![]() Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. ![]() A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film.and the humble comic book that inspired it. "From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist"- Provided by publisher. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's teaching them how to change the status quo. Elizabeth's singular approach to cooking ('take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride') and independent example are proving revolutionary. But as events are never as predictable as chemical reactions, three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother (did we mention it's the early 60s?) and the star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers.) The only man who ever treated her-and her ideas-as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. ![]() "Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives-whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly. In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation-and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up. ![]() What's more, no one named Arlene Robinson works at ProEye. Not only does the arms dealer not exist but the murder victim turns out to be Harry Langhorne, a man with mob ties who used to be in Witness Protection. That is, until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room-and that nothing is as it seems. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene's unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye's clients and fled. Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats.
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