Pat Murphy
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In an abandoned San Francisco, the city's rebirth is powered by art. A young man strides across the Golden Gate Bridge, roller in hand, painting the famous structure a thousand shades of blue. A woman stands on the edge of the sea, sending messages to far-off lands in corked wine bottles. And a sleeping man dreams of building an angel from the spare parts that are the last remnants of a vanished civilization. A plague has passed through San Francisco,...
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On the wrong end of history, a Neanderthal boy fights to get home. For generations, the people of the valley have hunted the bear, killing it to draw on its mystical power. On his first hunt, a young member of the tribe pursues the bear through the wilderness. Moments before their battle begins, the boy plunges into darkness - and awakes in a world beyond his wildest imagination, where nature is corrupted and the boundaries of time mean nothing at...
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Cruise into murder, mayhem, and alternate realities. Award-winning author Pat Murphy takes us aboard a luxury cruise ship and into the strange confluence of time and space known as the Bermuda Triangle. Susan Galina and her friend Pat are relaxing on a luxury cruise ship heading from New York to Europe via Bermuda. Trouble begins when one of the passengers, author Max Merriwell, receives a threatening note that appears to come from one of his own...
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Two novels of adventure: One set in the hills of the Old West, the other across the Bermuda Triangle. In Wild Angel, Sarah sits by the river with her mother, watching her father pan for gold. The calm of the California hills is broken by a rifle shot, the start of an ambush that leaves Sarah's parents murdered and scalped and forces the three-year-old to flee into the woods. Hungry, cold, and terribly lost, she is rescued by a she-wolf named Wauna,...
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An archaeologist with a strange power risks death to unlock the secret of the Mayans. When night falls over the Yucatan, the archaeologists lay down their tools. But while her colleagues relax, Elizabeth Butler searches for shadows. A famous scientist with a reputation for eccentricity, she carries a strange secret. Where others see nothing but dirt and bones and fragments of pottery, Elizabeth sees shades of the men and women who walked this ground...
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Some things happen whether or not you clap your hands.
Enjoy this original short story by author Pat Murphy. In "About Fairies," Jennifer and her co-workers create fairy lands for a toy company, all the while cultivating their own personal fairy worlds...
A Tor.Com original.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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A sustainability expert goes beyond renewables, calling on us to combat the climate crisis with a new, low-energy way of life.
Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume that some miracle will cure our climate ills without requiring us to change our energy-intensive lifestyle. But, switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources isn't enough. We need a Plan C.
In response...
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Nineteen stories of power and humanity from a science fiction master with otherworldly talent. In a small house in the desert, a chimp named Rachel watches Tarzan on TV. Although her body is an ape's, her mind is something different - a hybrid between those of a chimpanzee and a young girl. When his wife and child died, the doctor who created Rachel implanted his daughter's brain into that of the chimp. Rachel remembers the jungle; she remembers high...
9) Wild Angel
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In the heart of the California gold country, three-year-old Sarah McKensie is orphaned by a stagecoach robber and adopted and nursed by a she-wolf in this playful homage to the American tall tale. As she matures, Sarah learns to assist her pack by contributing human tools to the hunt and, eventually, interacting with human travelers. With her best friend and pack-sister Beka at her side, Sarah becomes a local legend: the Wild Angel of the Sierras,...
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The daughter of Polish immigrants growing up in the 1830s on the Missouri frontier, Nadya knew she was not like other girls. But when she became a woman and the Change came, she discovered just how different she was. For Nadya was a shape changer, a werewolf like her Polish immigrant mother and father before her. After coming through a great personal tragedy brought about by her trusting nature and burgeoning sexuality, Nadya heads west to California,...
11) Pigasus
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Dial Books for Young Readers
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c1996
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Pigasus the flying pig recovers her mother's golden nose ring from a pirate ship proving that while unusual, wings are useful on a pig.
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"A ghost cat, the Devil, a deceitful criminal, a father framed for murder, and a vulnerable young girl combine in this magical tale from the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of the Joe Grey feline mysteries, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, and her husband Pat J.J. Murphy. The Devil has been up to no good. Brad Falon, one of Satan's longtime puppets, orchestrated a deadly robbery and set up his old friend Morgan Blake to take the fall. Now, Morgan...
14) The wild girls
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Viking
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2007
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the woods, and after winning a writing contest together they are recruited for an exclusive summer writing class that gives them new insights into themselves and others.
15) Nora
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FirstLook Home Entertainment
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[2001]
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English
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The relationship between James Joyce and his wife, Nora Barnacle.
20) Nora
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Dublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste. Over time Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship...