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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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 upon...
Author
Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A century-old mystery takes Rostnikov halfway around the world In the waning days of the Russian Empire, the Czar inked a secret treaty with Japan that was stolen en route by one of the workmen on the Trans-Siberian Railway. More than a one hundred years later, the Soviet Union has gone the way of the Czardom, and police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is trying to find his way in the Russia of Vladimir Putin. A large amount of money is being sent from...
7) Loco motive
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After losing his college scholarship, Arthur discovers a journal written by his deceased grandfather and decides to follow the train route to the destination mentioned in the last sentence of the journal.
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Trapped with armed hijackers aboard a speeding train, Nick Henry is determined to free the hostages - especially his ex-girlfriend and the son he never knew existed. The army corporal must use his training to save them, but this mission's personal. Nick broke a promise to Erica Knight once, but he won't let her down now, because something precious is on the line: his family.
10) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
1937. Estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers agree to fulfill their grandmother's last wish: travel across Europe together and deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn't seen since traveling to Europe herself forty years earlier. Clara sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Agatha nominee Sharon Kahn's Rabbi's Wife mystery series is universally hailed for its humor and cozy appeal. Ruby is startled and saddened when Serena, one of her choir members, dies of heart failure. But while traveling through the Canadian Rockies, Ruby learns the shocking truth-Serena was actually poisoned.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Nancy's Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It's spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has followed them onto dry land. The girl detectives had better watch...
15) American meteor
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When their train breaks down during a snowstorm, Noah, a hopeless romantic, and Ammy, who refuses to believe in true love, are forced to travel together to reach their destinations.
Noah is a hopeless romantic, traveling home for one last chance with his first love. Ammy doesn't believe in true love-- love never lasts. When their Amtrak train to upstate New York breaks down in the middle of a snowstorm, Noah and Ammy have no option but to travel...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Little Train happily ventures out on the railroad track alone for the first time, but when he reaches the end of the tracks, it is getting dark and Little Train is worried until he recalls what his parents said about finding his way home.
20) Follow you home
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After a perfect start, Daniel and Laura's travels end abruptly when they are thrown off a night train in the middle of nowhere. To find their way back to civilisation, they must hike along the tracks through a forest. It's a haunting journey that ends in unimaginable terror.
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