Heart Of Coal

Author : Jenny Pattrick
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781869793760

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Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick Pdf

A compelling sequel to the best-selling novel The Denniston Rose. Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageous zest for life. The trauma of her early years seems forgotten, though some recognise its shadow in her often unconventional behaviour. Rose is expected to marry her childhood friend the golden Michael Hanratty, but when dark and stubborn Brennan Scobie arrives back on the Hill after a seven-year absence, a challenge is inevitable. The opposition of Brennan's ambitious mother adds to the tension. This sequel to the best-selling The Denniston Rose continues to follow the fortunes of the remote West Coast coal-mining settlement. At the turn of the century Denniston is still isolated, but all that is about to change. New challenges will confront both Rose and this close-knit society. Staying or leaving will become an option. Heart of Coal is about loss and love, hope and despair. It is a story of convention and the lack of it and of the uncompromising spirit of a unique woman.

Author : Jenny Pattrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : OCLC:939675076

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Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick Pdf

In the remote West Coast coal-mining town of Denniston, Rose has grown into an intelligent and talented young woman. She is expected to marry her childhood friend but when a dark and stubborn man returns to town conflicts arise.

Author : Jenny Pattrick
Publisher : Black Swan
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Denniston (N.Z.)
ISBN : 1869417992

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The Illustrated Denniston Rose and Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick Pdf

The compelling story of Rose in the best-selling Denniston novels has drawn thousands of people to explore the abandoned settlement on the South Island's remote West Coast. The original inhabitants braved a 2000-feet-high and terrifyingly steep incline, a severe climate and scarce resources to eke out a living from the seams of coal on the Hill. Their unique lifestyle has been brought alive in DENNISTON ROSE and HEART OF COAL. It has also been documented in the rich collections of historic photographs and artefacts of the place and its people, collected here to illustrate these two moving and vivid novels. They take us from the 1880s, as the young Rose struggles to find a place for herself amongst the tough, makeshift community on the high plateau, and through into the twentieth century, as Rose blossoms into adulthood and is torn between her love affairs with two men and the bleak landscape of Denniston. In this illustrated novel the raw truth of the photographic past illuminates the reader's own imagination. In addition images of past times are paired with those of today to highlight the change from crowded settlements to ghost town.

Author : John Demont
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385665056

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Coal Black Heart by John Demont Pdf

A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters. The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply than in Nova Scotia, where the industry’s rise and decline has transformed society twice. Coal Black Heart is a global history that centres unapologetically on one province, and the generations of people whose lives there have been shaped by this dominating industry. There are the miners. There are the moonshiners and brooding social reformers and charismatic preachers who gave the mining towns their particular feel and flair. And there are the profiteers whose greed led to disaster. This is history as great storytelling - enthralling, involving, deeply moving, and it is a very personal narrative. A brilliant reporter, journalist, and author who has spent most of his career examining Nova Scotia’s weave of land, people, and history - and who grew up listening to its stories - John DeMont was born to write this book.

Author : John Demont
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385665056

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Coal Black Heart by John Demont Pdf

A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters. The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply than in Nova Scotia, where the industry’s rise and decline has transformed society twice. Coal Black Heart is a global history that centres unapologetically on one province, and the generations of people whose lives there have been shaped by this dominating industry. There are the miners. There are the moonshiners and brooding social reformers and charismatic preachers who gave the mining towns their particular feel and flair. And there are the profiteers whose greed led to disaster. This is history as great storytelling - enthralling, involving, deeply moving, and it is a very personal narrative. A brilliant reporter, journalist, and author who has spent most of his career examining Nova Scotia’s weave of land, people, and history - and who grew up listening to its stories - John DeMont was born to write this book.

Author : Jenny Pattrick
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781869793753

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The Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick Pdf

A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community. The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty coal-wagon to be hauled 2000 feet up the terrifyingly steep Incline - the cable-haulage system that brings the coal down to the railway line. All sorts arrive here to work the mines and bring down the coal: ex-goldminers down on their luck; others running from the law or from a woman or worse. They work alongside recruited English miners, solid and skilled, who scorn these disorganised misfits and want them off the Hill. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother, riding up the Incline, at night, during a storm. No one knows what has driven them there, but most agree the mother must be desperate to choose Denniston; worse, to choose that drunkard, Jimmy Cork, as bedfellow. The mother has her reasons and her plans, which she tells no one. The indomitable Rose is left to fend for herself, struggling to secure a place in this tough and often aggressive community. The Denniston Rose is about isolation and survival. It is the story of a spirited child, who, in appalling conditions, remains a survivor.

