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Book The Last Train Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Blayne Cooper
  • Publisher : Spinsters Ink
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 1935226851
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Last Train Home written by Blayne Cooper and published by Spinsters Ink. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the nineteenth century might have been the Gilded Age for the likes of Rockefellers and Carnegies—but for the newly arriving immigrants and poverty-stricken Americans packed into Manhattan’s teeming Lower Eastside, it was a different story all together. In this tumultuous time, factory worker Virginia Chisholm hopes for more, but her dreams go up in smoke when a tenement blaze rips her family apart. Aided by Lindsay Killian, the street-wise, rail-riding drifter she meets in a charity hospital, Ginny follows the orphan train that has taken her siblings west. The desperate quest to reunite her family takes the young women from the slums of New York City to the farms of West Virginia and the bustling frontier beyond. This harrowing journey moves Ginny and Lindsay from one mishap and adventure to another. It also leads them both from friendship to a tender and unexpected romance.

Book FDR s Funeral Train

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  • Author : Robert Klara
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2010-03-16
  • ISBN : 9780230105935
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book FDR s Funeral Train written by Robert Klara and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. As it passed through the night, few of the grieving onlookers gave thought to what might be happening behind the Pullman shades, where women whispered and men tossed back highballs. Inside was a Soviet spy, a newly widowed Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just discovered that her husband's mistress was in the room with him when he died, all the Supreme Court justices, and incoming president Harry S. Truman who was scrambling to learn secrets FDR had never shared with him. Weaving together information from long-forgotten diaries and declassified Secret Service documents, journalist and historian Robert Klara enters the private world on board that famous train. He chronicles the three days during which the country grieved and despaired as never before, and a new president hammered out the policies that would galvanize a country in mourning and win the Second World War.

Book Last Train Home

Download or read book Last Train Home written by George Simonis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fond remembrance of a love affair that began in the suburbs of Chicago in the 1950's, and found new life as the two lovers found each other again.

Book The Last Train Home

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  • Author : Terry Lance Franko
  • Publisher : Author House
  • Release : 2014-11-07
  • ISBN : 1496947312
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book The Last Train Home written by Terry Lance Franko and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Train Home uses a story line to take you on a journey through some of the various schemes of corruption that plagues the automobile industry on a daily basis; and talks about the greed that runs abound like a yellow fever with some of these shop owners. It continues to explain a few of their tactics which they use to exercise their self proclaimed license to steal from people and the insurance companies. It also mentions some of the dealings of the more reputable dealers. This book is an enjoyable read and closes with an ending that is neither foreseeable nor predictable.

Book The Last Train Home

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  • Author : Elle Cook
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2023-10-05
  • ISBN : 1529157773
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Last Train Home written by Elle Cook and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beautiful and compelling' Heidi Swain 'Two sparkling leads who will steal your heart!' Holly Miller 'One of the best books I have read this year. . .' Emma Cooper ________________ On the last train home you expect to find. . . - Standing space only - Drunk people singing - The overpowering smell of McDonalds You never expect to find love. When Abbie and Tom cross paths traveling home after a night out, their eyes meet across a crowded carriage and their connection is unmistakable. What they don't know is that moments later they will both be caught up in an event that will change them forever. It is one that will bring them together. But it'll also tear them apart. A lot can happen in seven seconds. A lot can happen in seven years. Can they find their way back to each other? ________________ Don't miss THE LAST TRAIN HOME! ‘This is an awesome book! It gripped me from start to finish. . . A wonderful, unconventional, captivating romance’ Sue Moorcroft ‘I absolutely devoured this funny, moving, unputdownable novel’ Jenny Ashcroft ‘A wonderful, heart-warming, different love story’ Tracy Rees ‘A beautiful, uplifting story from start to finish’ Virginia Heath 'A compelling modern love story brimming with emotion and heart' Fiona Gibson 'A heart-wrenching roller coaster full of missed opportunities and tenderness' Caroline Khoury ‘Romantic, warm and swoon-worthy’ Emily Stone 'A gorgeous love story full of suspense, drama and tenderness' Eleanor Ray 'A touching story of love, fate and second chances’ Fiona Lucas

Book The Last Train to Key West

Download or read book The Last Train to Key West written by Chanel Cleeton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times bestseller One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “The perfect riveting summer read!”—BookBub In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez’s family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with a notorious American. Following her wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can’t deny the growing attraction to her new husband, his illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life. Elizabeth Preston's trip to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles after the Wall Street crash. Her quest takes her to the camps occupied by veterans of the Great War and pairs her with an unlikely ally on a treacherous hunt of his own. Over the course of the holiday weekend, the women’s paths cross unexpectedly, and the danger swirling around them is matched only by the terrifying force of the deadly storm threatening the Keys.

