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Five weeks ago Carly Drake stood at her grandfather's grave. Now she's burying Drake Trucking's top driver, and the cops have no leads on the hijacking or murder. Faced with bankruptcy, phone threats and the fear of failure, Carly has to team up with the last man she wants to owe--Lincoln Cain. Cain is magnetic, powerful, controlling--and hiding more than one secret. He promised Carly's granddad he'd protect her. The old man took a chance on him when...
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More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a trucker. Since then he's covered hundreds of thousands of miles packing, loading, and hauling people's belongings all over America. Murphy whisks listeners down the I-95 Powerlane, across the Florida Everglades, in and out of the truck stops of the Midwest, and through the steep grades of the Rocky Mountains. He tells funny, poignant, and haunting stories of the people he moves:...
3) Big rigs
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[2014]
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English
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers tells about tractor-trailers, or semis, and how these large trucks deliver goods we use every day"--
8) Big rigs
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2008.
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English
Description
"Simple text and full color photographs introduce young readers to big rigs. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
9) Semi trucks
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English
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Featuring vivid photos and lots of facts, learn all about semi trucks in this fun-filled book.
10) Ice road trucker
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2013.
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English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about ice road truckers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
Wit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road.
Driving one highway after another at sunrise, winding through the mountainside, hearing the call to rise of the roosters, or simply exchanging "fishing stories" with the other guys at the truck stops. Like that one about the trucker who stopped along the highway and helped a little old lady who had a flat tire. By the time the trucker had told his tale a dozen times, the simple tire...
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[2017]
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English
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Give readers an inside look at the dangerous job of ice road truckers. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, an index, a selected bibliography, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research. -- amazon.com
13) Truck
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Pub. Date
1990.
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Warner books edition.
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English
Description
Jean "Dutch" Gillis goes "trucking" from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles on a quest in search of herself.
14) Trucks
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[2009]
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English
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Who can up with the idea behind the first truck? How big is the largest truck in the world? How much does it haul? The 'Innovation in Transportation' book Trucks takes a look at the people and creative ideas that have changed the way we think about trucks.
15) Freight trucks
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[2024]
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English
Description
"Explores the world of freight trucks and what they're used for, from transporting bulk foods to liquids and lumber"--Provided by publisher.
17) Paradise Highway
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English
Description
Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. To save the life of her brother, Sally, a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila. As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative sets out on their trail, determined to do whatever it takes to terminate a...
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2010.
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English
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"Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road Truckers The highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex shares tales of his adventures-and misadventures-in the north, and explain, in...
20) Ice roads
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Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Provides facts about ice roads, examining how they are constructed, how drivers stay safe, and how climate change has affected them.
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