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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. But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives....
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520L
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English
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Celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Little Engine That Could with this all-time classic reillustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Dan Santat!
The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls...
5) Train
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English
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A picture-packed guide to the fascinating story of trains and how they have transformed our world. Discover how the vision of George Stephenson, the "father of the railroad," materialized into an age of steam around the world. Study the cut-out of a locomotive to understand how the movement of the piston turns the wheels. Learn how the American railroad contributed to the development and progress in the US and facilitated the spread of population...
6) Trains
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Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
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Describes what trains are, how they are used, and different kinds.
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris. It was an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The film follows the course of the friends₂ lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but...
11) The wrecker
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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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.
13) The Golden Swift
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Series
Silver Arrow volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
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.
15) Breakneck
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to Alaska, unaware that a killer is waiting to take his revenge--by livestreaming her death to the world. In Anchorage, Alaska, Deputy US Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are assigned to security detail at a judicial conference in Fairbanks. Lola is tasked with guarding Justice Townsend's teenaged daughter while Cutter provides counter-surveillance. It's a simple,...
16) The spy
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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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.
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 3 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Diesel #10 has devious plans to dominate the other engines by finding and crushing their dwindling supply of magical gold dust. Lilly has a hunch that her grandfather holds the key to rescuing the little trains in his workshop on Muffle Mountain.
20) Choo-choo school
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"All aboard the train-car pool! A new lineup of students is off and rolling to Choo-Choo School. After reciting their classroom rules--Work hard, play fair, be kind--it's time for some math to get the wheels turning. Then everyone's ready to climb a hill in gym (it's good to blow off steam), sing songs in music (Flat Car is a bit off-key), and learn the whole alphabet, especially the letter R. In one of Amy Krouse Rosenthal's last books, lighthearted...