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Claire Messud
Claire Messud (born 1966)

  • Yale University, University of Toronto Schools

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When Memory Comes
The Emperor's Children
When the world was steady
Exit Strategies
The emperor's children
The Hunters
The last life
The hunters
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
The burning girl
Woman Upstairs
The woman upstairs
When the world was steady
When the World Was Steady
Alice Neel
The Emperor's Children
Hunters
The Last Life
The Emperor's Children Emperors
Avant le bouleversement du monde
The empror's children
The Emperor's Children
Burning Girl
PICADOR SHOTS - The Professor's History
La femme d'en haut
Het vorige leven
Los hijos del emperador
Os filhos do imperador
Yalde ha-melekh
Und dazwischen das Meer.
The burning girl
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (born 1945)

poet, essayist

  • Hollins University

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An American childhood
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Inventing the Truth
Modern American Memoirs
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
The Living
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
Watch For The Light
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Words of Ages
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
The writing life
The Maytrees
For the time being
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Modern American memoirs
The Best American Essays 1999
Living by Fiction
Three by Annie Dillard
The Annie Dillard reader
Annie Dillard Reader, An
Mornings Like This
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
American Earth
The Maytrees CD
Writing Life
Best American Essays, 1988 (Best American Essays)
The abundance
Holy the firm
Tickets for a prayer wheel
Teaching a stone to talk
Encounters with Chinese writers
Holy the firm
The Best American essays, 1988
Encounters with Chinese writers
For the Time Being
The Maytrees LP
An International Christmas
Außer der Zeit
An American childhood
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ; An American childhood ; The writing life
En vivant, en écrivant
Les vivants
Pèlerinage à Tinker Creek
The Annie Dillard Library
Am Rand der Neuen Welt
Annie Dillard Interview
Tickets for a prayer wheel
Late Harvest
Living by fiction
For the Time Being
Total Eclipse
The weasel
Give it all, give it now
From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest (Midwest Writers Ser. : No. 1)
Enseñarle a hablar a una piedra
Ich schreibe
Living by fiction
Au présent
Der freie Fall der Spottdrossel
Exploring Faith and Discipleship
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson (born 1936)

historian

  • Gustavus Adolphus College, Johns Hopkins University

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To the Best of My Ability
Battle Cry of Freedom
For cause and comrades
Ordeal by Fire
The American journey
The Negro's Civil War
Hallowed Ground
What if?
Ordeal by Fire
Embattled Rebel
The War that Forged a Nation
Crossroads of freedom
Abraham Lincoln and the second American Revolution
The struggle for equality
What they fought for, 1861-1865
Tried by war
Civil War (1860-1865), Volume 1
Fields of fury
Gettysburg
The abolitionist legacy
Marching toward freedom
The hammer and the anvil
Drawn With The Sword
Tried by War
Why the Confederacy lost
Abraham Lincoln
Is blood thicker than water?
Hearts touched by fire
The Atlas of the Civil War
Writing the Civil War
Civil War (1860-1865), Volume 2
The Democratic Experience
We Cannot Escape History
Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies, Volume 1
This mighty scourge
Liberty, Equality, Power
The most fearful ordeal
The Enigmatic South
Battle chronicles of the Civil War
The American Journey
Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies, Volume 8
Blacks in America
Liberty, equality, power
War on the waters
American Heritage History of the Civil War
Region, race, and Reconstruction
Treasures of the Civil War
Into the West
How Lincoln won the war with metaphors
Marching toward freedom
Thomson Advantage Books
Cengage Advantage Books : Liberty, Equality, Power
Negro's Civil War
AP Sg Liberty Equality Power
Battle Chronicles Of The Civil War
Lamson of the Gettysburg
Discovering Our Past
A Very Civil War
Reveille in Washington 1860 - 1865 (In Slip Case)
Ordeal by Fire
The American Journey, Florida Student Edition
Liberty, Equality, Power Volume II Southwest Tennessee Community College (Liberty, Equality, Power Southwest Tennessee Community College Volume II Since 1863, Volume 2)
The Civil War, 1860-1865 (Vol. 1 & 2)
Discovering Our Past A History of The United States Early Years Teacher Edition
Battle Chronicles of the Civil War
Liberty, equality, power
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Marching toward freedom the negro in the civil war
Bundle: Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Volume 2: Since 1863, Loose-leaf Version, 7th + MindTap History, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card
Fields of Honor
Bundle : Liberty, Equality, Power
Cengage Advantage Books : Liberty, Equality, Power : A History of the American People, Volume 1
Receding Tide
Liberty, equality, power
Days of destiny
Cengage Advantage Books : Liberty, Equality, Power : A History of the American People, Volume 2
The American presidents
Fur Die Freiheit Sterben: Die Geschichte des Amerikanischen Burgerkrieges
Gettysburg battlefield
The American Vision
Summer's Bloodiest Days
Co. Aytch : The First Tennessee Regiment or a Side Show to the Big Show
Für die Freiheit sterben
Liberty, Equality, and Power Vol. 1
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
Lincoln and the Millennium
Drawn with the Sword
Abraham Lincoln And The Second American Revolution
Images of the Civil War
Ordeal by Fire
Impact California Social Studies United States History & Geography
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
The American Journey
The Abolitionist Legacy from Reconstruction to the NAACP
Speeches honoring Abraham Lincoln
Blacks in America; Bibliographical Essays
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty, equality, power
La Guerre de Sécession
Battle Cry Of Freedom Part 3 Of 3
Liberty, equality, power
Civil War Set
Copperheads
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 2 of 3
Liberty, Equality, and Power Vol. 1
HistoryUnbound : Interactive Explorations in History for Murrin/Johnson/McPherson/Gerstle/Rosenberg/Rosenberg’s Liberty, Equality, and Power
Liberty, Equality, and Power - To 1877 Vol. 1
Liberty, Equality, and Power
BATTLE CHRONICLES OF THE CIVIL WAR/6 VOL SET
Liberty, Equality, Power
Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender
Liberty, Equality, Power : Volume II
Musical Links to the Past CD-ROM for Murrin/Johnson/McPherson/Gerstle/Rosenberg/Rosenberg’s Liberty, Equality, and Power
Battle Chronicles of the Civil War 1864
Liberty, equality, power
Liberty Equality Power : A History of the American People
Liberty, Equality, Power Vol. 2
Liberty, Equality, Power
Liberty, Equality, Power
Dwight A. McBride
Dwight A. McBride (born 1967)

