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    Versions of May

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    Without seeming to at first glance, Jim Murphy's Versions of May succeeds in speaking to the anxieties that move beneath the surface waters of our times. It is a collection…

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    A Savage Thunder: Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom

    Jim Murphy

    By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead: Under the…

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    The Giant and How He Humbugged America

    Jim Murphy

    A two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America’s most famous hoaxes! When a 10-foot tall purported petrified man is unearthed from a backyard…

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    The Memphis Sun

    Jim Murphy

    This collection represents an engagement with American history, technology, and cultures. The poetry ranges from narrations of events to experimental pieces using a variety of American-speaking subjects and several angles…

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    The Long Road to Gettysburg

    Jim Murphy

    Experience first hand the bloodiest battle of the Civil War through the eyes of two teenage military officers one from the North and one from the South!

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    The Great Fire

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    A vertible cinematic account of the catastrophe that decimated much of Chicago in 1871, forcing more than 100,000 people from their homes. Jim Murphy tells the story through the eyes…

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    Baffling & Bizarre Inventions

    Jim Murphy

    Crazy inventions for kids to learn about!

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    Weird & Wacky Inventions

    Jim Murphy

    A hat that can tip itself. A suitcase that turns into a bathtub. These are just two of the hundreds of unusual inventions that people have dreamed up over the…

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    Across America on an Emigrant Train

    Jim Murphy

    Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson’s experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads…

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    Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City’s Heroes and Historic Sites

    Jim Murphy

    A unique, fast, and quirky guide to Philadelphia’s heroes and historic sites

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    Crashed Wagon Canyon

    Jim Murphy

    Gold...silver...precious gems...the stuff dreams are made of. This is the story of a hoard of just such valuable metals and stones, whose journey begins in the year 1311, when the…

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    The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War

    Jim Murphy

    This well-researched and readable account provides fresh insight into the human cost of a pivotal event in United States history .–The Horn Book, starred review. Illustrated with over 50 archival…

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    A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy

    Jim Murphy

    For use in schools and libraries only. Recounts skirmishes and major campaigns by a soldier who enlisted at age 15 and served seven years with Washington’s Continental Army.

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    The Red Badge of Courage

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    Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure

    Jim Murphy,Alison Blank

    From one of the most acclaimed writers of nonfiction for children, Invincible Microbe illuminates the seemingly unstoppable killer that’s been haunting us for centuries: tuberculosis. Well-researched and including over 100…

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    Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America

    Jim Murphy

    On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the region of Virginia to Maine to its knees. During the next three days, the Great Blizzard raged…

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    The Great Fire Lib/E

    Jim Murphy

    By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, the author constructs a narrative of the Great Fire of Chicago. He…

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    Escape from the Asylum: Never underestimate Murphy’s law!

    Jim Ricca

    Vincent Nunzio is forcibly committed to a mental hospital by his unfaithful wife, her scumbag lawyer and boyfriend to seize his assets during a bitter divorce. What could possibly go…

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    Corpus Christi Handbook and Murphy Givens Index

    Corpus Christi Handbook & Murphy Givens Index includes interesting and hard to find information on the history of Corpus Christi and Nueces County. It traces the evolution of Nueces County…

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    Indiana’s Catholic Religious Communities

    Jim Hillman,John Murphy

    With expanding Irish, Swiss, French, and German immigrant populations, the state of Indiana evolved from individual explorers, trappers, hunters, and traders into family-focused communities of farmers and craftsmen. Emerging from…

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    Indianapolis Social Clubs

    Jim Hillman,John Murphy

    More than banquet halls, golf courses, and swimming pools, social clubs were a haven for businessmen, politicians, and community leaders, offering respite from public scrutiny. Defining Indianapolis, the clubs were…

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    Indianapolis Social Clubs, in

    Jim Hillman,John Murphy

    More than banquet halls, golf courses, and swimming pools, social clubs were a haven for businessmen, politicians, and community leaders, offering respite from public scrutiny. Defining Indianapolis, the clubs were…

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    Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945

    Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

    Tells the story of how African American women in Washington D.C. transformed civil rights politics in their freedom struggles between 1920 and 1945. Even though no resident of the nation’s…

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    Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945

    Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

    Tells the story of how African American women in Washington D.C. transformed civil rights politics in their freedom struggles between 1920 and 1945. Even though no resident of the nation’s…

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    Corpus Christi: A History

    Murphy Givens,Jim Moloney

    Corpus Christi - A History documents the stories of the people who strove to make South Texas their home. Adventurers, outlaws, settlers, cowboys, ranchers and entrepreneurs from the United States…

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    Sounds Irish, Acts Global

    Michael Mary Murphy, Jim Rogers

    Sounds Irish, Acts Global critically examines both the history of Ireland's popular music industry as well as the current music scene in the country. This book is of interest to…

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    Sounds Irish, Acts Global

    Michael Mary Murphy, Jim Rogers

    Sounds Irish, Acts Global critically examines both the history of Ireland's popular music industry as well as the current music scene in the country. This book is of interest to…

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    Guys Read: True Stories

    Jon Scieszka,Jim Murphy,Elizabeth Partridge,Nathan Hale,James Sturm

    The fifth installment in the Guys read library of great reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable–and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction…

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    Guys Read: True Stories

    Jon Scieszka,Jim Murphy,Elizabeth Partridge,Nathan Hale,James Sturm

    The fifth installment in the Guys read library of great reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable–and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction…

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    Franklin

    Jim Hillman,John Murphy,Johnson County Museum of History

    As the treaties with the Delaware tribes and the forging of the Whetzel Trace opened central Indiana for settlement, the town of Franklin emerged from wilderness, echoing the development of…

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    Greenwood

    Jim Hillman,John Murphy

    By 1813, in an area originally inhabited by Native Americans, including a significant Delaware Indian village located on White River’s western banks, the future Greenwood was made safe for settlement…

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    Gloves Off: 40 Years of Unfiltered Sports Writing

    Lowell Cohn

    With acerbic wit, resounding wisdom, and no inhibitions, legendary sports writer Lowell Cohn grants insider access to the stories behind the stories in Gloves Off: 40 Years of Unfiltered Sports…

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    Franklin

    Jim Hillman,John Murphy,Johnson County Museum of History

    As the treaties with the Delaware tribes and the forging of the Whetzel Trace opened central Indiana for settlement, the town of Franklin emerged from wilderness, echoing the development of…

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    Beech Grove

    Jim Hillman,John Murphy,Beech Grove Public Library

    Early-20th-century Indianapolis was developing into a major transportation center. The extension of rail lines operated by the Big Four Railroad, the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railway, invaded farmland…

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    Perilous Trails of Texas

    J B (Red) Dunn

    Originally published: Dallas, Tex.: Pub. for the author by the Southwest Press, [c1932].

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    School Leadership

    Jim O'Brien,Daniel Murphy,Janet Draper,Christine Forde,Margery McMahon

    School Leadership summarizes current thinking about leadership in schools and suggests ways forward. School leadership is set in its social context. The book is required reading for head teachers and…

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    Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Omnibus, Vol. 1

    Kevin Eastman,Peter Laird,Jim Lawson,Ryan Brown,Steve Murphy

    Originally published by Mirage Comics as Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issues #1-7 and Tales of the TMNT Volume 2 issues #1-8 –Copyright page.

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