Dirty Mines
The Last Generation of Anthracite Coal Miners
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Randy Hames
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John Fitzgerald
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Dirty Mines is a story about coal mining in Pennsylvania. For the first time, many of the jobs performed by boys, as young as 8 years old, are described in detail.
Cesar D’Angelo was 10 when his father was killed in the mines. Cesar, the oldest boy in his family, had to take his father’s place working for the coal company. His first job was working high up in the dangerous coal breakers. At the age of 12, he went down into the blackish, coal dusted mines to begin his long mining career. His first job was sitting in the dark alone for 10 to 12 hours a day as a door keeper. Later he became a spragger, mule driver, and had various other jobs until becoming a lifetime coal miner.
Dirty Mines also addresses the rich history of this era, including the miscarriage of justice towards the Molly Maguires in their fight for union rights and the environmental disaster at the Knox Coal company that ended coal mining in North Eastern Pennsylvania.
This is a family story about the last generation of Scranton coal miners. It is a fascinating and warm narrative of sacrifice, humor, and love. A revealing story about a forgotten way of life in difficult times, with very little pay in horrible working conditions. It’s an anecdotal story of courage and tenacity of poor deprived coal miners that struggled to make a better life for their children. Their historic sacrifices are being passed on to a new generation, so their unique heritage will never be forgotten.
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A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It
- De Leah Brock en 06-20-20
De: Michael Nava
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A Knock at Midnight
- A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
- De: Brittany K. Barnett
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever - that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America’s devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole - for a first-time drug offense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Listen, Inspiring, Change Your Mind
- De elena en 11-18-20
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A Death in White Bear Lake
- The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
- De: Barry Siegel
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him - only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday. Harold and Lois Jurgens, a middle-class, churchgoing couple in picturesque White Bear Lake, Minnesota, had adopted Dennis and five other foster children. To all appearances, they were a normal Midwestern family, but Jerry suspected that something sinister had happened in the Jurgens household. She demanded to know the truth about her son's death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really, really good book.
- De Danette en 12-23-20
De: Barry Siegel
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Mitka’s Secret
- A True Story of Child Slavery and Surviving the Holocaust
- De: Steven W. Brallier, Joel N. Lohr, Lynn G. Beck
- Narrado por: Trevor Thompson
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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This is Mitka’s account of facing the past, confronting his captors, connecting with lost relatives, and finding peace in the rediscovery of his origins. For Mitka, this also meant reclaiming his Jewish heritage - a journey that gave him a new sense of purpose and freedom from the lingering effects of trauma that had filled his life to that point. By the end, Mitka’s Secret is less a story of survival and more one of redemption and transformation - from hidden suffering to abundant joy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This should be a movie!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-11-21
De: Steven W. Brallier, y otros
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West of the West
- Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
- De: Mark Arax
- Narrado por: Mark Arax
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West", and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it.
De: Mark Arax
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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
- De: Sharyn McCrumb
- Narrado por: Sharyn McCrumb
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of simple faith, obsession, and murder. In 1832, an 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 later, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood is determined to reveal the truth behind this unanswered question.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing story!
- De SandyJ en 08-30-19
De: Sharyn McCrumb
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Belle Cora
- A Novel
- De: Phillip Margulies
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat, Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 25 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora", madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious newspaper editor plots her downfall; a preacher looks at her from across his pulpit and tries to forget that once she was his wife. Merchant's daughter, farm girl, prostitute, mother - the only thing that never changes is her tireless pursuit of the one man who can see her for who she really is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent
- De Patricia en 05-15-20
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Marked for Life
- One Man's Fight for Justice from the Inside
- De: Isaac Wright Jr., Jon Sternfeld - contributor
- Narrado por: Isaac Wright Jr.
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
An empowering memoir of courage and hope in the face of injustice—and the basis for the ABC television show, For Life—Marked for Life is the true story of Isaac Wright Jr.’s battle to win his freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, and a critical indictment of America’s judicial system.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just Fascinating!
