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21) The London train
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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After the death of his mother, Paul abandons his family to live life on the edge with his daughter from a previous marriage who is pregnant and living in a run-down council flat, while Cora rebels against her marriage and society.
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Ernest Cunningham volume 2
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"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...
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Boxcar children great adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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After finding a statue in an old trunk, the children travel across the country with the statue and six mysterious boxes in an attempt to make sure the treasures all stay where they belong.
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Wolf Stockburn novels volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
[Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective] volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
[Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective] volume 1
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"The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay... Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman...
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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
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Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
28) Trains
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Discover a whole new way of looking at trains, from the old steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos to super-speeders in Japan that travel at 361 miles per hour. Also see the world's longest freight train, stretching on for a whopping 4.6 miles and futuristic railways in the sky.
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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...
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"This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure" -Library Journal All Aboard-first published in 1995, and here completely revised and updated-is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. It will make any trip smoother and more enjoyable with its insightful travel trips and information about how railroads operate. With trains attracting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-century America. An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.
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Boxcar children great adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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The Alden siblings continue their mission to return lost artifacts around the world to their rightful homes by visiting the Pyramids in Egypt and Stonehenge in England, among other places, while outwitting a thief along the way.
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"Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's...
35) Train travel
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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This book takes a look at trains and train travel in the following places: India, Europe, Peru, Russia, Australia, South Africa, United States, Canada, Japan, and China.
36) Train I ride
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
37) Line 135
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Pub. Date
2013.
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A young girl on a train enroute to her grandmother's house in the country, reflects on traveling through the world and life.
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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...