Homer H. Hickam, Author . Random/Delacorte $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-33522-5
Retired NASA engineer Hickam became a minor mass market celebrity in 1994 after a last-minute 2,000-word filler for Air & Space
magazine (he spent three hours writing about launching homemade rockets in 1950s Coalwood, W.Va.) brought an...
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Homer H. Hickam, Author . Health Communications $12.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-7573-0012-7
Hickam's latest book is little different from the other feel-good stories that emerged nationwide after the September 11 attacks. What sets his stories apart is where they all take place: the mining town of Coalwood, W.Va., the setting for his...
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Homer H. Hickam, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-30189-7
A gutsy Coast Guard officer battles German submarines and 17 years of unfettered guilt on the North Carolina coast in 1941 and 1942 in this high adventure yarn. Hickam, the author of the memoir Rocket Boys
(which was turned into the film October...
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Homer H. Hickam, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-30192-7
Following The Keeper's Son
, this is the second in Hickam's superb series about the WWII adventures of U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Josh Thurlow and his daffy crew of coastal North Carolina misfits. In 1943, Josh and his men are fighting the...
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Homer H. Hickam, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-312-33475-8
This is Hickam's third WWII action saga featuring Capt. Josh Thurlow, an officer exhibiting military insight and preternatural fighting abilities. The book opens in 1943 as an American fleet assembles off Tarawa, and the Marines prepare to land.
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Homer H. Hickam, Author . Thomas Nelson $24.99 (341p) ISBN 978-1-59554-214-4
The latest from Rocket Boys
author Hickam takes an inside look at coal mining, from shoveling gob to negotiating international trade deals, through the lens of modern romance. A half-Korean New York rich girl turned takeover specialist for Daddy
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Homer H. Hickam, Author Delacorte Press $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-33320-7
Great memoirs must balance the universal and the particular. Too much of the former makes it overly familiar; too much of the latter makes readers ask what the story has to do with them. In his debut, Hickam, a retired NASA engineer, walks that line
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Homer H. Hickam, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-33422-8
From the informed imagination of the author of Rocket Boys: A Memoir (finalist for an NBCC Award; made into the movie October Sky), Hickham's fanciful debut novel reads like an Indiana Jones adventure-in-space. It's 2002 on Cedar Key, Fla., and...
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Homer H. Hickam, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-33516-4
In his bestselling memoir, Rocket Boys (which became the 1999 movie October Sky), former NASA engineer Hickam looked back at the mining town of Coalwood, W.Va., when the 1957 ascent of Sputnik prompted Sonny and his teenage pals to launch their own...
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Homer H. Hickam, Author, Homer H. Hickam, Read by, David Lansbury, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52762-9
Not really a sequel to Hickam's first memoir, Rocket Boys (which was made into the successful movie, October Sky, and dealt primarily with his gang of misfit friends and their inventive, adventurous exploits) this book, set around Christmas 1959, is
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