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Author
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...
3) The striker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly...
4) Sister mine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Shae-Lynn's sister, Shannon, who she thought was killed by their abusive father, arrives on her doorstep being pursued by a Russian thug, a lawyer, and a desperate housewife, causing a ruckus in their small Pennsylvania mining town
5) Germinal
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, experiences the miserable life of the coal miners in northern France and enters the struggle between capital and labor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens and the five children of the Novak family the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and...
Author
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,...
9) Fatal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...
11) Jolene
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The ... Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country ... 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...
Author
Publisher
Tutis Digital Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A mining engineer returns to Aberfoyle coal mine, where the workings had played out ten years before, to find the mine foreman and his family living in a cottage deep in the mine where a rich new vein has been found. But some inimical force is bent upon stopping the foreman and his friend from reviving the works
13) Rose
Author
Language
English
Description
Rose is a wonderfully rich and intricate novel set in nineteenth-century Wigan, a town located in the coal country of Lancashire. Its protagonist, Jonathan Blair, is a mining engineer who has been chased out of Africa for "stealing" from the missionaries' Bible Fund in order to pay off the porter of his expedition into the interior of the Gold Coast; he is now down and out in London.
Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises...
Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises...
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 asked...
15) Is underground
Author
Series
Wolves Chronicles volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Bound to keep a promise to her dead uncle, Is travels to the mysterious north country to find two missing boys, one of them a prince, and to discover why so many children in London are disappearing.
16) The wind harp
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
B.J. Hoff's unforgettable characters from A Distant Music reunite for an even more gripping, dramatic episode in The Mountain Song Legacy.
When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood, she has no intention of staying. Her life is in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek...
...nothing but the discovery that a man who has lived most of his life for the children of Skingle Creek is no longer the hero of Maggie's...
17) The song weaver
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author B.J. Hoff will delight readers as her unforgettable characters from A Distant Music and The Wind Harp reunite for a dramatic conclusion to The Mountain Song Legacy trilogy.
When a shadow falls over the MacAuley family, newlyweds Jonathan and Maggie Stuart find their faith and newly discovered happiness tested in unforeseen ways. An abrupt summons to return from their honeymoon wrenches them from the joy of their early days of marriage...
18) Germinal
Author
Series
Publisher
Alianza Editorial
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Germinal (1885), la decimotercera novela de la serie Rougon-Macquart que Émile Zola dedica al proletariado de la mina, narra la historia de Étienne Lantier, un maquinista en busca de trabajo, que llega a Montsou. El escritor describe, de una forma descarnada, el mundo sombrío y mísero de la mina, retratando a un grupo de personas que vive ahogado en condiciones infrahumanas y por cuyas venas el escritor hace correr el odio y el rencor, seres humanos...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years--a disaster that never should have happened. These deaths were rooted in the cynical corporate culture of Massey and its notorious former CEO Don Blankenship, and were part of a cycle of poverty, exploitation, and environmental abuse that has dominated...
20) A distant music
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In the first book of the Mountain Song Legacy series readers step into a small Kentucky coal mining town in the late 1800's where hope is found in the hearts of two young girls-the vibrant, red-headed Maggie MacAuley and her fragile friend Summer Rankin.
When Jonathan Stuart, the latest in a succession of educators, actually wants to continue teaching in the one-room schoolhouse, then Maggie and Summer know that he is special. So when Jonathan's...
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