Bless the voice that tells these stories Beautiful and touching. The gospels for being humans. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?... A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faith...

Johanna Murphy, the illustrator, is in the 6th grade and enjoys growing up, teasing her younger brothers, playing in the Winter snow, picking the Spring flowers, and just being Hanna.The author makes his home in Concord, MA where he cares for his three children.These stories were born during a time of personal hardship and near despair as he struggled to hide his soul and protect his children. Hadar the main character (of now many stories) represents the best in us....

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you dont find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? Its against rules but we cant allow the childrens last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his han...

To move a secret, you don't try to be invisible. You try to be unremarkable.Harrison Sterling is a master of the "noise." As a high-level logistical specialist for the DoD, he builds the paper trails, the forged identities, and the mundane commerce that allow the world's most sensitive assets to cross borders unseen. He isn't an assassin or a spy; he is the man who makes the impossible movement of people look like a routine shipment of art or a mid-tier logistics r...

A surgical strike. A vanished target. A trap designed to catch the hunters.When an SVR operative disappears during a routine high-speed train delay in Brandenburg, BND Agent Felix Kiefer thinks he's looking for a man. He's wrong. He's looking for a pattern.The disappearance wasn't a fluke; it was a masterpiece of technical sabotage. By triggering a precise "fail-safe" in the German rail network, the Russian intelligence services didn't just create a window fo...

Far too often, we hear jokes and immediately forget them. This compilation of jokes is a collection from the past fifty years. Some jokes will make you laugh out loud, while others will produce a smile from ear to ear at a later time. Most were told by friends over a cold beer, while others were picked up on the run. Once we would start telling jokes, it was like turning on a water spigot. The jokes kept coming. Humor is a vital piece of life. Enjoy your reading and try to remember the rea...

This collection represents an engagement with American history, technology, and cultures. Murphy’s poetry ranges from fairly straightforward narrations of events to experimental pieces using a variety of American-speaking subjects and several angles of vision on cultural creations—Elvis Presley, Holly Golightly, and Elmore James, to name just a few. Formal choices include the interlocking movements of the sestina and the rondau, the ebb and flow of loose blank verse, and the syncopated var...

Selling a home is one of the largest financial decisions most homeowners will ever make. Yet many enter the process without knowing which decisions can protect-or quietly diminish-the value they've spent years building.Price to Profit™: Blueprint for Success gives homeowners a clearer way to think about preparing, pricing, marketing, negotiating, and selling a home.Drawing from real-world experiences, Tami Murphy takes readers behind the decisions ...

Book W of The Alphabet Series – 26 Letters, 26 StoriesBerlin breathed a brittle silence. Not the quiet of peace, but the unnerving hush of disconnection. The fiber optic arteries of a nation had been severed, leaving a country adrift in a sea of static. In the heart of the city, marble monuments stood shrouded in a perpetual mist, their stoic facades mirroring the secrets held within.Warren Drayton hadn't asked to be a hero. He'd been a tool, honed by years...

In 1977, Diane Hartwell is eight months into nursing and still startled when anyone calls her "the nurse."At County General, she learns quickly that skill is only part of the job. Patients deteriorate without warning. Physicians protect their authority. Exhausted staff miss what matters. And sometimes Diane knows something is wrong before there is any clinical evidence to explain why.Guided by seasoned nurses, challenged by medicine's rigid hierarchy, and sustained by an un...

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you don’t find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? It’s against rules but we can’t allow the children’s last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his...

Updates the advancements made in the level of achievable integration of optical circuits and components in the last ten years--highlighting the commercial success of particular devices as well as introducing multiple facets of integrated optics.