From the #1 bestselling author of October Sky comes this rich,unforgettable tale. With the same dazzling storytelling thatdistinguished his first memoir, Homer Hickam takes us deeper intothe soul of his West Virginia hometown at a moment when its uniqueway of life is buffeted by forces of time and change. It is fall 1959. Homer “Sonny” Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boysare in their senior year at Big Creek High, and the town ofCoalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where Homer Sr.struggles to save the mine, and his wife, Elsie, is feelingincreasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople.Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl, findshis own mood darkened by an unexplainable sadness. Then, with the holidays approaching, trouble at the mine and thearrival of a beautiful young outsider bring unexpected changes inboth the Hickam family and the town of Coalwood ... as thisluminous memoir moves toward

Book De*ion Fashioned from the sameexperiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn,Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and mostpersonal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocationof the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholyreminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a pricelesscollection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a uniqueglimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatestin English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain asnot only the most popular humorist of his time but also America’smost profound chronicler of the human comedy. The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before theAmerican Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The bookbegins with a brief history of the river from its discovery byHernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Twain's career asa Mississ

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The late tennis champion, activist, and AIDS victim remembershis experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphson the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle withhis disease. Reprint. NYT.

“Buried as a g while tha whole world remembers me” –Tupac Shakur, from “Until the End ofTime” Tupac Shakur was larger than life. A giftedrapper, actor, and poet, he was fearless, prolific, andcontroversial–and often said that he never expected to live pastthe age of thirty. He was right. On September 13, 1996, he died ofgunshot wounds at age twenty-five. But even ten years after Tupac’stragic passing, the impact of his life and talent continues toflourish. Lauded as one of the greatest hip-hop artists of alltime, Tupac has sold more than sixty-seven million recordsworldwide, making him the top-selling rapper ever. How Long Will They Mourn Me? celebrates Tupac’sunforgettable life–his rise to fame; his tumultuous dark sidemarked by sex, drugs, and violence; and the indelible legacy heleft behind. Although Tupac’s murder remains unsolved, the spiritof this legendary artist is far from forgotten. How long will wemourn him? Fans worldwide will grieve his untimely death for a longti

A German soldier during World War II offers an inside look atthe Nazi war machine, using his wartime diaries to describe how aruthless psychopath motivated an entire generation of ordinaryGermans to carry out his monstrous schemes.

Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion ofreaders with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble miningtown of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times crownedhis first book, the #1 national bestseller October Sky , “aneloquent evocation ... a thoroughly charming memoir.” And People called The Coalwood Way , Hickam’s follow-up to October Sky , “a heartwarmer ... truly beautiful andhaunting.”