If Murphy Could Fly

If Murphy Could Fly
Author: L M Ferreri
Publisher: Moshpit Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781922628220

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every single, good Calabrian boy is looking for a single, good Calabrian girl to marry so they can cook, wash and clean for him! It's the late eighties and twenty-three-year-old Ree is trying to get out of yet another annoying marriage arrangement forced on her by her strict Calabrian family who live by every unwritten rule they brought to Australia from their hometown in Calabria back in the fifties. Ree has spent her whole life following these stupid rules and has nothing to show for it but her 'good Calabrian girl' reputation and dishpan hands. Naïve, insecure and sheltered from the real world, Ree dreams of escaping her way of life. She longs to spread her wings and fly, and maybe ... just maybe find true love along the way.

Faith

Faith
Author: Julie Murphy
Publisher: Thorndike Striving Reader
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2021
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781432888978

"Thorndike Press Striving Reader Collection."

Night Flying

Night Flying
Author: Rita Murphy
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Flight
ISBN: 9780330398954

From a talented new author - a short, magical and very beautiful novel about a girl who can fly. Georgia Hansen is nearly 16 - the sixth generation of Hansen women who can fly. Stifled by the rigid rules of grandmother Myra (no men can join the household, anyone caught flying during the day will be cast out of the family), Georgia's mother and aunts live in fear, keeping to themselves. But as Georgia's birthday approaches when she will fly solo for the first time and undergo rituals of initiation, her Aunt Carmen - herself cast out years before - flies in, stirring up secrets from the past. Rebellious and determined to discover the truth, Georgia commits the one unforgivable sin. But can she find the strength and courage to face up to her grandmother - and, in so doing, find not only herself but also the true freedom of flying?

One for the Murphys

One for the Murphys
Author: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101572124

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Fish in a Tree! Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household. Despite her resistance, the Murphys eventually show her what it feels like to belong--until her mother wants her back and Carley has to decide where and how to live. She's not really a Murphy, but the gifts they've given her have opened up a new future. "Hunt's writing is fearless and One For The Murphys is a story that is at once compassionate, thought-provoking and beautifully told. From the first page, I was drawn into Carley's story. She is a character not to be missed or forgotten." —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming Winner of the Tassy Walden Award for New Voice in Children's Literature

Flying the Dragon

Flying the Dragon
Author: Natalie Dias Lorenzi
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1607344491

When Skye's cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together?

Mizrahi's Prison

Mizrahi's Prison
Author: Jacques Evans
Publisher: Jacques Evans
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2009-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452307288

In 1942 two OSS officers, Major Huff a pilot and Major Murphy an infantry officer are tasked with kidnapping an Africa Corps officer from an internment camp in Turkey. During a meeting with Colonel Groves, the officer in charge of the Manhattan Project, they learn the Africa Corps officer is one of Germany's leading physicists who Groves believes was inadvertently assigned to the Africa Corps. After realizing their mistake, the Germans reassigned the officer to the Kaiser Wilheim Institute of Physics in Berlin. While flying back to Berlin, the aircraft was shot down and Turkish fisherman plucked the physicist from the Gulf of Adalia. Subsequently, according to international law, he was interned by the neutral Turkish government.From Harry Hopkins they learn the president has 'green lighted' the operation and are handed an OSS planning document. Huff, an experienced pilot, thinks the plan is absurd until he spots Jimmy Doolittle's signature. Days later a technically complex plan springs into action.

Combat Crew

Combat Crew
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1984
Genre: Aeronautics, Military
ISBN:

Wild Green Wonders

Wild Green Wonders
Author: Patrick Barkham
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1783352507

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE The collected writings from one of the nation's most celebrated nature writers. 'Barkham is an outstanding author.' CHRIS PACKHAM 'Wonder-filled . . . A treat. Patrick knows how to tell a good story, and that combination of kindness, wonder and good fortune that seems to be present in his own life shines through.' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER What is happening to nature? What are we as a species doing about it? What have we learned? Wild Green Wonders paints a portrait of contemporary wildlife, bearing witness to the many changes imposed upon the planet and the challenges lying ahead for the future of nature. From peregrine falcons nesting by the Thames to a conversation with Sir David Attenborough; from protests against the HS2 railway to an encounter with Britain's last lion tamer, this collection - drawn from twenty years' worth of Patrick Barkham's writing for the Guardian - forms a joyful, fascinating and enlightening chronicle of one of the nation's most celebrated nature writers. 'Outstanding nature journalism.' HORATIO CLARE 'A heralded nature writer.' THE TIMES 'A lovely, fluid writer.' DAILY MAIL