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She has also written six nonfiction books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including four new york times bestsellers. It is absolutely delightful, with a heroine who is tall, loud, smart, and deeply protective of her family. Stewart at one of her bay area book tour stops for lady cop makes trouble, at the end of september. Girl waits with gun amy stewart audiobook download. Its the first novel in the kopp sisters series, and it was released in 2015. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read girl waits with gun. It is set just before the outbreak of wwi and just after a major strike by silkfactory workers. Mar 10, 2016 amy stewart is the new york times bestselling author of nine books, including girl waits with gun and the rest of the kopp sisters series, which are based on the true story of one of americas first female deputy sheriffs and her two rambunctious sisters. Amy stewart is the awardwinning author of seven books, including her acclaimed fiction debut girl waits with gun and the bestsellers the drunken botanist. Girl waits with gun by amy stewart reading guidebook club. When, on a fine july day in 1914, silk factory heir henry kaufman recklessly drives his motorcar into the buggy conveying constance kopp and her sisters to town, the ladies suffer minor injuries but the buggy, their only means of transport, is wrecked.
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