Author : Chelsea Camaron,Jessie Lane
Publisher : Carolina Dreams Publishing, LLC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Coal by Chelsea Camaron,Jessie Lane Pdf

She is the everyday girl next-door. He is shadowed by regret laced in broken memories. Dark sins of the past have a way of taking hold of your heart and never letting go. Paisley Asher is the average woman trying to get by in life. Happy and safe in her bubble of ease, she is not prepared to take on the black pit that is one man’s heart. Trevor "Coal" Blake has a past covered in black. Tainted. He is a dark soul. In the moment, it is easy to lose sight of what is going on. Looking back, however, little cues were misread … or were they? He lives with more questions than answers. Chance encounters bring these two together. Is she the angel to pull him from the depths of his personal hell, or is he destined to remain alone and as black as coal? ***Although part of a series this book can be read as a stand-alone novel. Series reading order: Ice Hammer Coal

Author : Barbara Ellen Smith
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642593938

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Digging Our Own Graves by Barbara Ellen Smith Pdf

Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded. Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic in the context of the brutal assault, begun in the 1980s and continued since, on the United Mine Workers of America and the collective power of rank-and-file coal miners in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. This destruction of militancy and working class power reveals the unacknowledged social and political roots of a health crisis that is still barely acknowledged by the state and coal industry. Barbara Ellen Smith’s essential study, now with an updated introduction and conclusion, charts the struggles of miners and their families from the birth of the Black Lung Movement in 1968 to the present-day importance of demands for environmental justice through proposals like the Green New Deal. Through extensive interviews with participants and her own experiences as an activist, the author provides a vivid portrait of communities struggling for survival against the corporate extraction of labor, mineral wealth, and the very breath of those it sends to dig their own graves.

Author : Alan H. Lockwood
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262017893

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The Silent Epidemic by Alan H. Lockwood Pdf

The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health.

Author : Lemony Snicket
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061965142

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The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket Pdf

Forget Frosty the Snowman or Ruldolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The next great holiday hero is a small, flammable chunk of barbecue fodder. He's impeccably dressed, he's terribly grumpy, and he's looking for a holiday miracle. It's unmistakably Snicket - here's the opening line: This holiday season is a time for stoytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week, or a baby born in a barn without proper medical supervision, these stories often feature miracles.

Author : Meg Wiviott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481439855

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Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott Pdf

A forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this “beautifully told true story about brave young women who refused to be victims and walked out of Auschwitz with their heads unbowed” (School Library Journal). An act of defiance. A statement of hope. A crime punishable by death. Making a birthday card in Auschwitz was all of those things. But that is what Zlatka did, in 1944, for her best friend, Fania. She stole and bartered for paper and scissors, secretly creating an origami heart. Then she passed it to every girl at the work tables to sign with their hopes and wishes for happiness, for love, and most of all—for freedom. Fania knew what that heart meant, for herself and all the other girls. And she kept it hidden, through the bitter days in the camp and through the death marches. She kept it always. This novel is based on the true story of Fania and Zlatka, the story of the bond that helped them both to hope for the best in the face of the worst. Their heart is one of the few objects created in Auschwitz, and can be seen today in the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.

Author : Ellen Marie Wiseman
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617734489

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Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman Pdf

This eye-opening novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector delivers “a spot-on portrayal of a dark time in American history” (Historical Novel Society, Editor’s Choice). Ellen Marie Wiseman draws readers into the Pennsylvania mining operations of the early 20th century—where children had no choice but to work in deadly conditions . . . or face starvation. As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools, while those who owe money are turned away to starve. Most heartrending of all are the breaker boys Emma sees around the village—young children who toil all day sorting coal amid treacherous machinery. Their soot-stained faces remind Emma of the little brother she lost long ago, and she begins leaving stolen food on families’ doorsteps, and marking the miners’ bills as paid. Though Emma’s actions draw ire from the mine owner and police captain, they lead to an alliance with a charismatic miner who offers to help her expose the truth. And as the lines blur between what is legal and what is just, Emma must risk everything to follow her conscience. “Wiseman offers heartbreaking and historically accurate depictions of the dangerous mines, the hopeless workers, and their improbable fight for justice.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Michael F. Stewart
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459824898

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Heart Sister by Michael F. Stewart Pdf

After his twin sister, Minnie, dies in an accident, Emmitt's world goes sideways. He’s lost his best friend and it feels like the family is falling apart without her. But Minnie was an organ donor and Emmitt soon receives an anonymous thank you letter from one of the transplant recipients. Inspiration strikes, and he decides to try and put his sister back together, in spirit. He’s going to track down each organ recipient and film them to show his parents the results of Minnie’s selfless act and help them move on. But when each recipient falls short of his expectations and the star of his film, the girl who received his sister’s heart, refuses to meet him, Emmitt has to turn to extreme measures to find her. What he doesn’t know is that his "heart sister" is hiding an agonizing secret, one that could push Emmitt to the breaking point.

Author : Barry Hines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140172955

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The Heart of it by Barry Hines Pdf

Author : Derrius Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983291862

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Heart of Coal by Derrius Richardson Pdf

Keith, a very cold and lonely teen, has spent the last seven years of his life in a group home after being abandoned by his parents. Johanna has always been just a passing face to Keith until she is asked to tutor him. Now Keith must face this bright and bubbly personality every... single... day.