academic

  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Impossible witnesses
Black Like Us A Century Of Lesbian Gay And Bisexual African American Fiction
James Baldwin now
Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch
James Baldwin Review
Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity
Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
Hermann Glaser
Hermann Glaser (1928-2018)

opinion journalist, cultural historian, biographer, essayist, historian, philosopher

  • University of Bristol

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"Ach!"
Wege der deutschen Literatur
Maschinenwelt und Alltagsleben
Bundes Republikanisches Lesebuch
The German mind of the nineteenth century
Deutsche Kultur, 1945-2000
Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Motiven
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945-1989
Die Kulturgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Die Nürnberger Massenverhaftung
Fluchtpunkt Jahrhundertwende
Das Dritte Reich
Wie Hitler den deutschen Geist zerstörte
Wege der deutschen Literatur
Spießer-Ideologie
Museum und demokratische Gesellschaft
Aus den Trümmern zur Post-Moderne
Weshalb heisst das Bett nicht Bild?
Sexualität und Aggression
Die Kultur der Wilhelminischen Zeit
Kleine Kulturgeschichte Deutschlands im 20. Jahrhundert
Von der Kultur der Leute
Soviel Anfang war nie
Bildungsbürgertum und Nationalismus
Kleine deutsche Kulturgeschichte
Von der Moderne der Renaissance
Bundesrepublikanisches Lesebuch
Tageszeiten, ein Lesebuch zur Geschichte des Alltags
Im Packeis des Unbehagens
What remains, what lies ahead
Die Wiedergewinnung des Ästhetischen
Die Kulturstadt und die Zukunft der Industriegesellschaft
Deutsche Kultur
Sigmund Freud et l'âme du XXe siècle
1945
Kleine Geschichte der modernen Weltliteratur
Das o ̈ffentliche Deutsch
Gedanken zur Reform der höheren Schule
Jugend-Stil, Stil der Jugend
Grundfragen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Ein Lesebuch
Cultural Roots of National Socialism
Erfolgreiche Wundbehandlung. Aus der Praxis anthroposophisch erweiterter Krankenpflege
Die Bundesrepublik zwischen Restauration und Rationalismus
Drama - Theater - Kommunikation
Jugend zwischen Aggression und Apathie
Die Post in ihrer Zeit
Bürgerrecht Kultur
Radikalität und Scheinradikalität
Eros in der Politik
Der sadistische Staat
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Gegenwart
Ein deutsches Bilderbuch 1870-1918
Nationalsozialismus und Demokratie
Kleine deutsche Kulturgeschichte von 1945 bis heute
Jenseits von Parkinson
Das öffentliche Deutsch
The rubble years
Urbanistik
Team Teaching--konkret
Behagen und Unbehagen in der Kulturpolitik
Der Gartenzwerg in der Boutique
Das öffentliche Deutsch
Die Mauer Steht, Die Mauer Lie
Bundesrepublikanisches Lesebuch
Kleinstadt-Ideologie
Der sadistische Staat
Adolf Hitlers Hetzschrift "Mein Kampf"
Das Verschwinden der Arbeit
Die 50er Jahre
Das Dritte Reiche
Spurensuche
Ins Land der Franken fahren ...
Protest der Jugend
Kulturgeschichte der deutschen Eisenbahn
Spurensuche
Protest der Jugend
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Gegenwart
Aus den trummern zurpost-moderne
Vijay Mishra
Vijay Mishra (born 1945)

