After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.

Two sisters can't stand to live together, but can't bear to be apart. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is afraid to even date. One gets pregnant in a flash, the other desperately wants to have child. This is what's at the heart of Silas House's third, masterful novel, which tells the story of Easter and Anneth, tragically left parentles as children, who must...

A ninth-grader who works with his father in the local supermarket describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes many people in his Pennsylvania coal mining town from 9/11 and the nearby crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville to the Quecreek Mine disaster in Somerset the following summer.

"Veteran coal miner George Marsh is about to retire, and he's giving his daughter Samantha a tour of the mine on his last day. Six-hundred feet below the surface, a catastrophic collapse traps them, and a crew of miners, leaving them with 72 hours before rescue workers arrive. But the drill strike that caused the disaster also opens a hole into an unknown chamber, and before long the crew suspects they are not alone." --

When nine-year old Laddy Merridew goes to live with his grandmother in a small Welsh town, he befriends the town beggar-storyteller, Ianto and learns about the Kindly Lights coal mine collapse that had a profound effect on the lives of subsequent generations of townspeople.

"Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen." --