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DEAR AUSTEN
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Nina Bawden |
Accidents happen to other people. But on May 10 2002 Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the other people. It was to be a lovely outing to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. … |
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Doragon heddo
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Minetarō Mochizuki |
"Teru finally returns to Tokyo after enduring the horrific events of the last few weeks. Unfortunately, his return is anything but a happy one. as the mystery behind the Dragon Heads starts to reveal… |
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Train wreck!
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Wesley S. Griswold |
The stories and descriptions of 19 of the worst historic rail disasters, between 1833 and 1958. The book was compiled largely from contemporary accounts in local and national newspapers, with sketche… |
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Kate Shelley
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Robert D. San Souci |
A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine. |
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The Christmas Brides
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Linda Lael Miller |
izzie McKettrick is on a homebound train with a Christmas Eve surprise for her family—a special young man, Whitley Carson. He might seem a little too interested in the McKettrick money, but Lizzie's … |
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John Blair and the great Hinckley fire
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Josephine Nobisso |
Tells how a brave African American porter helped save many lives when the train on which he was working was caught up in the horrendous firestorm near Hinkley, Minnesota, in 1894. |
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Kate Shelley and the midnight express
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Margaret K. Wetterer |
Fifteen-year-old Kate risks her life in a storm to prevent a train disaster. |
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A dream rides by
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Tania Crosse |
In August 1883, the first steam train on the new Princetown branch line makes its triumphant passage across Dartmoor. For Ling Southcott and her young sister, Fanny, this is a momentous event, for th… |
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Deadman's switch
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Barbara Seranella |
Charlotte Lyon can handle a crisis and has made that talent into a lucrative business. She describes it as crisis management, in which she supplies excellent and often unusual advice to suddenly trou… |
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Timberline
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Matthew P. Mayo |
"1875-1885 high-country train wreck. Mountain man Maple Jack and Roamer trail the killers in a blizzard"-- |
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Lincoln's greatest case
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Brian McGinty |
The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight. |
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From behind the mask
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Pam Warren |
"She was not expected to survive. She became the lady in the mask. In October 1999, Pam Warren's life was turned on its head when she sustained horrific injuries in the Paddington rail crash. The cas… |
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The crossing
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Christina James |
It is a foggy day. Ruby Grummett, a railway crossing keeper, opens the gates for a council lorry, thinking that the Skegness train has been cancelled, but it comes looming through the mists and hits … |
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Railway Disasters
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Simon Fowler |
British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters.This book… |
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South Dakota railroads
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Mike Wiese,Tom Hayes |
"Using over 200 images, authors Mike Wiese and Tom Hayes take the reader on a historic tour of the depots, trains, and wrecks that defined South Dakota railroading in the early part of the 20th centu… |
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Bliss and tragedy
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Thomas E. Corts |
The 1876 accident at Ashtabula had all the elements of a classic tragedy: cold, snowy weather that lent eeriness to the dark of night; height, as in the 70 feet from bridge to river; modern technolog… |
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Love & justice
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Diana Morgan-Hill |
At the age of 29, Diana Hill fell under a London train. In 7 seconds the tall, glamorous businesswoman went from busy woman of the world with everything to live for to double-leg-amputee, her life in… |
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Tracks to disaster
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Adrian Vaughan |
160 p. : 24 cm |
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