Murphy: 2125 books
An End to Ordinary History
Comments on a Philosophical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Golf in the Kingdom author Michael Murphy’s Cold War thriller, based on true events
Someone is tracking Darwin Fall, a scholar whose expertise in supernormal powers is second to none. As Darwin begins a search of his own for the legendary Soviet spy Vladimir Kirov, he uncovers a secret network...
The Root of Wild Madder
Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Wisdom of a Turkmen proverb.
The Root of Wild Madder opens with an invitation that flows from the same ancient inspiration. "A carpet is poetry itself," an Iranian carpet merchant declares to author Brian Murphy. "You just have to learn to read them." So begins a journey. It follows Persian...
by George Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Previously published in print by Ampersand Press of Roger Williams College in Rhode Island, "Rounding Ballast Key" is a poetry collection featuring the people and places of Key West and South Florida. Author George Murphy is also the editor of the recognized literary anthology "The...
Allah's Angels
Chechen Women in War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In this comprehensive portrait of the women of Chechnya in modern war, Paul Murphy argues that they are the principal victims of the 1994 and 1999 wars with Russia and the present conflict with Islamic jihadists. War forced Chechen women to venture far beyond their traditional roles and advance their...
Eight Twenty Eight
When Love Didn't Give Up
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
What if that thing you really feared happened? Would the joy you hold pop? Or would you experience love and joy deeper than you can imagine?
They met in college and fell in love. They talked about getting married, and he started looking for a ring. They dreamed about life together, a life of beauty...
Page to Stage
The Craft of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
At last, for those who adapt literature into scripts, a how-to book that illuminates the process of creating a stageworthy play. Page to Stage describes the essential steps for constructing adaptations for any theatrical venue, from the college classroom to a professionally produced production. Acclaimed...
How Tough Could It Be?
The Trials and Errors of a Sportswriter Turned Stay-at-Home Dad
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A father takes a break from every guy's dream gig--covering football (and the odd swimsuit shoot) for Sports Illustrated--to give it a go as Mr. Mom, in this hilarious and heartfelt book
After nineteen years as a writer for Sports Illustrated, Austin Murphy should have had it made. Instead,...
Rubbish!
The Archaeology of Garbage
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into...
by Dallas Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
“What John Irving or Kurt Vonnegut might produce if they wrote a novel about crime and real estate set in the Florida keys…hilarious and deeply satisfying,” Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Dennis “Doom” Lewis is a small-time conman who paid a big-price: a five-year prison sentence for...
Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
New Materialist Representations
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature, this study seeks to integrate the language...
Tree of Salvation
Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies Award At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwelled in...
by Steve Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Author Steve Murphy dares to step where no humorist has stepped before in his compilation of hilarious short stories, jokes, sketches, and illustrations that he is sure will either make him rich or get him killed.
In these stories, Murphy satirizes a childrens author as he is put on the stand...
by Bryan Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In this short e-book set in the near future, Sean Linehan, an international sports executive, travels to Padania, which has recently broken away from Italy to form an independent state, and is now desperate to gain acceptance by joining the world soccer community. Linehan’s job is to look into its...
Cat Deck the Halls
A Joe Grey Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The cats who saved Christmas . . .
The charming seaside village of Molena Point, California, leads one to expect a quiet traditional Christmas surrounded by family and friends—but not this holiday season. Instead of singing carols and climbing into Christmas trees, Joe Grey, feline P.I.,...