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A Memoir
An extraordinary memoir of Homer Sonny Hickam's life. The introspective second son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to push her so...
With the grace of a natural storyteller, Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal ...
Biography, autobiography, and memoir is among the best ways to teach students to appreciate nonfiction reading....
The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film. It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalac...
The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family gara...
It's 1943 and the Americans and Japanese are fighting a deadly war in the hot, jungle-covered volcanic islands of the South Pacific. The outcome is in...
How the Classic Memoir Rocket Boys Was Written and the Hit Movie October Sky Was Made
"Be with Hickam as he struggles with the complexities of how a major Hollywood motion picture is made, and how he disagreed with aspects of the film e...