literary scholar, cultural studies scholar, scholar of English, man of letters

  • Lelean Memorial School, Victoria University of Wellington

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Annotating Salman Rushdie
Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime
Bollywood Cinema
Dark side of the dream
The gothic sublime
Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy
Tat niranjana
Rama's banishment
Rama's Banishment
What Was Multiculturalism?
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature
Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume 1
Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Applications of Nanomaterials
You Dying Me Dying
V. S. Naipaul and World Literature
Treatment of Breast Cancer with Natural Products
Literature of the Indian diaspora
Nanotechnology-Based Approaches for Targeting and Delivery of Drugs and Genes
You Only Think, but I Have Celebrated Life
Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume 2
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950)

essayist, literary critic, genealogist, historian, journalist, philosopher

  • Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Yale University

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The Souls of Black Folk
Life upon these shores
The slave's narrative
The classic slave narratives
The Philadelphia Negro
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Dusk of dawn
The signifying monkey
Loose Canons
Colored people
Gay rebel of the Harlem renaissance
In battle for peace
Wonders of the African world
Transition 75/76. Selections from Transition, 1961-1976
Figures in Black
The Suppression Of The Slave Trade To The United States Of America 1638-1870
The Greatest Taboo
Africa, its geography, people, and products
Africana
The future of the race
The African-American century
Finding Oprah's Roots
America Behind The Color Line
The dictionary of global culture
Reading black, reading feminist
The Classic slave narratives
Black folk
John Brown (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Stony the Road
The trials of Phillis Wheatley
And Still I Rise
The Black Church
Unchained Memories
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Gloria Naylor
In Search of Our Roots
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man
The Image Of The Black In Western Art
Light of Truth
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
To Make Their Own Way in the World
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
African American Studies
The classic slave narratives
The Image Of The Black In Western Art
Black Lives 1900
Black in Latin America
The White Issue
Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
The Classic Slave Narratives
Black cool
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers
Harlem
Making Futures
Zora Neale Hurston Essays
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
Called to be free
Fateful Triangle
The African American national biography
"Race," writing, and difference
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
Gordon Parks Collected Works, 1942-1998
Understanding Jim Crow
Wonders of the African world
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
African American national biography
The annotated African American folktales
Portable Anna Julia Cooper
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
100 amazing facts about the Negro
The image of the Black in African and Asian art
Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex
The New Negro Aesthetic
Reconsidering Race
The African Americans
Teaching with the Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Finding Your Roots, Season 2
To Make a Poet Black
In search of Hannah Crafts
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Bearing Witness
The Oxford handbook of African American citizenship
Transition 97/98
Uncle Tom
Black literature, 1827-1940
John Brown (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Soulfires
Transition 96
May Day at Yale,1970 : Recollections
In Search of Our Roots
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
World and Africa and Color and Democracy (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
New Negro
Faces of America
Dark Sky Rising
Finding your roots
Finding Oprah's Roots
Bearing witness
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism)
Lincoln on Race and Slavery
Cosmopolitanism
African American Studies
Chinua Achebe
Black Church
From Slave to Statesman
Harriet Wilson's New England
The Norton anthology of African American literature
Bearing Witness
13 ways to look at a Black man
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism)
The bondwoman's narrative by Hannah Crafts
Ralph Ellison
In search of our roots
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Who's Black and Why?
Philadelphia Negro (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois)
Stony the Road
Race, Writing and Difference
African American Lives
Colored People
Farbige Zeiten
African American lives
Microsoft Encarta africana
Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr
America Behind The Color Line
Signifying Monkey
America Behind The Color Line
Reading Black, Reading Feminist
What to Do about Race
Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 1
Signifying Monkey
LIFE Lincoln
The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
Black America since MLK
COLORED PEOPLE
Truth of Consequences
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. V
Slave Narratives (college)
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
Africana
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee
Harriet A. Jacobs
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
The Bondwoman's Narrative
A Chronology of African-American History from 1445-1980
'Race Is Everything'
Finding Your Roots
Four Classic Slave Narratives
Colored People
Signifying Monkey
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. IV, Pt. 2
African American national biography
Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art, Book 2
Black literature and literary theory
The dictionary of global culture
Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. V, Pt. 1
Wole Soyinka
Ann Petry
Dictionary Global Culture
Annotated African American Folktales (the Annotated Books)
Faces of America
Now and Forever Windows by Kerry James Marshall at Washington National Cathedral
Literature, Language, and Politics
A Chronology of African-American History
Stony the Road
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations
Anthology of African American Literature
Wonders of the African world
Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives
Finding Your Roots
In Search of Hannah Crafts
America beyond the color line
Black Literature and Literary Theory
Our Gang
Modern Liberty
Harriet Jacobs
Balthazar
Dictionary of Global Culture
In Search Of Identity: African American Lives
Ann Petry
Microsoft Encarta africana 2000
Strange Fruit, Volume I
FROM RAGTIME TO RAP
Three Classic African American
In the house of Oshugbo
The Anniversary Issue
Figures in Black
The Norton anthology of African American literature
Gloria Naylor
The Norton Anthology African American Literature
Africana 2003 Engagement Calendar
Call and response
Africana
The Classic Slave Narratives
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
Come Sunday
Black Is the Color of the Cosmos
The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
The Essential Soyinka
Afro-American Women Writers
Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle (born 1951)

