Homer H Hickam
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-maneuvered,
...Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
Author
Series
Josh Thurlow novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
Helium-3 novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood, who mines the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth, undertakes a deadly mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant on the moon.
Author
Series
Josh Thurlow novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Helium-3 novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The Earth is devastated and the worst elements of humanity are determined to take over the moon. It's up to the settlers of the harsh, gray moon to fight back"--
10) October sky
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005, c1999
Language
English
Description
Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia, forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.
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