Barbenheimer

Planning to hit the Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature? Get ready with fiction and nonfiction books about Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, Barbie, and the woman who created her.

Updated July 20, 2023
Jessamine County Public Library
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Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
Slater, Lee
Paper Book
In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the developer of the Barbie doll, Ruth Handler. Follow the story of Handler's early work with her husband Elliott making and selling plastic products, their collaboration with Harold Matson to form Mattel, Handler's inspiration for a new kind of...
109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer and the secret city of Los Alamos
Conant, Jennet.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win...
American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai.
Paper Book
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER * "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert...

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