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21) Rajdhani Express
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Hindi
Description
In an attempt to make a fresh start in life, Keshav boards the Rajdhani Express to run away from his crime boss. Inside the train, his fate is no better. Distanced, ridiculed and humiliated, Keshav pulls a gun on his fellow passengers. Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Yadav sees an opportunity for political gain and paints Keshav as a terriorist.
22) Promise me Texas
Author
Series
Whispering Mountain novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"On a midnight train, four hours away from her wedding, Beth McMurray discovers the devastating truth about the powerful senator she's about to marry. Convinced nothing could make this stormy night worse, the train wrecks, and she tumbles straight into the arms of an outlaw. Andrew McLaughlin doesn't believe in loving except between the pages of his writings. He loved deeply once and thinks he'll never survive another loss. To save a friend, he climbs...
27) American meteor
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this ... tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cécile, a stylish 47-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation 30 years ago. In the fraught...
29) Train to Busan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
Description
While a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, a couple of passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nat Love has had enough adventures for ten men. From son of a former slave, to buffalo soldier, to gun hand, to Marshal for Hanging Judge Parker. Now, entering old age, he's a train porter. A job he's happy to have, but not exactly the cream of his life. And then an unlikely train robbery and a moment of bravery gives him an opportunity to relive his past and perhaps redeem his wayward son. He's still got the skills, but he's also older and stiffer,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince William--and the ideal time, Theroux found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is a candid, funny, perceptive, and opinionated travelogue of his journey and his findings.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 2
Language
English
Description
"I'm Ernest Cunningham. When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster...
35) The London train
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his mother, Paul abandons his family to live life on the edge with his daughter from a previous marriage who is pregnant and living in a run-down council flat, while Cora rebels against her marriage and society.
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth work with Allan Pinkerton and Kate Warne, the first female detective, to protect Abraham Lincoln from an assassination plot as he travels by train to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Estabas en el tren de las 8.04? ¿Viste algo sospechoso? Rachel, sí. Rachel toma siempre el tren de las 8.04 h. Cada mañana lo mismo: el mismo paisaje, las mismas casas... y la misma parada en la señal roja. Son solo unos segundos, pero le permiten observar a una pareja desayunando tranquilamente en su terraza. Siente que los conoce y se inventa unos nombres para ellos: Jess y Jason. Su vida es perfecta, no como la suya. Pero un día ve algo....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Noah is a hopeless romantic, traveling home for one last chance with his first love. Ammy doesn't believe in true love-- love never lasts. When their Amtrak train to upstate New York breaks down in the middle of a snowstorm, Noah and Ammy have no option but to travel together. As a minor detour turns into the journey of a lifetime, will it change how they feel about love?
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens are recruited by the secret Reddimus Society to return lost artifacts and treasures, but encounter enemies of Reddimus during a private train trip to New Mexico.
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