Pella, Judith.
Summary: When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Their stepdaughter becomes enthralled with an Irish railroad worker and James must stop a destructive plan among the workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELYee, Betty G.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEEPlant, Jeremy F.
Summary: "A fond look back at the C&O in Virginia and West Virginia from the last years of steam to the end of the Chessie System era."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morning Sun Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 PLAWarrick, Robert I.
Summary: "The Ann Arbor Railroad was as much a steamship line as a railroad. This text rich volume follows Michigan's most distinctive railroad from beginning to end with stunning photographs that will surprise readers."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morning Sun Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 WARBurkhardt, D. C. Jesse
Contents: Rolling tonnage: moving the double A's freight -- Passenger trains -- Tracks on the water: the carferry fleet -- Terminals: Elberta, Cadillac, Owosso, Ann Arbor, and Toledo -- The war years -- We have the connections -- After the carferries -- Addendum: the Ann Arbor carferry fleet (1892-1982).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.097 BURSummary: Catch an unforgettable glimpse into America's storied past as you ride the rails on these rolling museums of steam and steel. Focus on the history and mechanics of the engines themselves and a bit of local history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 GREMcGinty, Brian
Summary: The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 MCGO'Hara, Max
Summary: "Stretching across the wild western frontier, the railroad needs guardians like Wells Fargo detective Wolf Stockburn. Known as the Wolf of the Rails, the steely Scotsman is as cold and hard as the tracks he rides -- and those too foolish to fear him will soon lie dead at his feet . . . When train robbers hit the Boot Hill Express -- so called because of all the people riding it who have ended...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: When Willa Drake gets a call telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything to look after this woman. But the impulsive decision will lead Willa into uncharted territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLChang, Gordon H.
Summary: In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad. Over the next five years, they blasted tunnels through the granite cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laid tracks across the burning Nevada and Utah deserts. As many as twelve hundred lost their lives along the route. Those who survived would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.6 CHABeatty, Robert
Summary: In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney·Hyperion 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEAMontgomery, Jess
Summary: A novel inspired by the true story of Ohio's first female sheriff. When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel, the town sheriff, is killed, she vows to avenge his death. But then a widow arrives at her door, unaware that Daniel has been killed, inquiring about her missing daughter. Soon they realize Daniel was not the man they believed him to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONSummary: Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANBeatty, Robert
Summary: When a mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding, Serafina must fight to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEAO'Hara, Max
Summary: "The building of the transcontinental railroad is the story of America itself. Full of great dreams - and greater dangers - it required bold vision, back-breaking work, and one brave man to stop the baddest of the bad men every step of the way. His name is Wolf Stockburn, railroad detective... NEXT STOP, HELL. ALL ABOARD! The killers are organized - and ruthless. One by one, they slaughter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC O'HAKhouw, Petta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Library of Ohio 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3771 KhouwDrabelle, Dennis.
Summary: The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0979 DRAWiles, Deborah
Summary: "IMAGINE: You are a student in America. You are protesting a war. Or maybe you are just walking to class. The National Guard is called onto your campus. Imagine you are a young guardsman. The protest grows stronger. So does the confusion, the chaos, the fear. The guardsmen open fire. Imagine this is your school. Imagine this is your town. Imagine this is your country. Imagine American troops...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILKelly, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: "Babe Ruth's baseball glove goes missing before a Baltimore Orioles game. It's up to cousins Mike and Kate to find its whereabouts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BPM 15Hornstein, Hugh A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09774 HORBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: When Lydia King suddenly finds herself widowed and jobless, she moves to Charm, Ohio, to be close to her mother and help with her grandfather. But when tragedy strikes her young life yet again, can she find strength in a family of young boys who need a mother, or will the gifts from a secret admirer prompt her to pursue an impossible love?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2010