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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 39
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three films explore the dilemmas and potential advances in energy. Burning the future : Coal in America chronicles the journey of a group of West Virginia residents who have dedicated themselves to educate a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction: toxic groundwater and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of Appalachian mountain and foliage. Fighting Goliath : Texas coal wars reveals an unlikely coalition of Texans who are fighting...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest, Georgie, serves on a minesweeper in the South Pacific and glimpses life beyond Bakerton, a promising future he is determined to secure at all costs. His sister Dorothy, a fragile beauty, takes a job in Washington, D.C., and finds she is unprepared for city life. Brilliant...
Author
Series
Bubbles Yablonsky mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Bubbles Yablonsky heeds a call from her boss at the News-Times and races her Camaro toward a potentially big news story. But when she arrives at an abandoned coal mine, she finds the love of her life, Steve Stiletto, knocked unconscious . . . and the body of another man with a sizeable hole in his chest. Moments later, Bubbles and Stiletto are trapped by an explosion. Convinced that someone wants them dead, they search for their intended assassin...
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
vii, 440 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Della's giving up all the comforts of bustling Salt Lake City to teach school in a rural coal mining camp. Little does she know, she may soon be giving up her heart as well. But when tragedy strikes in the Scofield Mine, Della's life will be changed forever.
Author
Language
English
Description
The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford.
Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a...
Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a...
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 ... 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."--
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 16
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The ... Elemental Masters series moves to America for the first time in a rich retelling of The Queen of the Copper Mountain, set against the backdrop of Tennessee coal country ... Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter's health--and lessen the burden on their family--Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman...
10) Reservations
Author
Series
Lola Wicks mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Midnight Ink, an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Lola Wicks would much rather pursue a story than spend time with people she barely knows. So when an eco-terrorist bombing escalates the controversy surrounding a new coal mine on Arizona’s Navajo Reservation, she’s almost relieved to have a distraction from meeting her in-laws. But as the violence gets worse and Lola digs deeper, she can’t escape the feeling that her husband’s family is somehow involved ― a suspicion that jeopardizes...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 292 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today,...
Author
Series
Carbon ideologies volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 667 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage." Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts...
Author
Publisher
Dulcinea Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
635 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An epic story of courage, survival, and tragedy, the Disaster at Cane Creek is the account of the devastating potash mine explosion that occurred August 27, 1963, only hours after a miraculous Sheppton mine rescue in Pennsylvania. Twenty-five miners working the afternoon shift were now caught in a horrific explosion at Texas Gulf Sulphur’s new Cane Creek Potash Mine. Located in the scenic red rock canyon country just west of Moab, Utah along the...
14) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working class Yorkshire boy, is a scrappy loner who delivers papers before and after school, shares a bed with his bullying brother, Jud, and mostly ignores his self-absorbed mother. His routine is derailed when he spots a small falcon, a kestrel, in the countryside. He's raised birds in the past and is inspired to capture a young kestrel and try his hand at falconry. When not enduring the scorn of his peers and "betters,"...
Author
Series
Monograph volume no. 2
Publisher
Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
xvi, 409 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm.
Language
English
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