West Virginia

NOLADawn said, "West Virginia- From West Virginia with Love by Andrew Chafin."

Chafin's hobby is writing about Appalachia and its people and places. From West Virginia with Love is the sequel to Noble's Decision, a novel about life, love, and politics in a small Appalachian town. Dawn, does this book work as a stand-alone novel? Or do we first need to read Noble's Decision? Umm, never mind, I can't find thr earlier novel online, anyway. Have you read From West Virginia with Love? If so, what did you think of it?

West Virginia

Bonnie said, "Rocket Boys, a memoir by NASA engineer Homer Hickam, is a good one for West Virginia. He paints a vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive."

From the publisher: "The #1 New York Times bestselling 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."

Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true.