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Author : Ruth Johnson Jay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Trapped in a Coal Mine (and Other Stories) written by Ruth Johnson Jay and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Tintori
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743428048
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Trapped written by Karen Tintori and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" (Publishers Weekly). Inspired by a refrain of her girlhood—"Your grandfather survived the Cherry Mine disaster"—Karen Tintori began a search for her family's role in the harrowing tragedy of 1909. She uncovered the stories of victims, survivors, widows, orphans, townspeople, firefighters, reporters, and mine owners, and wove them together to pen Trapped, a riveting account of the tragic day that would inspire America's first worker's compensation laws and hasten much-needed child labor reform. On a Saturday morning in November of 1909, four hundred and eighty men went down into the mines as they had countless times before. But a fire erupted in the mineshaft that day and soon burned out of control. By nightfall, more than half the men would either be dead or trapped as officials sealed the mine in an attempt to contain the blaze. Miraculously, twenty men would emerge one week later, but not before the Cherry Mine disaster went down in history as the worst ever coal mine fire in the US—and not before all the treachery and heroism of mankind were revealed.
Author : Héctor Tobar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473635104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Deep Down Dark written by Héctor Tobar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 2010: the San Jose mine in Chile collapses trapping 33 men half a mile underground for 69 days. Faced with the possibility of starvation and even death, the miners make a pact: if they survive, they will only share their story collectively, as 'the 33'. 1 billion people watch the international rescue mission. Somehow, all 33 men make it out alive, in one of the most daring and dramatic rescue efforts even seen.
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307387623
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco Chronicle Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.
Author : Zhun Da
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Young Coal-miner, and Other Stories written by Zhun Da and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
ISBN 13 : 1982134038
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Girl and Other Stories written by Ken Liu and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years—sixteen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne.
Author : Marat Moore
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women in the Mines written by Marat Moore and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the Mines informs, provokes and inspires from first page to last with gripping stories from coalfield women from 1914 to 1994. Early women miners describe handloading coal to help their families survive. The 1970s generation talks openly about sexual harassment, community attitudes, pregnancy, health and safety, racism, aging, and unemployment. The stories demonstrate the strength and resilience of women who accepted the challenge of nontraditional work and the changes in their lives brought by that decision.
Author : Louis Phillips
Publisher : PBS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1545722072
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)
Download or read book The Woman Who Wrote "King Lear," and Other Stories written by Louis Phillips and published by PBS Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. This wildly imaginative collection of fourteen short stories won't move you to tears, but will very likely move you to laughter. Phillips writes about a "committee of grief," about termites in Africa, about Lee Harvey Oswald's can opener. He tells of how an angry consumer shows his disdain for the telephone company by sending out false bills which, ultimately, leads to the withdrawal of the state of Iowa from the union. In one crazy piece, Phillips describes the chaos that occurs when a cat finds Thomas Hardy's heart, and, well, devours it, disrupting plans to put the heart on display. And he writes that amazing title story: Yes, it's true. "King Lear" was penned by Radcliffe Graduate Muriel B. Hopkins, not by the esteemed William Shakespeare. What is the theme connecting these stories? Madness, perhaps, but not only the madness of single characters - these stories are also about the "madness of crowds." Read these stories, but be prepared to confront new realities, some of which you may never entirely escape.
Author : Constance Horne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Trapped by Coal written by Constance Horne and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216395
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Noonday Cemetery and Other Stories written by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by The Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of the Ten Best Fiction Books of 2003.
Author : J. Leigh Hirst
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460286626
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Night Tony Shot the Lights Out and Other Stories written by J. Leigh Hirst and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eight stories are about the relationships and interactions of ordinary, but interesting, people who find themselves in unusual situations within a recent actual historical context. In some a character confronts, interprets, or comes to terms with, the present by reflecting on the past. Most of the settings are on Vancouver Island -- Nanaimo, the Cowichan Valley, the West Coast -- and feature characters in action, in engagement with their environment. "The Night Tony Shot the Lights Out" three WWII veterans find coming home to be a difficult adjustment. "My Former Yugoslavia" in 1963 a young man travels on foot to a remote village in Bosnia to try to find the estranged sister of a friend in Duncan. "Annie Crook" a woman, age 90, contemplates her life of solitude, with reflections of her childhood and living in hardship in a coal camp 75 years earlier. "Rhymes With Love"; a 60-something white man and a 40-something Chinese woman find themselves living together temporarily in the same house. The inevitable relationship ensues, which is complicated by the fact that she is the daughter of his former lover. "That Good Cahors Wine"; a man walks into the wilderness alone on an overnight pilgrimage to see Canada's highest waterfall. "The Shed" a story of dying man's reconciliation with his former best friend whom he has blamed for a betrayal as the result of a love triangle. "Short Haul"; in a chance encounter, a man finds he is sitting in a barber shop with his childhood hockey hero. "The Interlude"; A businessman befriends an alcoholic street person and finds that they have something in common -- not enough, however, to prevent a sad ending.
Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385383266
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book On Beyond Zebra! Read & Listen Edition written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think the alphabet stops with Z, you are wrong. So wrong. Leave it to Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell (with a little help from Dr. Seuss) to create an entirely new alphabet beginning with Z! This rhyming picture book introduces twenty new letters and the creatures that one can spell with them. Discover (and spell) such wonderfully Seussian creations as the Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz and the High Gargel-orum. Readers young and old will be giggling from beginning to end . . . or should we say, from Yuzz to Hi! This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Author : Melissa Fay Greene
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547995040
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Last Man Out written by Melissa Fay Greene and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958, it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most of the 174 on shift did not. Nineteen men were trapped, plunged into darkness, hunger, thirst, and hallucination. As days and nights passed, the survivors began to hope for death by gas rather than from thirst. Above ground, journalists and families stood in despairing vigil, as rescuers brought out scores of the dead. The hope of finding life undergound faded and families made funeral preparations. Then, a miracle: Rescuers stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave of survivors, then a second group was discovered. A media circus followed. Ed Sullivan, then the state of Georgia, invited survivors to visit. Publicity, politics, and segregation sorted the men differently than they had ordered themselves. Underground, the one black survivor nursed a dying man; in Atlanta, Governor Marvin Griffin said: "I will not shake hands with a Negro." If every great writer has one tale of peril, heroism, and survival, Last Man Out is Melissa Fay Greene's. Using long-lost stories and interviews with survivors, Greene has reconstructed the drama of their struggle to stay alive
Author : Manuel Pino Toro
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230120377
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Buried Alive written by Manuel Pino Toro and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of the thirty-three Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet underground that captivated the world On August 5, 2010, a tunnel in the gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed, with all of its miners trapped underground. For days, the families waited breathlessly as percussion drills searched out signs of life. Finally, a note came back from below--the miners were alive and safe. Now the rescue crew needed to burrow through 2300 feet of solid rock to get them out. For nine weeks, the world watched as Chile threw all of its resources into the effort. Televisions flashed images of worried families holding vigil night and day and of Chile's newly elected President Pinera making their recovery his personal crusade. What the cameras didn't reveal was the behind-the-scenes intrigue: the corruption that led to faulty construction of the tunnel in the first place; how the men lived in a muddy and humid environment where the temperature was unbearably hot; how the rescue effort became a political campaign to raise the president's sagging numbers; and the abundant hope necessary to sustain the men in their underground captivity. Author Manuel Pino takes us into his native Chile and, drawing on direct access to the miners and their families, weaves a rich narrative of extraordinary survival and triumph.
Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536224707
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Underground Fire: Hope, Sacrifice, and Courage in the Cherry Mine Disaster written by Sally M. Walker and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic mine fire traps hundreds of men underground in a gripping work of narrative nonfiction meticulously researched and told by a master of the genre. It is November 13, 1909, and the coal miners of Cherry, Illinois, head to work with lunch pails in hand, just like any other day. By seven a.m., 484 of these men are underground, starting jobs that range from taking care of the mules that haul coal to operating cages that raise and lower workers and coal to chiseling out rocks and coal from the tunnels of the mine. With the electrical system broken, they’re guided by kerosene torches—and come early afternoon, a slow-moving disaster begins, barely catching the men’s attention until it’s too late. In what starts as an hour-by-hour account, Sally Walker tells the riveting and horrifying story of the Cherry Mine fire, which trapped hundreds of men underground. Alternating between rescue efforts above and the heroic measures of those trying to survive the poor air and entrapment below, the tragic story unfolds over eight excruciating days in a narrative compelled by the miners’ hope and absolute will to survive. Rich with archival photographs and documents, this stirring account includes sources, bibliography, an author’s note, and follow-up information about survivors, rescuers, and families.
Author : Alvena Seckar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Trapped in the Old Mine written by Alvena Seckar and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521294300
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirteen short stories were written between 1924 and 1928. Eleven were collected in The Woman Who Rode Away (1928), though 'The Man Who Loved Islands' appeared in the American edition only and the other two in The Lovely Lady (1933). An unpublished fragment 'A Pure Witch' is also included.
