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Lizzie McKettrick is coming home for Christmas. The schoolteacher has a surprise in store for her family; a special young man, Whitley Carson. He might seem a little too interested in the McKettrick money, but Lizzie's certain Whitley cares for her deep down. But when her homebound train is halted by a massive avalanche, injuring and stranding its passengers, Lizzie and handsome Dr. Morgan Shane take charge. Even as a bond grows between the strangers,...
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Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from his friends, constantly annoyed by his little sister, Jess, and completely fed up with the pale, creepy rich girl who moved in next door, who won't stop staring at him. So when Cooper learns of an unsolved mystery his sister has discovered online, he welcomes the distraction. It's the tale of a deadly train crash that occurred a hundred years ago in...
5) A burning
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"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
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2022.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"--
Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California...
8) The hideout
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
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After his parents are killed by a crazed gunman in a Seattle mall, Jeremy is on his way to live with his Uncle Ed in Chicago when the train on which he is riding crashes in a blaze of fire. Wandering aimlessly away from the wreck, Jeremy finds a deserted cabin which appears to be just the place to hide from his problems.
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In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. Near the tiny town of Wellington, high in the Cascade Mountains, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the...
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Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
c2022.
Edition
First edition.
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"The day the train fell in the lake, Cassie stopped believing in much of anything, despite growing up in a devout Catholic family. Then she set her mind to forgetting the strange boy named Elias who was with her when it happened. When Elias comes back to town after many years away, Cassie finds herself talked into sneaking out at night to follow him ghost-hunting—though she knows better than to believe they will find any spirits. Still, the more...
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Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
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"DEMENTED. DERANGED. DERAILED. 1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous - and deadly - turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard's longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka "The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge." There's just one problem: Rupe has...
12) Still House Pond
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Troublesome Creek volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
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Lilly Gray Corbett loves living on Troublesome Creek, but she would much rather play with her best friend than watch her little brother and the twins. Her mama, Copper, is often gone helping to birth babies, and Lilly has to stay home. When Aunt Alice sends a note inviting her to visit in the city, Lilly is excited to go, and Copper reluctantly agrees to let her. Later, when they hear the news that the train crashed, Copper and her husband, John,...
14) Two Rivers
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When a train derails in Two Rivers, railroad worker and single father Harper Montgomery, who is still tormented by grief and his role in a past crime, finds a chance for atonement when he takes in one of the survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl named Maggie.
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Dust Bowl mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails, flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage. The following night, a local recluse is murdered. Temple has...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2008
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Lizzie McKettrick is homeward bound with her fianc,̌ Whitley Carson, when their train is derailed, leaving passengers stranded on Christmas Eve. While Whitley is concerned only with himself, a handsome doctor enlists Lizzie's help treating injured passengers. Soon Lizzie realizes that Christmas truly is a season of miracles--and love.
19) Mascarada Pass
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
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Gregory Quist, man-hunter extraordinaire, was in Masquerade City to investigate a train wreck and a robbery, when two young wildcats -- Ramon and Chris -- sidetrack him with a tale of murder. Their boss, Reed Haldane, had been found dead in his bed the day Quist arrived. The sheriff said it was suicide, but Ramon, Chris, and Haldane's lovely daughter thought differently. There was a man in town who had been threatening to get Haldane for twenty years....
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