Book The Last Train to London

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  • Author : Meg Waite Clayton
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2019-09-10
  • ISBN : 006294696X
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book The Last Train to London written by Meg Waite Clayton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National bestseller A Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice A Jewish Book Award Finalist 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 one brave woman who helped them escape to safety. In 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss—Hitler’s annexation of Austria—as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.

Book The Last Train to Zona Verde

Download or read book The Last Train to Zona Verde written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most acclaimed travel writer journeys through western Africa from Cape Town to the Congo.

Book The Watcher

Download or read book The Watcher written by Agnes Eva Savich and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of poetry from Savich focuses on themes of urban alienation, mortality, love, motherhood, sensual eroticism, psychedelic journey and synaesthesia, and music.

Book Tokyo Traffic

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  • Author : Michael Pronko
  • Publisher : Raked Gravel Press
  • Release : 2020-06-24
  • ISBN : 1942410204
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Tokyo Traffic written by Michael Pronko and published by Raked Gravel Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, and some stolen money, she stays ahead of her former captors willing to do anything to recover the computer she took. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya makes plans to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office to investigate a porn studio where a brutal triple murder took place. The studio’s accounts point him in multiple directions at once. Together with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the killers through Tokyo’s teen hangouts, bayside docks and crowded squares, straight into the underbelly of the global economy. As bodies wash up from Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl at the center of it all, whose name he doesn’t even know. He uncovers a human trafficking ring and cryptocurrency scammers whose connections extend to the highest levels of Tokyo’s power elite.

Book The Last Train to Dachau

Download or read book The Last Train to Dachau written by Robert B. Niklewicz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Train to Dachau is based on the real life plight of the Miller family during World War II. With the invasion of Poland by the Germans, the story follows the family and their experiences of: the occupation, hunger, cold, and the terror in their home town. This family of five was Polish Catholic, but had a German-like surname. This situation placed them between the Germans, who wanted them to sign a loyalty declaration, which they refused, and the community which assumed that they had. The story tells of the horrors and obstacles that they faced and had to overcome to stay together and live. Emilia, Alicia and Leszek are children that spend most of their youth surviving both the physical and emotional stresses of war. Wladyslawa, the mother, is a worker in a Red Cross shelter during the day, but often had to travel at night to find black market food for her family. Wiktor, the father, was conscripted to a labor train after the surrender of Warsaw. He worked under threat of great harm to his family while forced to travel and repair damaged trains and tracks across Poland and Germany. His travels and experiences on a recovery and repair crew gave him an avenue to stay alive while still resisting his oppressors. The intensity of the story increases as the Millers face the brutality of their captors who desperately try to accomplish their final solution for all Poles in the closing days of the war. The reader will find it hard to put the book down as the Millers face their fate.

Book Last Train To Memphis

Download or read book Last Train To Memphis written by Peter Guralnick and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes that make up what is arguably the definitive Elvis biography. Rich in documentary and interview material, this volume charts Elvis' early years and his rise to fame, taking us up to his departure for Germany in 1958. Of all the biographies of Elvis - this is the one you will keep coming back to.

Book The Last Train from Paris

Download or read book The Last Train from Paris written by Stacy Cohen and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two young artists struggling against Nazi tyranny.

Book The Last Train North

Download or read book The Last Train North written by Clifton L. Taulbert and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where his memoir, When We Were Colored, left off, Taulbert recounts his 1963 migration from the small segregated Mississippi town of his birth to the big integrated city of St. Louis, where opportunity was everywhere. The realities of the North sometimes fall short of his fantasies, but he never loses sight of his dreams.

Book The Last Train for Christmas  Thomas   Friends Engine Adventures

Download or read book The Last Train for Christmas Thomas Friends Engine Adventures written by Reverend W Awdry and published by HIT Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All aboard for a snowy adventure! It’s Christmas Eve on Sodor and snow is falling fast. Can the engines clear the tracks in time for Connor to bring home the last train before Christmas?

Book Penpal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dathan Auerbach
  • Publisher : 1000Vultures
  • Release : 2012-07
  • ISBN : 0985545518
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Penpal written by Dathan Auerbach and published by 1000Vultures. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Last Train to Paradise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Les Standiford
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2003-08-05
  • ISBN : 1400051185
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Last Train to Paradise written by Les Standiford and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean—an engineering challenge beyond even that of the Panama Canal. Many considered the project impossible, but build it they did. The railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as “the Eighth Wonder of the World,” until its total destruction in 1935's deadly storm of the century. In Last Train to Paradise, Standiford celebrates this crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition, bringing to life a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature’s wrath.