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Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

ISBN 014016930X (0-14-016930-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery -- personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.
Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past. [via]
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Basic Forms
by Hilla Becher, Bernd Becher

ISBN 3823810014 (3-8238-1001-4)
Hardcover, Te Neues Pub Group

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Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
by Hilla Becher, Bernd Becher

ISBN 3829601735 (3-8296-0173-5)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub

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Brighty of the Grand Canyon
by Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis

ISBN 0689714858 (0-689-71485-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Relates the adventures of a little burro who blazed trails through the Grand Canyon and met many famous people in the process. [via]
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Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines
by Larry Lankton

ISBN 0195083571 (0-19-508357-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, even while new, large companies obliterated traditional forms of organization and work within the industry. By 1890, however, the Lake Superior copper industry of upper Michigan started facing many challenges, including strong economic competition and a declining profit margin; growing worker dissatisfaction with both living and working conditions; and erosion of the companies' hegemony in a district they once controlled. Lankton traces technological changes within the mines and provides a thorough investigation of mine accidents and safety. He then focuses on social and labor history, dealing especially with the issue of how company paternalism exerted social control over the work force. A social history of technology, Cradle to Grave will appeal to labor, social and business historians. [via]
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De re Metallica
by Georgius Agricola

ISBN 0486600068 (0-486-60006-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
by Gregg Olsen

ISBN 0609610163 (0-609-61016-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

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The Deep Dark: Tradegy And Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
by Gregg Olsen

ISBN 0307238776 (0-307-23877-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Desesperacion
by Stephen King

ISBN 9875660620 (987-566-062-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Desperation
by Stephen King

ISBN 1568954204 (1-56895-420-4)
Hardcover, Compass Pr

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A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps 'another legendary shadow,' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak." [via]
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Dragon's Kin
by Anne McCaffrey, Todd J. McCaffrey

ISBN 0345462009 (0-345-46200-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Beginning with the classic Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Annes imagination, following book by book the evolution of one of science fictions most beloved and honored series. Now, for the first time, Anne has invited another writer to join her in the skies of Pern, a writer with an intimate knowledge of Pern and its history: her son, Todd.

DRAGONS KIN

Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great Holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization. Mining is fraught with danger. Fortunately, the camp has a watch-wher, a creature distantly related to dragons and uniquely suited to specialized work in the dark, cold mineshafts. Kindans father is the watch-whers handler, and his son sometimes helps him out. But even that important job promises no opportunity outside the mine.

Then disaster strikes. In one terrible instant, Kindan loses his family and the camp loses its watch-wher. Fathers are replaced by sons in the mineexcept for Kindan, who is taken in by the camps new Harper. Grieving, Kindan finds a measure of solace in a burgeoning musical talent . . . and in a new friendship with Nuella, a mysterious girl no one seems to know exists. It is Nuella who assists Kindan when he is selected to hatch and train a new watch-wher, a job that forces him to give up his dream of becoming a Harper; and it is Nuella who helps him give new meaning to his life.

Meanwhile, sparked by the tragedy, long-simmering tensions are dividing the camp. Far below the surface, a group of resentful miners hides a deadly secret. As warring factions threaten to explode, Nuella and Kindan begin to discover unknown talents in the misunderstood watch-whertalents that could very well save an entire Hold. During their time teaching the watch-wher, the two learn some things themselves: that even a seemingly impossible dream is never completely out of reach . . . and that light can be found even in darkness. [via]
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- Dragon's Kin: ISBN 0345461983 (0-345-46198-3)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Germinal: Library Edition
by Emile Zola

ISBN 1406790184 (1-4067-9018-4)
Softcover, Read Books

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Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, dune obscurité et dune épaisseur dencre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou, dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout droit, à travers les champs de betteraves. [via]
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The Great Tin Crash: Bolivia and the World Tin Market
by John Crabtree, Jenny Pearce, Gavan Duffy, Latin America Bureau

ISBN 0906156297 (0-906156-29-7)
Hardcover, Latin America Bureau

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Grim Tuesday: The Keys To The Kingdom
by Garth Nix

ISBN 0439436559 (0-439-43655-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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The second incredible book in The Keys to the Kingdom, now in hardcover

Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday -- the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything -- an adventure that will include stealing a Sunship, surviving a very weird work camp, befriending a bearlike spirit, fighting the voidlike Nithlings, and traveling to the scary Far Reaches for the ultimate showdown.
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Harriman Trails: A Guide and History
by William J. Myles, Daniel D. Chazin

ISBN 1880775182 (1-880775-18-2)
Softcover, New York New Jersey Trail

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William Myles has written much more than a guide. Years of research have produced a fine history as well. Marked and unmarked trails, lakes, roads and mines are all covered in depth. A complete reference with many historical photos. [via]
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How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn

