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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually,...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Filled with unusual and unexpected stories and facts, this illustrated survey of the most important historical and contemporary railway lines around the world will captivate a wide audience, from the curious browser to researching students. The book organizes the railroads chronologically, considering each according to its greatest impact on social, commercial, political, engineering, and military history. Maps plus more than 200 elegant drawings,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignettes at once transgressive and hilarious. In Blair's surreal universe, a lost child watches as bewhiskered monsters gobble up her fellow train passengers; a band of kids merrily plays a gut-churning game with playground toys; and two sisters, grinning...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At once disturbing and empowering, the memoir of a courageous woman, who, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, was manipulated, exploited, and abused as a sex worker; who killed her pimp/father figure-and was unjustly sentenced to life in prison without parole. "I was 11 when I met GG. I realized later that he had to have been aware of the chaos that was my life... because he played me perfectly. I was walking home after school... I heard his...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This sci-fi inspired taxi trip will have kids roaring with laughter. Victor is everyone's favorite extraterrestrial taxi driver, but he has a big problem. His memory is terrible! He can never remember his way around the galaxy. When he drops off his passengers at the wrong locations, there are some unexpected and hilarious high jinks. Elsa Klever's wonderful drawings incorporate every day experiences--like going to the dentist, the library, or the...
Publisher
TM Books & Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Over five-hours full of great train action. See sleek Lionel diesels, powerful steamers puffing smoke, switchers with backup lights, long freights winding slowly around mountain passes, passenger trains with their lights shinging brightly, log and coal loaders, illuminated stations, powerful maganetic cranes, hills and rivers, cities and towns filled with little folk--all the enchantment and thrills that toy train layouts have provided five generations...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Jeff Rovin's Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War, after the devastating outbreak of a killer super virus, the Black Wasp Team must prevent America's enemies from gaining access to the most dangerous weapon the world has ever seen. The passengers and crew on an Airbus en route to Australia suddenly begin coughing up blood and hemorrhaging violently as the plane plunges to the ground. There are no survivors. A luxury yacht in the South Indian Sea...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 113-826
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Great courses. Better living volume 9394
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
This course of 15 half-hour lectures by Professor Colletta presents different procedures for locating sources of ancestors' records in America.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avalon Travel
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A group of young monks, their robes a luminous orange, cross the causeway. A stone's throw away, rice paddies and golden temple roofs of Angkor shimmer in the morning sun. Monkeys swing from the trees and elephants stand in the shade nearby, waiting for passengers. This is the trip of a lifetime. It will leave you with a new sense of wonder -- and some great stories to share. Expert traveler Tom Vater tells you everything you need to know to make...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
©2019-
Language
English
Description
"Meru's obsession with Flight 815 leads her to a much bigger story of a top-secret government Mind MGMT program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she hunts down the flight's missing passenger, the man who was Mind MGMT's greatest success--and its most devastating failure"--
117) Remember the Sultana
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat's boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history. This documentary features interviews with preeminent Sultana historians Jerry O. Potter...
Author
Series
Secrets Of Dripping Fang volume Bk. 8
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Followed by an assassin and her poisonous snakes, ten-year-old twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin try to get from their Ohio home to the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia, to get help in freeing human hostages from the onts.