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62) Women in love
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions," wrote D. H. Lawrence in Women in Love, his masterpiece heralding the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. Intelligent, incisive, and observant, the two very different sisters pursue
...67) Silver at night
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of turn-of-the-century America and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fiancee.
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.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Love is patient and kind...1 Corinthians 13:4 West Virginia, 1869 Three years ago, Dr. Daniel Kavanagh settled down in the quaint town of Mount Laurel and established a medical practice there. The single doctor has been nursing an unrequited crush on Serena Norman, the local schoolteacher. Just down the road lies the coal mining town of Owenduffy, considered by most in Mount Laurel to be a backwoods hamlet. When the mine company's doctor abandons...
74) Saving Wonder
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
75) The flood
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
xviii, 205 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy. Mary finds herself caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher while Sandy falls in love with a strange gypsy girl. As the action moves towards a tense and unexpected climax, both mother and son are forced to come to terms with the past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger...
76) The Big Sandy
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[1979]
Physical Desc
vii, 135 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
78) Women in love
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
Series
West Virginia and Appalachia volume 10
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 347 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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