ISBN 0684825554 (0-684-82555-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Llewellyn's tale of a young man's coming-of-age in a small Welsh mining town--the basis for the beloved film of the same name--is "a beautiful story told in words which have Welsh music in them . . . a book which will live in the mind and memory of its readers" (Atlantic Monthly) [via]
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- How Green Was My Valley: ISBN 0020223722 (0-02-022372-2)
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The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell

ISBN 0940450259 (0-940450-25-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. WE were at sea now, for a very long voyage -- we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic -- a voyage of several weeks. We naturally settled down into a very slow, stay-at-home manner of life, and resolved to be quiet, exemplary people, and roam no more for twenty or thirty days. No more, at least, than from stem to stern of the ship. It was a very comfortable prospect, though, for we were tired and needed a long rest. We were all lazy and satisfied, now, as the meager entries in my note-book (that sure index, to me, of my condition) prove. What a stupid thing a notebook gets to be at sea, any way. Please observe the style: '" Sunday--Services, as usual, at four bells. Services at night, also. No cards. "Monday--Beautiful day, but rained hard. The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. Or else fattened. The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. Also here and there all over their backs. It is well they are not cows-- it would soak in and ruin the milk. The poor devil eagle* from Syria * Afterwards presented to the Central Park. looks miserable and droopy in the rain perched on the forward capstan. He appears to have his own opinion of a sea voyage, and if it were put into language and the language solidified, it would probably essentially dam the widest river in the world. "Tuesday--Somewhere in the neighborhood of the island of Malta. Can not stop there. Cholera. Weather very stormy. Many passengers seasick and invisible. "Wednesday--Weather still very savage. Storm blew two land birds to sea, and they came on board. A hawk was blown off, also. He circled round and round the shi... [via]
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Iron Mine Trails
by Edward J. Lenik

ISBN 1880775077 (1-880775-07-7)
Softcover, New York New Jersey Trail

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The Journal of Otto Peltonen a Finnish Immigrant
by William Durbin

ISBN 043909254X (0-439-09254-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic

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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. [via]
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Las Minas Del Rey Salomon / King Salomon's Mines
by Henry R. Haggard, Flora Casas

ISBN 8420639362 (84-206-3936-2)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Last Man Out : The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
by Melissa Fay Greene

ISBN 015602957X (0-15-602957-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers

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Lies, Legends & Lore of the San Juans (And a Few True Tales)
by Roger Henn

ISBN 1890437298 (1-890437-29-8)
Softcover, Western Reflections Pub Co

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Roger Henn, Ouray Colorado native, relates tales of early miners, lost gold mines, life in the tiny San Juan mountain towns, boyhood adventures, and other delightful and informative lore about past times in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado. He also spins tall tales that have been handed down in the San Juans for generations. Now these wonderful stories have been captured in print. The forty-three tales include: * Our Friend the Murderer - The tragic story of Billy Nagle
* Silverton's First Cat - Early settlers had trouble keeping cats alive at high altitudes
* A Lake Called Lenore - One of Ouray's exclusive areas is named after a prostitute
* The Mystery of the Copper Mining Tools - Just how old are they, a hundred, possibly a thousand years old?
* Bootleg as the Economy - How the San Juan citizens subsidized their salaries during the Depression
* The Trip to Organize the Ouray Church - The trials and tribulations of Rev. Darley in the San Juans
* The Lost Swede Mine - A lost treasure still waiting to be found
* Snow Snakes and Snow Mosquitoes - Do they really exist? [via]
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Maine Mining Adventures
by C.J. Stevens

ISBN 1882425030 (1-882425-03-0)
Softcover, John Wade Pub

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Making the Mount Isa Mine, 1923-1933: The Discovery of the Giant Mount Isa Silver-Lead-Zinc Ore Deposit, the Formation of Mount Isa Mines Limited, and the Development of the Mine and Township
by D.A. Berkman, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

ISBN 1875776389 (1-875776-38-9)
Hardcover, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

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Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier
by Charlie Angus, Louie Palu

ISBN 1896357490 (1-896357-49-0)
Softcover, Between the Lines

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Monarch Notes on Zola's Germinal
by Carolyn Welch

ISBN 0671009486 (0-671-00948-6)
Hardcover, Peterson's

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The Oxford Mark Twain
by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin

ISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Nearly nine decades after his death, Mark Twain remains an international icon. His white-maned, mustachioed image is instantly identifiable throughout the world, the very picture of probity and high spirits (which explains why he's become the poster boy for products as diverse as beer, billiard tables, sewing machines, pizza, and real estate). Perhaps more importantly, Twain's books have retained all their power to amuse and enrage. How is it possible for the creator of a 19th-century "boy's holiday book" (Twain's own description of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) to raise so many contemporary hackles? The answer is that Twain is a contemporary writer. Not, of course, from a chronological point of view--he was born in Missouri in 1835 and died in 1910 (having insisted that "annihilation has no terrors for me"). But Twain was the first writer to elevate the American vernacular to a high art. Sidestepping the starched-shirt diction of his peers, he created an idiom that resembled (but did not precisely duplicate) the wayward, slangy, ungrammatical music of American conversation. No serious reader of Twain will want to do without the Oxford Mark Twain. This 29-volume leviathan includes not only the major works but also a treasure trove of essays and short pieces, many of them unavailable for decades. Throw in the introductions to each volume (by such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley), as well as the original illustrations, and you've got the book bargain of the millennium. [via]
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Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale

ISBN 1599900734 (1-59990-073-4)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA

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Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.

Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.
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Roughing It
by Mark Twain

ISBN 1419145509 (1-4191-4550-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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"This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume . . ." Thus begins Mark Twain's Prefatory to Roughing It. The book is a humorous account of Twain's six years spent in Nevada, San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands (as Hawaii was known at the time) and is comprised of various anecdotes and tall tales, told as only Mark Twain can tell them. [via]
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The Shirley Letters: From the Calfornia Mines, 1850-1852
by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Marlene Smith-Baranzini

ISBN 1890771007 (1-890771-00-7)
Softcover, Heyday Books

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Small-Scale Mining, Rural Subsistance And Poverty in West Africa
by Gavin M. Hilson

ISBN 185339629X (1-85339-629-X)
Hardcover, Practical Action Pub

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Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence

ISBN 1857150228 (1-85715-022-8)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library

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Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Strangers and Sojourners: A History of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula
by Arthur W. Thurner

ISBN 0814323960 (0-8143-2396-0)
Softcover, Great Lakes Books

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Tales About Metals
by S. Venetsky

ISBN 5030000542 (5-03-000054-2)
Hardcover, Victor Kamkin

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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
by Karen Tintori

ISBN 0743421957 (0-7434-2195-7)
Softcover, Atria Books

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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks

ISBN 0142001430 (0-14-200143-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack up and leave. The rector, Michael Mompellion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselves from neighboring towns and villages, and prevent the contagion from spreading. His oratory wins the day and the village turns in on itself. Cocooned from the outside world and ravaged by the disease, its inhabitants struggle to retain their humanity in the face of the disaster. The narrator, the young widow Anna Frith, is one of the few who succeeds. With Mompellion and his wife, Elinor, she tends to the dying and battles to prevent her fellow villagers from descending into drink, violence, and superstition. All is complicated by the intense, inexpressible feelings she develops for both the rector and his wife. Year of Wonders sometimes seems anachronistic as historical fiction; Anna and Mompellion occasionally appear to be modern sensibilities unaccountably transferred to 17th-century Derbyshire. However, there is no mistaking the power of Brooks's imagination or the skill with which she constructs her story of ordinary people struggling to cope with extraordinary circumstances. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Los Aramayo De Chichas: Tres Generaciones De Mineros Bolivianos
by Alfonso Crespo

ISBN 8470312723 (84-7031-272-3)
Hardcover, Blume

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Campesinos Revolucionarios En Bolivia: Identidad, Territorio Y Sexualidad En El Valle Alto De Cochabamba, 1952-1964
by Jose M. Gordillo

ISBN 9990562350 (99905-62-35-0)
Softcover, Promec

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Coaccion Y Mercado: La Mineria De La Plata En El Potosi Colonial, 1692-1826
by Enrique Tandeter

ISBN 9500707829 (950-07-0782-9)
Hardcover, Editorial Sudamericana

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La Condicion Obrera: Estructuras Materiales Y Simbolicas Del Proletariado De La Mineria Mediana, 1950-1999
by Alvaro Garcia Linera

ISBN 9990540241 (99905-40-24-1)
Hardcover, Muela del Diablo Editores

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Ensayos Sobre La Historia De La Mineria Altoperuana
by Gaston Arduz Eguia

ISBN 8440112572 (84-401-1257-2)
Hardcover, Editorial Paraninfo

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Mineria Y Sociedad En El Centro Minero De Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, 1709-1750
by Phillip L. Hadley

ISBN 9681603451 (968-16-0345-1)
Hardcover, Fondo De Cultura Economica El

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El Sistema De La Economia Colonial: El Mercado Interior, Regiones Y Espacio Economico
by Carlos Sempat Assadourian

ISBN 9684293615 (968-429-361-5)
Hardcover, Editorial Nueva Imagen

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