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1) Germinal
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"Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow-miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for...
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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.
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2009, c1976
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pit ponies at a Yorkshire mine are to be replaced with machinery, and three horse-loving youngsters band together to try and prevent the slaughter of the ponies.
5) Hula girls
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Iwaki, Japan, in 1965, where the coal mining industry is in decline, the town plans to resurrect itself by creating an Hawaiian-themed tourist attraction and training local girls in Hula dancing.
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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 Manhattan...
7) Bearmouth
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Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Having lived and worked in Bearmouth mine since age four, Newt accepts everything about the brutal life until mysterious Devlin arrives and dares to ask why, leading Newt and other miners to challenge the system.
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.
13) Katerina's wish
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
650 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"Detective Isaac Bells wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the attempted 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...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Uncovers the sobering resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, the cover-up activities of the coal mining industry, and the awareness activities of regional mining communities.
16) Women in love
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Pub. Date
[1920]
Physical Desc
Also available online as an ebook on the Project Gutenberg website.
Description
Women in Love is a sequel to Lawrence's earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships...
17) Fall of giants
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Century trilogy volume 1
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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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."--
19) Kes
Series
Criterion collection volume 561
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the decline of the American Dream is lived and felt. The routines and rhythms of traditional working-class life such as manual labor, unions, marriage, church, and social clubs have diminished. In their place, she argues, individualized strategies for coping with pain, and finding personal redemption, have...
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