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by Judy Pasternak
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsYellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today, weaving the personal and the political into a tale of betrayal, of willful negligence, and, ultimately, of reckoning.
by Ann Cummins
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsA story of two families thirty years after the closing of the uranium mill near which they once made their homes. When one of the children becomes involved in a group seeking damages for those harmed by the radioactive dust that contaminated their world, their past and present collide for this eclectic cast of characters.
by Jennifer Haigh
Published Dec 2005
Read ReviewsA compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.
The Green Age of Asher Witherow
by M. Allen Cunningham
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsA rich, coming of age tale set during the boom and bust years of an immigrant coal mining town in 19th-century California.
by Karen Wunderman
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsFor ten years, Ben Dalton has been fighting to keep his past a secret, but he's about to crash headlong into one of life's immutable truths: No matter how hard he runs, no matter how hard he tries, he can't outrun his past. And when it catches up to him, it just might destroy him.
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