Jim Murphy

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890L

Breakthrough: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever

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Copies: 6

On a cold day in November 1944, eighteen-month-old Eileen Saxon was brought into an operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She could barely breathe, and he lips and fingertips had turned a dusky blue, the result of a heart condition known as blue baby syndrome. Most doctors who had seen her expected her to die within hours.

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1170L

Breakthrough: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

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It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name—yellow fever—but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown, and there is no cure.

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1130L

The Great Fire (Unabridged)

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The Great Fire of 1871 was one of the most colossal disasters in American history - with damage so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.

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1130L

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02:31

A Savage Thunder (Unabridged)

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A two-time Newbery Honor Book author, Jim Murphy is among the world's finest writers of nonfiction for children. In A Savage Thunder he takes listeners back to the American Civil War to tell the terrible yet extraordinary story of the Battle of Antietam.

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1180L

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02:55

Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America (Unabridged)

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On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the East Coast, from Virginia to Maine, to its knees. During the next three days, the Great Blizzard raged out of control, devastating every community in its path.

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1080L

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02:39

Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America (Unabridged)

The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War (Unabridged)

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We all know about the famous generals and the major battles of the Civil War. But for the soldiers who actually fought, the war was all too real. It was especially traumatic for the thousands of soldiers who ranged in age from 10 to 15. Some young soldiers joined the fray to escape the boredom of farm work or to "set the South straight". Many of them kept diaries and wrote letters home.

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1060L

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02:01

The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War (Unabridged)

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Unabridged)

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Newbery Honor and Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor-recipient Jim Murphy has written numerous stories based on historical events, such as The Boys' War and The Great Fire. In An American Plague, he tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.

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1130L

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03:47

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Unabridged)

Across America On an Emigrant Train (Unabridged)

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In the summer of 1879, the young writer Robert Louis Stevenson received a telegram from America. Fanny, a dear friend in California, was ill. Stevenson packed his bags and left his home in Scotland. When the steamer reached the east coast of America, his journey had just begun. Stevenson had little money, so he traveled across America the cheapest way: he went by train.

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