Reviews on Powell's
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The Coal TattooTwo sisters grow up raising one another, nested in the hills of eastern Kentucky, on the cusp of a harsh future... …
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedSadly, environmental disaster is nothing new. With his wonderful, evocative writing, Jared Diamond tells the sorry tale of the messes our ancestors got themselves into... and gives us some ideas for how we can avoid repeating their mistakes.…
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The Girl Who Loved Wild HorsesA moving tale about the bond between a girl... and the world around her.…
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Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the HeartlandA harrowing historical journey, a poignant family memoir, and a cautionary prologue to today's misguided dependence on "clean coal" (Powell's Books)…
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The Unquiet EarthThe Unquiet Earth completes Denise Giardina's artistic rendering of a hundred years of the Appalachian coal saga.…
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Book Review: Something’s Rising"Something's Rising" is the story of twelve people resisting mountaintop removal as it plunders of their lives and lands. They are moving to stop it. …
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Book Review: Plundering AppalachiaMountaintop removal mining and publications opposing it are evolving in step. "Plundering Appalachia" provides a handy walkthrough of the MTR problem in the region it calls a "national sacrifice zone."…
