Jim Murphy





Jim Murphy

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Average rating: 3.77 · 5,418 ratings · 941 reviews · 56 distinct works · Similar authors
An American Plague: The Tru...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,439 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
West to a Land of Plenty: T...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 1998
The Great Fire (Newbery Honor)
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions
My Face to the Wind: The Di...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2001
Truce: The Day the Soldiers...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2009
Blizzard
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
Invincible Microbe: Tubercu...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
The Giant and How He Humbug...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2012
The Journal Of James Edmond...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
The Boys' War: Confederate ...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions
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“Sometimes...I lose myself in looking back upon the ocean which I have passed, and now and then find myself surprised by a tear in reflecting upon the friends I have lost, and the scenes of distress that I have witnessed, and which I was unable to relieve.

—Dr. Benjamin Rush”
Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

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