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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
English
Description
"Detective Isaac Bells wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agendaone involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building...
2) Baker Towers
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The decade following World War II becomes one of tragedy, excitement, and unexpected change for the five Novak children and the residents of their western Pennsylvania community of company houses, church festivals, and union squabbles.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
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English
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In the town of Coal Run, the local deputy, Ivan Zoschenko, a permanently-injured one-time football legend branded for life as "The Great Ivan Z," spends a week seemingly preparing for an old teammate's imminent release from prison. He is surrounded by a rich cast of characters: his wise and comic ex-beauty-queen sister; his former idol, Val Claypool; and the young woman whose life he changed forever. During the events of this week, Ivan Confronts...
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This novel, originally written in 1916, published in 1921, explores the lives of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their developing love affairs with Rupert Birkin, an intellectual, and Gerald Crich, an industrialist. The despair of one sister's relationship contrasts with the happiness of the other's as the four clash in thought, passion, and belief, in their search for a life that is truly complete. The novel is the sequel to The Rainbow....
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 11
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"--
7) Fatal
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English
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Three strangers-Matt Rutledge, Nikki Solari, and Ellen Kroft-each hold one piece of a puzzle they must solve, and solve quickly. If they don't, it will be far more than just their own lives that are at risk.
8) Sister mine
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
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.
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How Green Was My Valley volume 1
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English
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Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his childhood in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the close knit Morgans, and his devoted parents, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
10) Rose
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English
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The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man. When he begins his search every road leads back to one woman, a haughty, vixenish pit girl named Rose. With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers, she cares nothing for a society that calls her...
11) Gray Mountain
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English
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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...
12) The saboteurs
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English
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Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda--one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the...
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English
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Witnessing what she believes to be the murder of an infant in a Depression-era Alabama mining town, a nine-year-old girl and her civic-minded family subsequently struggle with the darker side of their racially torn community.
14) Fall of Giants
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Series
Century trilogy volume 1
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Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Killing for Coal offers an original perspective on the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews examines the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers' strikes over the course of nearly half a century. He reveals a complex world shaped by the connected forces of land, labor, corporate industrialization,...
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Map volume 15
Publisher
Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Author
Series
Map volume 23
Publisher
Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of the publication is to provide insight into the Colorado coal industry. This report presents geologic, production and location data for permitted Colorado coal mines.
Author
Series
Bulletin volume 34-A
Publisher
Colorado Geological Survey
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English