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Blood on the coal : the true story of the great Springhill mine disaster / by Cuthbertson, Ken,author.; Murray, Anne,1945-writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The riveting true story of one of Canada's worst mining disaster, told in the voices of the men who survived. They said it was the world's deepest and most dangerous coal mine. In October 1958, the people who made that claim probably were correct. What can be said for certain is that the Dominion Steel and Coal Company's No. 2 colliery at Springhill was a leading candidate for both those dubious distinctions. The No. 2 mine at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was literally a disaster waiting to happen--and it did. On the night of October 23, 1958, a "bump" in the mine--literally a small earthquake--shook the entire structure crushing the weight of the world down on the miners below. Seventy-five miners would lose their lives in what remains one of Canada's worst disasters. Ken Cuthbertson, author of The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster, tells us the stories of the miners and their families in riveting detail, based on historical documents and interviews but also new interviews with one of the surviving miners. Anne Murray was a girl living in the town of Springfield, home to the mine, when the bump happened, and her father was a doctor who helped treat the wounded and identify the lost, and there were many. This is a story of heroism and sacrifice. As for the miners, what do you do when suddenly there's no escape, no light, no food, no water, and your comrades are dying around you? But this is also a story of hope, as some of the miners were rescued, becoming international celebrities in the process. And it's a story about how one disaster can change an entire industry forever."--
Subjects: Coal mine accidents; Miners;
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Mine! mine! mine! / by Becker, Shelly; Takahashi, Hideko;
Grumpy Gail refuses to allow her visiting cousin Claire to play with her toys or sit in her favorite chair, until her mother teaches Gail about sharing.
Subjects: Sharing; Cousins; Mothers and daughters; Stories in rhyme;
© c2006., Sterling Pub.,
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You are mine / by Ashenden, Jackie.;
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Subjects: Love stories.;
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Mine! / by Fleming, Candace.; Rohmann, Eric.;
A group of forest animals vie for the same delicious red apple that is just about to drop.
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Animal fiction.; Picture books.; Forest animals; Apples;
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Life as we made it : how 50,000 years of human innovation refined--and redefined--nature / by Shapiro, Beth Alison,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Humans seem to be destroying nature with incessant fiddling. We can use viruses to insert genes for pesticide resistance into plants, or to make the flesh of goldfish glow. We can turn bacteria into factories for millions of molecules, from vitamin A and insulin to diesel fuel. And this year's Nobel Prize went to the inventors of tool called CRISPR, which lets us edit genomes almost as easily as we can edit the text in a computer document. The potential for harm can seem both enormous and inevitable. In Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that our fears of new technologies aren't just mistaken, but they miss the big picture about human history: we've been remaking nature for as long as we've been around. As Shapiro shows, the molecular tools of biotechnology are just the latest in a long line of innovations stretching back to the extra food and warm fires that first brought wolves into the human fold, turning them into devoted dogs. Perhaps more importantly, Shapiro offers a new understanding of the evolution of our species and those that surround us. We might think of evolution as a process bigger than humans (and everything else). To the contrary, Shapiro argues that we have always been active participants in it, driving it both inadvertently and intentionally with our remarkable capacity for technological innovation. Shapiro shows that with each innovation and every plant and animal we touched, we not only shaped our own diets, genes, and social structures but we reset the course of evolution, both theirs and ours. Indeed, although we think of only modern technology as capable of gene editing, she shows that even the first stone tools could edit DNA, simply by changing the world in which all life lives. Recasting the history of biology and technology alike, Life as We Made It shows that the history of our species is essentially and inevitably a story of us meddling with nature. And that ultimately, our species' fate depends on how we do it in the future"--
Subjects: Biotechnology; Biotechnology; Nature;
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Because you're mine / by Tillman, Nancy.;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Parent and child; Love, Maternal; Love, Paternal;
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Boy of mine / by Asim, Jabari,1962-; Pham, LeUyen.;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Mothers and sons; Bedtime;
© 2010., Little, Brown Books for Young Readers,
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Girl of mine / by Asim, Jabari,1962-; Pham, LeUyen.;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Fathers and daughters; Bedtime;
© 2010., Little, Brown Books for Young Readers,
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This gun for hire / by Goodman, Jo,1953-author.;
While protecting a powerful mine owner with many enemies, Quill McKenna hires bounty hunter Calico Nash to help guard his boss's daughter, but is unable to control his attraction to her as death threats come thick and fast.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Women bounty hunters; Bodyguards; Mines and mineral resources; Man-woman relationships; Western stories.;
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Only mine / by Mallery, Susan.;
While Dakota Hendrix is screening eligible bachelors for a romance reality competition being filmed in Fool's Gold, she is drawn to a sexy stranger with a chip on his shoulder.LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; Man-woman relationships; Brothers; Television programs;
© c2011., Harlequin Enterprises,
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