Books-A-Million Celebrates Huntsville Author.BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1998--Books-A-Million, Inc., (Nasdaq/NM:BAMM BAMM British Association of Medical Managers BAMM Bay Area Model Mugging (now Impact Bay Area) BAMM Beta and Advection Model - Medium BAMM Bay Area Math Meet (San Francisco, CA) ) the nation's third largest bookseller, proudly celebrates the release of "Rocket Boys Rocket Boys is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. ," by Homer H. Hickam Jr. This is the extraordinary chronicle of Hickam's youth in a small American town in the 1950s -- a place where the only things that mattered were coal mining and high school football until Hickam and his friends turned their dreams of building rockets into reality, changing forever their lives and their town. It is a rare remembrance of a unique time and place and a way of life that no longer exists, a beautifully written testimonial to the power of community and hard work in the face of adversity, and a touching portrayal of growing up and moving on. Homer H. Hickam, Jr. was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia Coalwood is an unincorporated coal mining town in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. As of the 1990 Census, the population was 900. The coal mines there reached their peak sometime in the 1960s and finally shut down production in the 1980s. . The author of "Torpedo Junction," a Military History Book-of-the-Month-Club selection, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space and American History Illustrated, he is a retired NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. engineer, consults on aerospace projects that interest him, and lives in Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville is the largest city in northern Alabama in a region of a half-million people, with the city proper having 168,132 residents (2006 estimate). . "Great memoirs must balance the universal and the particular. Too much of the former makes it overly familiar; too much of the latter makes readers ask what the story has to do with them. In his debut, Hickam, a retired NASA engineer, walks that line beautifully...No matter how jaded readers have become by the onslaught of memoirs, none will want to miss the fantastic voyage of BCMA BCMA British Columbia Medical Association BCMA British Complementary Medicine Association BCMA Bar Code Medication Administration BCMA Black Consciousness Movement of Azania BCMA British Country Music Association BCMA Board-Certified Master Arborist , Auk, and Coalwood," raves Publishers Weekly, starred review. Books-A-Million, Inc. is one of the leading book retailers in the southeastern United States. The Company presently operates 166 bookstores in 17 states. The Company operates three distinct store formats, including large superstores operating under the names Books-A-Million and Books & Co., traditional bookstores and combination book and greeting card stores, both operating under the name Bookland Book´land` n. 1. (O. Eng. Law) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds. . The company also sells books at its site on the World Wide Web. (http://www.booksamillion.com) ---------- Books-A-Million will be hosting five book signing events honoring Homer H. Hickam Jr. and his debut release of "Rocket Boys." Following is the schedule: Books-A-Million September 19, 1998 11:00 am 975 Airport Road Southwest Huntsville, Alabama Books-A-Million September 24, 1998 5:30 pm 310 South Illinois Avenue Oak Ridge, Tennessee Oak Ridge is an incorporated city in Anderson and Roane Counties in East Tennessee, about 25 miles northwest of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 people at the 2000 census. Books-A-Million September 26, 1998 1:00 pm 7703 Crestwood Boulevard Birmingham, Alabama Books-A-Million September 27, 1998 1:00 pm 900 Quintard Drive Oxford, Alabama Books-A-Million September 28, 1998 5:30 pm 1682 Beltline Road Southwest Decatur, Alabama |
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