“Gilded Mountain” by Kate Manning (Scribner) Gilded Mountain (Scribner) Moonstone is a turn-of-the-century marble mining town, a little like our Marble. The mine is owned by an unscrupulous company whose executives want to make maximum profits from the quarry while paying minimum wages. They care little about hazardous conditions or the poverty of their employees, and anyone who talks about unionization faces being fired or worse. Sylvie Pelletier’s father works in the mine, and her people are as impoverished as the other families, but she has ambition.