American Trains

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.

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...

Read by Hugh Fraser 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

A Limited-Edition Historical Western Romance Collection Celebrating America's Pioneer Spirit Ten courageous women. Ten unforgettable loves. One legendary trail that helped shape a nation. As America celebrates 250 years of independence, journey back to a time when brave pioneers risked everything for a better future. Along the winding path of the Oregon Trail, ordinary men and women faced extraordinary challenges—crossing raging rivers, enduring deadly storms, surviving heartbreak, and trusting God to guide them toward a new beginning. From orphaned young women and widows seeking hope, to...

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.

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 ...

All aboard and please stand clear of the doors for a grand circle tour of the best steam trains and monorails of America’s theme parks. On our journey we’ll get a glimpse of a bygone era while riding a vintage steam train and a vision of a forgotten future on a sleek, streamlined monorail. This tour will highlight the juxtaposition of these titans of theme park transportation: new versus old, clean versus dirty, mechanics hidden versus exposed Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts famously have both steam trains and monorails. But they’re not the only theme parks who do. There are ...

A chance encounter that changed everything. Mr. MBA - Cho-Won was used to the stares—his chiseled body, adorned with tattoos, drew attention everywhere he went. But when he stormed into a formal event clad in nothing but shorts and a tank top, it wasn’t the shocked whispers or wide eyes that caught him off guard—it was Sky. Unlike the rest, she saw beyond his rough exterior, sensing a man in need, not a threat. She stepped in where no one else dared, her kindness leaving an indelible mark on his heart. Now, Cho-Won is determined to repay the captivating woman who saw the man beneath ...

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.

While doing research for my three books on pioneer women, Unbreakable Dolls, Unbreakable Dolls, Too and Three Cheers for Unbreakable Dolls, I came across such fascinating stories! While in Texas I heard the wonderful story of Rabbi Henry Cohen. In Raton, New Mexico doing research on the life of Sally Rooke, I read about Tom the Dog and the Peg Leg prostitute. My research for Clara Brown turned up the amazing story of Barney Ford, a runaway slave who became one of the richest men in Colorado. You will never forget the story of "Stagecoach" Mary Fields from Montana. Good men and bad women, ...

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...

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...

Do you like true stories of the Wild West? You should love these tales of outlaws, gunslingers and adventurers then. Of course you will have heard of most of them as many have become legends. Their escapades were exciting, daring and reckless and many paid the ultimate price in the end. These tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era in America's history using the vernacular of the times. PLEASE NOTE - Whilst the events that took place are primarily true, (as far as we know), the author has used a certain amount of creative license...