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• Trains and Lovers

  McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-

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  The rocking of the train car, the sound of its wheels on the rails, there's something special about this form of travel that makes for easy conversation. Which is just what happens to the four strangers who meet in "Trains and Lovers". As…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl on the Train

  a Novel

  Hawkins, Paula

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  Rachel takes the same commuter train every day, rattling over the same junctions, flashing past the same townhouses. The train stops at the same signal every day, and she sees the same couple, breakfasting on their roof terrace. Jason and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Circus Train

  a Novel

  Parikh, Amita,

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  Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, despite her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mystery of the Blue Train

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train from London to the French Riviera -- ingredients for the perfect romance or the perfect crime? When the Blue Train stops, the jewel is missing, and the woman is found dead in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bullet Train

  a Novel

  Isaka, Kōtarō, 1971-

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  Nicknamed Lady Bird -- the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin in the world" -- boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snowpiercer. Volume 1, The Escape

  Lob, Jacques, 1932-

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  From fearsome engine to final car, all surviving human life is here: a complete hierarchy of the society we lost. The elite, as ever, travel in luxury at the front of the train - but for those in the rear coaches, life is squalid,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Water for Elephants

  a Novel

  Gruen, Sara

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  When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  a Novel

  Pooley, Clare,

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  Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? An eclectic group of people discover that a chance encounter can blossom into much more. It turns out that talking to strangers can teach you…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anna Karenina

  Tolstoy, Leo

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  Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Railway Detective

  The Bestselling Victorian Mystery Series

  Marston, Edward

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  With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating. In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Murder in the First-class Carriage

  the First Victorian Railway Killing

  Colquhoun, Kate, 1964-

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  In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was traveling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He boarded a first-class carriage on the 9:45 pm Hackney service of the North London railway. At Hackney, two bank clerks discovered blood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Confessions on the 7:45

  Unger, Lisa, 1970-

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  Selena Murphy is commuting home on the train when she strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat. The woman introduces herself as Martha and soon confesses that she’s been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Murder on the Orient Express

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but, by the morning, it is one passenger fewer.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sleeping Car Porter

  Mayr, Suzette

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  When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair. The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Passenger

  a Novel

  Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander, 1915-1942,

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  Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany. In Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Main Character

  a Novel

  Goldis, Jaclyn,

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  Reclusive, mysterious author Ginevra Ex is famous for her unusual approach to crafting her big bestselling she hires real people and conducts intensive interviews, then fictionalizes them. Her latest main character, Rory, is thrilled when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

  a Novel

  Stevenson, Benjamin,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

  Brooks, Sarah, 1980-

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  There is only one way to travel across the Wastelands: on the Trans-Siberian Express, a train as famous for its luxury as for its danger. The train is never short of passengers, eager to catch sight of Wastelands creatures more miraculous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flipping Boxcars

  a Novel

  Kyles, Cedric, 1965-

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  Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Passage North

  a Novel

  Arudpragasam, Anuk,

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  A Passage North begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan, newly returned to Colombo, that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances -- found at the bottom of the village well, her neck broken.…Read moreRead more of this annotation