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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Blackened Souls, The price of coal

Blackened Souls, The price of coal

Gough, David M.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798314343173
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 17 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Deep beneath the earth, where the air is thick with coal dust and the walls groan under the weight of centuries, fourteen-year-old Billy Wilson begins his first shift as a miner. Like his father, his brother, and generations before them, he steps into the darkness, unaware that by day's end, his world will be shattered forever.

When a catastrophic explosion rips through the tunnels, burying hundreds of men alive, Billy finds himself trapped in the wreckage-a lone survivor in a silent tomb of coal and corpses. As he fights to escape the suffocating blackness, he is forced to confront the ghosts of the pit, the brutal reality of the mining life, and the terrible cost of survival.

Set against the harrowing backdrop of a coal-mining disaster, this novel is a gritty, heart-wrenching tribute to the men and boys who toiled beneath the earth, and the families who waited in fear for their return. This is a story of sacrifice, grief, and the unbreakable spirit of those who lived-and died-by the coal.

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