Murray: 2512 books

Tall Georgia pines sway in the gentle breeze. A small creek winds among the azaleas in the spring. A young deer raises his head listening. This is the atmosphere in which the author creates stories for you to enjoy. For generations her family members have lived on the land and written personal journals...

Four kids from suburbia on the hunt for lost pirate treasure discover a mystical amulet, The Star of the Mariner, that sends them back in time 300 years. Searching for the way home, they stumble across a group of treacherous kidnappers who give chase, swords drawn intent on insuring their silence....

It’s 1984, and 13-year-old Tim is sitting on the school roof, waiting for the world to end.Or at least for it to start making sense.His life used to make sense. It was made up of two things: the exciting new world of home computers, and worries about nuclear war.There were certainly...

In this short story, J.L. Murray weaves a tale of clockwork hearts, witches, love, and magic. In a world both strange and familiar, a girl with a clockwork heart has fallen in love. But this is no ordinary fairy tale, and nothing is as it seems. From dancing bears to magical rubies,  impossible trinkets...

Loss and consequent grief permeates nearly every life changing event, from death to health concerns to dislocation to relationship breakdown to betrayal to natural disaster to faith issues. Yet, while we know about particular events of loss independently, we know very little about a psychology of...

You’ve tried other self-help books. You’ve tried taking control of your life. You’ve tried affirmations, to-do lists, twelve-step programs, CBT, NLP and DIY. And… you failed. Well, what did you expect? You’re YOU. But there is another way… Everything about yourself that...

It all started on June 27, 1979, when approximately seven detectives banged on my door, guns drawn. When my common-law wife, Jackie, answered the door, they burst in, yelling, Where is Herbert Murray? When I came into the room, they grabbed me, threw me against the wall, put a gun to my head, and...

Alchemy requires sacrifice, and Petra knows all about that. She’s given up family, home, sanity – for a man she thought was a wizard. But that sacrifice might be in vain. Izvalta’s sociopathic king is on a murderous quest for immortality and foreigners have come searching for her secrets....

Having the man of your dreams sweep you off your feet—that’s what every girl dreams of, right? Except when it happened to Nina, it was more the stuff of nightmares—because she knocked herself unconscious by literally running into the man of her dreams. The man she’s loved from afar for five...

So what if there’s a psychotic nut after her? Rowan Evans doesn’t like the idea of being whisked away by her father’s head of security for safekeeping. Jack Donnelly rubs her the wrong way, gets on her nerves, and the last thing she wants to do is spend two weeks under his protective custody—even...

Lily Michaels is happy to help her cheated on best friend cancel her wedding. But since the groom with the broken nose is also her landlord, it means she’s looking for a new apartment. Enter Nate MacIntyre—former boy-band member —his mostly St. Bernard dog Beau, and the apartment over their...

Government agent Devon Bannion is done being Uncle Sam’s whipping boy. He just wants to retire and join his best friend and ex-partner in his Chicago security firm, but his boss is demanding he complete one last job. He agrees to take on a partner only because they’re not giving him a choice,...

Mickey Williams grew up in the East End of London. Never standing out at school his talents couldn't be taught. He takes a job in a family friends bookmakers until a chance encounter offers him a future he never imagined.He is offered a job in the Financial District where his "street-wise"...

The novella "Nightmare Planet" is the conclusion to Murray Leinster's popular Argosy series and is most closely linked to his previous tales "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust." A spaceship lands on a seemingly uninhabited planet that turns out to be the vestiges of a grotesque science experiment gone horribly awry. Will the crew members be able to survive in this hostile territory?