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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. When it appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama, and it is now widely considered the major work of D.H. Lawrence's early period. This intensely autobiographical novel recounts the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-class family rife with conflict. The author's vivid evocation...
6) The striker
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell -- a document that re-opens a historical mystery. In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky. Medgar...
Series
Studio classic volume 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
11) Little accidents
Publisher
Starz/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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.
12) Fatal
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Returning to his Virginia home to investigate the tragic deaths of his wife and father, a young maverick doctor encounters a series of suspicious accidents that reveal a bizarre syndrome that could place countless lives at risk.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Prem Sharma, a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini, his beautiful upper-class wife, leave India in 1963 attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London. It comes as a shock for both the Sharmas and the residents of a small Welsh coal-mining village when they are assigned there instead.
Author
Publisher
Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the motivations of family and friends. Backbreaking work keeps most of the townspeople busy from dawn to dusk,...
16) Sky of stone
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The author of the best-selling October Sky continues the story of his life with an account of the summer of 1961, which marks the end of his first year of college and the beginning of his dreams to leave his hometown of Coalwood behind forever, until a scandal at the mine that threatens to ruin his father draws him back home.
17) Bearmouth
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labor and isolation, the sunlit world far above the mine a distant memory. Newt has lived in the mine since the age of four, and accepts everything from the harsh working conditions to the brutality of the mine's leaders--until the mysterious Devlin arrives and dares to ask the question, "Why?" As tensions rise, Newt is soon looking at Bearmouth with a fresh perspective--challenging the system and setting in motion...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"In 1921, some ten thousand West Virginia coal miners-outraged over years of brutality and exploitation-picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a Federal expeditionary force ended this undeclared war. In The Battle of Blair...
19) Coal
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
Examines the topic coal and related issues from multiple perspectives.
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