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Publisher
Appalshop
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the Pittston Coal Company, and the disaster which occurred in 1972 when a coal waste dam burst, leaving 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. The first part discusses the disaster through interviews with survivors, union leaders, citizens, and company officials. The second part, filmed ten years later, explores survivors' efforts to rebuild the communities and the difficulties they faced from the government and the Company.
3) Dead aim
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers a knockout novel, as an unlikely pair of allies must expose a team of killers hiding behind an unspeakable act of terror—and risk ending up their next target.
She witnesses death through the eye of her camera. Now a relentless killer is focused on her. A celebrated photojournalist, Alex Graham has seen it all—but her latest assignment has forced her across...
She witnesses death through the eye of her camera. Now a relentless killer is focused on her. A celebrated photojournalist, Alex Graham has seen it all—but her latest assignment has forced her across...
Author
Series
Owen Allison mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten. With research gathered over more than two decades, award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Wilkman revisits...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On May 31, 1889, heavy rains and a dam failure sent flood waters sweeping into Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 50-foot-high wall of water quickly demolished much of the town. Will you and your new husband be able to escape certain doom as you wait for your train to leave the station? Can you climb onto your house's roof for safety before the building completely fills with water? Will you join in the effort to save others who are floating by on the roofs...
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