{"id":3113,"date":"2025-04-28T14:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:44:03","slug":"ldrl-recommends-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"LDRL Recommends"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3113\" class=\"elementor elementor-3113\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4bcf2ed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4bcf2ed\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4e71afa\" data-id=\"4e71afa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-273c754 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"273c754\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3033\" alt=\"LDRL Recommends\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL.jpg 851w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LDRL-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4f3487 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e4f3487\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: center;\">LDRL\u00a0Recommends: <i>Rocket Boys<\/i>\u00a0By: Home Hickam<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Staff Member:\u00a0Joel<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Joel says, &#8220;Rocket Boys is the memoir\u00a0of Homer Hickman, a noted engineer at NASA. It is the story of a young boy whose dream of spaceflight would set him on a trajectory very far away from his dying coal-mining town in West Virginia. It is a remarkably honest book that details his triumphs, failures, and on occasion, dangerous explosions from his handmade rockets.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Little Dixie Regional Libraries serves Randolph and Monroe Counties with branches in Moberly, Madison, Paris, and Huntsville.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01bc5a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"01bc5a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-768x576.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-3114\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1140x855.png 1140w, https:\/\/www.little-dixie.lib.mo.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LDRL\u00a0Recommends: Rocket Boys\u00a0By: Home HickamStaff Member:\u00a0Joel\u00a0Joel says, &#8220;Rocket Boys is the memoir\u00a0of Homer Hickman, a noted engineer at NASA. 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