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Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasn't an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors,...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Lizzie McKettrick is homeward bound with her fiancé, 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.
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English
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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"--
Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental...
4) A burning
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
5) Super 8
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1979, a group of young friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a movie and when locals start to disappear, the inquisitive deputy suspects that the incident was anything but an accident.
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Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
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...
8) Two rivers
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Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
T. Greenwood's new novel is a powerful, haunting tale of enduring love, destructive secrets, and opportunities that arrive in disguise . . .
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over the...
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Showing how a single community's terrible tragedy instead became the catalyst for radical change, this first book to examine the Waverly Train Disaster of 1978, penned by a medical writer and Waverly native, examines how this disaster laid the groundwork for the future of emergency management and disaster relief.
February 22, 1978: a devastating freight train derailment drastically altered Waverly, Tennessee. One of the worst train explosions of...
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Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Gunfighting legend Sam Pritchard tracks down a notorious train saboteur--and nearly goes off the rails--in this fast-paced Western adventure from acclaimed author Sean Lynch" --Amazon.com.
11) Funeral train
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Series
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books/Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails - flooding the hospital with the dead and maimed. Most of the dead are Black; scalded to death in a flimsy segregated car at the front of the train. Among the seriously wounded white passengers is the wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings, Etha. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the...
12) The hideout
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Guns of Samuel Pritchard volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
14) Unbreakable
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"After David Dunn emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor-- and without a single scratch on him-- he meets a mysterious stranger who believes comic book heroes walk the earth. A haunting stranger whose obsession with David will change David's life forever."--Container.
Author
Series
Survival volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1892 Max & Jodi, young employees of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.
18) The Angola Horror: the 1867 train wreck that shocked the nation and transformed American railroads
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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