Set in a 1920s coal-mining town, 13-year-old JW Donaldson is a good student with a bright future. As school ended for the year in 1926, JW was looking forward to summer. His father works in the mine, and there is a lot of talk around...
Coal mines and mining
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Author:MacDonald, Hugh R.Summary: -
Author:Connealy, MarySummary:When an explosion at the mine kills workers and damages the CR Company, the Boden family is plunged deep into the heart of trouble yet again. As they try to identify the forces against them once and for all, Cole Boden finds himself...
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Wren's world has changed. The thing that she fought for, escaping the dome has come to fruition, but it's not the paradise she thought it would be.
- Author:Tayler, KassySummary:
Wren is in the last place she ever wanted to be: back inside the dome, a prisoner of her father, the Master General Enforcer. After a harrowing escape attempt, and finding Levi trapped in a cell, Wren's world is further turned upside...
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Author:Dickinson, Mary LouSummary:Shortly after the first referendum on Quebec separation, four people in their forties encounter each other in Ile d’Or, the town where all of them grew up. The novel is about gold and greed and renewal and hope. About people who emerge...
- Author:Hayes, NedSummary:
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is where people go to hide: Neo-Nazis, corrupt politicians, mining men with buried secrets. In 1972, 91 men were killed in a mining "accident" sparked by a fire lit nearly a mile underground: the mystery was never...
- Author:Strohmeyer, SarahSummary:
When Bubbles' dream weekend with jetsetting photographer Steve Stiletto is interrupted by a wild ride down an abandoned mine shaft in a runaway coal car, it isn't long before she's discovered a dead body and found herself...
- Author:Haigh, JenniferSummary:
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...
- Author:Tayler, KassySummary:
Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city once constructed to protect Earth's collision with a comet. But centuries later, society has become complacent even while the coal runs out. And some wonder, "Is there life outside the...
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Author:Macdonald, FrankSummary:Smallish and inelegant, Shean's postwar, post-industrial economy is in desperate disrepair, and the lengths that some civic leaders will go to in order to do "what's best" sometimes requires a leap of faith that has unintended...
