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Coal Camp Girl

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504022033
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Coal Camp Girl written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl grows up in the sooty shadow of the coal mines of West Virginia When the whistle blows, Christina knows her father is coming home. Every day he emerges from the pit with his skin caked in coal dust. He’s 50 now and he’s been working in the mines since he was 12 years old. It’s dangerous, backbreaking labor, but he does it because he loves his family. As far as Christina is concerned, there is no job in the world more honorable than digging coal. Danger is always close at hand in the mines. There are cave-ins, explosions, and diseases. But no matter what happens, Christina and her family always stick together. This meticulously researched look at life in a coal camp shows that no matter how dark the pit, love will always shine through.

Daughter of the Hills

Author : Myra Page
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9780935312591
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the Hills written by Myra Page and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel offers a powerful account of family life and labor conflicts, told through the eyes of a tough, resilient Appalachian woman who is, according to Richard Wright, "one of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature." Daughter of the Hills exposes the economic conditions of the working class and the scarcity of opportunities for working-class women, but also tells the story of a loving marriage that endures despite severe hardships.

Miner's Daughter

Author : GRETCHEN MORAN LASKAS
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471103587
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Miner's Daughter written by GRETCHEN MORAN LASKAS and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backbreaking work, threadbare clothes, and black coal dust choking the air -- this is what a miner's daughter knows. Willa Lowell fears that this dust marks her to be nothing else, that she will never win against the constant struggle to survive. Even the fierce flame of her family's love -- her one bright spot against the darkness -- has begun to dim. Willa yearns for a better life -- enough food to eat, clothes that fit, and a home free of black grit. She also yearns for a special love, the love of a boy who makes her laugh and shares the poetry she carries in her heart. When a much brighter future is suddenly promised to her family, Willa knows it is a miracle . . . until she discovers that every promise has a price. But she also discovers that the real change has burned inside her all along -- if only she is strong enough to mine it. Writing in a style that is as breathtaking and lyrical as it is powerful, Gretchen Moran Laskas draws from her family's past to bring to life the story of a girl struggling against seemingly insurmountable odds. The Miner's Daughterwill touch readers' hearts and stay with them long after they've read the last word.

A Coal Camp Chronicle

Author : Trula Vandell Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870128042
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book A Coal Camp Chronicle written by Trula Vandell Gray and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Houseboat Girl

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453227512
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Houseboat Girl written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVWhat would it be like to live on a houseboat on the Mississippi River with two parents, four kids, eight chickens, several turtles, a dog, and a cat? Patsy and her family are about to find out! /divDIVAt first, Patsy is upset when her parents decide to move from their home in River City, Illinois, to a houseboat on the Mississippi River. She’ll miss her house and friends, and she’s sure the trip downriver will be boring. Gradually, she and her brother and sisters get used to their new life. Patsy grows to love the ever-changing river, where she even learns to swim. But she can’t help longing for a real house—on land. /divDIV /divDIVHouseboat Girl is based on the experiences of real families living on the Mississippi River in the summer of 1954./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div

Loretta Lynn

Author : Loretta Lynn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307741230
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Loretta Lynn written by Loretta Lynn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tying in with the publication of the singer's long-awaited autobiographical sequel--"Still Woman Enough"--this is the original autobiography of the girl from Butcher Holler. of photos.

Coal Camps and Castor Oil

Author : Hometown Memories Publishing, Incorporated
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979919961
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Coal Camps and Castor Oil written by Hometown Memories Publishing, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories from old-timers in Southern West Virginia

