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Rocket Boys
- By: Homer H. Hickam Jr.
- Narrated by: Beau Bridges
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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In this uniquely American memoir, Homer "Sonny" Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to set their sights on the stars. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career that fulfilled his boyhood ambition, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking listeners into the life of the little mining town and the boys who came to embody both its tensions and its dreams.
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wish it was unabridged.
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Rocket Boys
- Narrated by: Beau Bridges
- Series: Coalwood (abridged), Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-04-00
- Language: English
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Rocket Boys
- The Coalwood Series, Book 1
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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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.
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Rocket Boys
- The Coalwood Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Series: Coalwood, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-05-11
- Language: English
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From Rocket Boys to October Sky
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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Since the publication of the #1 bestseller Rocket Boys: A Memoir in 1998 and the premiere of the movie October Sky in 1999, many Homer Hickam listeners and fans have wondered how and why he wrote the book, and how the movie was made. Incidental to that are such questions as "What is Jake Gyllenhaal, Chis Cooper, Laura Dern, etc. really like?" and "What's it like to have a movie made about your life?" and "Why are the book and movie different?" and "Why are both book and movie still so popular after all these years?" The answers to those questions and a lot more are in Homer Hickam's new audiobook From Rocket Boys to October Sky.
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From Rocket Boys to October Sky
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Series: Coalwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 22-11-13
- Language: English
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Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her Alligator
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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From the best-selling author of Rocket Boys - the basis of the movie October Sky - comes a long-awaited prequel. Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times best-selling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys - the basis of the movie October Sky.
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My Best of 2015
- By sarahmoose2000 on 22-12-15
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Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, His Wife and Her Alligator
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Series: Coalwood, Book 0.5
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-11-15
- Language: English
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The Coalwood Way
- A Memoir
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: David Lansbury
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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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 crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered Homer, Sr., is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife, Elsie, is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople.
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The Coalwood Way
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: David Lansbury
- Series: Coalwood (abridged), Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 26-01-01
- Language: English
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Don't Blow Yourself Up
- The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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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. But what happened to Homer after he was a West Virginia rocket boy? In his latest memoir, Homer recounts how he fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, discovered sunken U-boats, befriended Tom Clancy, and more. Although told with humor and wit, Hickam does not shy away from the hardship endured and the mistakes he made during the tumultuous decades since his life in the town he made famous—Coalwood, West Virginia.
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Don't Blow Yourself Up
- The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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Cielo de octubre [Rocket Boys]
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Alberto Santillan
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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Pero en 1957, luego de haber visto el satélite soviético Sputnik cruzar el cielo de los Apalaches, Sonny y sus amigos adolescentes tomaron el futuro en sus manos, cambiando sus vidas y su ciudad para siempre. Recordando una carrera distinguida en la NASA que hizo realidad los sueños de su niñez, Hickam relata la historia de su juventud, llevando a los lectores a la vida de aquel pueblo minero y las de los muchachos que encarnaron sus tensiones y sus sueños.
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Cielo de octubre [Rocket Boys]
- Narrated by: Alberto Santillan
- Series: Coalwood [Spanish Edition], Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 28-11-17
- Language: Spanish
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Albert muss nach Hause
- Die irgendwie wahre Geschichte eines Mannes, seiner Frau und ihres Alligators
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Michael-Che Koch
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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"Ich oder der Alligator!" Keinen Tag länger will Homer Hickam der Ältere sein Badezimmer mit einem bissigen Reptil namens Albert teilen. Als der Bergwerksarbeiter seiner Frau ein Ultimatum stellt, muss Elsie lange überlegen. Schließlich ist ein Leben ohne Alligator doch sinnlos. Wie alles hier in Coalwood, West Virginia. Die ganze trostlose Stadt liegt unter einer schwarzen Staubschicht begraben. Und selbst vor ihrer Ehe hat die Große Depression keinen Halt gemacht.
