The Murrays of Murray Hill
The Murrays of Murray Hill

Author: Charles Monaghan

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Chronicles "the New York Quaker merchant family that gave its name to the Manhattan neighborhood of Murray Hill." Discuses several members of the family which established itself in New York in 1753, but focuses particularly on Lindley Murray, a successful lawyer who was exiled to Britain as a loyalist after the American Revolution. In Britain, Lindley wrote school textbooks, became "the largest-selling author in the world during the first four decades of the 19th century, ... [and] became the most important popularizer of Scottish Enlightenment ideas in America."--Jacket.

Proud Shoes
Proud Shoes

Author: Pauli Murray

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2024-06-25

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0807072273

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First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

Spy Camp the Graphic Novel
Spy Camp the Graphic Novel

Author: Stuart Gibbs

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-04-04

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1534499393

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The second book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series continues in graphic novel form as aspiring spy Ben Ripley must spend his summer in top-secret training—and is thrown back into danger. Ben Ripley is a middle schooler whose school is not exactly average—he’s spent the last year training to be a top-level spy and dodging all sorts of associated danger. So now that summer’s finally here, Ben would like to have some fun and relax. But that’s not going to happen during required spy survival training at a rustic wilderness camp, where SPYDER, an enemy spy organization, has infiltrated the spies’ ranks. Can Ben root out the enemy before it takes him out—for good? Venture into the perilous wilderness with Ben in action-packed, full-color panels.

Exploring Manhattan's Murray Hill
Exploring Manhattan's Murray Hill

Author: Alfred Pommer

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1625845154

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Since this Manhattan neighborhood was named for the Murray family and their contributions to the American Revolution, many of New York's most illustrious residents have made Murray Hill their home. The mansions of J.P. Morgan Jr. and William Waldorf Astor stood along its streets. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt lived here as newlyweds, as did Admiral Farragut, Commodore Perry and Sinclair Lewis, along with Andy Warhol's famous "Factory." Not only homes but also many quintessential New York landmarks are located in this historic district--visit the original Tiffany & Company building, the Civic Club, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a once-famous B. Altman Department Store that is now New York's Science, Industry and Business Library. Experience the striking architecture and discover the stories of Manhattan's Murray Hill.

Jane Crow
Jane Crow

Author: Rosalind Rosenberg

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 019065645X

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Euro-African-American activist Paulli Murray was a feminist lawyer, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. Born in 1910 and identified as female, she believed from childhood she was male. Before there was a social movement to support transgender identity, she devised attacks on all arbitrary distinctions, greatly expanding the idea of equality in the process.

Store Front Ii (mini Edition)
Store Front Ii (mini Edition)

Author: James T. Murray

Publisher: Gingko Press Editions

Published: 2017-11

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781584236771

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With Store Front II the Murrays continued their documentation of an important cross-section of New York's 'Mom and Pop' economy. The Murray's penetrating photographs are only half the story though. Their copious background texts, gleaned largely from interviews with the stores' owners and employees, bring wonderful colour and nuance to the importance of these unique one-off establishments. The Murrays have rendered the out of the way bodegas, candy shops and record stores just as faithfully as the historically important institutions and well known restaurants, bars and cafes.

Spy School
Spy School

Author: Stuart Gibbs

Publisher: Youth Large Print

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

White Noise
White Noise

Author: Don DeLillo

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1999-06-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1440674477

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. “Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.”—The New Republic The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.