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1) Germinal
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English
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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.
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English
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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...
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Publisher
Tutis Digital Pub
Pub. Date
2007
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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
5) The striker
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English
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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...
6) Sister mine
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English
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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
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Wolves Chronicles volume 8
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English
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Bound to keep a promise to her dead uncle, Is travels to the mysterious north country to find two missing boys, one of them a prince, and to discover why so many children in London are disappearing.
10) Fatal
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English
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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...
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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...
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English
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"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,...
13) Economic factors affecting the mining, processing, gasification, and marketing of Coos Bay coals
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Open-file report volume O-75-6
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State of Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries
Pub. Date
1975
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English
14) The wind harp
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Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 2
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
B.J. Hoff's unforgettable characters from A Distant Music reunite for an even more gripping, dramatic episode in The Mountain Song Legacy.
When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood, she has no intention of staying. Her life is in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek...
...nothing but the discovery that a man who has lived most of his life for the children of Skingle Creek is no longer the hero of Maggie's...
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Survival! volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In 1859 when Rory disguises herself as a boy in order to work in a coal mine in St. Claire, Pennsylvania, she and her friend struggle to survive a cave-in disaster
19) Germinal
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Publisher
Alianza Editorial
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Germinal (1885), la decimotercera novela de la serie Rougon-Macquart que Émile Zola dedica al proletariado de la mina, narra la historia de Étienne Lantier, un maquinista en busca de trabajo, que llega a Montsou. El escritor describe, de una forma descarnada, el mundo sombrío y mísero de la mina, retratando a un grupo de personas que vive ahogado en condiciones infrahumanas y por cuyas venas el escritor hace correr el odio y el rencor, seres humanos...
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