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1) Germinal
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Series
Language
English
Description
During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, experiences the miserable life of the coal miners in northern France and enters the struggle between capital and labor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
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...
4) The striker
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Series
Language
English
Description
It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly...
5) Sister mine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Shae-Lynn's sister, Shannon, who she thought was killed by their abusive father, arrives on her doorstep being pursued by a Russian thug, a lawyer, and a desperate housewife, causing a ruckus in their small Pennsylvania mining town
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens and the five children of the Novak family the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
9) Fatal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...
11) Fall of giants
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families -- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh -- as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian...
12) Jolene
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The ... Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country ... 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...
Author
Publisher
Tutis Digital Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A mining engineer returns to Aberfoyle coal mine, where the workings had played out ten years before, to find the mine foreman and his family living in a cottage deep in the mine where a rich new vein has been found. But some inimical force is bent upon stopping the foreman and his friend from reviving the works
Author
Series
Drago mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Nick and Sal try gather clues to stop a mad arsonist from burning down the city of Bandon
16) 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...
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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,...
18) Drago #5 (#2B)
Author
Publisher
Art Spinella]
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Guns. Women. Coal. Gold. In this sequel to Drago #2a, Nick and Sal are joined by Tatiana, Frankie Blue and Cookie of the Caught Looking private investigation agency, as they begin the hunt for the face behind the "Tree man" crimes
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...
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