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2) Bearmouth
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Having lived and worked in Bearmouth mine since age four, Newt accepts everything about the brutal life until mysterious Devlin arrives and dares to ask why, leading Newt and other miners to challenge the system.
3) Breaker boy
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1911 Pennsylvania, Corey, eleven, works in coal mines to help support his family, but when an accident triggers a phobia, he must turn to a strange recluse for help.
4) Too far down
Author
Series
Cimarron legacy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
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
Random House
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
A romance between two people in a Pennsylvania town, below which a fire burns in a coal mine. He is Christopher, a drifter, but also a rich man. As people and animals die, sucked by the fire, he realizes the town is doomed and uses his money to build houses for resettlement. Many take advantage, but Rachel, his love, refuses to abandon her hometown. How can he convince her before it is too late? A first novel.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Judd Markley is a hardworking coal miner who rarely thinks much past tomorrow until he loses his brother--and nearly his own life--in a mine cave-in. Vowing never to enter the darkness of a mine again, he leaves all he knows in West Virginia to escape to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's 1954, the seaside community is thriving, and Judd soon hires on with a timber company. Larkin Heyward's life in Myrtle Beach is uncomplicated, mostly doing volunteer...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
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...
10) Katerina's wish
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
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