove in. It's " Read more of this review »
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Julia Cooke made a comment on Erin’s review of Times and Places " Try reading my new book — Mickey is central! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ...more "
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“Clad in an authoritative uniform, beauty conferred control.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

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“For decades stewardesses had tried to disentangle their work in flight from their unmarried status. “We don’t fly for love,” one stewardess said in a 1938 Popular Aviation article. The fact that a third of her cohort quit each year to marry “does not mean that all of us sit on a perch in the sky waiting for Dan Cupid to soar by and take a pot shot at us.” She and her colleagues worked as “sincerely and efficiently” as “regular businesswomen.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

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“the mid-1960s, the average U.S. airline stewardess worked for 32.4 months. “If that figure ever got up to thirty-five months, I’d know we’re getting the wrong kind of girl. She’s not getting married,” said a personnel manager at United in 1965.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

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Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers by Deborah Cadbury

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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee

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Six Years With Al Qaeda by Stephen McGown

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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke

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Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic by Emma Goldberg

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Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl

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The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War by Aaron Shulman

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Julia’s Quotes

“Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.”
― Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

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“It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.”
― Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

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