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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Visit the Moon

Have you heard of 172 Hours on the Moon? It is a new book by John Harstad (translated by Tara F. Chance) about what happens when 3 teenagers win a contest to spend 172 hours on the moon to re-invigrate interest in space travel.

Here is a synopisis from Goodreads:

It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space--and change their lives forever.
 

Mia, from Norway, hopes this will be her punk band's ticket to fame and fortune.
Midori believes it's her way out of her restrained life in Japan.
Antoine, from France, just wants to get as far away from his ex-girlfriend as possible.
 

It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space... no one is coming to save them.

In this chilling adventure set in the most brutal landscape known to man, highly acclaimed Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad creates a vivid and frightening world of possibilities we can only hope never come true.


Add this book to your reserve list at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library




And, if you want to learn more about the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, We Choose the Moon is a great project from the John F. Kennedy Library complete with photographs and more to experience history.