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Clemenc, Ana K 1888-1956 Clemenc, Ana K 1888-1956 Fiction Copper Miners' Strike, Mich., 1913-1914 Fiction Labor movement Labor movement Michigan History 20th century Fiction Michigan Mines and mineral resources Mines and mineral resources Fiction Women labor leaders Women labor leaders Michigan FictionL'Amour, Louis
Summary: It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1990
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Summary: Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Contents: Introduction : the mineral collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science / Joel A. Bartsch, Wendell E. Wilson and Mark Mauthner -- The discerning eye : what makes a mineral collectible? / Wendell E. Wilson -- Plates / Wendell E. Wilson and Joel A. Bartsch -- The paths of discovery : from the mine to the museum / Wendell E. Wilson -- A royal passion : a history of aristocratic mineral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Mineralogical Record, in association with H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 549.074 WILCollins, Ailynn
Summary: After losing their communication link with two members of their team, the remaining young miners abandon their expedition on Asteroid AX245 to search for their missing friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLHutchinson, Michael
Summary: "Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting archaeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance. In the midst of community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUTScheyder, Ernest
Summary: Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.8 SCHSimons, Donna Searight.
Summary: "In 1913, Paul Weyburn and his fellow copper miners have tolerated dangerous working conditions for too long. Some of their workmates are being maimed or killed thousands of feet underground. . .which one of them will be next? Paul leads some of the miners on a labor strike to bring attention to the dangers of blasting and drilling copper for low pay. Marie, his wife, struggles to raise their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMKaunonen, Gary.
Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAULindsey, Johanna
Summary: In 1880s Montana where passions and gold fever run high, an American heiress turns to a rugged mountain man to help her locate her father's fortune. Summoned back to Philadelphia from the social whirl in London, Violet Mitchell never expected to find her brothers living on the edge of financial ruin while their father seeks new wealth in Montana's gold fields.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LINSteele, Michael Anthony.
Summary: Mining is a blast for these Lego City miners! Will they find gold?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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Summary: From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 GREPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 20171 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2017
Hunter, Dianna
Summary: "Susan B. Ellingson (SB to those who know her) publishes a struggling newspaper with the help of a retired librarian. Near the mining town of Iron, Minnesota, waters split three ways along the Laurentian Divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. When a corporation seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holy Cow! Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction RusDenning, Susan.
Summary: It's 1867 in New York City and Aislynn Denehy's close friend, Tim Nolan is forced west to find work in a Utah mining camp. Aislynn follows, enduring the treacherous trail only to find life in the raucous Treasure Mountain camp brings small joys and big challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [S.l.] 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DENFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.11 FRARussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUSRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 207 FIC RUSSummary: Explores the three categories of mineral resources found within the earth (power resources, gem stones, and metals) and how they have been utilized for the advancement of civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRELehto, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LEH1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 LEH
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur LehtoCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 LehHopeless, Dennis
Summary: "A flash flood in Rainbow Ridge reveals shocking truths about the masked bandits and Barnabas's dealings with his mine. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. "--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPHopeless, Dennis
Summary: "Abby joins the masked bandits to steal from her father, but when Onawa drags Barnabas deep into the mine, the spirit of Big Thunder Mountain reveals its earth-shaking power. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPSummary: In this highly anticipated sequel to the popular TNT original movie, Noah Wyle reprises his role as Flynn Carsen, the nerdy yet precocious librarian who was called to protect the world's greatest secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006