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Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 02
Language
English
Description
"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real"--
"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...
64) Trains run!
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal different kinds of trains, how they run, and the sounds they make.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Hamish the bear and Noreen the goose lead a very good life in the country, but when Hamish journeys to the city to explore new places, make new friends and get a job on a building site, he realizes how much he misses his home and his good friend, Noreen.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When their train breaks down during a snowstorm, Noah, a hopeless romantic, and Ammy, who refuses to believe in true love, are forced to travel together to reach their destinations.
Noah is a hopeless romantic, traveling home for one last chance with his first love. Ammy doesn't believe in true love-- love never lasts. When their Amtrak train to upstate New York breaks down in the middle of a snowstorm, Noah and Ammy have no option but to travel...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"ÂżEstabas en el tren de las 8.04? ÂżViste algo sospechoso? Rachel, sĂ. Rachel toma siempre el tren de las 8.04 h. Cada mañana lo mismo: el mismo paisaje, las mismas casas... y la misma parada en la señal roja. Son solo unos segundos, pero le permiten observar a una pareja desayunando tranquilamente en su terraza. Siente que los conoce y se inventa unos nombres para ellos: Jess y Jason. Su vida es perfecta, no como la suya. Pero un dĂa ve algo....
Author
Language
English
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Description
Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can't neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. Agatha isn't the only passenger on board with secrets. Her cabinmate Katharine Keeling's first marriage ended in tragedy, propelling her toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson--newly married but...
69) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Clockwork century volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Although not thrilled when her summer plans are upended for a surprise cross-country train trip with her family and embarrassed because one of her moms is writing a tell-all book about the trip, twelve-year-old Sara Johnston-Fischer finds herself changing along with the landscape outside the train windows.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After losing his college scholarship, Arthur discovers a journal written by his deceased grandfather and decides to follow the train route to the destination mentioned in the last sentence of the journal.
Arthur Louis Pullman the Third has been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle. He discovers a journal written by his grandfather, the first Arthur Louis Pullman,...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations—all around the world! After finding a painted turtle figurine, the Aldens are introduced to the Silverton family and Reddimus Society, a secret guild whose mission is to return lost artifacts and treasures to the sites they were taken from. The Aldens board a private train to New Mexico
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Series
Mr. Penguin volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
285 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Mr. Penguin - adventurer (and penguin). He has a dashing hat. He has a packed lunch. He is very keen. When Mr Penguin discovers that his good friend Edith has been kidnapped, he's on his most important mission yet. Will he survive a perilous train journey through the desert? Can he complete three impossible tasks ... and still get home in time for a fish finger sandwich?
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After two and a half years as NPR's Moscow bureau chief, David Greene travels across the country--a 6,000-mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok--to speak with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. Reaching beyond the headline-grabbing protests in Moscow, Greene speaks with a group of singing babushkas from Buranovo, a teenager hawking 'space rocks' from last spring's meteor shower...
77) Chaiwala!
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When their train makes a ten-minute stop at the station in Jaipur, a young girl and her mother hurry to get in line for a cup of chai. The girl orders two cups, and then delights in watching the chaiwala at work-- grinding the spices, adding scoops of tea leaves and sugar to the bubbling, boiling milk, then cooling the chai by pouring it from high, back and forth, back and forth-- the girl is mesmerized. With a biscuit and a rusk added to their order,...
78) Stuck with you
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stuck With You is a story of Queer joy and a playful teen romance, following two frenemies as they fall for each other while stuck in adjacent seats on a day-long train trip. Ben is on a train back to Ottawa after a visit with his dad in Toronto when he runs into the last person he wanted to see: Caleb, the handsome, confident boy who recently and accidentally broke Ben's phone. Preoccupied by worrying about whether he should take a gap year, Ben...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring cat-and-mouse game that is as surprising as it is satisfying. Meet Louise and Henri. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met. Louise is running--from her past, from the shady people she has stolen money from, and from Henri, the person sent to collect...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 4
Language
English
Description
Following clues provided by the secretive Reddimus Society, the four Alden siblings travel to a dingo sanctuary in Australia and to Shakleton's hut in Antarctica to deliver the fifth and sixth artifacts, and then they work to unmask the traitor traveling with them.
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