Murray: 2512 books

Primrose Primary has a new pupil - Mei Li, a friendly, but shy Chinese girl. Arabella invites Mei Li to her birthday party, but she fails to turn up. Then on a school visit, two horrid Chinese thugs try to kidnap Mei Li, but Arabella flies to her rescue and fights them off. Why are Mei Li and...

1964.Waterbury, Ohio.Thirteen-year-old Deuce Delaney sits in his Observatory—the turret on top of his house perched high on Mount Airy—spying through binoculars on the world below.Deuce is trouble in perpetual motion. He gets in trouble at home, church, school—even with the law.So when he sneaks...

In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in all of us.

The clearly focused lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them —wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by sterilising chlorine. With the erasures the modern world...

Exciting in its taut energy and inventive comedy, Murray Edmond's The Switch is a long poem in forty-nine parts which proceeds, not in a straight line, but in a dazzling display of repetitions, rearrangements and transformations. It's a game, a show, an entertainment and a meditation about love and the passage of time.

When therapist Marlana accepts a difficult case from her mentor, Dr. Whitney, she's faced with what appears to be a dual personality. Robert is the client, but it's his stage persona, Carol, who appears in her office, complete with the wide Carol Channing grin and white suit with matching...

Berta Hiriart, mujer de teatro y de letras, reúne aquí cuatro obras teatrales contemporáneas a las que niños y niñas a partir de los cuatro años pueden acercarse, ya sea como actores, lectores o espectadores: "Que las hay… las hay" de la argentina María Inés Falconi (una divertida...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

From the imagination of story-teller, Graham Murray, comes a new tale of adventure, suspense, drama, love and loss. Following a freak accident when a strange and unexpected storm forces teenage friends, Sara and David, into the forest to seek shelter, they find themselves transported to a strange...

A collection of 12 compelling short stories of the supernatural, the paranormal and the plain inexplicable from author, Graham Murray. CONTAINS:- SMALL MERCIES A grieving man seeks solace by reading stories to his young daughter, who eagerly awaits his return each evening. What he does...

“12 IN A DAY” is an anthology of twelve compelling tales by author Graham Murray, especially compiled for short story aficionados. Whatever your reading preference, there is a story here guaranteed to touch your heart or your soul. Perhaps even both. Contains:- THE FINAL CUT –...

Since their birth in the late 1960’s as a working class subcultural response to what was seen as a feminised, bourgeois-hippy parent culture, the skinhead has since held a semi-mythological status amongst the UK’s street tribes. But from the off, queer undercurrents inevitably ran through skinhead...

Friendship takes some imagination in this story of two kids who discover they have more in common than they knew, for fans of Stargirl. Joey wants more than anything to talk to someone about music, to be a part of the group. But he's so shy, something always seems to get in the way. He escapes...

Vastly entertaining and outright hilarious, Paul Murray’s debut heralds the arrival of a major new Irish talent. His protagonist is endearing and wildly witty–part P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster, with a cantankerous dash of A Confederacy of Dunces’ Ignatius J. Reilly thrown in. With its...