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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (born 1951)

poet, musician, teacher, climate activist

  • University of New Mexico, University of Iowa

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Poet Warrior
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
She Had Some Horses
The woman who fell from the sky
Winged words
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
How we became human
A Map to the Next World
Secrets from the Center of the World
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
Kinship
An American Sunrise
Crazy brave
Poems and Stories
The Good Luck Cat
Conflict resolution for holy beings
Soul talk, song language
The Spiral of Memory: Interviews (Poets on Poetry)
For a girl becoming
Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light
Remember
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
Catching the Light
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
Living Nations, Living Words
Gatherings
Reinventing the enemy's language
American Sunrise
In mad love and war
What moon drove me to this?
Crazy Brave
Soul Talk, Song Language
The last song
Vastu Astrology
An American Sunrise Lib/E
Bright golden haze
Asrār min qalb al-ʻālam
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Secrets from the Center of the World
Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Land Carries Our Ancestors
Mankiller Poems
Remember 9-Copy Floor Display with Merchandising Kit
She Had Some Horses
Una dona valenta
THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT
Una dona valenta
Spiral of Memory
In Mad Love and War
Cutthroat 10th Anniversary A Tribute to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan
How We Became Human
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison (born 1949)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Florida State University, Eckerd College

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Two or three things I know for sure
Conversations with Dorothy Allison
Trash
Bastard out of Carolina
Skin
Cavedweller
Ida Applebroog
Novel ideas
The women who hate me
The Writer's Notebook
The Road Aces and find Terry! He's lost (Road Aces series)
Zwei oder drei Dinge, die ich sicher weiß
Bastarda
Kuckuckskinder
Heimkehr nach Cayro
Find Terry! He's Lost
Tin House
Peau
A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison
Southern Sin
Dorothy Allison
Best of Tin House
L'Histoire de Bone
Cavedweller B d/Bx18 Inc 3 Free
Deux ou trois choses dont je suis sûre
What it took for me to get here
Bekart z Karoliny
Skin
Walking the edge
Bastard Out of Carolina
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya (1958-2006)

journalist, human rights activist, peace activist, poet, activist

  • MSU Faculty of Journalism

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Za chto
A Russian Diary
Putinskai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡
A dirty war
A Small Corner of Hell
Is journalism worth dying for?
John Lennon
John Lennon (1940-1980)

record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist

  • Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School

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Lennon remembers
John Lennon in his own words
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Yellow submarine
The John Lennon Letters
Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko
All We Are Saying
John Lennon
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Imagine
The Lennon companion
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon - Guitar Collection
The Lennon play
Tourism Statistics
Peace at Last
In his own write; & A spaniard in the works
Hospitality management
Great Songs of Lennon and Mccartney
158. The John Lennon Collection
Search for liberation
The John Lennon conversations
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
The Lennon play: In his own write
A Spaniard in the works
John Lennon - Greatest Hits
50 by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Ai
The Beatles anthology
The writings of John Lennon
The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
The John Lennon Collection
The Lennon tapes
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon in his own write
EKM #248 - John Lennon - Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Amor verdadero
Power To The People The Hits
The Penguin John Lennon
The lyrics of John Lennon
Society and health in Guyana
Imagine
In his own write ; and A Spaniard in the works
Last interview
The Great Songs of John Lennon
Cal 96 Artwork
Bag one
Lennon on Lennon
Strawberry Fields Forever
Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes
John Ono Lennon
Lennon and Mccartney, Together Alone
Imagine John Yoko
Songs of John Lennon
A Hard Day's Night
The lyrics of Lennon & McCartney
En flagrant délire
Sometime in New York City
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles Lyrics
Por Su Propio Cuento Un Espaolito En Obras
John Lennon Piano Solos
Una Mala Faena
Last Lennon Tapes
Double fantasy
John Lennon
Golden Beatles
Lennon & McCartney
Best of the Beatles Greatest Hits
Beatles Anthology
Shaved Fish
The Beatles, 1962-1966
Hey Jude
Imagine
Muntliga röksignaler och andra stycken, däribland Balladen om John och Yoko
Les Beatles, Yoko Ono et moi
Beatlemania
Lennon and Mccartney
Le yoga des Beatles
Jon renon 120 no kotoba
Penny Lane
Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Oh! Darling
Imagine =
"Gimme some truth"
Lennon and McCartney
Zwei Jungfrauen oder wahnsinnig in Da nemark
Real love
Homenaje a John Lennon
Yellow Submarine
Beatles Piano Solos
Imagine
Plastic Ono Band
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming (born 1965)

actor, comedian, film director, voice actor, character actor, stage actor, television actor, film actor, composer, film producer, LGBTQ rights activist, translator

  • Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

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You gotta get bigger dreams
Not my father's son
Tommy's Tale
Vittorio, the Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires)
The adventures of Honey & Leon
Tommys Tale a Novel A1 Poster
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem (born 1934)

journalist, reporter, activist, essayist, editor, lecturer, women's rights activist, actor, human rights activist, political activist

  • Smith College

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My life on the road
The Women's Suffrage Movement
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!
My life on the road
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Revolution from within
Marilyn
Choice Words
Feminist Family Values
Marilyn, Norma Jeane
Doing Sixty and Seventy
Free to Be You and Me
Moving beyond words
Moving beyond words
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Wonder Woman
Women Respond to the Men's Movement
Revolution from Within
Revolution from within
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Enslaved
Brass Notebook
Gloria Steinem on Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Une révolution intérieure
Içimizdeki devrim
Ir Mas Alla De Las Palabras
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
On Self Esteem and Scholars, Witches And Other Freedom Fighters
Gloria Steinem
Autostima
Herstory - Women Who Changed the World
The essential Gloria Steinem reader
The beach book
Uncommon Knowledge (Esprit Presents)
50 Years of Ms
Wonder woman
Spirit of Houston the First National Women's Conference
Letters to Ms.
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off
Doing Sixty and Seventy
MI VIDA EN LA CARRETERA
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Korean Language Edition)
Beach Book
Moving Beyond Words : Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Maririn
Arab Spring Dreams
My Forbesganj Garden
Florence Ashley
Florence Ashley (born 1999)

researcher, jurist, LGBTQ rights activist

  • McGill University, University of Toronto

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Gender/Fucking
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
Banning Transgender Conversion Practices
Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin (1879-1954)

women's rights activist

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The diaries of Miles Franklin
My Brilliant Career
All that swagger
MY CAREER GOES BUNG
Bring the monkey
Some everyday folk and Dawn
All that swagger
My brilliant career ; My career goes bung
My brilliant career
My congenials
On Dearborn Street
Ten creeks run
A gregarious culture
My Brilliant Career My Career Goes Bung
The end of my career
My Brilliant Career
Up the country
Up the country
My career goes bung
Joseph Furphy
The end of my career
Laughter, not for a cage
Up the country
Pioneers on parade
My Career Goes Bung - Purporting to be the Autobiography Of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn
Childhood at Brindabella
Ten Creeks Run
Pioneers on parade
Le Pays d'en haut
Cockatoos
Back to Bool Bool
Cockatoos, a story of youth and exodists
Prelude to waking, a novel in the first person and parentheses
My Brilliant Career
Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang, a tale of the jumbuck pads on the summer runs
Bring the monkey, a light novel
Old Blastus of Bandicoot, opuscule on a pioneer, tufted with ragged rhymes
My brilliant career