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21) The London train
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011.
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
Series
Nancy Drew diaries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nancy's Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It's spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has followed them onto dry land. The girl detectives had better watch...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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.
24) The train home
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nari's home feels a bit too full and a little too loud for Nari. Sometimes she wishes she lived somewhere else. Maybe a garden, or on a boat, or under the sea, or back in time, or even up in the sky with the stars. When the train rumbles by her window, she wants to jump on board. Where could it take her? The possibilities stretch far and wide as Nari's dreams.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Noah is a hopeless romantic, traveling home for one last chance with his first love. Ammy doesn't believe in true love-- love never lasts. When their Amtrak train to upstate New York breaks down in the middle of a snowstorm, Noah and Ammy have no option but to travel together. As a minor detour turns into the journey of a lifetime, will it change how they feel about love?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring cat-and-mouse game that is as surprising as it is satisfying. Meet Louise and Henri. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met. Louise is running-from her past, from the shady people she has stolen money from, and from Henri, the person sent to collect...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. She isn't the only passenger with secrets-- her cabinmate, Katharine Keeling, is fleeing a failed marriage and running toward a relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson is desperate to conceal her pregnancy from her new husband-- who isn't the father. As the train speeds down the track, their lives intersect-- with lasting repercussions....
28) Peaces
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Estabas en el tren de las 8.04? ¿Viste algo sospechoso? Rachel, sí. Rachel toma siempre el tren de las 8.04 h. Cada mañana lo mismo: el mismo paisaje, las mismas casas... y la misma parada en la señal roja. Son solo unos segundos, pero le permiten observar a una pareja desayunando tranquilamente en su terraza. Siente que los conoce y se inventa unos nombres para ellos: Jess y Jason. Su vida es perfecta, no como la suya. Pero un día ve algo....
31) Lost autumn
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Australia, 1920. Seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright embarks on the voyage of a lifetime when she's chosen to serve on the cross-continent tour of His Royal Highness, the dashing Edward, Prince of Wales. Life on the royal train is luxurious beyond her dreams, and the glamorous, good-hearted friends she makes crack open her world. But glamour often hides all manner of sins. Decades later, Maddie lives alone in Brisbane, whiling away the days. When a...
32) Chaiwala!
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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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
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Penzler Pick, December 2001: This is a compulsively readable tour de force that keeps more balls in the air than a pitching machine. On top of that, in this 14th novel featuring the one-legged Moscow cop Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, Stuart Kaminsky once again catapults us straight from our armchairs into the mindset of modern Russia in all its perverse dysfunctions. Kaminsky must have had fun cooking up the plotlines, which ingeniously plunder the...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
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, and there is one condition: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach is forced to stop...
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she...
37) Trains run!
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal different kinds of trains, how they run, and the sounds they make.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When reclusive, mysterious author Ginerva Ex takes her on a lavish trip on the newly renovated Orient Express, for helping craft her latest thriller, Rory discovers Ginerva has masterminded the ultimate real-life twisty plot with Rory as her main character, and as lies, deceptions and betrayals pile up, so do the bodies.
39) Tren de invierno
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
Se acerca el invierno y, como todos los años por estas fechas, los animales del bosque toman el tren que los llevará hacia tierras más cálidas. Todo transcurre con normalidad, hasta que un pasajero de la voz de alarma: "¡Nos hemos olvidado de Ardilla! ¡Hay que regresar a buscarla!"
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