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Rocket Boys
  • Author : Homer H. Hickam
  • Release Date : 06 July 2022
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 368
  • ISBN 13 : 9780385333214
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Book excerpt: 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 garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. Reprint.

Rocket Boys

Rocket Boys

Author : Homer H. Hickam
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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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 garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. Reprint....

Rocket Boys

Rocket Boys

Author : Homer H. Hickam
Publisher : Fourth Estate
Genre : Uncategorized
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From the moment 'Sonny' Hickam watches a satellite pass overhead, he and his friends are determined that they will build a rocket. This is the true story of the boys' adventures from the moment their first rocket destroys a fence....

Rocket Boys

Rocket Boys

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Dell
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of ...

The Coalwood Way

The Coalwood Way

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Island Books
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful ...

Sky of Stone

Sky of Stone

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Dell
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times crowned his first book, the #1 national bestseller October Sky, “an eloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir.” And People called ...

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Author : Kim Gilmour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Computers
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The ultimate beginner guide to the groundbreaking music service, Spotify! Spotify is a free online streaming music platform that allows users to listen to songs on demand over the Internet--without having to buy or own the actual tracks. This fun and friendly guide walks you through how best to use ...

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The Boy Who Played with Fusion

Author : Tom Clynes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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By the age of 11, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At 13, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate medical uses for radioactive isotopes. And at 14, Wilson became the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. How could someone so young achieve so much, and what ...

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space. Drawing on the popular science writing and science fiction of an eclectic group of ...

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Don t Blow Yourself Up

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Homer Hickam’s memoir Rocket Boys and the movie adaptation October Sky have become one of the most popular stories in the world, inspiring millions to pursue a better life. But what happened to Homer after he was a West Virginia rocket boy? In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his ...

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Author : Keely Hutton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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An unforgettable novel based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fourteen was forced to fight as a soldier in the guerrilla army of notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel ...

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Author : Michael E. Gorman,Ryan D. Tweney,David C. Gooding,Alexandra P. Kincannon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Genre : Education
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At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge--particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. ...

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Author : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Genre : Education
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Differentiated Reading for Comprehension is designed to provide high-interest, nonfiction reading success for all readers. This 64-page book focuses on third grade reading skills defined by the Common Core State Standards. Each of 15 stories is presented separately for the below-level, on-level, and advanced students, followed by a series of comprehension ...

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Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Author : Paul Meehan
Publisher : McFarland
Genre : Performing Arts
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Over the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind's understanding of the universe has expanded. Mirroring this development, the cinematic depictions of space exploration over the last century have evolved from whimsical sci-fi fantasies to more fact-based portrayals. This book chronologically examines 75 films that depict ...