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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library 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 and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When the Quadrail transportation system that connects the galaxy's worlds is threatened by a dangerous military force and a race of addictive coral producers, unemployed investigator Compton is enlisted to prevent the system's takeover.
46) Silver Streak
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train.
47) Epic adventures
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Description
"Climb onboard and travel across six continents, 34 countries, and numerous cities via 12 of the world's most amazing train journeys. ... Sam Sedgman will delight readers with his descriptive and illuminative text about train journeys including the Orient Express (Paris to Istanbul), the first Transcontinental Railroad (Chicago to San Francisco), and the Rejuvenation Express (Beijing to Hong Kong). Each locomotive adventure reveals some of the rich...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Tying in with a BBC2 series, this book comprises accounts of six international train adventures undertaken by well-known personalities. By using rail as his or her means of transport, each author was able to meet the people of a continent and witness changing cultures on the journey.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"A revelatory, entertaining account of the world's most indispensable mode of transportation Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic MagLev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
C©♭cile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation thirty years ago....
55) Eastbound
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"--
56) Night train
Pub. Date
2009
Description
While on a night train, three strangers discover a corpse and a box of diamonds. At first, the three scheme to ditch the body and split the fortune, until their greed and paranoia pits them against each other.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In Germany, follow the road in search of the Brothers Grimm, then head south towards the German Alps and view Ludwig II's castle. Then travel through Prague in the Czech Republic and head toward Eastern Europe to Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Istanbul, Turkey.
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, 'The Iron Road' tells the hidden stories of railway history - the inspired engineering, blood, sweat and tears that went into the construction of the railways. Uncover the compelling tales of bold vision, invention and error, and social change behind the history of trains and railways, with famous railways such as the Transsiberian fully explored.
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