New Releases by Jim Murphy

In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself as warm a patriot as the best of them. He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben. He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown. He wintered at Valley Forge and then at Morristown, considered even more severe. He wrote of his war years in a memoir that brings the American Revolution alive with telling details, drama, and a country boy''s humor. Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself throughout the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever necessary, giving voice to a teenager who was an eyewitness to the fight that set America free from the British Empire.

Describes one of Thoreau''s trips to the Maine wilderness, based on his own writings.

Helps readers understand the roots of conflict in their organizations, assess their current conflict-resolution skills, and devise new strategies to actively and assertively overcome the tensions and other disagreements that threaten productivity and cooperation.

A young arctic wolf has a harrowing adventure trying to find his way back to the pack after being separated from them during a caribou hunt. Also includes a chapter with general information about wolves.

An account of Robert Louis Stevenson''s twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.

Follows a typical day in the life of a family of Hypsilophodons, a smaller, lesser-known dinosaur whose great speed aided its survival.

After developers encroach upon its forest home, a young black bear wanders into a neighborhood and creates chaos in the middle of a peaceful summer night.

These are the hours when our dreams betray us and night terrors take hold.

A description of the Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway.

Roman - animal disparu.

Depicts what life might have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth.

Verhaal waarin duidelijk naar voren komt hoe triceratops, een bepaald soort dinosaurussen 100.000.000 jaar geleden leefden. Het voor- en nawoord geven nog extra informatie. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

Describes how an ordinary family car may be transformed, on a limited budget, into a unique custom car.

Describes forty-five unusual, but actual, inventions, some of which worked, some of which failed, after inviting the reader to guess their purposes from pictures. Sequel to "Weird and Wacky Inventions".

Relates the history of the tractor and shows the changes in design that have resulted in the diesel-powered giants of today.

Takes the reader through an Indy 500, including the crash of one of the cars. Discusses the car, track, pit crew, etc.

Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the modern racing bicycle and HPV.

An incident in a park leads to an accidental death, but a police detective wonders if it was an accident -- or murder.