- De Jerald's Pearl en 01-25-25
De: Isaac Wright Jr., y otros
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A Mighty Long Way
- My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
- De: Carlotta Walls Lanier
- Narrado por: Peter Fernandez, Lizan Mitchell
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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In 1951, Carlotta Walls Lanier was one of the nine African-American students to integrate Little Rock High School, and the first to earn a diploma. Here she provides a firsthand account of her experiences - including the bombing that rocked her home, the constant threats she and her classmates faced, and the pressure and bullying her parents endured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful book
- De karen feek en 01-05-21
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Alburquerque
- De: Rudolfo Anaya
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Abrán González always knew he was different. Called a coyote because of his fair skin, the kid from Barelas found escape through boxing and became one of the youngest Golden Gloves champs. But the arrival of a letter from a dying woman turns his entire life into a lie. The revelation that he was adopted makes him feel like an orphan and sends him on a quest to find his birth father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Alburquerque
- De Paul Hernandez en 04-29-20
De: Rudolfo Anaya
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A Killing in the Hills
- A Novel (Bell Elkins, Book 1)
- De: Julia Keller
- Narrado por: Shannon McManus
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 175
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What’s happening in Acker’s Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker’s Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful treat!
- De Joanne en 09-11-12
De: Julia Keller
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Blood Is Black
- De: Scott Pratt
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 238
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Presley Carter is a bright, hungry young defense attorney plying her trade in the areas in and around Nashville. Though she’s haunted by a horrifying event from her past, she’s achieved local renown as a savvy, resourceful lawyer adept at handling–and winning–tough cases. After being approached to file a clemency petition by a father whose son committed a gruesome double-murder, Presley reluctantly agrees to file the document, knowing full well the request has no chance of being granted. Then she receives a phone call informing her the convict’s release has been approved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blood is indeed black
- De Karen B. Jinks en 11-20-22
De: Scott Pratt
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Black Boy
- De: Richard Wright
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Richard Wright's powerful and eloquent memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. At once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is a poignant record of struggle and endurance - a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time. The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Seventy-five years later, his words continue to reverberate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Trevin Harvey en 11-11-20
De: Richard Wright
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Say I'm Dead
- A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
- De: E. Dolores Johnson
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Fearful of prison time - or lynching - for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's Black father and White mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police search that ended with the declaration to her family that she was the victim of foul play, either dead or sold into white slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply meaningful important read
- De A.M.Rousseau en 12-21-21
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Breaking Blue
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent! Highly Recommended.
- De R. Smith en 02-25-17
De: Timothy Egan
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The Southern Lawyer
- The Southern Lawyer Series, Book 1
- De: Peter O'Mahoney
- Narrado por: Bradford Hastings
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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After more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom. Trying to save his vineyard after years of drought, Hennessy returns to practice in Charleston, South Carolina–the city he walked away from after the murder of his ten-year-old son. When one of South Carolina's most powerful men is charged with possessing stolen artwork, Hennessy steps forward to defend him. But as Hennessy digs into the evidence, as he navigates the truth, he finds that the criminal charges are only the start of their problems…
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed it
- De Rick 73000 en 05-11-23
De: Peter O'Mahoney
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Dirty Mines
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- Walter
- 09-06-22
My Family History
This book does an excellent job of stitching together the history of the anthracite coal industry in NEPA. My grandfather worked in the mines for his whole life after coming here from Poland and I never knew the stories that were revealed in this book. Anyone who had relatives who were miners should read this one , I am glad I did. It opened my eyes to my family history in a very welcome way that makes me appreciate my family even more than I did.
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- Joy Stember
- 09-17-21
Wonderfully researched
This was a wonderful book. However I wish that the author had gone into more detail to make me feel like I was in the mines with protagonists father. The book was very fact heavy which was great, but it felt more like a history book than a novel. Still a fantastic book!
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- Amanda
- 01-18-23
great insight into the life of a coal miner
I always heard that my family was from the Coal Region of Pennsylvania but I never really thought to learn more about that way of living. This story wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but the stories that the main character learns is really insightful into the life and lives of my ancestors.
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