02625cam a2200373 i 4500 1164839881 TxAuBib 20200925120000.0 190808s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019032996 9781492698135 hardcover 149269813X hardcover (OCoLC)1105149062 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF CMI TCH FNN OCLCO CNCAR OCLCO NZAUC INR ZGR TXSCH YU6 OCLCO OCL YEQ OCLCO TxAuBib rda Wood, Tracey Enerson, author. The engineer's wife / Tracey Enerson Wood. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2020] ©2020. 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Based on the true story of the woman who built the Brooklyn Bridge."--Cover. Includes a reading group guide and a conversation with the author. "When Emily Warren Roebling marries Captain Washington 'Wash' Roebling-the handsome, charming soldier of her dreams, and her brother's dear friend and aide during the Civil War - a lifetime of family fun and happiness seems within her grasp. But then Wash accepts the position as Chief Engineer on his father's magnum opus, the Brooklyn Bridge, and it changes both of their lives forever. In Brooklyn, the happy home they'd dreamed of warps around the bridge. Incapacitated from working in the high-pressure tanks at the bridge's foundations, Wash convinces Emily to be his messenger to the site. Little by little, Emily finds herself taking over the project - with no formal training or education in math and science. Emily throws herself into building the bridge but faces suspicion and disparagement at every turn as she supervises dangerous construction sites and argues for the safety of the bridge amongst Manhattan's male elite. The Engineer's Wife delivers an emotional portrait of a woman transformed by a project of unfathomable scale, and of a husband and wife determined to build something that lasts--even at the risk of losing each other"--Provided by publisher. 20200925. Roebling, Emily Warren 1843-1903 Fiction. Roebling, Washington Augustus 1837-1926 Fiction. Engineers Fiction. Husband and wife Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y) Fiction. TXKIP