Moving Mountains

Author : Penny loeb
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813156564
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Moving Mountains written by Penny loeb and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfields, one of the most important environmental and social empowerment battles in the nation has been waged for the past decade. Fought by a heroic woman struggling to save her tiny community through a landmark lawsuit, this battle, which led all the way to the halls of Congress, has implications for environmentally conscious people across the world. The story begins with Patricia Bragg in the tiny community of Pie. When a deep mine drained her neighbors' wells, Bragg heeded her grandmother's admonition to "fight for what you believe in" and led the battle to save their drinking water. Though she and her friends quickly convinced state mining officials to force the coal company to provide new wells, Bragg's fight had only just begun. Soon large-scale mining began on the mountains behind her beloved hollow. Fearing what the blasting off of mountaintops would do to the humble homes below, she joined a lawsuit being pursued by attorney Joe Lovett, the first case he had ever handled. In the case against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Bragg v. Robertson), federal judge Charles Haden II shocked the coal industry by granting victory to Joe Lovett and Patricia Bragg and temporarily halting the practice of mountaintop removal. While Lovett battled in court, Bragg sought other ways to protect the resources and safety of coalfield communities, all the while recognizing that coal mining was the lifeblood of her community, even of her own family (her husband is a disabled miner). The years of Bragg v. Robertson bitterly divided the coalfields and left many bewildered by the legal wrangling. One of the state's largest mines shut down because of the case, leaving hardworking miners out of work, at least temporarily. Despite hurtful words from members of her church, Patricia Bragg battled on, making the two-hour trek to the legislature in Charleston, over and over, to ask for better controls on mine blasting. There Bragg and her friends won support from delegate Arley Johnson, himself a survivor of one of the coalfield's greatest disasters. Award-winning investigative journalist Penny Loeb spent nine years following the twists and turns of this remarkable story, giving voice both to citizens, like Patricia Bragg, and to those in the coal industry. Intertwined with court and statehouse battles is Patricia Bragg's own quiet triumph of graduating from college summa cum laude in her late thirtie and moving her family out of welfare and into prosperity and freedom from mining interests. Bragg's remarkable personal triumph and the victories won in Pie and other coalfield communities will surprise and inspire readers.

Tallgrass

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312360191
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Tallgrass written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.

Face Boss

Author :
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337737
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Face Boss written by and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cookin' in a Coal Camp

Author : Glenna R. Pack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615117195
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Cookin' in a Coal Camp written by Glenna R. Pack and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carolina Mine

Author : Trudy Ice Lemley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870127557
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Carolina Mine written by Trudy Ice Lemley and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hidden America

Author : Jeanne Marie Laskas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110160056X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Hidden America written by Jeanne Marie Laskas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah.com “Must-Read Book” Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals “enlightening, entertaining, and often poignant”* profiles of America's working class—the forgotten men and women who make our country run. Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football. “Jeanne Marie Laskas is a reporting and writing powerhouse. She doesn’t just interview the people who dig our coal and extract our oil, she goes deep into the mines and tundra with them. With beauty, wit, curiosity, and grace, she finds the hidden soul of America. Hidden America is essential reading.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Strawberry Girl

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453227539
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Strawberry Girl written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery Medal–winning childhood classic of life on a Florida farm—part of the Regional series from the author of the Mr. Small picture books. Birdie and her family are trying to build a farm in Florida. But it’s not easy with the heat, droughts, and cold snaps—and neighbors that don’t believe in fences. But Birdie won’t give up on her dream of strawberries, and her family won’t let those Slaters drive them from their home! This Newberry Medal–winning novel presents a realistic picture of life on the Florida frontier. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Coal Camps, Tipples and Mines

Author : Ed Wolfe
Publisher : Hew Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9780972069229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Coal Camps, Tipples and Mines written by Ed Wolfe and published by Hew Enterprises. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Girl in the Coal Camp House

Author : Yvonne Dorsey
Publisher : Riverbook
ISBN 13 : 9781793341273
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Girl in the Coal Camp House written by Yvonne Dorsey and published by Riverbook. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shannon Fitzpatrick has reoccurring nightmares of a sad little girl with big scared eyes looking through a window of a small old abandoned house. When she tries to help her, the little girl disappears into the fireplace. She gets locked in and left alone in the dark house. Once awake, she is forced to find a reason for her nightmares or suffer endless haunting dreams. Her research led her to a family secret.

All the Light We Cannot See

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476746605
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).