Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2012., Age: 8-14, Scholastic Call No: J AUD PAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dear AmericaSummary Note: In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
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c2011., 4.6; Ages 3-6, AudioCraft Call No: YS RAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Michigan chillers Volume: #15Summary Note: Mikayla and Calvin stumbled upon a abandoned mine deep beneath Calumet, Michigan and while trying to find a way out they discover hideous copper creatures.
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By Nix, David[2022]., Adults, Sourcebooks Casablanca Call No: AW NIX Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jake Paynter Series Volume: #3.Summary Note: "Jake Paynter cheated death, but now there's hell to pay. After escaping the hangman's noose, Jake is now forced to lie low while every lawman, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi guns for his head. When he receives word that miners at South Pass City are getting brutally murdered, he fears for his immigrant friends from the Oregon Trail. Against his better judgment, Paynter travels to the mining fields to bring the culprit to justice. Hiding in an abandoned mine by day and sleuthing at night, Jake begins to unravel the mystery of the deaths, drawing the hushed admiration of frightened families who begin looking to him for salvation. However, he faces more than a mysterious killer. His nemesis, Lucien Ashley, has hired a Pinkerton detective and a cutthroat gang from Philadelphia to capture or kill him. As adversarial forces close in, Jake must decide what he is willing to sacrifice. To run might preserve his life. To stay and fight for his friends might save his soul. For what a man fights for spells the difference between honor and dishonor, between duty and disgrace, between valor and simple violence."--
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2010, c2007., Ages 3-6, Scholastic Call No: G WAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.
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1987., Ages 3-6, Viking Kestrel Call No: G NIX Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.
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2009., Avalon Books Call No: AW JAC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The luck of the draw series
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By Avi, 1937-2020., Ages 9-13, Candlewick Press Call No: Y AVI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence - until her father leaves for the gold fields and the care of Jacob falls to her. Then Jacob vanishes, kidnapped, perhaps hidden among the hundreds of ships - called Rotten Row - that have been abandoned in the bay. If he is there, Tory must find him in a treacherous search. Tory comes close to losing everything in her quest for her own and her brother's freedom.
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2000., 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: My name is AmericaSummary Note: In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
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©2013., Adults, Signet Call No: AW WES Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cam Sutton is ready to make his name prospecting for gold in the Black Hills. But his quest for riches is interrupted when he happens upon a stagecoach holdup and ends up rescuing Mary Bishop and her two young daughters. Before striking out on his own, Cam decides to help Mary search for her husband, who disappeared while mining. Turns out Mr. Bishop was murdered--but not before finding enough gold to make Mary a very wealthy woman. Unwilling to leave them unprotected, Cam offers to help escort the ladies on the long journey back to Cheyenne. But with the threat of bandits constantly looming, and a greedy, cold-blooded killer on their trail, the road is even more treacherous than Cam anticipated.
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c2000., Ages 3-6, HarperCollins Call No: G PRY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American adventuresSummary Note: In 1850, Luke and Toby set sail from Boston to California on a voyage featuring shady characters, a story of a lost gold mine, and a cabin boy with a secret.
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c1996., Ages 3-6, A. Whitman Call No: YM WAR Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Boxcar children mysteries Volume: #52Summary Note: On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
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[2017]., Adults, Little, Brown and Company Call No: FIC PAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Detective Harriet Blue Volume: #1Summary Note: Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an isolated mine deep inside the desolate Australian outback--the never never--she uncovers an insular society that has sprung up around the mine. It's a world full of easy money, plenty of immoral ways to spend it, and no shortage of suspects. Still reeling from her investigative failures back home, Harry must get to the bottom of the mine's mysteries before she vanishes into the wilds of the never never for good.
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1997, c1981, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A future cop probes some mysterious deaths among the workers in a mining colony on on of Jupiter's Innermost moons.
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[2011]., Adults, Vanguard Press Call No: FIC BRO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As a single mom of a special-needs boy, Angela is happy for any work she can get, even if it means returning to the West Virginia hometown she left in disgrace. But when her new boss turns up dead, Angela discovers that her own secrets aren't the only ones her mountain hometown has kept buried.
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2011., Adults, Signet Call No: AW COM Edition: Updated edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sundown Riders.Summary Note: Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck - until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine - and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...
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c2013., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC CUS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Isaac Bell adventureSummary Note: "It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known, men of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness--who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way."--Dust jacket.
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2017., Adults, Bethany House Call No: FIC CON Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The cimarron legacy Volume: #3Summary Note: "Having returned home to the ranch, Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back east and appreciating all the New Mexico Territory offers. Sure, he fights with his siblings now and then, but he does care for them. He enjoys his new job running the mine and, when he's honest, he admits that Melanie Blake captures his interest in a way no other woman ever has. Melanie has been a friend to the Bodens forever. A cowgirl who is more comfortable with horses and lassoes than people, she never expected to find herself falling for someone, particularly for refined Cole Boden, a Harvard graduate who can't seem to make up his mind about staying in New Mexico. When a deadly explosion damages the CR Mining Company, the Bodens realize their troubles are not behind them as they thought. Shadowy forces are still working against them. Melanie is determined to help Cole and the family finally put an end to the danger that's threatened all of them. But will putting herself in harm's way be more dangerous than anyone expected?" --from back cover.
