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Join us for a historical fiction with romance and adventure! We are reading Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins.Please order your copy through us by August 24th to ensure you get your book by early September. This is a new release and is only available in hardcover, regular price $30 but book club members pay $27 😊
Synopsis:
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Francis. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first woman scientist to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot, Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the steaks are highest; mission specialist, Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious astronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
Has the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passionate and love she never imagined. In this new light, John begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December 1984, on mission STS – LR9, everything changes in an instant.
Fast paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this is among the stars.
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