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1) Fatal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
B.J. Hoff's unforgettable characters from A Distant Music reunite for an even more gripping, dramatic episode in The Mountain Song Legacy.
When Maggie MacAuley returns to the small coal town of her childhood, she has no intention of staying. Her life is in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek...
...nothing but the discovery that a man who has lived most of his life for the children of Skingle Creek is no longer the hero of Maggie's...
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harvest Houses Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author B.J. Hoff will delight readers as her unforgettable characters from A Distant Music and The Wind Harp reunite for a dramatic conclusion to The Mountain Song Legacy trilogy.
When a shadow falls over the MacAuley family, newlyweds Jonathan and Maggie Stuart find their faith and newly discovered happiness tested in unforeseen ways. An abrupt summons to return from their honeymoon wrenches them from the joy of their early days of marriage...
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the first book of the Mountain Song Legacy series readers step into a small Kentucky coal mining town in the late 1800's where hope is found in the hearts of two young girls-the vibrant, red-headed Maggie MacAuley and her fragile friend Summer Rankin.
When Jonathan Stuart, the latest in a succession of educators, actually wants to continue teaching in the one-room schoolhouse, then Maggie and Summer know that he is special. So when Jonathan's...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In a story told from both canine and human points of view, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma town, but Don's dog, Frank, is determined to make the holiday special.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery...In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked...
7) Too far down
Author
Series
Cimarron legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 caught between missing his time back in the east, and all that New Mexico offers-- namely, his family and cowgirl Melanie Blake.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens and the five children of the Novak family the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and...
10) Bubbles ablaze
Author
Series
Bubbles Yablonsky mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Award-winner Sarah Strohmeyer's Bubbles Ablaze is the third installment in her popular Bubbles Yablonsky series. In the tradition of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, Bubbles is a hairdresser/investigative reporter whose eye-catching wardrobe is only matched by her knack for outrageous adventures. When Bubbles' dream weekend with jet-setting photographer Steve Stiletto is interrupted by a series of circumstances that finds them careening down...
11) The Saboteurs
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 12
Isaac Bell novels volume 12
Wheeler large print hardcover
Isaac Bell adventure volume 12
Isaac Bell novels volume 12
Wheeler large print hardcover
Isaac Bell adventure volume 12
Language
English
Formats
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 agendaone involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building...
12) Chase
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the coal mining region of mid-nineteenth century eastern Pennsylvania, Phin witnesses a murder and runs for his life, pursued by a mysterious man and a horse with the instincts of a bloodhound.
15) Kit's wilderness
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Witnessing what she believes to be the murder of an infant in a Depression-era Alabama mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore and her civic-minded family subsequently struggle with the darker side of their racially torn community.
19) In coal country
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Despite her mother's objections and the love of an older classmate, sixteen-year-old Katy is determined to find a better life for herself beyond her family's poverty and sorrow in the Illinois coal mining town where they live.
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