Traces the history of developments in train technology from coal-burning engines to magnetic levitation trains, and contains experiments designed to explain the science behind the technology. Discusses the history of locomotives and the...
Railroad trains
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Auteur:Cooper, ElishaSommaire:Board a commuter train in New York, then follow the journey west and see the stations, the scenery, the different types of trains, and all the people who travel and work on the railroad system.
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Auteur:Bell, P. G.Sommaire: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 planned trilogy. A train that travels through impossible places. A boy...
- Auteur:Callaghan, JodieSommaire:
A fiction picture book about residential schools. Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her...
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Auteur:Clive CusslerSommaire:In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man’s grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father’s name. Van Dorn...
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Kate and her younger brother Tom lead uninteresting lives. That is, until their mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert surprises them with a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow.
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Little Blue Engine rescues his best friend, the toy clown, from a runaway engine.
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Kate was happy to be a fully-fledged conductor of the steam-powered railway saving animals, until Uncle Herbert goes missing. To find him, she enlists help from a deadly cassowary and a socially maladjusted wolverine.
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Auteur:Sadler, Anthony, Skarlatos, Alek, Stone, Spencer, Stern, Jeffrey E.Sommaire:When a terrorist boarded a train bound for Paris, he encountered something he hadn't anticipated: three Americans who refused to give in to fear.
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Auteur:Guest, JacquelineSommaire:The Depression has ruined Henry Dafoe's life: his father has left the family farm to look for work, his mother is sick and now she's decided to send Henry to Nova Scotia to work on his uncle's fishboat. But Henry has other ideas. He...
- Auteur:Lamothe, GenevièveSommaire:
Sur les traces de la construction du chemin de fer transcanadien en passant par une aventure en haute montagne. À travers Ariane, Alex et Ying, du groupe de reporters Caméra Danger, ils partiront sur les traces de la construction du...
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Auteur:Francis, Mayann, Thiebaux-Heikalo, TamaraSommaire:Nine-year-old Mayann Francis and her family are travelling from their home in Cape Breton to New York City by train. Everything is exciting to young Mayann, from the beds that fold down to the stop in Montreal to visit friends. Most...
- Auteur:Ferguson, TrevorSommaire:
Dès les premières phrases, on est aspiré par un tourbillon. Le feu a tout rasé. Derrière lui, il ne reste que le conteur, le bavard, et ses paroles de rage et de tristesse qui tombent sur la terre assoiffée. Reed Kitchen travaille...
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Auteur:DeKeyser, StacySommaire:What would you do? As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse not to be decent... Especially when you're responsible for a kid. It just figures that 15-year old Victoria's dad fails once again to be at the train station like he's...
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Auteur:Yee, Paul, Chan, Harvey, Johnson, MollySommaire:This enhanced e-book, in celebration of Groundwood's 35th anniversary, includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Molly Johnson. Winner of the Governor General's Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award,...
- Auteur:Enock, NeilSommaire:
Book your ticket now for a trip to the future, the past, and the timeslips in between. Through the eloquent prose and imaginings of eighteen tellers of tales, we are pleased to present to you a collection of stories-on-a-train that will...
- Auteur:Cameron, MarcSommaire:
Off the northeast coast of Russia, the captain and crew of a small crabbing vessel are brutally murdered by a member of Bratva, the Russian mafia. In Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Charlotte Morehouse prepares for a trip to...
- Auteur:Burke, James LeeSommaire:
New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden...
- Auteur:Saucier, JocelyneSommaire:
Away From Hermeets Strangers on a Trainin this follow-up to cult bestseller And the Birds Rained DownAfter And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-...
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