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"The return of Cassie Dewell in Treasure State, the latest in the series that inspired the ABC hit series Big Sky, finds Cassie in Montana on the trail of a con man. Investigator Cassie Dewell--now the lead character in this year's most sensational TV crime show, Big Sky, from Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley--is headed to Anaconda, Montana, in search of a slippery con man who has disappeared somewhere in the "treasure state". A wealthy California...
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Cornwall novels volume 2
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[2020]
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Cornwall, England, 1818. Julia Twethewey knows Matthew Blake, copper mine owner and very eligible bachelor, is the gentleman she should set her eyes upon. But why can't she steal her gaze away from his younger brother, Isaac? The brothers have approached the master of Lanwyn Manor with plans to bolster the floundering local industry. When valuables go missing, Julia and Isaac are pulled together in a swirl of strange circumstances, but despite their...
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[2011]
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This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully rescued. For eight weeks, the author conducted interviews with...
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"The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"--
"A middle grade nonfiction title about thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible"--
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2012.
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"Starting in his own backyard in the old mining town of Bisbee, Arizona -- where he discovers that the dirt in his garden contains double the acceptable level of arsenic -- Bill Carter follows the story of copper to the controversial Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia; to the 'ring' at the London Metal Exchange, where a select group of traders buy and sell enormous amounts of the metal; and to an Alaskan salmon run threated by mining. Boom, Bust, Boom...
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2012.
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When U.S. deputy marshal Merlin Fanshaw mistakenly kills an innocent boy during a bank robbery, he abandons his career and rides off into a vast and mostly empty region of Montana Territory known as The Big Open. Hired as a cowhand by ranch woman Billie Hart, Merlin is drawn into a deepening conflict between Billie and a ruthless cattleman who will stop at nothing to possess her ranch.
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[1997]
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Probing behind the "wide-open city" moniker Butte has worn so well, Mining Cultures shows how the western city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew. Mary Murphy's engagingly written book is the first serious look at how women worked and spent their leisure time in a city dominated by men's work - mining. In bringing...
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2018.
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"Did a race of ancient giants once inhabit the Americas? Analyzing the historical and archaeological evidence, this title provides ample proof that our ancestors in the ancient Americas were much taller and a lot more mysterious than we imagine. Their exploits inspired the Native Americans to keep oral accounts of these mysterious giants who left behind strange artifacts, massive cities of burial mounds, and the remains of a vast copper-mining network....
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