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Book cover for "Leaving the station".
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Publisher:
Storytide
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Book cover for "Leaving the Atocha Station".
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Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation...
Book cover for "Death Leaves the Station".
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Publisher:
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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A nameless friar turns up at Halfwell Station at the same time that Ana, the adopted daughter of the station owners, discovers a body in the desert during her midnight walk. But when Ana returns to look for it, the body is gone. Death Leaves the Station brings the cosy country-house intrigue of crime fiction's golden age to the Australian wheatbelt, and was written for fans of classic mystery and crime fiction.
Book cover for "Train leaves the station".
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Publisher:
H. Holt
Pub. Date:
1992
Language:
English
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A toy train and its occupants make a journey that introduces the numbers one to ten.
Book cover for "Two Trains Leave the Station".
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Catherine Landis
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Catherine Landis set out to do something to protect her own brain. Hoping to avoid a similar fate, she went searching for brain exercises and landed on math. Considering herself innumerate, she was flustered by the mere word. Could she relearn it? Could this source of embarrassment become an opportunity? TWO TRAINS LEAVE THE STATION: A Meditation on Age, Alzheimer's, and Arithmetic, is the story...
Book cover for "The Orbit We Cannot Leave: Some Stations Don't Want You to Go".
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Publisher:
Twist & Tether Press
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Commander Yara Levin arrives at the derelict mining station Virex-6 to complete a simple recovery mission-retrieve the AI core and final logs from a dead orbit above a lifeless planet. But the orbit is stable when it shouldn't be. The lights still work. The air is clean. And there's a warm cup of coffee waiting in the medbay.Something is wrong with this place.The deeper Yara explores the station, the more familiar it becomes-like stepping through...
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Publisher:
eBookIt.com
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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In this definitive account of the quest to establish a human presence in lifeless outer space, award-winning space historian Robert Zimmerman reveals the great global gamesmanship between Soviet and American political leaders that drove the space efforts of both following the Apollo lunar landings in the 1960s and 1970s. Beaten to the Moon by their Cold War enemies, the Russians were intent on being first to the planets. They knew that to reach other...
Book cover for "Where the Walls Breathe: This Station Never Lets You Leave Alone".
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Publisher:
Twist & Tether Press
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Maris Hale has spent over two hundred days alone aboard Threnody-9, a derelict station orbiting a gas giant at the edge of known space. Her mission: stabilize failing systems, maintain life support, and endure the silence. But the station is no longer quiet.When tools shift in the dark and a child's lullaby echoes through the vents, Maris begins to question what remains of her mind. Dreams she never had, voices she never recorded, and footprints that...
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English
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3.7 stars
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Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat--known in LAPD slang as "the late show"--and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She has...
Book cover for "The cricket in Times Square".
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Lexile measure:
780L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City-the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Now, like any tourist...
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880L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...
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Series:
CatStronauts volume 3
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
©2017
Language:
English
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"The CatStronauts--elite cat astronauts--are aboard the International Space Station to repair the faulty Hubba Bubba Telescope, but have to contend with communications interference and a near disaster that leaves them down a member"--
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Publisher:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2013]
Language:
English
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Jack Harper is the lone security repairman stationed on a desolate, nearly ruined future Earth. When he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft, her arrival triggers a nonstop chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows, and leaves humanity's fate in his hands.
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5 stars
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From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II. 1946, Manhattan One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each...
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English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
Book cover for "Heart of darkness & other stories".
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr. Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time...
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English
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"By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they're doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area's swanky and successful spa and hotel, while Roy runs a nearby gas station and harbors grand plans to build it out into an entire amusement park complete with a roller coaster. But when news breaks about a new highway to be built nearby, bypassing Os and leaving the town cut-off...
Book cover for "The book club for troublesome women".
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Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in her buttoned-up suburb"-- By early 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan, Viv Buschetti, and Bitsy Cobb, suburban housewives in a brand-new "planned community" in Northern Virginia, appear to have it all. The fact that "all" doesn't feel like enough leaves them feeling confused and guilty, certain the fault must lie with them. Things begin to change when they form a...
Book cover for "The man in the brown suit".
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English
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"Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her--and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving...
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...