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2) The wrecker
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
4) Orphan train
Author
Language
English
Description
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
Author
Series
I survived volume 22
Language
English
Description
"The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
7) The spy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
Series
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver,...
12) On the train
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What can we find on the train today? From the engineer in his cab and maintenance workers on the track to stop-and-go signals and all kinds of trains, each page will take you behind the scenes of a busy train ride.
14) The lady's maid
Author
Language
English
Description
Elise Finster and her British mistress, Lady Anne, are searching for the new but missing earl of Stoneford. Determined to follow David Stone's somewhat cold trail leading to Oregon, the greenhorns secure livestock and supplies to join a wagon train. Will the ladies succeed in their quest or succumb to the malfeasance of the mysterious man dogging their heels?
Author
Series
Goodnight Train volume 4
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's Halloween night and the Goodnight Train is set to choo choo boo! Spooky and sweet surprises await through seek-and-find holes in every pages of this companion to The Goodnight Train, The Goodnight Train rolls on!, and Santa and the Goodnight Train."--Page [4] of cover.
17) Time to share!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Thomas learns about sharing with his friend Percy"--Page 4 of cover.
18) Sleep train
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A little boy climbs into bed with a book and starts counting the train cars in it, between the engine and caboose. 'Ten sleepy cars going clickety-clack,' reads the refrain. But as the boy counts cars and gets sleepier and sleepier, his room looks more and more like one of the train cars from his book--the sleeping car, of course!"--Amazon.com.
19) The Golden Swift
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kate and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of the steam-powered, animal-saving Great Secret Intercontinental Railway, but when Kate takes the Silver Arrow out on an unsanctioned mission to find Uncle Herbert she discovers a mysterious train called the Golden Swift with an agenda of its own.