Rocket Boys

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Rocket Boys

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The Coalwood Way

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Rocket Boys: A Memoir

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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight

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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

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Sky of Stone: A Memoir

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Red Helmet

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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

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Call of the Wild

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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

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Apollo 13

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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

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Crater

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Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings

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Forrest Gump

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Crescent

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

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A Man on the Moon

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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Old Yeller

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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

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Black Hawk Down

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Apollo 11: The Inside Story

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Hawkes Harbor

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Dances with Wolves

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The Bomb

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496: Fiona and Terryl Givens and "The Crucible of Doubt" Part 2: In their latest book, The Crucible of Doubt, published by Deseret Book, Fiona and Terryl Givens tackle perhaps their most daunting -- and important -- subject to date: doubt in the context of Mormon faith. In Part 2, Terryl and Fiona take us...

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David Morrell: 50 Years of Rambo: On May 25, 1972, he introduced the world to Rambo with the publication of his debut thriller, First Blood. Over the past 50 years it has never been out of print.

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Author Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary

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285: Chapter 14 -- Jane Eyre: Unto Tears

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495: Fiona and Terryl Givens and "The Crucible of Doubt" Part 1: In their latest book, The Crucible of Doubt, published by Deseret Book, Fiona and Terryl Givens tackle perhaps their most daunting -- and important -- subject to date: doubt in the context of Mormon faith. In Part 1, we interview a Mormon Stories...

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Homer Hickam – Bestselling Author: In this episode: We meet Homer Hickam, author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Rocket Boys and its ever-popular movie adaptation, October Sky. Rocket Boys is the story of a young man and his friends in Coalwood, West Virginia, who, inspired...

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Episode 172 - Still In The Saddle: The Hollywood Western with Author Andrew Patrick Nelson!: In this episode, I spoke with author Andrew Patrick Nelson about his book "Still In The Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969 -1980". By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passé—or so the story...

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E.21-A Prodigious Interview with Homer Hickam!: Born in 1943 West Virginia, Homer Hickam, Jr. was a barely a teenager when the Soviet space program launched Sputnik 1, and subsequently launched Homer into a lifelong relationship with space.  The 1999 movie "October Sky" is roughly based on his memoir,...

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The Terror: Jim and A.Ron have seen AMC’s The Terror, the epic horror/historical drama set in the mid-nineteenth century that tries to answer the question of what went wrong during the doomed Franklin expedition to the arctic circle. These intrepid men...

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Tails from Majestic Jason Chapman: Tails from Majestic Jason Chapman

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Let emotion be your North Star: Composer Kris Bowers

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354-Falling Through a Thunderstorm: In 1959, Marine pilot William Rankin parachuted through a violent thunderstorm.

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Episode 231 — Colum McCann: Colum McCann is the guest. In 2009, he won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin and this year published a new novel called Transatlantic. He is also the curator of a new anthology called The Book of Men, available now from...

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Musk Company Town, Daylight Savings War Redux 03.10.23

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Ep. 334 | Qian Xuesen (Part 1): In Part 1 we'll look at Qian Xuesen's early life, how he came to America and his work up to 1950

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The Peking Express with James Zimmerman: Laszlo chats with Beijing long-timer James Zimmerman about his new book concerning the 1923 Lincheng Outrage

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315-Beryl Markham's Unconventional Life: Beryl Markham trained racehorses, flew across the Atlantic, and wrote a book that impressed Hemingway.

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David McCullough: David McCullough

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Episode 1 | "On The Road With The Ramones" & "When The Wall Of Sound Met The New York Underground"/Frank Meyer: For the debut episode of Booked On Rock we talk with Frank Meyer, author of two great books on the Ramones! ON THE ROAD WITH THE RAMONES: Throughout the remarkable twenty-two-year career of the Ramones the seminal punk rock band Monte A. Melnick...

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#256/Mid-Century Cars and Trailers: Susan Skarsgard + Tom Dolle + Jeff Stork + Eric Bricker: The development of four-lane highways and interstates in the 1950’s and 1960’s created a huge surge in car travel.  In a time before the minivan, families would pile in the station wagon or the Airstream and hit the road to discover...

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The Terror

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THE FIRST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP

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One Fist In The Air ( Donkey of the Day, Cheryl McKissack and Don Peebles Interview, and Positive Note)

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316-A Malaysian Mystery: In 1967, American businessman Jim Thompson disappeared from a cottage in Malaysia.

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124-D.B. Cooper: In 1971 a hijacker bailed out of a plane with $200,000 and was never seen again.

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The Bible, Underground!!: The Underground comic book movement spread like wildfire in the late 1960’s, the champion of the form was Robert Crumb, a pioneer of Comix! In the 1970’s Crumb’s work would spread across the culture with his popular “Keep On Trucking” images and comic ...

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273-Alice Ramsey's Historic Drive: In 1909, Alice Ramsey set out to cross the United States by car.

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John Zhu retells the Three Kingdoms story

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The Death of Conservatism? (Part 1): How did a once-marginal movement of right-wing ideologues manage to take power in America, ascending to the highest levels of government? In the first of two episodes on Sam Tanenhaus's "The Death of Conservatism," we look at the early history of post-war American conservatism. (Buckley, Bozell, and Burnham, oh my!)

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#63: Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Hey bud! Way back in 1981, Rolling Stone journali…