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Albert muss nach Hause
- Die irgendwie wahre Geschichte eines Mannes, seiner Frau und ihres Alligators
- Narrated by: Michael-Che Koch
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-07-16
- Language: German
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Albert Vuelve a Casa [Carrying Albert Home]
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Alberto Santillan
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Elsie Lavender y Homer Hickam (el padre del autor) eran compañeros de clase en la secundaria en los campos de carbón de West Virginia, graduándose justo cuando comenzaba la Gran depresión. Cuando Homer pidió le propuso matrimonio, Elsie partió para Orlando donde congenió con un actor bailarín llamado Buddy Ebsen (sí, ese Buddy Ebsen). Pero cuando Buddy se mudó para Nueva York, los sueños de Elsie de una vida con él se hicieron trizas, y eventualmente regresó a los campos de carbón, y se casó con Homer.
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Albert Vuelve a Casa [Carrying Albert Home]
- Narrated by: Alberto Santillan
- Series: Coalwood [Spanish Edition], Book 0.5
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-06-16
- Language: Spanish
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Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company
- A Helium-3 Novel, Book 3
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Crater Trueblood has to rescue his ex-girlfriend... and the entire human race. Maria Medaris - gorgeous, powerful, and high-maintenance - is the 21-year-old matriarch of the most powerful family on the moon. When she is kidnapped by green-lipped, gene-splicing scientists, Maria's only hope turns out to be the very man she once spurned: Crater Trueblood. Crater and the Lunar Rescue Company must rescue Maria before she joins forces with the lunatics who have taken her hostage and aim to make her queen.
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Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company
- A Helium-3 Novel, Book 3
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Series: A Helium-3 Novel, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 28-12-14
- Language: English
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Paco: The Cat Who Meowed in Space
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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Homer Hickam recalls his first years as a NASA engineer, while also telling the story of his fluffy black and white cat Paco, who had the magic ability to make people smile and give them hope. But when Paco was struck down by a disease that left him unable to walk, Hickam was faced with a terrible decision, let his beloved cat live in misery or put him to sleep. Before that decision could be made, the space mission Hickam was working on needed to be rescued and there was only one sure way to save it: Paco's magic meow!
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Paco: The Cat Who Meowed in Space
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Series: Coalwood, Book 4
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-10-13
- Language: English
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Crescent
- A Helium-3 Novel, Book 2
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Crescent is a crowhopper - a genetically modified mercenary programmed for ruthless warfare. When she’s taken prisoner by Crater Trueblood instead of being killed in battle, she thinks it’s a disaster. Crater is weary of war. He’s a miner, not a soldier. He’d rather be mining Helium-3 than battling the infernal crowhoppers. But after he captures Crescent and brings her to Moontown, he’s surprised how much he enjoys her company. When she’s falsely accused of murder, he becomes an outlaw to help her escape.
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Crescent
- A Helium-3 Novel, Book 2
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Series: A Helium-3 Novel, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-05-13
- Language: English
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Crater
- A Helium-3 Novel, Book 1
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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A mining colony on the moon. A deadly mission. And a secret bigger than two worlds. Sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood loves his job as a Helium-3 miner. But when he saves a fellow miner, his life changes forever. Impressed by his heroism, the owner of the mine orders Crater to undertake a dangerous mission. Crater doesn't think he can do it, but he has no choice. He must go. With the help of Maria, the mine owner's frustrating but gorgeous granddaughter, and his gillie - a sometimes insubordinate clump of slime mold cells - Crater must fight both human and subhuman enemies.
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Crater
- A Helium-3 Novel, Book 1
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Series: A Helium-3 Novel, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-10-19
- Language: English
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Red Helmet
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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Song Hawkins is a beautiful, tough, but lonely New York City businesswoman who thinks she's met the man of her dreams in Cable Jordan, the superintendent of a West Virginia coal mine. But soon after they impulsively marry, Song realizes they're in big trouble. She can't imagine life outside of New York, and Cable has no intention of leaving his beloved town of Highcoal. Song's visit to the little mining community only makes things worse. It looks like the marriage is over. But in a shocking turn of events, Song realizes it's up to her to put on the red helmet of the new coal miner.
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Red Helmet
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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