In 1943, Coast Guard captain Josh Thurlow leads a desperate venture to Japanese-held islands of the South Pacific to track down a Medal of Honor hero and an ambassador's missing son.

In 2002, Jack Medaris--a brilliant, troubled scientist funded by a mysterious consortium--hijacks the Columbia space shuttle before its last routine mission and heads for the moon.

The final mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia is hijacked by a group of NASA insiders determined to use the aging shuttle to travel back to the moon, and save the planet. Reprint.

Continuing the story of the Rocket Boys of Coalwood, West Virginia, the author recounts his senior year in high school, while the forces of change bring Coalwood to a difficult crossroads and strain threatens to tear apart the Hickam home.

Product Description: Crater Trueblood has to rescue his ex-girlfriend . . . and the entire human race.Watch the video trailer! youtube.com/watch?v=drAl-Rnjwk4Maria Medaris is the 21-year-old matriarch of the most powerful family on the moon--gorgeous, powerful, and high-maintenance...read more

In a sequel to The Ambassador's Son and The Keeper's Son, Coast Guard captain Josh Thurlow and his ragtag team of men race against time in a desperate quest to stay one step ahead of the enemy as they make their way amongst the Japanese-held islands of the South Pacific. 75,000 first printing.

New York Times Bestselling Author Josh Thurlow, the Keeper's son of the Killakeet Lighthouse has forsworn his heritage to become the commander of the Maudie Jane, a small Coast Guard patrol boat operation off Killakeet. Josh is still tortured by guilt, seventeen years after losing his baby brother at sea. Then his life is complicated by the arrival of the beautiful Dosie Crossan, who has journeyed to lonely Killakeet to escape the outside world. While Josh's heart is stirred by the often vexing Dosie, he continues his search for his brother, even after a wolf pack of German U-boats arrives to soak the island's beaches with blood and oil.

The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite 'Sputnik' (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is an account on audiotape of NASA engineer Hickam's high school days in West Virginia in the 1950s. When 14-year-old Homer watches Sputnik fly over his home town, his life is changed forever. His group of "Rocket Boy" friends launch their own rocket into space, and unite a town and a family...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. Read by Beau Bridges. Book available.

The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite 'Sputnik'

Product Description: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia...read more

In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man's death. Sonny's mother, Elsie, has commanded her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. But within hours of his arrival, Sonny realizes two things: His father, always cold and distant with his second son, doesn't want him there... and his parents' marriage has begun to unravel. For Sonny, so begins a summer of discovery - a time when he will learn about love, loss, and a closely guarded secret that threatens to destroy his father and his town. As the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself changing in surprising ways, taking the first real steps toward adulthood. But it's a journey he can make only by unraveling the story of a man's death and a father's secret - the mysteries that lie at the heart of Coalwood.

Presents an account of death and rescue at sea during the early years of World War II, when German U-boats cruised up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, sinking 259 ships and littering the waters with cargo and bodies.

Excerpts from the writings of the twelfth-century German nun and mystic lends insight into the visions she recorded in her major work, Scivias, convey her beliefs about a feminine and creative incarnation of the divine, and offer counsel on how to know the ways of God. 15,000 first printing.

The best-selling author of October Sky shares the hard-won wisdom of the people of his coal-mining town roots to help Americans deal with the fear following September 11, 2001, including such truisms as 'We are not afraid,' We are proud of who we are,' 'We stand up for what we believe,' 'We work hard,' and 'We believe in miracles.' Original. 400,000 first printing. (view table of contents)