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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"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...
2) A burning
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
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Language
English
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, 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 formativedays to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"--
4) Unbreakable
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After David Dunn emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor--and without a single scratch on him--he meets a mysterious stranger who believes comic book heroes walk the earth. A haunting stranger whose obsession with David will change David's life forever.
5) The hideout
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Edition
1st Aladdin paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his parents are killed by a crazed gunman in a Seattle mall, Jeremy is on his way to live with his Uncle Ed in Chicago when the train on which he is riding crashes in a blaze of fire. Wandering aimlessly away from the wreck, Jeremy finds a deserted cabin which appears to be just the place to hide from his problems.
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English
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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.
7) Casey Jones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the exagerated tale of John Luther Jones, nicknamed Casey, an American railroad engineer who sacrificed himself to save everyone on his train from a terrible crash.
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A McKettrick Christmas: Texas, 1896. 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...
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...
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Language
English
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Description
Lincoln scholar Brian McGinty paints history on a grand scale as he re-creates a legal case that changed the face of a nation. Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln successfully argued a trial pitting railroad vs. steamboat. In the course of this untold story, listeners follow the creation of a transnational railroad while witnessing the future president's ascension to the national stage.
11) Super 8
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
12) Rails & ties
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Making a desperate, split-second decision, railroad engineer Tom Stark allows his train to crash into a car parked on the tracks. The young boy whose mother was killed in the accident soon develops an unusual bond with Tom.
13) Last passenger
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle the sociopathic driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Author
Series
Veronica Rosenthal novels volume 1
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of...
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