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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"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."
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Distributed by TOPICS Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Takes the viewer for rides on fourteen different Colorado trains and trolleys, showcasing views of passing scenery. Includes historical information about Colorado railroads as well as a short visit to the Colorado Railroad Museum.
7) Train I ride
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
Author
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns. Newly appointed as territorial marshals, they step into an unsuspecting whirlwind of danger as they climb aboard an ill-fated train traveling through the Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border, but when the governor of Texas and his wife and daughters board...
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal...
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An invaluable resource for train travelers visiting the cities of Europe by rail, this guide contains updated information on fares, schedules, passes and detailed information on over 100 excursions and itineraries to use to visit historic and scenic locations.
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating...
In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untangle a web of murder, blackmail and destruction.
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Distributed by TOPICS Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Starting at Union Station in Chicago and ending in Los Angeles, follows the route of Amtrak's Southwest Chief. Includes stops in Abeliene, Kan. for a look at the Eisenhower museum, rides on the Cumbres and Toltec steam railroad, side trips on excursion trains from Lamy, N.M. and Flagstaff, Ariz. and a museum near Los Angeles.
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A signalman is found dead by a railway tunnel. A man identifies his wife as a victim of murder on the underground. Two passengers mysteriously disappear between stations, leaving behind a dead body. Trains have been a favourite setting of many crime writers, providing the mobile equivalent of the 'locked-room' scenario. Their enclosed carriages with a limited number of suspects lend themselves to seemingly impossible crimes. In an era of cancellations...
Author
Series
Colorado rail annual volume no. 18
Publisher
Colorado Railroad Museum
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English