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Coal Black Horse
Published: 2008-05-20
Kindle Edition: 242 pages
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When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home. At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety—blue on o...
Coal Dust in Their Blood: The Work and Lives of Underground Coal Miners (Ams Studies in Anthropology. No. 6)
Published: 1991-07
Hardcover: 265 pages
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This social history of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County offers a unique portrait of a long-established working-class community.There are detailed accounts of the changing work-life of miners told in the words of the miners themselves. Family and social life, union agitation, rela...
Coal Run
Published: 2005-06-07
Paperback: 384 pages
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With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, "The Gre...
The Coal Tattoo: A Novel
Published: 2005-08-30
Paperback: 341 pages
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Life isn’t easy for twenty-two year old Easter and her teenage sister Anneth, who were left parentless as young children. While Easter, a devout Pentecostal, finds solace in the powerful music of her church, Anneth seeks comfort in the rougher edges of life found in dancing, drinking, and fast living....
The Coast of Akron : A novel
Published: 2005-05-04
Paperback: 400 pages
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"At last, The Coast of Akron! Adrienne Miller is one of the wittiest and most humane writers we have, bringing to mind at once Dorothy Parker, Mary McCarthy, and M.F.K. Fisher." -Dave Eggers Adrienne Miller, in her dazzlingly ambitious and hilarious first novel, introduces us to the unf...
The Coast of Chicago: Stories
Published: 2004-04-03
Paperback: 192 pages
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The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin ...
The Coast of Good Intentions: Stories
Published: 2004-05-21
Paperback: 180 pages
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Michael Byers's award-winning collection The Coast of Good Intentions tells graceful tales of achingly unresolved lives on the Pacific Northwest coast. Byers captures the lives of ferry workers, carpenters, park rangers, and adolescents leaving home, against a backdrop of crab factories, cranberry bogs,...
Coast Road
Published: 1999-07-13
Kindle Edition: 447 pages
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Hailed as “a heartwarming story” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), a celebration of what matters most in life, Barbara Delinsky’s profoundly moving New York Times bestseller is as richly textured and captivating as the Northern California landscape in which it is set.Jack McGill chose his...
COAST ROAD.
Published: 2005
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Coastliners: A Novel
Published: 2003-09-01
Paperback: 368 pages
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