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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lizzie McKettrick is homeward bound with her fiancé, Whitley Carson, when their train is derailed, leaving passengers stranded on Christmas Eve. While Whitley is concerned only with himself, a handsome doctor enlists Lizzie's help treating injured passengers. Soon Lizzie realizes that Christmas truly is a season of miracles--and love.
2) Timberline
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A high-country train trek turns into a blizzard-bound trainwreck-from-hell for Roamer as a gang of gunmen run roughshod on the rails. They blow the safe, abscond with a mysterious young woman, and torch the train, leaving passengers to burn in the midst of a blizzard. Trailing death in its wake, the gang heads to the high country with Roamer dogging them on foot, the only man bold enough to track them--until he's joined by his cantankerous old mentor,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from his friends, constantly annoyed by his little sister, Jess, and completely fed up with the pale, creepy rich girl who moved in next door, who won't stop staring at him. So when Cooper learns of an unsolved mystery his sister has discovered online, he welcomes the distraction. It's the tale of a deadly train crash that occurred a hundred years ago in...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced...
6) A burning
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
8) Super 8
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was unrelenting. Suddenly the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche...
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous--and deadly--turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka 'The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge.' There's just one problem: Rupe has been dead for ten years.... With...
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"DEMENTED. DERANGED. DERAILED. 1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous - and deadly - turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka "The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge." There's just one problem: Rupe has...
13) Casey Jones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on a real person, this tall tale tells the story of legendary train engineer Casey Jones and his heroic last ride on the Cannonball Express. Additional features to aid comprehension include background information and historical context of the tale, and an introduction to the author and illustrator. Author/Illustrator biography Educational front/back matter Tall tales thrive on exaggeration and embellishment, making them some of our nation's...
14) Knockdown
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No one saw the first attack coming. A perfectly orchestrated assault on a mass-transit railroad line that left countless Americans dead. Then came more attacks. More rail systems sabotaged. More civilian lives lost. Intelligence experts are convinced this is no ordinary terrorist attack. To pull off something like this, it would take a deep-state traitor with dark foreign connections. And to stop them, it will take someone who isn't afraid to shed...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The day the train fell in the lake, Cassie stopped believing in much of anything, despite growing up in a devout Catholic family. Then she set her mind to forgetting the strange boy named Elias who was with her when it happened. When Elias comes back to town after many years away, Cassie finds herself talked into sneaking out at night to follow him ghost-hunting--though she knows better than to believe they will find any spirits. Still, the more...
16) Two rivers
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
T. Greenwood's new novel is a powerful, haunting tale of enduring love, destructive secrets, and opportunities that arrive in disguise . . .
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over the...
17) Funeral train
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails--flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage. The following night, a local recluse is murdered. Temple has...
Publisher
4 Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her father is framed for a biological gas attack in Sydney, suspended Federal cop Leyla is set on a mission to clear her father's name and uncover the truth behind the attack that leaves the survivors of a train crash fighting for survival.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
McKettrick Christmas: Lizzie McKettrick is homeward bound with her fiancé, Whitley Carson, when their train is derailed, leaving passengers stranded on Christmas Eve. While Whitley is concerned only with himself, a handsome doctor enlists Lizzie's help treating injured passengers. Soon Lizzie realizes that Christmas truly is a season of miracles--and love.
A Creed country Christmas: Montana, 1910. Juliana loses the Indian school she runs, and the...