agronomist, botanist, poet, cynologist

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The Lightning Dreamer Cubas Greatest Abolitionist
The Surrender Tree
Summer birds
Skywriting
Tropical secrets
Singing to Cuba
Because of Shoe and other dog stories
Dancing Hands
The Poet-Slave of Cuba
Hurricane dancers
When you wander
Mountain dog
The firefly letters
Drum dream girl
The flying girl
Enchanted Air
Bravo!
The Lightning Dreamer
Dreams From Many Rivers
The wild book
With a star in my hand
Tiny rabbit's big wish
Lion Island
Hurricane dancers
Silver people
The firefly letters
Enchanted air
Orangutanka
Forest world
Soaring Earth
Tu Corazón, Mi Cielo
Destiny Finds Her Way
Smoketree
Miguel y su valiente caballero
Manos Que Bailan
La selva
All the way to Havana
Enchanted Air : Two Cultures, Two Wings
Light for All
Miguel's Brave Knight
Pregón de Frutas (Song of Frutas)
Jazz owls
Tropical Secrets
Your Heart, My Sky
A Song of Frutas
Forest World
Wings in the Wild (Spanish Edition)
Singing with Elephants
Wings in the Wild
The Poet Slave of Cuba
A dog named Haku
Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish
Escultora de la Luz
IMPERFECT : poems about mistakes
Dancing Hands
Lion Island
Dog Named Haku
Día Del Agua
Jazz Owls
Qiao da meng xiang de nü hai
Surrender Tree
Wild Book
Singing with Elephants
Singing with Elephants 6-Copy SIGNED Prepack W L-Card
Firefly Letters
Mountain Dog
Canto de Los Elefantes
Joven Aviadora
Your Heart, My Sky
Luz para Todos
Flying Girl
Una niña, un tambor, un sueño
Drum Dream Girl
Firefly Letters
Miguel y Su Valiente Caballero
Isla de Leones
Sky Painter
Eloísa's Musical Window
All the Way to Havana
Silver People
Con una Estrella en la Mano
Wild Dreamers (Spanish Edition)
Summer Birds The Butterflies of Maria Merian
Tierra Al Vuelo
día Del Agua (Water Day)
Isla de Leones
Dreams from Many Rivers
Surrender Tree/el árbol de la Rendición
Destiny Finds Her Way
Summer Birds
Hurricane Dancers
Rima's Rebellion
Water Day
Water Day
With a Star in My Hand
Luz para Todos (Light for All)
Song of Frutas
Soaring Earth
Wild Dreamers
Silver People
With a Star in My Hand
Bravo!
Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish
Aire Encantado : Dos Culturas, Dos Alas
Wings in the Wild
Mountain Dog
Poet Slave of Cuba
Sculptor of Light
Lightning Dreamer
The sky painter
Eloísa y Su Ventanita Musical (Eloísa's Musical Window)
Selva (Forest World)
Morning Star Horse
Cantando con Elefantes / Singing with Elephants
Lion Island
Rebelión de Rima
Wild Book
Rebelión de Rima Marín
Drum Dream Girl
Tropical Secrets
Aire Encantado
Rima's Rebellion
Silver People
The firefly letters
Singing with Elephants
Forest World
Lion Island
Alas Salvajes (Wings in the Wild)
With a Star in My Hand