In 1941, Coast Guard patrolman Josh Thurlow, still struggling with guilt seventeen years after the disappearance of his younger brother, battles U-boats off the North Carolina coast unaware that one of the German captains may know his brother's whereabouts.
A former homicide detective starts work on a Montana ranch when dinosaur bones are discovered on the property, but the excavation attracts both crowds and a murderer.
Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.
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.
Crater, a teenaged Helium-3 miner living in the twenty-second century, aspires to become a foreman, but leaves home and embarks on a dangerous journey into deep space in search of treasure.
Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.
A memoir in which Homer Hickam, author of "October Sky," recalls the summer of 1961 when he was called back to the coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia after a year of college to provide moral support for his father who had been accused of negligence in his role as mine superintendent.
An autobiographical account of NASA engineer Homer Hickam's life that discusses his childhood, his obsession with rockets, his NASA career, and other related topics.
