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21) Chase
Author
Language
English
Description
In mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound
22) Coal outlook
Publisher
Platts
Pub. Date
19uu
Language
English
Description
Platts Coal Outlook focuses on the politics, production and markets of the steam coal industry in the United States.
23) A distant music
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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...
24) Coal
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Coal : is coal the future of energy?; Is coal use justified?; Should coal use be phased out?; Is coal mining safe?"--
25) 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
Language
English
Description
A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and legendary detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about a famous maritime disaster. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring water rescue from inside an antiquated submersible. He also finds a document left behind by Bell that re-opens a historical mystery. In 1911, Bell investigates a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. This leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the sobering resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, the cover-up activities of the coal mining industry, and the awareness activities of regional mining communities.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Love is patient and kind...1 Corinthians 13:4 West Virginia, 1869 Three years ago, Dr. Daniel Kavanagh settled down in the quaint town of Mount Laurel and established a medical practice there. The single doctor has been nursing an unrequited crush on Serena Norman, the local schoolteacher. Just down the road lies the coal mining town of Owenduffy, considered by most in Mount Laurel to be a backwoods hamlet. When the mine company's doctor abandons...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
495 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jennifer M. Silva tellas a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the erosion of the American Dream is lived and felt.
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...
34) Economic factors affecting the mining, processing, gasification, and marketing of Coos Bay coals
Author
Series
Open-file report volume O-75-6
Publisher
State of Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
61 leaves ; 28 cm + 4 ms. maps (color ; 58 x 43 cm).
Language
English
39) Black diamonds
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
194 p. : ; cm
Language
English
40) Coal river
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One of America's most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are decapitating the mountains. The forested ridge tops and valley streams of Appalachia--one of the country's natural treasures--are being destroyed, along with towns and communities. An entire culture is disappearing, and most Americans have no idea it's happening. Journalist Shnayerson recounts the dramatic struggle as grassroots activists...
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