Author: Matthew Curcio
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532009720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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At nineteen, college student Cameron Grayson is caught between the crossroads of money, love, alcohol, and drugs in New York City’s Upper West Side. When his self-made grandfather, Henry Grayson, suddenly dies of unspecified reasons, Cam is shocked to find that some of his grandfather’s personal items have been passed down to him. Cameron’s father, Chris, gives him strict orders to head uptown to the Bronx in the hopes of sorting things out. Cam doesn’t go alone though. He brings his lifelong friends Evan and Jake as partners in crime on this unexpected adventure. Hoping to learn more about the life of his grandfather, Cam starts to learn more about himself as well and finds overwhelming direction to his own future. Not realizing what he’s getting himself into, Cam’s life will forever change due to this one trip uptown on New York City’s 1 Train subway line. He finds himself in deep with his friends but more in trouble with his most recent girlfriend, Victoria. Cam eventually comes to terms with the inevitability of human addiction and infidelity. Cam begins his journey uptown without realizing coming back down will cost him not only his money but everything he ever knew.
Author: Adria Fay Klein
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434241890
Category : Railroad trains
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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City train is very busy. She picks people up all day long.
Author: Stephen A. Bly
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512244854
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Retta Barre's not the first 12-year-old girl to travel the Oregon Trail, and she won't be the last. But for something that's supposed to be the grandest adventure of her life, the days sure are dull! Thick dust, vindictive bugs, and picking up buffalo chips - not exactly the stuff of the action-packed penny novels she loves to read. When things change in Retta's life, though, they change fast! A simple trip into the prairie, along with Retta's enthusiasm and timing, brings adventure and trouble - all at the same time! Soon Retta is the talk of the wagon train, and her friends don't want to miss the next caper she's sure to stumble into. And Retta certainly won't let them down."--Back Cover.
Author: Ace Landers
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780545079624
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Trains travel from town to town delivering passengers and important cargo to train stations across the country.
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330535757
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Author: P. G. Bell
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250189519
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A middle-grade fantasy and nonstop adventure, The Train to Impossible Places by debut author P. G. Bell is as fun as it is full of heart, and the first book of a trilogy. A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who’s about to go on the adventure of a lifetime. The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It’s a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to Trollville, to space. But when this impossible train comes roaring through Suzy’s living room, her world turns upside down. After sneaking on board, Suzy suddenly finds herself Deputy Post Master aboard the train, and faced with her first delivery—to the evil Lady Crepuscula. Then, the package itself begs Suzy not to deliver him. A talking snow globe, Frederick has information Crepuscula could use to take over the entire Union of Impossible Places. But when protecting Frederick means putting her friends in danger, Suzy has to make a difficult choice—with the fate of the entire Union at stake.
Author: Mike Vago
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761187162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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***A 2016 National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) winner You’ve never seen a book like this before! It’s the story of a train moving across the American landscape—but with an actual three-dimensional miniature train that loops up and down and across each spread, traveling along an interior track from front to back without ever leaving the pages. Move the red steam engine out of the depot and to the front of the book, where the sun is just coming up over a bay, and then take a journey across wide plains, up mountains and down hills, into a city at night with its beacons of light—and finally, back to the rail yard. The panoramic landscapes are filled with marvelous details that young children will delight in discovering, and the sweet, simple rhyming language pulls the story along and will be happily repeated when it’s time to start the journey all over again. All aboard!
Author: Dinosaur Train
Publisher: Studio Fun International
ISBN: 9780794427917
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The best-selling Snappy Fun® format now features Buddy, the fun-loving T-rex toddler and Tiny the outgoing Pteranodon from Dinosaur Train! Kids won’t be able to resist snapping along with their favorite characters with this new book featuring Tiny the Pteranodon. The book tells an adorable story that includes prompts for readers to “snap” the character’s mouth open and closed at appropriate times.
Author: Stéphane Tonnelat
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam, as well as residents of a number of gentrifying blue-collar and industrial neighborhoods, fill the busy streets around the stations. The 7 train is a microcosm of a specifically urban, New York experience, in which individuals from a variety of cultures and social classes are forced to interact and get along with one another. For newcomers to the city, mastery of life in the subway space is a step toward assimilation into their new home. In International Express, the French ethnographer Stéphane Tonnelat and his collaborator William Kornblum, a native New Yorker, ride the 7 subway line to better understand the intricacies of this phenomenon. They also ask a group of students with immigrant backgrounds to keep diaries of their daily rides on the 7 train. What develops over time, they find, is a set of shared subway competences leading to a practical cosmopolitanism among riders, including immigrants and their children, that changes their personal values and attitudes toward others in small, subtle ways. This growing civility helps newcomers feel at home in an alien city and builds what the authors call a "situational community in transit." Yet riding the subway can be problematic, especially for women and teenagers. Tonnelat and Kornblum pay particular attention to gender and age relations on the 7 train. Their portrait of integrated mass transit, including a discussion of the relationship between urban density and diversity, is invaluable for social scientists and urban planners eager to enhance the cooperative experience of city living for immigrants and ease the process of cultural transition.
Author: Marjorie Blain Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439598910
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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As the freight train rolls passed him, a young boy delights in looking at all the cars, such as the refrigerator cars, tank cars, and boxcars, being pulled by the strong engine leading the way to its far-off destination. Original.
