Homer Hickam

• Oct-2021
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A "nostalgic and entertaining memoir" (People) about a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space -- the inspiration for the film October Sky"A message of hope in an age of cynicism. . ....

• Oct-2015
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The long-awaited prequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Rocket Boys the basis of the movie October Sky follows Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam, Sr., on a journey from the misty coalfields of West Virginia to the sunny beach towns of Flor...

• Jun-2014
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Crater Trueblood has to rescue his ex-girlfriend . . . and the entire human race. Maria Medaris is the 21-year-old matriarch of the most powerful family on the moon--gorgeous, powerful, and high-maintenance. When she is kidnapped by green-lipped, ...

• Jun-2013
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She was born to kill, born to die. Crescent is a crowhopper -- a genetically modified mercenary programmed for ruthless warfare. When she's taken prisoner by Crater Trueblood instead of being killed in battle, she thinks it's a disaster. Crater is we...

• Oct-2012
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Homer Hickam, author of the memoir Rocket Boys (made into the movie October Sky), recalls his first years as a NASA engineer while also telling the story of his fluffy black and white cat Paco who had the magic ability to make people smile and give t...

• Apr-2012
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A Helium-3 miner named Crater makes a treacherous journey through space to find a mysterious and priceless treasure. It's the 22nd Century and a tough, pioneering people are mining the moon to produce energy for a desperate, war torn Earth. Crate...

• Nov-2010
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Life on Montana's ranches comes with more than its share of trouble. The people who live there expect it -- some of them even enjoy it. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective who now spends his days running the Square C Ranch and pinin...

• Feb-2008
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Forever unlucky in love, Song Hawkins has the reputation of being a cold-hearted yet beautiful businesswoman. But everything changes when this New Yorker finds the man of her dreams in Cable Jordan, the manager of a West Virginia coal mine. After th...

• Jun-2007
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The year is 1943 and World War II in the Pacific rages on, with Americans engaged in desperate battles against a cunning enemy. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is on hand at the invasion of Tarawa, as the U.S. Navy begins the grand strategy of throw...

• Mar-2005
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys continues the wartime saga of Josh Thurlow that began with The Keeper's Son. It is 1943, and the struggle against Japan rages across the steaming, jungle-choked Solomon Islands. As the fate o...

• Oct-2003
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A Coast Guard commander faces Nazi aggression in American waters in this "beautifully written and nerve-wrackingly suspenseful" novel of WWII (Nelson DeMille).North Carolina, 1941. Among the wind-swept Outer Banks, Killakeet Island is home to a peace...

• Nov-2002
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys and The Coalwood Way transports us back to his West Virginia hometown and the summer that nearly destroyed the close-knit community in this "beautifully executed" (The Atlanta Journal-Constituti...

• Jun-1999
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A renegade astronaut hijacks a shuttle and blasts off on a high-speed chase to the moon -- "a great adventure yarn" (The Washington Post Book World) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys"[Full of] escalating tension, danger, an...

• Feb-1999
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It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Sonny Hickam (aka Homer Hickam, Jr.) nurtured a dream: to learn how to build a rock...