American Trains

THE I ESCAPED SERIES DOESN'T JUST HOOK READERS - IT CREATES THEM. What we do differently: We drop you straight into the most intense moment from page one, then backtrack to show how our characters got there - all while weaving in real historical facts that make you feel like you're actually living through a disaster. "A suspenseful survival series based on famous historical events. Verdict: excellent." - School Library Journal Fifteen-year-old Sam is thrilled to be riding a rickety train on a family vacation in Egypt when a fire erupts in one of the cars. Smoke and sparks begin to spread, ...

Robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train, from Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will...

They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed...until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer are found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case. Greta has a long history with Gin’s first husband, Eddie, and is determined to protect his 18-year-old twins. Piper discovered the bodies. Daniel is missing—and so is Adam’s gun.

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but...

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, The Man from the Train is an “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal). In this groundbreaking work of historical true crime, legendary statistician and baseball...

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery in the spirit of Murder on the Orient Express. With Ernest Cunningham, “Stevenson has brought a modern-day Poirot to the mystery scene”(Michelle Carpenter). When the...

These uproarious American folk stories, retold by master storyteller Jim Weiss, will have you laughing and pondering too. You’ll hear about Paul Bunyan, taller than the trees and mightier than the rivers; Johnny Appleseed, whose gentle generosity made him a beloved legend; and Pecos Bill, whose outrageous Texas-sized exploits made him the greatest of all cowboys. There’s even one of Jim’s own tales; a tongue-twisting, hilarious tale of the Old West. The entire family will listen to this recording over and over again.

Do you like true stories of the Wild West? You should love these tales of outlaws and gunslingers then Of course you will have heard of most of them as many have become infamous legends. Some are not so quite well known however, but they were all dangerous and ruthless criminals and all had their "15 minutes of fame", leaving trails of death and mayhem behind them. Most did not live to an old age, and those that did were probably in jail. Their escapades were daring and reckless and many paid the ultimate price in the end. These tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the ...

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven...

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and...

Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the 'ghost train' arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of...

Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights. In another time and place, E. Gab Blackman and William Sousa "Sou" Bridgeforth might have been as close as...

American Outlaws: The Bandits, Rebels, and Renegades Who Became Legend They robbed banks, held up trains, and defied the law. Some were killers. Some were folk heroes. All became immortal. The American outlaw is more than a criminal—he's a symbol of rebellion in a nation born from revolution. From the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War to the desperate dust bowl years, these were the men and women who chose freedom over law, adventure over toil, and infamy over obscurity. They lived fast, died young (usually), and left behind stories that grew more fantastic with every retelling. In ...

A Southern widow seeking a new beginning. A Union soldier trying to outrun his past. A thousand-mile journey that will test every belief they hold. After the Civil War shatters her life, Annabelle Rutledge leaves Charleston with her remaining family, determined to build a future in the goldfields of Montana. Their wagon train—an uneasy mix of former Confederates, Union veterans, freedmen, and desperate fortune-seekers—must cross a vast and dangerous frontier where every mile brings new threats. Guiding them is Josey Angel, a quiet, battle-scarred Union cavalryman with a deadly ...

Bo Joseph’s life reads like one of his own stories. Raw, reckless, and relentlessly real. A high school dropout and convicted felon, he spent his teens and twenties doing everything he could to derail his future. By thirty, he’d hit rock bottom. Divorced, bankrupt, and arrested more times than he could count. But somewhere between the wreckage and redemption, he found his voice. The B-Train: An American Loser is Joseph's brutally honest and darkly funny account of second chances, survival, and self-discovery.

Mary Mae Clark has learned the hard way not to trust what a man says. Broken promises have made her wary, and now she only wants to return to Santa Fe to help her friend Sophia keep her wee son. Warren Russell has been freighting on the Trail for four years. He likes it that way. No ties. No family. No love. He doesn't deserve it after his neglect of his wife and small son resulted in their deaths. But the accidental death of his best friend on the trail leaves Warren as guardian to the man's 10-year-old niece, Polly.

The cutting-edge, scientifically accurate, definitive book on the most popular behavioral issues that cats face In the United States, one of the predominant reasons that owners abandon or give up their pets (often leading to euthanasia) is because of unwanted behaviors. Many have tried to...

A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. "Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers." —Saturday Review At the height of...

Judith Russel is devastated by the death of her fiance and vows to never again trust her feelings toward a man. Gil Trapper is the wagon train scout and owner of several freight wagons. Freighting is going to give him the future he'd thought he lost. He has no interest in love after the woman he intended to marry broke his heart. Judith and Gil are forced to marry after they spend a night alone together saving a lost child. Their marriage of convenience doesn't change anything. Judith can't trust Gil, and Gil will never open his heart to Judith.

Inspired by a real midwife who became one of the most controversial figures in Victorian New York City, this “action-packed, thought-provoking page-turner” (The New York Times) is an unforgettable tale—a love story and a family saga, featuring a charismatic and passionate woman who became...