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1) New in town
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[2021]
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The people of Puddletrunk are accustomed to their bridge collapsing and being rebuilt by Mortimer Gulch--when they provide funds and labor--but a newcomer to town may have a better idea.
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When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge it looks like there is only one thing to call it and the town prepares to mourn the loss, but her sister Ted, and Fen, the new kid in town, are not convinced and they set out to figure out what happend on that bridge and find Thisbe.
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2021.
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Little Lobo and Bernabé are bringing supplies to the big celebration in the country across the bridge -- but everyone else seems to be going, too! During the long delay, they see all kinds of people on the bridge for different reasons and speaking different languages, but when someone has a grumpy moment, they all come together to make the wait as good as can be.
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Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa. An ominous storm rolls in and along with it a band of night riders, who show up at the Rio Blanco camp, where a three-hundred-foot bridge is under construction. Appaloosas Sheriff Sledge Driskill and his deputies are the first to respond, but as the storm grows more threatening, troubles at the bridge escalate and the sheriff and his deputies go missing. As Virgil and Everett...
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Young and innocent, they came to a place they had barely heard of, prepared for war. They were American fighter pilots, assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War. Trained but frightened, facing an an enemy they couldn't understand, and waging a war they had to win.
6) Suspension
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2000.
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May 31, 1883, 3:55 p.m. Twenty thousand men, women, and children, their faces shining in the late afternoon sun, are strolling the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge is open just a week, its promenade a magnet for the teeming masses of New York and Brooklyn. Anxious to escape the heat, overcrowding, and disease of the tenements, thousands stream onto the soaring span. To breathe free, high above the choking confines of the city is an...
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When she hears the story about the screaming bridge, where a busload of orphans were killed fifty years before, sixteen-year-old Emma Donovan and her friends decide to investigate the abandoned orphanage and the bridge--and that is the beginning of a terrifying night for Emma.
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"A single father's act of bravery leads him to a surprise second chance at love in the heartwarming new novel from the author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper. It's summer in the city and passions are soaring along with the temperature-for everyone but Mitchell Fisher, who hates all things romance. He relishes his job cutting off the padlocks that couples fasten to the famous "love story" bridge. Only his young daughter, Poppy, knows that behind...
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2021.
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Loosely adapted from The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Ruby and her brothers want to cross a bridge to pick blueberries, but it is guarded by the bully Santiago--the boys manage to trick him, but clever Ruby takes a different tack, builds her own bridge, and turns Santiago into an ally and friend.
11) The bridge
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[1988]
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When the old wooden bridge breaks, a young boy is delighted to be able to watch, from his front yard, the many different machines at work building the new bridge across the brook.
13) Train man
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c1999
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A terrorist sabotages bridges over the Mississippi as a military train heads west with a shipment of chemical weapons. FBI agents Hush Hanson and Carolyn Lang set out to catch him before disaster strikes. By the author of Zero Option.
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