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3. Boom town
Author:
Publisher:
Orchard Books
Pub. Date:
[1998]
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 590L
Language:
English
Description:
After her family moves to California where her father goes to work in the gold fields, Amanda decides to make her own fortune baking pies and she encourages others to provide the necessary services--from a general store to a school--that enables her town to prosper.
4. Boom Town
Author:
Publisher:
J. A. Johnson
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
DRAGONS WEST The year is 1874. Vince Browder is about to unleash a plague- and pestilence-breathing dragon upon an unsuspecting young nation. All that stands between him and the ultimate land grab is young Matthew Graham and a dragon of his own named Crazy Squirrel. Against seemingly impossible odds, Matthew is joined by a band of heroic individuals including the legendary Baxter Fleming; The Miracle Marksman, Francisco Ochoa; The Bolo Kid, Americus...
5. Boom Town
Author:
Series:
Tony Caruso Mystery volume 1
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Private Investigator Tony Caruso lives out of his rolling office, an old Ford pickup truck, with his German-trained bomb-sniffing dog, Panzer, a Giant Schnauzer. Tony retired after twenty years in the Navy as an aviation ordnanceman, but this training might not be enough when he is hired by an old friend to look into a murder suicide in Bend, Oregon, a resort Boom Town in the high desert east of the Cascades. Was it a murder suicide as the local sheriff...
6. Boom Town
Author:
Series:
McCabes volume 4
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Johnny McCabe brings his new bride to Montana, but finds things are not as he had left them. A gold rush is threatening to change the lives of everyone. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Dusty McCabe and the men riding with him discover Sam Middleton has been confined to a covert facility for political prisoners and enemies of the state. A place where prisoners go in, but they never leave alive. Can Dusty and the men with him break Sam out without getting themselves...
Author:
Series:
Lake Wobegon volume 12
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred' Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored...
Author:
Publisher:
Crown
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
"Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny. Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy...
Author:
Publisher:
Epicenter
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
This is the witty, ironic, and deliciously outspoken coming-of-age memoir of Jack de Yonge set in Fairbanks, Alaska -- a once thriving little mining town slowly dying in the remote center of the vast territory in 1934. As Jack's dad liked say, no matter what direction you went out of town, you soon arrived in Nowhere.Then, World War II breaks out, and the Japanese attack Alaska. The sleepy little river town springs back to life with the arrival of...
Author:
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Investigating the personal stories behind the headquarters of the Wal-Mart Empire, this examination focuses on the growth of Bentonville, Arkansas a microcosm of America's social, political, and cultural shift. Numerous personalities are interviewed, including a multimillionaire Palestinian refugee who arrived penniless and is now dedicated to building a synagogue, a Mexican mother of three who was fired after injuring herself on the job, a black...
Author:
Publisher:
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date:
1999
Language:
English
Description:
Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community tells of the Northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake, once the uranium capital of the world, which was devastated by the closing of the uranium mines operated by Denison and Rio Algom. The closures and mass layoffs were first announced in 1990 with the layoffs occurring from then until June 1996. Throughout the period after the layoffs were announced, several major research projects...
Author:
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again....
Author:
Publisher:
Collins Publishing House
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
A journey through hope, faith, and family. In this heartfelt volume of Boom Town Reflections, Mark A. Gregg shares the powerful story of adoption, resilience, and divine intervention. Experience the challenges and triumphs of a family's pursuit to provide love and stability for a child in need, revealing the profound strength of human connection and faith. Perfect for readers seeking inspiration, real-life struggles, and uplifting resolutions.
Author:
Publisher:
Collins Publishing House
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In Boom Town Reflections, Volume 5: Lost Innocence, Mark A. Gregg takes readers through a poignant journey that intertwines faith, fate, and resilience. Set against the backdrop of small-town America, Gregg recounts his experiences with prophetic dreams, foretelling near-death encounters and life-altering decisions that reshaped his sense of purpose. Each chapter explores life transitions, from family life to professional challenges in power plants...
Author:
Publisher:
Mark A. Gregg
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Boom Town: Reflections (Volume 3) is a raw and honest memoir of Mark Gregg's journey through life in America's boom towns. From surviving a terrifying bullet incident in Rock Springs to working in the high-pressure world of coal power plants, this book dives deep into the challenges faced by power plant workers and their families. Mark shares personal stories of navigating tough working conditions, learning hard lessons, and finding resilience in...
Author:
Publisher:
Collins Publishing House
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In Boomtown Reflections - Volume 4, New Beginnings, Mark A. Gregg delivers another inciteful view into the Gregg family's foray into the boom town of Wheatland, Wyoming. Wheatland, Wyoming was a town of less than 2,000 people when Basin Electric Power Cooperative chose it for the construction of the mighty Laramie River Power Station. It was a massive 1650 megawatt, coal fired power plant that was fueled from the colossal Powder River Basin coal fields...
Author:
Publisher:
Mark A. Gregg
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Boomtown Reflections - Volume 2, Mark A. Gregg delivers an inciteful and exciting look at the newlywed teen's foray into the infamous boomtown of Rock Springs, Wyoming in 1977. This same year the venerable news program, "60 minutes" did an expose' on life "in the old west boom town of Rock Springs." It was replete with murder, drugs, prostitution, and corruption. The Gregg's extraordinary experience in this chaotic city provides a unique view of pursuing...
Author:
Publisher:
Collins Publishing House
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Volume 7 of the Boom Town Reflections series, A Dark and Cold Place, delves into the Gregg family's departure from Maryland following Josh's adoption. Their journey leads them to a newly constructed power plant in Utah. Unlike their first experience in the state, this second move finds the family in a significantly improved position, benefiting from the passage of time and hard-earned experience. However, what begins as a promising chapter soon unravels....
Author:
Publisher:
Mark A. Gregg
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In Boomtown Reflections - Volume 1, Mark A. Gregg delivers a powerful glimpse into first love and a teenage marriage that stood the test of time despite poor decisions and difficult circumstances. The author deftly illuminates the implausible, initial steps of a lifelong love story that began on a race track and eventually moved the young couple through some of the most notorious and troubled boom towns in America in the 1970's and 1980's. Truthfully...
Author:
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Language:
English
Description:
Traces the history of a Maryland steel mill town where the author grew up as the daughter of a steelworker, a childhood during which she witnessed how the industry's decline and complicated social disputes put tens of thousands out of work.