Books with author Mary Murray

The Whistlebird is a heart warming tale of adventure, fantasy and love. It is a story of hope and despair, good vs. evil and darkness vs. light.. Follow four loveable characters as they search for that special place called “home.”Jim is an elf who has become separated from Santa on his very first Christmas Eve toy delivery outing. He is left behind in a strange and alien world and has no idea how to find his way back to the comfort and safety of Santa’s magical castle. Along the way he encounters a protective dog named Puddle, an intellectual Furfin who goes by the title of Padrack Mulligan and a cast off flying carpet named Zabba. All are in dire straits as is Jim and together they join forces for mutual support.Together our heroes undergo an amazing adventure as they journey across mystical lands in search of their respective elusive sanctuaries. They come face to face with villains they never imagined and experience things and places known but only to a few. Will they be able to overcome the seemingly insurmountable challenges they face? The answer lies in a tiny child’s trinket, the Whistlebird.

It's dawn, on an empty road in the countryside. Empty, except for the girl in the long, red evening gown, standing next to a bicycle, and looking back at the home she's about to leave. Mannie's ready to start a new life and forget the terrible things that have happened here, but there are questions that need to be answered before she can let go. Questions about her elegant but unstable mother, her brother who's always overshadowed her, and his friend Harry Jacob, who just might be Mannie's boyfriend . . .

The freedoms of speech and religion assumed a sacrosanct space in American notions of civil liberty. But it was not until the twentieth century that these freedoms became prominent in American constitutional law; originally, the first ten amendments applied only to the federal government and not to the states. Murray Dry traces the trajectory of freedom of speech and religion to the center of contemporary debates as few scholars have done, by looking back to the American founding and to the classical texts in political philosophy that shaped the founders' understanding of republican government. By comparing the colonial charters with the new state constitutions and studying the development of the federal Constitution, Dry demonstrates the shift from governmental concern for the salvation of souls to the more limited aim of the securing of rights. For a uniquely rich and nuanced appreciation of this shift Dry explores the political philosophy of Locke, Spinoza, Montesquieu, and Mill, among others, whose writings helped shaped the Supreme Court's view of religion as separate from philosophy, as a matter of individual faith and not a community practice. Delving into the polyvalent interpretations of such fundamental concepts as truth, faith, and freedom, Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth immeasurably advances the study of American constitutional law and our First Amendment rights.

Hello everybody, it's me, Henrietta P. Hoppenbeek the First (future Queen of the Wide Wide Long Cool Coast of the Lost Socks). I have a baby brother, two white mice, a chocolate-colored dog, a woolly mammoth, and two long green socks with toes. My best friend is Olive Higgie and we've got an EMERGENCY DILEMMA to attend to. We absolutely have to find a home for the Rietta because it's lost and sad and its spots are fading. With an imagination like Henrietta's, adventures are closer than her front doorstep. Three books together in one! Henrietta There's No One Better, Henrietta the Great Go-Getter and Henrietta Gets a Letter.

In the third fabulous Henrietta story, when Henrietta sets a trap for "something" under her bed, she finds a teeny tiny person with wings I'm Henrietta and there's a strange and ominous scuffling noise under my bed. I can tell it's not a crocodile and I'm sure it's not a rhino and it absolutely can't be a monster because monsters lurk in dark misty lakes, not under beds. So who could it be? One thing I do know is it's time to make some discoveries.When Henrietta finds Mabel May Hissop sleeping in her sock, she discovers not only a small fairy with a big problem, but also a big way to explore the small things in life. With Mabel's special silver key and an invitation to the Big Bunch of Small Creatures Ball, Henrietta opens the door to a very sparkly adventure.

HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, 2018Hello everybody, it's me. Henrietta the Great Go-Getter, and I'm having a big think. Right now I'm thinking I'd like a baby sister, so I can dress her up in different sorts of hats. But Mum says we'll have to wait and see. I'm terrible at waiting.Meanwhile, I'm an explorer of life, and that includes trees, bugs, animals and all mysteries. I'm going to school for the very first time, which means I might have to go as a spy so that I can have a secret peep inside...When Henrietta sees Olive Higgie crying in the classroom, she goes on a rescue mission and finds that you only need one friend in a room full of strangers to feel perfectly happy.Henrietta's stories are full of funny thoughts and discoveries, and maybe the best are the ones that take a long time to come.

A wonderfully human and humane debut from the Australian Kate DiCamilloCedar B. Hartley is exasperating and potentially infamous.She steps on cracks. She plans to live an unusual life. She is the winner of her school's Bat Pole Championship (which she made up). She misses her brother Barnaby, who ran away, and who sends her postcards from all over. And she's definitely a hopeless winker. But Cedar B. Hartley has potential. She knows the long distance between an idea and the real thing. And she has a green thumb for people -- which will come in handy as she discovers truths about her friends, her family, and her life.