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The dark pasture
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Jessica Stirling |
1890s. Seventeen years have passed and the Lanarkshire mining village of Blacklaw has weathered both depression and the driving ambition of its coalmaster. But at last, falling wages have driven the … |
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The Hiring Fair
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Jessica Stirling |
Set in the Scotland of the bleak 1870s, in the Colliery at Blacklaw, the dangerous work has taken the lives of many men. But the Stalkers dream of a better future. In Edinburgh, Drew Stalker studies … |
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King Coal
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Upton Sinclair |
**King Coal** is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single … |
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Work and faith in the Kentucky coal fields
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Richard J. Callahan |
"Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coalfields during the… |
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The ghost's grave
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Peg Kehret |
What Josh thought would be the dullest summer of his life, spent with his eccentric aunt, turns chilling when he meets the ghost of a coal miner killed in a mine explosion. Willie has been waiting ye… |
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Reckoning at Eagle Creek
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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… |
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No Ordinary Day
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Deborah Ellis |
Valli is an orphan who lives on the streets of Kolkata, India. No matter how bad her life seems, there are people who are worse off than her - the lepers. And then, one day, she finds out that she al… |
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Horrors of history
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T. Neill Anderson |
Young Frank, his father, and the families of all the Colorado miners on strike in the Ludlow tent colony are uncertain of their fate when the camp's guards attack during the Ludlow Massacre of 1914. |
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The light above
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Jean Holbrook Mathews |
From the dark, dangerous, and deadly pits of the Scottish coal mines, to the crowded and bustling streets of Edinburgh, to the perilous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, to the long and arduous trek … |
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The scapegoat
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Mary Lee Settle |
In a novel about casual and heedless acts that often lead to unthinkable results, Mary Lee Settle traces the fall of a West Virginia town that was first made rich by coal, then corrupted and destroye… |
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Carrying Albert home
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Homer H. Hickam |
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, E… |
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A blast from the past
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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… |
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Bird's flight
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Audrey Murphy |
Bird escapes his fate of small town coal miner and moves to New York where he finds dancing, love, and the power to pursue his dreams against all odds. Known as Bird to family and friends, Ty Partrid… |
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The small mine
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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… |
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The breaker boys
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Hughes, Pat |
In 1897, Nate Tanner, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of wealthy Pennsylvania mine owners, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught … |
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Cold skin
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Steven Herrick |
First love, sexual awakening, murder, cowardice, vengeance and forgiveness . . . these are the powerful ingredients for Steven Herrick's gutsiest book yet; a page-turning read for teenage boys and gi… |
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Sons and Lovers
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David Herbert Lawrence |
<p><i>Sons and Lovers</i>, a story of working-class England, is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/d-h-lawrence"><abbr>D. H.</abbr> Lawrence’s</a> third novel. It went through various drafts,… |
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Il minatore deputato
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Giorgio Sacchetti |
Il Minatore deputato, storia di vita ricostruita su fonti inedite e originali, è un modo per attraversare
le vicende sociali e politiche del Valdarno minerario.
Priamo Bigiandi, minatore e comunist… |
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Strathmore
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Jessica Stirling |
In Victorian Scotland, poor single girls were not supposed to fall in love with rich married men... |
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The Spoiled Earth
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Jessica Stirling |
The mining disaster of 1875 killed the men of the Stalker family, but it could not kill their ambitions, pride, or love for one another. Alex Stalker's last command was to forge a better life for Dre… |
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