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
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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...
The general and the genius : Groves and Oppenheimer : the unlikely partnership that built the atom bomb
Kunetka, James W.
Paper Book
Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius<...
Trinity : a novel
Hall, Louisa
Paper Book
From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer--father of the atomic bomb--as told by seven fictional characters J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He...
Space princess
Man-Kong, Mary
Paper Book
Children ages 3 to 7 will love this full-color storybook based on the latest Barbie(tm) movie, releasing in fall 2016. Press-out paper dolls and over 50 stickers are included to add to the fun!
Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb
Montillo, Roseanne
Paper Book
Meet the female scientists who served as both developers of the atomic bomb--and the first line of criticism against it--in this nonfiction narrative in the tradition of Bomb and Code Girls.   They were leaning over the edge of the unknown...
Universe of two : a novel
Kiernan, Stephen P.
Paper Book
"Stephen Kiernan has pulled off the nearly impossible...The most tender, terrifying, relevant book you'll read this year." -- Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family From the critically acclaimed author of The...
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....

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