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1) Fatal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...
2) Chase
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Strickland County, a forgotten stretch of land in southern Appalachia, there isn't a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton's brother is killed by the Praters, the family who controls everything from the mines to the law to the opioid trade, he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that something good might happen, that he might have found the rarest...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Throughout his day, a young boy thinks of his father who is working in the coal mine that is located underneath the ocean.
"A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather's grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea."--
7) Baker Towers
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
8) Sister mine
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
587 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1909, a nine-month-old puppy, trained unsuccessfully to be a hunting dog, finds a way to earn his keep when disaster strikes in the coal mine where his boy works.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
495 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.
12) Fatal
Author
Publisher
Emece? Editores
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
[Spanish ed.].
Physical Desc
413 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
13) Drybone Hollow
Author
Series
Owen Allison mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
p. (large print) cm.
Language
English
Description
Coal mining community deputy Ivan Zoschenko remembers the injury that ended his football career, prepares for a former teammate's release from prison, and confronts a secret that has troubled his conscience.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two World Wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding--sometimes cruelly--succeeding generations to the place that made them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's Play Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Polonius the pit pony escapes from the coal mine he's worked in all his life, he joins a family of Travelers. Although he enjoys the freedom and the fresh air that their lifestyle offers, he wishes he could give something back to the family in return. When the chance arrives for him to do something to help, he rises to the challenge!"--Provided by publisher.
17) The saboteurs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the 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 agenda--one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the...
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Author
Language
English
Description
"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
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 is a document left behind a hundred years earlier by Bella document which reopens a historical mystery. In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell, the chief investigator for the Van Dorn...
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