Knight, Mary, (E. Mary)
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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Summary: Throughout his day, a young boy thinks of his father who is working in the coal mine that is located underneath the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CusslerMobley, Jeannie.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2012
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts 2009
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: When NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds a document inside an antiquated submersible left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell, it reopens a mystery involving an international power scheme aimed at seizing control of a rare element.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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Summary: After the Alden siblings visit their Great-Aunt Jane's ranch in a mining town, there is a mysterious fire which damages three houses, but Benny's friend Mike notices a strange man in a blue hat in the paper and Mike and Benny suspect he may be the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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Summary: Former police officer Shae-Lynn Penrose now drives a cab in the coal mining town she grew up in. Five of her friends still struggling with memories of being trapped in a mine two years earlier. Shae-Lynn finds herself facing harsh realities and reliving bad dreams of her own including her relationship with her brutal father, her conflicted passion for one of the miners, and the hidden identity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODEStrohmeyer, Sarah.
Summary: Racing to an abandoned coal mine where she has been told she will find a big news story, Bubbles Yablonsky instead finds her boyfriend out cold and the body of a murdered man nearby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2003
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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Summary: A compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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Summary: For the people of Bakerton, and the five children of the Novak family, the years after World War II alter their lives in unforeseen and irrevocable ways. Dorothy is a fragile beauty hooked on romance. Brilliant Joyce, the family's keystone, is bitterly aware of the life she might have had elsewhere. Sandy, the youngest boy, sails through life on looks and charm. George, the veteran, is driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Summary: Coal mining community deputy Ivan Zoschenko remembers the injury that ended his football career, prepares for a former teammate's release from prison, and confronts a secret that has troubled his conscience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: A series of interconnected stories portrays the close-knit coal mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, exploring themes of regret, redemption, and acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2002
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Summary: "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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KURLackey, Mercedes
Summary: "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 and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown. As she settles into her new life, Anna learns new skills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACAlmond, David
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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Summary: "When young Gordon Elliot was sent to Alaska by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to investigate the validity of the Kamatlah claims, he was warned about Colby MacDonald. "The biggest man in Alaska, bar none," they said. But they also said: "If you won't get out of his road, he peels your hide off and hangs it up to dry." Well, one of the reasons they sent Elliot was because they knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2018