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Rocket Boys

The Coalwood Series, Book 1

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Rocket Boys

By: Homer Hickam
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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The New York Times best-selling 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 launching rockets into outer space... and who made those dreams come true. Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a marvelously entertaining chronicle of triumph.

©1998 Homer Hickam (P)2011 Simon & Schuster Astronomy & Space Biographies Science & Technology Memoir

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"A thoroughly charming memoir... [An] eloquent evocation of a lost time and place." ( The New York Times)
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I totally loved this book. The narration was excellent. I found myself immersed in the comings and goings of the young men on their journeys to and from the launch pad. While listening to this excellent book I found myself being reminded of some of the things my friends and I had got up to in our youth. There's so much more to this story than rockets. I would recommend it to everyone.

A wonderful story of Life.

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