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1) The wrecker
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines in 1907, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
2) The spy
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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.
3) Risky rails!
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Language
English
Description
When a little engine is blamed for something he didn't do, Thomas becomes determined to clear his name.
8) Alien nation
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Description
A wordless wonder of a picture book, reminiscent of David Wiesner and Chris Van Allsburg. An unforgettable subway ride in an alien world filled with truths of our own.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered the floor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayo stepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no way of knowing the course of his life would change forever ...
Author
Series
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...
12) Prairie train
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young girl experiences the thrill of her first train ride when she takes the Great Northern from the country to visit her grandmother in the city.
15) Dinosaur train
Author
Language
English
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Description
Thursday was a day much like any other for Jesse until he rides the dinosaur train.
17) All aboard!
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Illustrations and rhyming text show two boys who meet on a train ride--as they pass through various landscapes and by other hard-working trains--on their way to camp"--
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
A train full of killers. Two passengers marked for death. And one legendary mountain man. Matt Jensen is in for the ride of his life. And it may be his last…
Rich Man, Dead Man
After surviving a brilliantly plotted murder attempt, the richest man in San Francisco is looking to hire the best protection money can buy. Enter Matt Jensen, who, for the princely sum of $5000, agrees to escort millionaire John Gillespie and his very fetching daughter...
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