Murphy: 2125 books
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2011
Fifteen-year-old Jenny Middle struggles to hold her family together despite poverty, constant moves, the jail sentence and drunkenness of her mother, and a sister tragically involved with drugs. This timeless story of growing up forty years ago will be as relevant and moving to girls of today as it...
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
There is only one way to go: north toward their old home by the sea—the ranch that had been sold, and their beloved horses sold, when their parents were killed in the car accident. Running away from the drunken and abusive uncle with whom they’d been sent to live, Karen and Tom know they are taking...
Women Up to No Good
A Collection of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
What do women want? Well, if Pat Murphy is to be trusted (and we're not saying she is), women are looking for trouble. And in this collection of powerful stories, they find it — at an archeological dig in the Southwest, in the urban alleys, in California suburbs, in the old West, in ironic fantasy...
by Peter Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
"This book is majestic and squalid at the same time, as if the Bible were actually about Elvis. The rhythms and music carry you like a baby on a raft on the river, but it's the precision of the words that cinches you."—Richard Hell, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
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by Vicki Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
I always knew I’d be the perfect mother. So far, I’ve perfected the fetal position. When Vicki Murphy brought her new baby home from the hospital, she expected to be greeted by fluttering butterflies and harp-strumming cherubs. You know: the way it is in diaper commercials and the “Yay, You’re...
by Merynn Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
This vegan recipe book, comprising 15 recipes, focuses on SIMPLE vegan baking. All the recipes use common, easy to find ingredients that are most often already in your pantry. The recipes are aimed at the most inexperienced baker and those, who like the author, are not particularly expert in the kitchen....
The Preservatory
Seasonally Inspired Recipes for Creating and Cooking with Artisanal Preserves
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Lee Murphy, a passionate and knowledgeable jam master and owner of Vista D'oro Farms & Winery, presents a vibrant look at the pleasures of creating and using beautiful, seasonal preserves.
A short drive from Vancouver, and an even easier trip over the border from Washington, The Preservatory...
Physician Burnout
A Guide to Recognition and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Given the current state of the American healthcare system, physician burnout is an almost inevitable response. It doesn't have to be that way. Eighteen years after his enthusiastic first day in medical school, Dr. Tom Murphy was a burned-out physician disillusioned enough to leave clinical medicine...
Men's Health The Body You Want in the Time You Have
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Leaner and Building Muscle with Workouts that Fit Any Schedule
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
The former fitness editor of Men's Health magazine presents the ultimate no-excuses workout book for time-pressed men and women at every fitness level.
For most people, the hardest hurdle to overcome in following a fitness regimen is simply finding the time to do it. But as this book shows,...
by Patrick J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But while James is best known as a fiction...
The Media Commons
Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's...
Conscience and Community
Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical...
by Professor Colleen Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing...
by Michael Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
By the author of the acclaimed Eat Dat, a brand-new guide to New Orleans's scary side, from Voodoo rituals to historic cemeteries and haunted mansions
Fear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America’s most unique city. In addition to detailed histories...