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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Hamish the bear and Noreen the goose lead a very good life in the country, but when Hamish journeys to the city to explore new places, make new friends and get a job on a building site, he realizes how much he misses his home and his good friend, Noreen.
84) Train I ride
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a train journey from her elderly grandmother's home in California to live in Chicago with an unknown relative, young Rydr holds a suitcase filled with memories and bonds with fellow passengers while seeking the hope and forgiveness she needs to start over.
86) The London train
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
324, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of his mother, Paul abandons his family to live life on the edge with his daughter from a previous marriage who is pregnant and living in a run-down council flat, while Cora rebels against her marriage and society.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such...
89) Chaiwala!
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When their train makes a ten-minute stop at the station in Jaipur, a young girl and her mother hurry to get in line for a cup of chai. The girl orders two cups, and then delights in watching the chaiwala at work--grinding the spices, adding scoops of tea leaves and sugar to the bubbling, boiling milk, then cooling the chai by pouring it from high, back and forth, back and forth--the girl is mesmerized. With a biscuit and a rusk added to their order,...
Author
Series
Gourmet Detective mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
92) Trust me
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ellen was just trying to help a stranger. That was how it started: giving a few minutes respite to a flustered young mother sitting opposite her on the train. A few minutes holding her baby while the mother makes an urgent call. The weight of the child in her arms making Ellen's heart ache for what she can never have. Five minutes pass. Ten.The train pulls into a station and Ellen is stunned to see the mother hurrying away down the platform, without...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Through vivid illustrations and engaging texts, this title captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting.
95) Terror train
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A knife-wielding psycho crashes a New Year's Eve party held aboard a chartered train and begins slaughtering the guests one by one.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--
98) Train crazy kids
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 2 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This collection of 4 train shows will fascinate and enthrall your little one while introducing them to this classic mode of transportation! Learn all about trains while learning your ABCs in The alphabet train. See the basics of how trains work in Awesome trains. Considering a career on the railroad? Then check out the various types of jobs from brakemen to yardmasters in I wanna be a train engineer. Finally, have some fun with model trains in I...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Lighting inside the carriages is poor and without warning, the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey, the...
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