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41) All Aboard!
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The Bears are on a steam train trip across Bear Country. Mama and Papa enjoy the scenery, but the cubs want to learn about the train. If they are lucky, Grizzly Jones might let them blow the whistle. Woo-hoo! Beginning readers will feel like they are on board with the Bear family as they pass new sights and find out all about how the train runs.
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The Exciting Conclusion to Lauraine Snelling's WILD WEST WIND Series As winter settles over the ranch, the Engstrom brothers are much on the mind of Cassie Lockwood. The way Lucas smiles at her should set her heart to tripping. But it doesn't. Shouldn't there be some attraction to him if they are going to be married? His vow to make her love him does not seem to be working, no matter how considerate and charming he is. Ransom Engstrom is another matter....
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A 2-in-1 digital bundle of Melissa Ferguson's novellas, Dashing Through the Snow and Pining for You.
In this cheerful and heartwarming collection, bestselling author Melissa Ferguson offers up the gift of cozy joy in two sweet novellas for the holiday season.
Dashing Through the Snow (also in On the Way to Christmas)
When Willow's boyfriend of seven years dumps her on the eve of a romantic getaway, she decides to take the two-week train trip on...
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A train trip was able to get three different perspectives on the same place and find the possibility of seeing it at different times and thus see its true reality, when chaos corners a place it is very difficult to really see its beauty, time always changes is the dynamics of being, nothing in this life is static and we only see the worst, keop was a fantastic place that power and greed took by force punishing its residents, beating their dreams and...
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Falling for her fake fiancé Dr. Charlotte Highton has fulfilled her grandmother's dream of a luxury train trip to Venice. But how can she fulfill her final wish - to see Charlotte walk down the aisle? Then, in the narrow streets of Venice adorned with twinkling Christmas lights, Charlotte literally bumps into delectable ex-colleague Dr. Nico Moretti. And amongst the hustle and bustle of St. Mark's Square he drops down onto one knee and offers Charlotte...
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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...
47) Smog Mother
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In Smog Mother, John Wall Barger asks: What is a poet without a home? Over and over he finds answers in the joy of duende, the goblin spirit that, as Lorca says, "will not approach at all if he does not see the possibility of death, if he is not convinced he will circle death's house." Ranging from an anti-government rally on the streets of Bangkok to a train trip on the Trans-Mongolian Railway, Smog Mother is the strongest collection yet from a poet...
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California is the last place on earth Kentucky native, Doreen Sizemore, ever wants to go. People are a little crazy out there. But when her cousin, Agnes, begs her to come along on a train trip to San Francisco, Doreen has to go. After all, blood kin is blood kin and her cousin needs help. Agnes is accompanying her elderly, ex-con husband, who is suddenly determined to visit Alcatraz, the island where he spent ten years of his life. The trip is almost...
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During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940's, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit Of God. He wrote all night, the words coming to him as fast as he could put them down. When the train pulled into McAllen, the rough draft was done. Although written in such a remarkably short period of time, Tozer's passionate classic offers not only a deeper understanding of Biblical Truth, but a personal encounter with the very Source of that Truth....
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Little Ripples Everywhere tells the story of a seventy-year-old widow and her love for books and words, so much so that she makes many train trips around a metropolitan network leaving many of her loved novels to continue their train journeys without her. She hopes that they will give the new listeners entertainment, encouragement and insight. The books meet a variety of fates in this humourous tale but they also carry messages of concern for the...
51) Alive
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From one of our most celebrated contemporary writers, winner of the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award: Ha Jin’s staggering story “Alive,” from the collection The Bridegroom.
Tong Guhan is a regular businessman, husband, and father, trying to find a job for his daughter and an apartment for his son in rural China. He’s next in line to be Vice Director of the cannery where he works. One morning in late July...
Tong Guhan is a regular businessman, husband, and father, trying to find a job for his daughter and an apartment for his son in rural China. He’s next in line to be Vice Director of the cannery where he works. One morning in late July...
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Jim Loomis is passionate about travel, especially rail travel. This engaging book is an ideal companion for armchair travelers, train enthusiasts and fellow globetrotters.
In Travel Tales, Jim shares his adventures on train trips across North America and around the world. Best estimate: he has logged more than 350,000 miles in train travel. Jim also writes about memorable personal experiences and recounts a few stories about Hawaii's unique brand...
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During a train trip, Ash and friends spot an injured Pokémon they don't recognize. They're planning a rescue when the train is attacked by the Legendary Kyurem! Ash and the others manage to get the unfamiliar Pokémon to safety, and they learn its story…
The Mythical Pokémon Keldeo is on a mission to rescue its friends-Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion, the Swords of Justice-from Kyurem's icy clutches. But Kyurem has other ideas, and when it...
54) One Way Out
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On a train trip to Scotland with his chief clerk Martin Lee, London financier Morgan Dale is suddenly confronted by his embittered ex-Secretary, whom he's recently sacked. Janice Elton had once been obsessed with him, but the happily married Dale had spurned her romantic advances. Now, Janice wants her revenge. Returning to their carriage, Lee finds Dale alone with the dead body of Janice, whom Dale claims has committed suicide by taking strychnine....
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Written during a train trip in the late 1940s, The Pursuit of God shows how God pursues humans to draw them into a relationship with Himself, while humans thirst after the things of God though they attempt to fill this thirst with things other than worship of their Creator. Tozer explores different aspects of this desire within the human heart, calling readers to examine what they believe and put aside preconceived ideas that disrupt this relationship...
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Join young Jesse Basham in his amazing life on a journey starting from Missouri on the 1857 Francher wagon train headed for California. It all came to an end at Mountain Meadows, Utah, where the entire train was massacred. Left for dead, Jesse was nursed back to life by a clan of Paiute Indians. He was accepted into their tribe and renamed Mericat, since the Paiute language only had two words for white men. The first was Momen, for the Mormons who...
58) Jay Jax 1936
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JAY JAX, Mike Morris, and Anthony Mattola were three friends of the Great War. Jay was from New Jersey. Mike was from San Francisco. Tony was an Opera singer from Milan, Italy. After the war, each went their separate ways. Jay became a Woodbridge, New Jersey, cop. Mike was a cop in San Francisco, and Tony went back to the opera.
Eighteen years later, all three lives become intertwined. Jay moved to San Francisco after Mike offered him a job on the...
59) Unseemly Haste
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Murder aboard the Overland Limited...
It is the summer of 1898. Professor Concordia Wells is eager to accompany her friend, Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton, on a cross-country train trip to San Francisco. Breathless vistas and exciting locales will be a welcome change from a fiancé impatient to set a wedding date and the threat of revenge from the remaining Inner Circle members back in Hartford.
But Concordia should know there is no such thing...
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Cecilia is the force behind all change in Die Coast Bye Cecilia. Her most stubborn subject is her brother, Alex (Coast).In as much as Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is about a train-trip to see bullfights in Pamplona, Die Coast Bye Cecilia is about a canoe-trip to see dragonboat races in Toronto.The novel was developed entirely through the act of free-writing in notebooks, and evolving stories from what quality passages emerged over ten years and...