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Oct 2004, 288 pages
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Oct 2005, 288 pages
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Suggested Reading
D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Tawni O'Dell, Coal Run
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
William Faulkner, Light in August
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Donald Harington, With
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Kiki Delancey, Coal Miners' Holiday
Russell Freedman, Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child
Labor
Barbara Freese, Coal: A Human History
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