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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Reckoning at Eagle Creek Reckoning at Eagle Creek Jeff Biggers "Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into the secret history of coal mining in the American heartland. Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined home… OL15731394W
A blast from the past A blast from the past Andrew Paterson "Andra McAnulty spent his whole life campaigning for better working/living conditions for the less well off members of society. After he and his family were involved in The Blantyre Pit Disaster, whi… OL24189545W
SURVIVING ABERFAN SURVIVING ABERFAN STEVE HUMPHRIES On 21 October 1966, thousands of tonnes of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass crashed through the local school and 144 people were ki… OL28607479W
The small mine The small mine Menna Gallie First published in 1962, this novel tells the tale of a young collier's death in a mining accident in Cilhendre, a fictional industrial village in the south Wales Valleys. The story vividly and sympa… OL5107363W
The Breaker Whistle Blows The Breaker Whistle Blows Ellis Wynne Roberts In this volume the breaker whistle is the symbol for recalling some selected highlights of the anthracite coal era, a period of about 100 years between the Avondale Mining Disaster in 1869 and the Kn… OL5159626W
Oneness Oneness Dean Cotton,DEAN COTTON,LORENA COTTON This is a story/tribute to the author's grandparents, Luciano and Angiolina Galletti. OL5739776W