TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for…

In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were…

The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three…

Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany’s infamous ‘escape-proof’ wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack…

So too did these 35 men and women, swept up in the dynamic thrust and ongoing development of America’s Space Shuttle program. This book on the Group 8 Astronauts, the…

Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but there were five more fallen astronauts. This book tells their stories also…

November 2015 marked the third year the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library sponsored events in support of National Novel Writing Month. Awe-struck by the hard work and dedication of the 35+…