Full AspenCat Catalog

Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.

"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."

Tying in with a BBC2 series, this book comprises accounts of six international train adventures undertaken by well-known personalities. By using rail as his or her means of transport, each author was able to meet the people of a continent and witness changing cultures on the journey.

In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. It is a simple device: people brought together entertain one another with tales of what happened to them on trains. It takes place on a journey I frequently...

"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed...

Ride on the California Zephyr, talk with its passengers and crew, and hear the stories and history of this transcontinental train.

Hop on board the train on a rollicking, rhyming adventure to meet some of Alaska's most beloved animals. Included at the back is a glossary of the parts of a train, plus more information about the famous Alaska Train and a map of its route.

"Travel the globe with more than seventy of the world's most beautiful, historic, and useful train routes with Trains. Go to the foot of the Alps with trains like the Mont Blanc tramway, the Montenvers Railway, or the Jungfrau Railway, as they ascend steep mountainsides to some of the world's most extreme climates. Or follow old mining railways that leave town heading toward the nearest quarry life the Ffestiniog Railway and the Mount Snowdon Railway...