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Concluding his trilogy of memoirs begun in "October Sky, " the author returns to Coalwood, West Virginia, recalling the summer of 1961. With a year ... More

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Concluding his trilogy of memoirs begun in "October Sky, " the author returns to Coalwood, West Virginia, recalling the summer of 1961. With a year ... More

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The author of "October Sky" takes readers back to his West Virginia hometown in the fall of 1959. Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are ... More

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The author of "October Sky" takes readers back to his West Virginia hometown in the fall of 1959. Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are ... More

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Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of ... More

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With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a ... More

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Based on the book "Rocket Boys", this feature film by Universal Pictures premieres in theaters in February and stars Chris Cooper and Laura Dern. ... More

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Richard D. Jackson has done an excellent job taking the reader back into the time of his youth in Huntington, West Virginia and Marshall College. The ... More

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This is the unforgettable true story of a family torn by divorce, and how they manage to struggle through the Depression years of the thirties and ... More

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This is the story of a West Virginia Mountaineer as rugged as the mountains in which he lived most of his life. He survived by hard work and ... More

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Glock captures not only the irrepressible vitality of her maternal grandmother but also the rich ambiance of small-town, working class West Virginia ... More

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Suddenly Diane Maxwell felt very vulnerable and alone. She needed to understand now what a family was for and where she, her husband and children fit ... More

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After a sheltered upbringing in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the 1960s, with its counterculture of drugs ... More

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This is the story of a unique American hero who came of age as an astronaut during the few dramatic years when man reached the moon. Cernan's career ... More

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The senator's biography follows his experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth ... More

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In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked by a local Democratic congressman to draft a campaign ... More

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The memories of the pranks, woes, and joys collected in this small volume were drawn from cadet life at The Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, ... More

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The memories of the pranks, woes, and joys collected in this small volume were drawn from cadet life at The Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, ... More

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"The first lesson Ýmy grandmother¨ ever taught me was that dancing matters. . . . When she did come across men she fancied who didn't dance, she sent ... More

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With great attention to detail, the "poet in residence" of "CBS News" captures the texture of life in a very different era, before anyone had heard ... More

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