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Also by Homer Hickam:

My Dream of Stars, March 2010
Hardcover
Sky Of Stone, November 2002
Mass Market Paperback
The Coalwood Way, September 2001
Mass Market Paperback
October Sky, February 1999
Paperback (reprint)

The Coalwood Way
Homer Hickam

Island Books
September 2001
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Featuring: Homer Hickam
400 pages
ISBN: 0440237165
EAN: 9780440237167
Mass Market Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

From the #1 bestselling author of October Sky comes this rich, unforgettable tale. With the same dazzling storytelling that distinguished his first memoir, Homer Hickam takes us deeper into the soul of his West Virginia hometown at a moment when its unique way of life is buffeted by forces of time and change.

It is fall 1959. Homer “Sonny” Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, and the town of Coalwood 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 feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl, finds his own mood darkened by an unexplainable sadness.

Then, with the holidays approaching, trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider bring unexpected changes in both the Hickam family and the town of Coalwood ... as this luminous memoir moves toward its poignant conclusion.

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