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May 04, 2005

Outstanding Books for the College Bound & Lifelong Learners Book List

The books on the Outstanding Books for the College Bound & Lifelong Learners list offer opportunities to discover new ideas and provide an introduction to the fascinating variety of subjects within an academic discipline. This list is created by a YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) committee of public, school and academic librarians, in collaboration with the Association of College and Research Libraries. The 2004 list is organized into five academic disciplines: history, humanities, literature and language arts, science and technology, and social sciences and includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography and drama.

Stephanie Nolen. Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race
Stephanie Nolen tracked down all eleven of the surviving "Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees." From the FLATs, Nolen gets the firsthand story of those exciting early days of the space race. But the thrill was short-lived. The thirteen women who were thought to be prime astronaut material were grounded in 1961 when the woman-in-space program was abruptly and mysteriously cancelled. Until now, the FLATs never knew why.