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1) Too far down
Author
Series
Cimarron legacy volume 3
Language
English
Description
When an explosion at the mine kills workers and damages the CR Company, the Boden family is plunged deep into the heart of trouble yet again. As they try to identify the forces against them once and for all, Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back in the east, and all that New Mexico offers--namely, his family and cowgirl Melanie Blake.
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into disarray by the arrival of the younger sister she had thought dead.
4) Deep Down
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Beverly and Terry grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet's shrinking supply of natural resources? While Beverly organizes her neighbors to stop Miller Brothers Coal from advancing into her hollow, Terry considers signing away the mining rights to his...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 1909 coal mine disaster in Cherry, Illinois, that killed hundreds of men, left more than four hundred children fatherless, inspired the first worker's compensation laws, and helped bring about changes in child labor practices.
7) Jolene
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter's health - and lessen the burden on their family - Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown. As she settles into her new life, Anna learns new skills at Aunt Jinny's side and discovers that she, too, has...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labor union, and the legendary "miners' angel," Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the forbidding deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in this riveting thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author"--
A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible...
11) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
Director-approved special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters,"...
12) The mine wars
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested.
13) Sky of stone
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xii, 571 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author continues the story of his life with an account of the summer of 1961, which marked the end of his first year of college and the beginning of his dreams to leave his hometown of Coalwood behind.
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