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On a train ride home to visit her sister, Marley Walker encounters a haunting old man who reveals a dark premonition: her sister's life is in danger. She would be crazy to believe him, but if she doesn't find the courage to face her darkest fears, her life will be in danger, too.
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After finding his girlfriend dead on the railroad tracks right after breaking up with her, Danny McGregor—Flagstaff bartender and surfer without an ocean—rides the next bus out of Arizona, fleeing to his Cocoa Beach, Florida, hometown, where a maelstrom of past ghosts await.
Back in Florida, his treacherous friend, Bart, finds Danny a job picking up corpses. Sophie, a former crazy girlfriend who stabbed Danny, wants to rekindle their relationship....
83) Train Wreck 21
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The Book Train Wreck 21 is of a mysterious train called Barron 21, which kills 16,000 people. A character infamously called UNKNOWN kills all of them. This massive attack is bigger than 9/11. This UNKNOWN killer is coming from where nobody knows and makes everybody confused about? It's the biggest mystery! Would anyone ever find UNKNOWN? Train Wreck 21 will take you on a wild ride. This book is packed with action, adventure, suspense and mystery....
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Train to Bethlehem follows 9 orphans in 1935 on their way to locate their new families in a small town at the foothills of The White Mountains in Bethlehem New Hampshire. A train trip normally taking one day turns into a week as the children and Head Conductor Henry find courage, faith, and joyful laughter in the midst of blizzards, below zero temperatures, and the relentless force of Miss Crankle a social worker determined to take the children away...
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"In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the new state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people-Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs-were in flight, By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra." It is a place,...
86) Train of Hope
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A stolen carriage, a shorn lock of hair, and a promise to escape to the West. Our freedom was a train ride away... until fate cut the line.I had it all planned out: escape Georgia's high society, find peace in the West with Leo, my soulmate. A life of love, far from the suffocating grip of my past. But when Leo's old bandit life collides with our future, our dreams derail amidst the whispers of crime and a cruel snip that robs more than just my hair."In...
87) Train Ride Out
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Come meet Michael as he tries to deal with two cultures. It also focuses on Chuy, his American Indian friend, Janique, his African American lover, and his many friends and lovers. They all usher him into adulthood. Train Ride Out is an escape from Czechoslovakia in 1939. Michael has many adventures in Ireland, Spain and New Mexico. This novel deals with the use of poetry and language to paint pictures for the reader and to make the reader laugh and...
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A Before… and After StoryIt was only a game. Wasn't it? At a party one night, Charlie Dean's childhood friend Will Tucker accepts a dare and dresses up as a girl: clothes, hair, makeup. Seeing Will that way incites a riot of confused emotions in Charlie-and he responds by lashing out. He never meant to hurt Will, and now he must do some serious damage control. During a school trip by train, Charlie and Will share a sleeper cabin. Charlie intends...
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Malaika and her brother Sammy have been arguing about the Underground Railroad when they are caught in an afternoon storm and whisked back into the lives of Malaika and Samson who are escaping slavery along the Underground Railroad. Separated from their mother, the pair make their way across the Ohio River to a stop on the Underground Railroad, the home of a Quaker couple who introduce them to Daniel; a crude but warm-hearted abolitionist. Reluctantly,...
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It is early 1991, and Shelton Cole has just turned thirteen. Barely surviving the aftermath of a car accident that has killed not only his brother but also his parents marriage, Shelton is thrilled when he becomes instant chums with Richie Kemp, a transplant from New York who has moved to New Hampshire with his mother to escape the stigma of his fathers imprisonment. But after Richies mother marries a man who revels in abusing Richie, the two troubled...
91) Train to Glory
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On the Road Again…Home after having escaped the gallows for spying on the Confederacy, Jana Brady returns to Virginia in search of her soldier-sweetheart, Keeley Cassidy, who is missing from battle. She finds him suffering from amnesia, and she brings him to the Brady farm to recover. Months pass and Keeley's inability to remember their love or fall in love with Jana all over again constantly frustrates her and confuses him. To give Keeley some...
92) Train To Baghdad
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John Archer, a young Marine Corporal, is at the tail end of his enlistment. Seven days before Christmas he's summoned to battalion headquarters. For the first time in his career, the Secretary of Defense has issued his unit a deployment order. All he knows for sure is that recent world events are in play. Moving from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to the Middle East, Archer must come to terms with his personal fears, the intense desert heat, and Iraqi...
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Toward the end of the Depression, the Ludaks struggled with jobs, ethnic hostility,
and widespread class prejudice in their upstate New York factory hometown of
Thompsonville. But life for their daughter Joanna proves wide and adventurous;
jubilant, if sometimes terrifying. Her coming-of-age as a Polish Catholic, blue-collar,
scrubbed but culturally hobbled youngster is a riveting fictional odyssey of painful
confrontations with both natal and...
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Eddie Griffin, a 23-year-old ex-con, is working to put his life back together. Late one evening he witnesses a local businessman committing a murder. His life is spared, but he will be killed if he talks to the police. Everything he has worked for falls apart as he becomes caught between rival criminal and legal organizations.
95) Train to Anguish
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Going from the lap of luxury to an all-male war academy, wasn't something that Kaitlyn Armistice ever imagined for herself. Trapped as a political bargaining chip between her government, the Nevan's, and the Lynxan government, she finds herself in a scary new world at the Academy of Anguish. Struggling to control her fears, complete her assigned tasks, and to understand her attraction to her instructors, Kaitlyn forces her focus on succeeding. When...
96) Train In Tow
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A time when webs spin and grow.
Freedom, so close he can taste it. The prisoner knows, expands his reach, his grasp. To those who welcome his call. And to those who will risk everything to stop it.
Jane has listened to that call since birth. She's given everything to follow the trail that led her to this place of ice and snow. All that she was, that she might have been, has been sacrificed to free Chad from his imprisonment.
Jane has killed. She...
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 161
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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JUDO...FENCING...ARCHERY...BIATHLON...
SOMEONE WANTS TO WIN-AT ANY COST!
The combat sports training facility has just opened in Bayport, and the Hardys are on hand to check it out. They can practice judo, fencing, archery, and biathlon, and meet aspiring athletes from all over.
But good times turn to bad sportsmanship when Joe's girlfriend, Iola, gets a nasty electrical shock during a fencing workout. Then someone decides to use Frank for target...
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Meet Train, a friendly diesel locomotive, as he enjoys a day pulling freight by the sea. But when an unexpected visitor pops up, an adventure begins when the unlikely duo become friends against all odds! Train Meets a New Friend features stories and artwork created by a kid, for kids. Along with two stories about the lovable characters "Train" and "Whale," readers will get a glimpse into the spunky personality of a 7-year old artist who is eager to...
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Train of Thought presents a collection of poetry that contains a unique and intriguing compilation of themes. As bold as it is vulnerable, it combines elements to create a vivid depiction of a broad spectrum of emotions. Through her graceful writing ability, Barbara C. Johnson fearlessly captures the basis of life's emotional essence. Interspersed with her poems are short prose passages exploring her thoughts further. These verses seek to examine...
100) Training wheels
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"Caillou is having trouble keeping up with Sarah, so he decides he's ready to try riding his bike without training wheels. Caillou learns that there is a proper time for everything"--P. [4] of cover.