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Language
English
Description
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers to these questions become clear when the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, finds some escape through a love affair with another man. After putting her drunk husband to bed one Saturday night, she sneaks from their lodge to meet railway officer, John Bedloe. But much to her horror, she trips over her love''s corpse on the railway tracks. The railway director calls Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Lemming in from London to solve the hideous crime....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On an icy day, Wilson and Koko are sanding the tracks to keep them from being too slippery. But then Wilson gets stuck! Can they still get the job done?" -- back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
c 2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
383 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the bonfire finally dies down on Guy Fawkes night 1857, the charred remains of a popular stationmaster's body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked? It's the question Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Lemming ask when they arrive in Exeter at the request of the South Devon Railway. Yet, as they investigate the stationmaster's life, they realize he is not as popular as they first believed....
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following a string of successful performances, the Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Newcastle for their next show. Yet a collision on the track with a couple of sleepers causes pandemonium: passengers thrown about and animals escaping into the night. When the body of a woman is discovered in nearby woodland, Inspector Colbeck is desperate to lend assistance, believing the two incidents might be connected. Who is the nameless woman and who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Straw, a former cowboy turned miner, is struggling to make ends meet in a town where the mining trade is dwindling. Shannon, on the other hand, is a traveler from the East looking for a new life in the West. As they journey together along the Southern Pacific, they traverse cow towns, saloons, and hotels, all while trying to find their place in a changing world. The novel is a thrilling tale of adventure and friendship, as the two men navigate...
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wilson has an important job-to take photos of Chuggington. When his camera flies off and lands out of reach, a robotic dinosaur saves the day! But can Wilson still get the perfect shot of Chuggington he needs?"--P. [4] of cover.
9) Trainstop
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young girl takes a train and makes a stop at a most unusual place where she has an important task to perform.
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a rare silver coffeepot in the shape of a locomotive disappears from the train to Cardiff and a murder subsequently occurs, Inspector Colbert and his sergeant are called in to investigate.
12) Koko on call
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twiga the giraffe is having a baby! Can Koko find her way to the doctor's house in time?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Homestead series volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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...
15) Gold mountain
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes author's note.--
Author
Series
Dino riders volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While the sheriff is away, crooked, businessman Malachi Wilks and his stegosaurus workers try to build a railroad through Trihorn Valley, with only Josh and his friends standing in his way.
17) Iron river
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Manny Maldonado and his friends find a hobo's body near the train tracks that run through their tight-knit San Gabriel valley community, a police officer tries to pin the murder on them.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Who will win Chugger of the Year? Koko wants to show the judges how speedy she can be, but can she keep her jobs on track?"--P. [4] of cover.
19) Perseverance
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
It was 1932, the depths of the Great Depression, and thousands of desperate people rode the rails in search of jobs, homes, and hope. For some, the tracks were a road to nowhere, a dead end in a boxcar or under the wheels or in a sea of emptiness. Their fate seemed certain-- until Ish Watson grabbed the rungs of a passing freight train bound for a dying relative on the Texas Gulf Coast. He brought with him the traits bestowed by his rural upbringing...
20) The Golden Swift
Author
Series
Silver Arrow volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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.
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