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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

  • The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

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-The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book, Large Print Book, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook CD, and eAudiobook formats.

Bustle Review: The Radium Girls

"This Book Tells The Untold Story Of The Women Who Lost Their Lives To Radium"

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The Star. "Former employees of General Electric Peterborough say they are disappointed in the results of a workers’ compensation board review of denied cancer claims"

Kate Moore Author Biography

The Radium Girls Website. "The Radium Girls, the first-ever narrative non-fiction account of this inspirational true story."

Kirkus Review: The Radium Girls

"Moore offers such vivid portraits of suffering that certain passages can be difficult to read, but this is an important..."

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NPR Review: The Radium Girls

"'The Radium Girls' Is Haunted By Glowing Ghosts"

San Francisco Book Review: The Radium Girls

"The Radium Girls is a tragedy chronicling many years of hard work, sacrifice, and suffering."

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The Girls With Radioactive Bones

The Atlantic. "How the “radium girls” revealed the danger of radiation, and fought for safety standards"

The Times Review: The Radium Girls

"The fight for justice for the dial painters killed by radium exposure"

University of Waterloo Review: The Radium Girls

"The Radium Girls chronicles the dial painting industry and the women who painted these dials with radium–based paint."

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