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1) King coal
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Pub. Date
2014
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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 protagonist, Hal Warner. As in his earlier work, The Jungle, Sinclair uses the novel to express his socialist viewpoint. The book is based on the 1914-1915 Colorado coal strikes. The sequel to King Coal was posthumously published under the title, The Coal...
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This novel, originally written in 1916, published in 1921, explores the lives of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their developing love affairs with Rupert Birkin, an intellectual, and Gerald Crich, an industrialist. The despair of one sister's relationship contrasts with the happiness of the other's as the four clash in thought, passion, and belief, in their search for a life that is truly complete. The novel is the sequel to The Rainbow....
4) Germinal
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In Zola's masterpiece of naturalistic fiction, a young idealist instigates a strike in a 19th-century mining community, setting the stage for a brutal clash between labor and capital.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.
6) Baker Towers
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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The decade following World War II becomes one of tragedy, excitement, and unexpected change for the five Novak children and the residents of their western Pennsylvania community of company houses, church festivals, and union squabbles.
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Pub. Date
c2020
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"Detective Isaac Bells wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agendaone involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building...
9) Chase
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.
10) Rose
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The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man. When he begins his search every road leads back to one woman, a haughty, vixenish pit girl named Rose. With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers, she cares nothing for a society that calls her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.
12) Saving Wonder
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
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Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 11
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"When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the forbidding deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in this riveting thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author"--
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...
16) Shadows of glass
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Pub. Date
2013.
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Wren, determined to keep the few surviving shiners safe with Pace's help, wonders how her friends inside the dome are faring, but things change after she meets handsome Levi Addison, who offers to show her the world from his airship.
18) Fatal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
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Three strangers-Matt Rutledge, Nikki Solari, and Ellen Kroft-each hold one piece of a puzzle they must solve, and solve quickly. If they don't, it will be far more than just their own lives that are at risk.
19) A distant music
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Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
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Description
Christian Historical Fiction
20) Bearmouth
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Having lived and worked in Bearmouth mine since age four, Newt accepts everything about the brutal life until mysterious Devlin arrives and dares to ask why, leading Newt and other miners to challenge the system.