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Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as coal)
avg rating 3.68 — 110,569 ratings — published 2014
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as coal)
avg rating 4.33 — 352,202 ratings — published 2005
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as coal)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,294 ratings — published 2003
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as coal)
avg rating 3.94 — 671 ratings — published 2008
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as coal)
avg rating 4.32 — 644 ratings — published 2015
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as coal)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,408 ratings — published 1937
A Place Called Freedom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as coal)
avg rating 4.08 — 47,919 ratings — published 1995
Little Audrey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as coal)
avg rating 3.84 — 550 ratings — published 2008
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as coal)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,567 ratings — published 2009
How Green Was My Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,169 ratings — published 1939
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 3.98 — 460 ratings — published 2006
Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 (Working Class in American History)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 4.35 — 62 ratings — published 1981
Wish You Well (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 4.07 — 33,482 ratings — published 2000
The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,700 ratings — published 1976
Coal Camp Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 4.10 — 154 ratings — published 1959
M.C. Higgins, the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,413 ratings — published 1974
Growing Up in Coal Country: The American Story of Immigrant Families and Sacrifice in 20th Century Pennsylvania for Kids (Ages 10-12)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 3.98 — 395 ratings — published 1996
The Well and the Mine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as coal)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,773 ratings — published 2008
A Colorado History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 3.79 — 89 ratings — published 1975
Notes on the cleaning of bituminous coal (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Batwoman: Elegy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,949 ratings — published 2011
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published
Adani and the War Over Coal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published
Batman: One Bad Day – The Riddler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,201 ratings — published 2023
Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.17 — 623 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,293 ratings — published 2006
Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published
The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
A Strike like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2002
Wobbly: Rough and Tumble Story of an American Radical (American Autobiography)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published 1948
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.46 — 13 ratings — published
The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.28 — 43 ratings — published
Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.18 — 413 ratings — published 1933
Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Struggle in the Coalfields: The Autobiography of Fred Mooney (hard cover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1967
Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880–1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 3.29 — 21 ratings — published 1991
The Court-Martial of Mother Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1995
Absentee Landowning and Exploitation in West Virginia, 1760-1920 (Nebraska Symposium on Motivation; 41)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1994
Up from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.11 — 36,614 ratings — published 1900
Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 2002
Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.13 — 704 ratings — published 2021
The Domestic Revolution Explained: From Brainwave to Microwave (England's Living History)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2008
Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,054 ratings — published 2019
The History Of The British Coal Industry, Volume 2: 1700-1830: The Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Fire on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 3.92 — 946 ratings — published 1988
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as coal)
avg rating 4.21 — 271,539 ratings — published 2019
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.”
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“I pulled the sheet off their faces. Their faces were black with coal dust and didn't look like anything was wrong with them except they were dirty. The both of them had smiles on their faces. I thought maybe one of them had told a joke just before they died and, pain and all, they both laughed and ended up with a smile. Probably not true but but it made me feel good to think about it like that, and when the Sister came in I asked her if I could clean their faces and she said, "no, certainly not!" but I said, "ah, c'mon, it's me brother n' father, I want to," and she looked at me and looked at me, and at last she said, "of course, of course, I'll get some soap and water."
When the nun came back she helped me. Not doing it, but more like showing me how, and taking to me, saying things like "this is a very handsome man" and "you must have been proud of your brother" when I told her how Charlie Dave would fight for me, and "you're lucky you have another brother"; of course I was, but he was younger and might change, but she talked to me and made it all seem normal, the two of us standing over a dead face and cleaning the grit away. The only other thing I remember a nun ever saying to me was, "Mairead, you get to your seat, this minute!”
― The Glace Bay Miners' Museum: The novel
When the nun came back she helped me. Not doing it, but more like showing me how, and taking to me, saying things like "this is a very handsome man" and "you must have been proud of your brother" when I told her how Charlie Dave would fight for me, and "you're lucky you have another brother"; of course I was, but he was younger and might change, but she talked to me and made it all seem normal, the two of us standing over a dead face and cleaning the grit away. The only other thing I remember a nun ever saying to me was, "Mairead, you get to your seat, this minute!”
― The Glace Bay Miners' Museum: The novel
