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Author
Series
Diamond of the Rockies volume 2
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her husband, a woman must try to make a living from the family mine so that she can remain in her home.
2) Outland
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Standard version, widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A future cop probes some mysterious deaths among the workers in a mining colony on one of Jupiter's innermost moons.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set amongst the deadly coal mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut that will "grab you by the brisket and not let go." (Gary Shteyngart) "We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet."The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced Brigid Howley and...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages : geneological tables ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When nine-year old Laddy Merridew goes to live with his grandmother in a small Welsh town, he befriends the town beggar-storyteller, Ianto and learns about the Kindly Lights coal mine collapse that had a profound effect on the lives of subsequent generations of townspeople.
9) Outland
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Io, Jupiter's innermost moon, hosts mining colony Con-Am 27, a high-tech hellhole. There, a veteran marshal probes some mysterious deaths of miners. In pursuit of the truth, he's alone.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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 in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery...In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked...
11) Killer mine
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
1973.
Edition
Collected edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tragic accident in a mine on St. Valentine's day took the lives of 5 miners. The only survivor, Harry Warden, was confined to a mental institution after the ordeal. Twenty years later, young lovers T.J. and Sarah and friend Axel are among the townspeople attending a Valentine's party. A box of Valentine candy arrives, containing an ominous message and a blood-soaked heart.
13) Ace in the hole
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Language
English
Description
One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. An amoral newspaper reporter washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the 1909 coal mine disaster in Cherry, Illinois, that killed hundreds of men, left more than four hundred children fatherless, inspired the first worker's compensation laws, and helped bring about changes in child labor practices.
18) Hazard
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
19) The coal tattoo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Easter is a devout Pentecostal, while Anneth is headstrong and restless. The two live in the heart of coal mining country, surrounded by the ghosts of their loved ones. One night, Easter meets El, the man that will become her husband. But their marriage drives a wedge between the sisters and soon Anneth heads to Nashville with a new husband of her own. As time passes, the two sisters struggle to forgive past transgressions, and love one another despite...
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