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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life--as she sees it--is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute...
Author
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...
Author
Series
Bed-and-breakfast mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a cross-country train trip to Boston, Judith McMonigle Flynn is disgusted by the antics of daredevil and fellow passenger Wee Willie Weevil, whose untimely death following the train's collision with a truck identifies the work of a murderer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A secret agent aboard a galactic railroad must derail a sinister conspiracy in this “rip-roaring” thriller by the author of Star Wars: Thrawn (Publishers Weekly).
The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing...
The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing...
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Language
English
Formats
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
Gourmet Detective mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
8) Dreadnought
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 2
Language
English
Description
"I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. 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. But, the Ghan is not the respite I'd been hoping for. It turns out I've trapped myself on an 1,800-mile journey with a powder...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
523 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A train roars over the rails, carrying passengers on a trip that will change their lives. Among them are a lonely young woman hiding from her past as a reality TV star, a widower trying to escape his responsibilities to his children, and a middle-aged mother running from the turmoil in her home and marriage. These three form a makeshift family on a journey that just might heal their wounded hearts and restore them to the people to whom they matter...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. A cleric, a lawyer, and a psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for Newcastle. There is a fourth man in the compartment, who apparently pays no attention to his companions' animated conversation. But do they have something to learn from this stranger?
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Briar Creek Public Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular archivist conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Newly appointed as Territorial Marshals, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are traveling by train on a mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border. But when the Governor of Texas climbs aboard with his wife, daughters, and $500,000 in tow, the journey becomes a lot more complicated. An old enemy--still carrying plenty of scars from the last time he saw Virgil--has hitched a ride. He's not alone. And he's got vengeance on his mind."--
19) Peaces
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
20) Lost autumn
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An emotional novel of love and the power of lost dreams from an internationally bestselling master of historical fiction, about a young woman's coming-of-age in 1920 and the secrets that surface more than seventy years later. Australia, 1920. Seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright embarks on the voyage of a lifetime when she's chosen to serve on the cross-continent tour of His Royal Highness, the dashing Edward, Prince of Wales. Life on the royal train...
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