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Language
English
Description
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season. Thereupon begins one of the most hilarious-and heartwarming-journeys ever told. Along...
2) Trains
Author
Language
English
Description
Examines different kinds of trains, including old steam engines, high-speed trains in Japan, the world's longest freight train, and more.
5) Locomotive
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Details what the first passengers experienced as they traveled West on the transcontinental railroad in the summer of 1869.
10) The spy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Van Dorn Detective Agency assigns Isaac Bell, a private investigator, to a case that will reveal whether a brilliant American battleship gun designer's death was a suicide or murder, but Bell uncovers a plot set to destroy the great minds of America that are somehow connected to a secret project known as Hull 44.
11) Huff and Puff
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Traveling along the rails with his engine buddy, Huff, a little caboose named Puff clicks and clacks endlessly until the day that the friends decide to switch places, with unexpected results.
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