 | Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell
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 | Coal Country
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 | Coal River by Michael Shnayerson
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 | Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities by Shirley Stewart Burns
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 | Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society) by Suzanne E. Tallichet
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 | Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal by Penny Loeb
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $5.56 |
 | Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History (West Virginia and Appalachia) by Davitt McAteer
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $21.24 |
 | Lost Mountain by Erik Reece
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 | The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won (Vintage) by Gerald M. Stern
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 | Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal by Michael Brune
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.69 Alternatives to the destruction of the fossil fuel mafia.
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 | Coal by Kathy Mattea
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.49 Kathy Matea is from South Charleston.
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 | Matewan
Buy used from: $36.98 This is a classic film by John Sayles regarding a strike by coal miners and their attempt to unionize.
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 | The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising by Robert Shogan
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 | Thunder In the Mountans: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon Savage
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 | Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliott J. Gorn
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $7.95 Mother Jones spent time in West Virginia in solidarity with workers.
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 | Mother Jones: Labor Leader (Graphic Biographies series) by Connie Colwell Miller
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 | Walter Reuther: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN DETROIT by Nelson Lichtenstein
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 | Putting the World Together: My Father Walter Reuther, The Liberal Warrior by Elisabeth reuther Dickmeyer
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 | Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.72 Author and filmmaker Morgan Spurlock was born in Parkersburg.
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 | 30 Days: The Complete Second Season
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 | Super Size Me
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 | The African American National Biography: Eight-volume set
Buy new: $995.00 / Used from: $419.65 Scholar Henry Louis Gates was born in Piedmont.
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 | Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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 | America Behind The Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans by Henry Louis Gates
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 | The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America by Jeff Biggers
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 | Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.00 Booker T. Washington lived in Malden.
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 | John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.99 Abolitionist John Brown launched a raid against the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, WV.
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 | Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action by Mike Roselle
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $6.50 Mike Roselle is a West Virginian who is actively resisting King Coal and its mountaintop removal mining.
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 | A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom by Jedediah Purdy
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $4.75 Purdy is from West Virginia.
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 | Mother's Day: Its History, Origin, Celebration, Spirit And Significance (Our American Holidays) by Susan Tracy Rice
Buy new: $37.20 / Used from: $34.51 Mother's Day was founded by Anna Jarvis of Grafton.
And the first Father's Day was celebrated in Fairmont.
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 | Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters by Denise Giardina
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $8.11 Giardina was born in Bluefield.
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 | Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
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 | Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love by Asra Nomani
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.28 Nomani is a graduate of West Virginia University.
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 | Traveler by Tim O'Brien
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $5.88 Musician Tim O'Brien was born in Wheeling.
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 | Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel by Ann Pancake
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 | Shifting Gears: A Bicycling Guide to West Virginia by Kurt B. Detwiler
Buy used from: $3.86 Some people in West Virginia are using bikes to get around.
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 | Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians by William C. Roody
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $27.23 People who appreciate the natural world know how it nourishes us in countless ways. Groups like the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy are doing important work to preserve ecosystems.
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 | Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People by Hazel Dickens
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $36.44 Hazel Dickens is from Mercer County.
Her music has pro-union and feminist themes.
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 | It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song by Hazel Dickens
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.00 |
 | Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Inspiring Landmarks and Left Turns by Jerome Pohlen
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $1.71 |
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