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Author
Series
Little Hippo stories volume 3
Formats
Description
Pretending to be a truck driver, Little Hippo runs into some roadblocks along the way, but his good friends help him reach his destination.
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Putting kids in the driver's seat, this eye-opening and informative book about truck drivers shows how they spend their days-- and sometimes nights--getting everything to the right place at the right time"--
4) Trucker
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A long-haul trucker living a carefree life is forced to take care of the son she hasn't seen since he was a baby when his father is in the hospital. Now the child and mother must learn to live together and leave their strained past behind.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged.) : col. ill. ; 22 x 25 cm.
Description
The driver of a tractor-trailer picks up a load of fresh fruits and vegetables, then drives through the countryside, past small towns, and into the big city, passing farms, construction sites, and many other vehicles, then delivers the produce and relaxes with other drivers.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Following a...
8) My big rig
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
A boy imagines what it would be like to drive a big rig across the country.
Series
Criterion collection volume 273
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father, a ruthless market operator by the name of Mike Figlia. But when Figlia gets wise to his plan, Nick finds himself in a web of treachery and heartbreak."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Tara Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
47 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 22 x 26 cm.
Description
Gul -- who drives along the mountain roads of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush -- has finally acquired his own vehicle and wants it painted beautifully. As Zarrar gets to work, Gul waits in the yard, thinking about his many journeys, the splendour of the hills and the intricacies of truck art -- until everything is at last ready and it's time to be off on the road again. This book celebrates the energy and joy of Pakistani truck art as well as the...
12) Buried
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Paul Conroy is not ready to die. But when he wakes up six feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are maddeningly limited... Paul has only ninety minutes to be rescued before his worst...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 229 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In The Long Haul, Murphy offers a trucker?s-eye view of America on the move. Going far beyond the myth of the American road trip, he whisks readers 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. As he crisscrosses the country, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades, from the hollowing-out...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 bluray (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best barroom brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love, with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, two sneaky off-duty cops and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
15) Big rig rescue!
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
When a semi tips over on a mountain road, Big Orange and its driver arrive quickly with a boom, a winch, and more, but can they pull the truck out before the storm arrives?
Author
Series
Ben Jones novels volume 1
Publisher
Caravel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
286 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Description
Ben Jones is an honorable but down-on-his luck truck driver on a lonely Utah highway. His life takes a sudden turn into violence, mystery and longing upon finding a beautiful woman playing a cello in an isolated house in the high desert.
17) Convoy
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A trucker, whose CB nickname is "Rubber Duck," is pursued through three states by an implacable police officer.
19) Breakdown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.
20) Blood victory
Author
Series
Burning girl thriller volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A secret weapon of a mysterious consortium, Charlotte Rowe, who baits evil predators and stops them in their tracks, goes after a long-haul truck driver whose cargo bay is a gallery of horrors on wheels.
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