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Cam and Madi hadn't seen or spoken to each other in over ten years. Their friendship was just an old memory. Cameron didn't have time for love, nor the desire to find it. Freight Train had taken the world by storm and their North American tour was sold out. Then their agent decided that they needed a photographer on board. Madison has a successful business and a daughter to take care of in Brisbane. She didn't need the love of a man to be happy, but...
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Manny (Jon Voight) is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck (Eric Roberts), makes a daring breakout. Hopping a freight train, they head for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they find themselves speeding towards certain disaster. Until, that is, they discover a third passenger, a railroad worker (Rebecca De Mornay), who's just as determined to survive as they are. Voight and Roberts...
3) Yard Man
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The Great Depression lingers on in Mississippi, where the living is hard-especially for Judas Cain, who's simply trying to survive when he unknowingly incurs the wrath of Brad Menifee, the most dangerous man in the state. Normally, Judas would hop the next freight train out of town, but not only has he fallen in love, he's found a job working for a family he unexpectedly cares about. Yard Man tells the story of a simple man struggling to find love...
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A Spanish translation of National Geographic Readers Trains Level 1.
Choo choo! Kids love trains! Especially the classic steam engines found in amusement parks and zoos. But what about a super-speeder in Japan that zooms along the track at 361 miles an hour (581 km/h)? Or the world's longest freight train, stretching a whopping 4.6 miles (7.4 km)? Or futuristic railways in the sky?
National Geographic Readers feature engaging text carefully vetted...
5) Phoenix
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Twenty years have passed since Ryder Kennedy, front man for the hugely success rock and roll band "FREIGHT TRAIN" abruptly walked off the stage in Las Angeles in 1971 while performing the band's final encore song only to completely disappear. Ryder had gone into complete seclusion on a small island noted for its proximity to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, Nantucket. Ryder meets a woman who will permanently change his life, but this will come at a hefty...
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Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Rights and Women's Movements. Pauli Murray fearlessly rode freight trains dressed as a boy during the Great Depression and befriended First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt before embarking on a pioneering life of social activism, legal scholarship, and many firsts....
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Baggage. Every woman has it, but Rhonda Jackson is carrying around so much that her back is about to break. Kicked out and abandoned by her mother at sixteen, Rhonda Wilson didn't get the blueprint on how to love. Instead, she's been pulling a freight train of internal turmoil around and dumping pieces of it on the people who love her the most.After coveting Shayla's first and second husband, she finds herself battling to stay out of jail. Fortunate...
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Sequel to Sitting on Top of the World June's new normal: Her brother is gone, her dad is gone, her mother is grieving, and June must find her place in the world. Her beau Jimmy is her only tonic. But when tragedy strikes again, she knows exactly who to blame for all her sorrows: Paul Burnett, the railroad bull who started the chain of devastation when he killed her brother. June sets out on a dangerous journey to make him pay, hopping freight trains...
9) Hardcastle
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In 1931 William Music is making his way back home to Virginia when he hops off a freight train in Switch County, Kentucky, to find something to eat. For eleven cents-all the money in his pocket-he buys a soda bottle's worth of moonshine. Farther down the road, he takes two turnips and a handful of string beans from a kitchen garden and beds down for the night in a haystack. It is still dark out when he wakes up to a dog licking his forehead and a...
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Research shows that 68% of small business owners find marketing overwhelming.
Is this you? Are you a part of that 68%?
Marketing can be a mystery, and the reality is just posting on Facebook or putting that same ad in the local paper every week is no longer working, and it's easy to get left behind. And then there's the whole AI marketing freight train heading our way, again making marketing feel complicated and overwhelming.
But here's the thing...
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Railway termini,' wrote E.M. Forster, 'are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine... '
Now, in this new collection of great journeys from the pages of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Michael Kerr follows up his bestselling anthology, Last Call for the Dining Car, with another feast for the armchair rail traveller. The train sliding out of the station can take you back into the past-in the company...
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Momentum is the forward motion of objects. This same concept can apply to success. Success can become like a rolling ball, moving on its own accord and collecting bigger and bigger successes as it travels along. Learning how to master momentum is a great way to catapult your small successes into huge ones.
Momentum can help you lead a team to victory in sports, business, or other joint ventures. It can also help you encourage yourself to achieve all...
13) Wild Horse Heart
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A fast-paced romantic suspense set in the film industry.When musician Ria Walsh lands the lead role in director Ben Crawford's next film, she works up the courage to leave her toxic marriage. She takes the kids, escapes her ex-husband, and dives into her new Hollywood life. Even as Ria secretly falls for her director, she accepts the offer of a summer fling with her co-star, Gregory Finn... a man notorious for romancing his leading ladies and leaving...
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"Thirty years ago on March 24, 1972, the worst school bus accident in New York State history occurred. At 7:55am a school bus with 49 students aboard was driven across a railroad crossing near Congers, New York in Rockland County. The bus was struck by a Penn Central freight train travelling approximately 29 m.p.h.: --
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2023.
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"Fourteen-year-old Josh and his friend Shan are facing hard times on their families' farms in Central Texas in 1934. It's the days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and rain is as scarce as money. With the long dry spell have come wild animals with flashing teeth and deadly rabies. Dust storms known as black blizzards are raging, threatening lives and destroying cropland. Will a rainmaker bring rain? Will their families lose their homes? Will...
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Do you want to effortlessly master the freight dispatching business to build the life you really want without leaving the comfort of your home? Keep reading because 90% of Truck Dispatchers fail within their first month! Why are so many Truck Dispatchers struggling to survive in this industry?
Mistake #1: Not understanding the nitty-gritty of the business, from finding the first carrier to keeping them for the long run.
Mistake #2: Rushing into...
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Yitzchak Borowsky
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[2022]
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"She was liberated from hell on Earth. But will she ever be free from Auschwitz? Poland, 1943. Dark skies and barbed wire fences were all Bluma saw as she stepped down from the train onto the main platform of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After surviving the Wehrmacht's decimation of her hometown, Bluma and what remained of her family were finally put on the long, harsh train ride through inhuman conditions that seemed to last an eternity. Then the freight...
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S. hrg volume 116-638
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U.S. Government Publishing Office
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2023.
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