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Author
Language
English
Description
In 1904 Texas Ranger Luke Palmer arrives in Brenham, Texas, with one goal--to capture the gang of outlaws led by Frank Comer. Undercover as a telephone repairman, he uses his days on the range to search, not realizing there's another pair of eyes watching him. Georgie Gail, switchboard operator and birder, heads out on a birding expedition, but instead of sighting a painted bunting, her opera glasses capture her telephone man, armed and far away from...
2) The tip line
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eager to get married, thirty-year-old Virginia Carey lands a job as an operator at a police tip line, where she thinks finding a husband will be easy. There's Charlie Ford, a surprisingly sweet homicide detective, and charming police chief Declan "Deck" Brady. But just as Virginia's plans begin to fall into place and she can almost picture a ring on her finger, she answers a call from Verona--a mysterious woman who provides a tip about four bodies...
3) The operator
Author
Publisher
All Things That Matter Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Harold takes his wife, Laura, on vacation to quaint Prescott, Arizona, to jump-start their strained marriage, he finds himself swept through a squirmhole into the arms of the beautiful Talia Sanders, the hotel's 1929 switchboard operator. Together, they scheme to prevent the Great Depression but, before he can put his plan to the test, the stockbroker re-emerges in 2017. He discovers nothing changed, except for the billion-dollar fortune Talia...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself...
5) The call
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
6) The operator
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter, Charlotte, calls it eavesdropping. She isn't supposed to listen in on conversations, but she does. Vivian may be mortified to hear rumors concerning her and her family, but she isn't going to take this lying down. Vivian wants the truth, no matter how painful it may be.
Author
Series
Weimar and now volume 38
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The...
