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2) The spy
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Twentieth century detective Isaac Bell takes on the world of warfare when America’s naval research and development experts begin to die one by one in this #1 New York Times-bestselling historical action adventure.
1908 marks a year of ever-escalating international tension as the world plunges toward war. And with America on the brink, it comes as a devastating blow to learn of the apparent suicide of one of the United...
1908 marks a year of ever-escalating international tension as the world plunges toward war. And with America on the brink, it comes as a devastating blow to learn of the apparent suicide of one of the United...
3) The wrecker
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Investigating the attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades line, Detective Isaac Bell discovers a saboteur, known as the Wrecker, who recruits and murders his accomplices and may be building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before.
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Where will the wind blow next?
New York City, 1871. Fourteen-year-old Dane Weston comes home to an empty apartment. A gang of teenage boys has murdered his family, shattering his dream of becoming a doctor. Driven to the streets with other homeless waifs, Dane’s new occupation is begging for food. Worse things await—misunderstandings, imprisonment, and separation from his pretty orphan friend, Tharyn. The gentle breezes of...
New York City, 1871. Fourteen-year-old Dane Weston comes home to an empty apartment. A gang of teenage boys has murdered his family, shattering his dream of becoming a doctor. Driven to the streets with other homeless waifs, Dane’s new occupation is begging for food. Worse things await—misunderstandings, imprisonment, and separation from his pretty orphan friend, Tharyn. The gentle breezes of...
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The second book in the Orphan Trains Trilogy from writing duo Al and Joanna Lacy
When 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? But their futures are wilder than any of them could imagine, and range from kidnappings and whippings to stowing...
When 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? But their futures are wilder than any of them could imagine, and range from kidnappings and whippings to stowing...
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Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century. Yet it is not just the orphans whose...
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All the wrong questions volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Young Lemony Snicket investigates when the nightly train that goes to the city is instead redirected to a mysterious alternate location.
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Frontier doctor trilogy volume 1
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English
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Countless perils menaced the early settlers of the Wild West - and not the least of them was the lack of medical care. Dr. Dane Logan, a former street waif who has been adopted by a doctor's family in Cheyenne, puts his lifelong dream to work filling this need. His renown as a surgeon spreads throughout the frontier, even while his love grows for the beautiful Tharyn, an orphan he lost contact with when he left New York City as a child. Will happiness...
10) Trains go
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English
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Trains grumble, roar, and squeak their way through this board book.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
A journalist on a cross-country Christmas train scales the rugged terrain of his own heart in this New York Times bestselling holiday tale that inspired the Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie!
Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to Los Angeles in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives...
Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to Los Angeles in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives...
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"Settling the American West required men to enforce peace in a land where justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun. Wagon trains along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. With families being terrorized, Preacher and MacCallister volunteer to escort the next wagon train. Preacher travels with the settlers while MacCallister trails at a distance, scouting for trouble. Battered and weary, the travelers are no match for the trigger-happy...
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Leah's garden volume 1
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English
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"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for change, frustrated by the small-mindedness of her Ohio hometown and its lack of opportunity for her or her younger sisters. But the push to leave comes faster than she ever expected when several of her bold actions for justice earn her vindictive enemies. Overnight, they must pack up and ready to make a new life out West, hoping to escape notice and any opportunities for revenge. Knowing that four women traveling together...
14) Angel train
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Series
Wagon wheel series volume 4
Publisher
B&H Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charity Morgan, a beautiful and practical young woman, is forced to leave her Pennsylvania homestead, along with the rest of the community, due to a recession, and as they organize a wagon train to Oregon, plans to utilize the skills of inmate and wagon master Casey Tremayne create tension among everybody involved in the journey.
15) Train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Board a commuter train in New York, then follow the journey west and see the stations, the scenery, the different types of trains, and all the people who travel and work on the railroad system.
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Goodnight Train volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A child's bedtime ritual follows the imaginary journey of a goodnight train's trip to the dreamland station.
18) Distant heart
Author
Series
Westward hearts volume 2
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
19) The waste lands
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Dark Tower volume 3
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English
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Presents the third in the Stephen King series in which the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead, traverses the poisonous waste lands and the ravaged city of Lud, along with three newcomers to Mid-World, in search of the entity known as the Dark Tower.
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