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82) Rockbuster
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In 1915, after being asked to sing at the funeral of executed songwriter and member of the international union, Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, eighteen-year-old Utah coal miner Tommy Quinlan begins to accept his past and make decisions about his future.
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Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
The best little whorehouse in Texas: The town sheriff and regular patron attempts to save the legendary Chicken Ranch from a television preacher.
Smokey and the bandit: A trucker takes on a runaway bride and a trailer full of beer with a sheriff in hot pursuit.
Fried green tomatoes: An unhappy housewife befriends an elderly woman in a nursing home and hears her remarkable story.
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Español
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Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields. When Homer asked her to marry him, she left and had a fling in Florida, but later returned and the couple were married. Albert was Elsie's pet alligator, but he did not fit into the couple's new life and had to be returned to Florida.
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"From the 16th century, the mines of Potosí, perched high in the Andes, bankrolled the Spanish empire. During those years immense wealth allowed the city to grow larger than London at the time and the mountain was quickly given the epithet Cerro Rico--the 'rich mountain'. But today, Potosí's inhabitants are some of the poorest in South America while the mountain itself has been so greedily plundered that its summit is on the verge of collapsing....
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Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country. 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym is the story of the author's father,...
90) Mother Jones
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A biography of the determined labor organizer of the early twentieth century who became known as Mother Jones.
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Homesteading farmers in upstate New York try to protect their home during the Revolutionary War; Dust Bowl refugees search for work in Depression-era California; the Earp brothers fight the Clantons at the O.K. Corral; a mining family in turn-of-the-century Wales struggles for unity and fair pay.
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In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
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