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Kids can explore how the railroad shaped the history of the United States and Canada, see 15 beloved cities, and discover some of its most iconic locomotives in this stylishly designed book by Canadian author/illustrator Blanchet.

"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...

A young girl on a train enroute to her grandmother's house in the country, reflects on traveling through the world and life.

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.

From Paris, travel through the old-world countryside of the Loire Valley towards Bordeaux, known for its famous wines. In Spain, the journey takes you through the Basque Provinces toward Portugal, to Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

In Morocco travel from the city of Marrakech to the mysterious city of Fez. See how Carthaginian, Roman and Arab influences have left their mark on Tunisia. View pyramids in Egypt while traveling along the Nile and see wild animals and Mt. Kilimanjaro as you travel from Kenya to Uganda. Finally, travel aboard the Blue Train in South Africa.

Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.

1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a first-class compartment with a gentleman in a celebratory mood. Giles Blanchard reveals his lecherous side as the journey gets underway, but he will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive. This chance encounter is to prove fortuitous for the woman and her partner-in-crime. They find themselves not only the richer for picking the dead man's pocket, they also now possess the material...

A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train.