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1) Rocket boys
Author
Language
English
Description
Homer Hickam, a NASA engineer, recounts his childhood in Coalwood, a West Virginia mining town, and discusses his dreams of launching rockets into outer space, and how he made those dreams come true.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam--the future parents of Homer Hickman, Jr.--were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in...
5) October sky
Language
English
Description
The true story of Homer Hickam Jr., a high school student in rural West Virginia, who seemed destined to repeat his father's harsh life in the coal mines, until he turned his attention to the skies.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Soon after paleontologist Norman "Pick" Pickford happens on a discovery in Montana that could prove to be revolutionary, a menacing visitor is murdered and Mike Wire, retired L.A. homicide detective and ranch foreman, realizes that the fossils may be worth killing for.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood, who mines the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth, undertakes a deadly mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant of the moon.
10) The far reaches
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
11) The keeper's son
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
709 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English