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Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan (born 1944)

biographer, poet

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Boone
Our father
Gap Creek
The truest pleasure
This rock
The blue valleys
The hinterlands
Brave enemies
The Mountains Won't Remember Us
My lamp still burns
In Search of Humanity And Deity
Essays
Growing younger
Red owl
Gap Creek
Lions of the West
Some Things Never Die
Gap Creek : The Story of a Marriage
Brave Enemies
The Only Thing to Fear (A Supernatural Mystery)
Terroir
Romans (New Testament Guides,)
Readings in English social history from Contemporary literature ..
The Road From Gap Creek A Novel
The Truest Pleasure
Building an optimizing compiler
Chasing the North Star
Like Chaff to the Wind
Groundwork
Voices in the dark
Gap Creek The Story of A Marriage
Some things come back
Dark energy
This rock
The Things That Are Not There
"Old Gravel Walk"
Gap Creek
The showies
Wild Peavines
Bob-Tales
Lions of the West
World sea fisheries
Zirconia Poems (Booksurge Contemporary Classics)
Fin del Mundo del Arte
The Thing That Darkness Hides (A Supernatural Mystery)
On the banks of the Cynon
Beach user opinions and the development of a beach quality rating scale
The Blue Valleys
Sigodlin
Topsoil Road
Source Readings in Music History
Good Measure: Essays, Interviews, and Notes on Poetry
The anger in Ernest and Ernestine
The Blue Valley
Brave enemies
All Things Under Moon
Das Land des Herzens. Roman
At the edge of the orchard country
The balm of Gilead tree
The storm
The Truest Pleasure
This Rock
The miners and other stories
Bronze Age
The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle
The showies
The pass
Brave Enemies (Shannon Ravenel Books (Audio))
In the dark
The night's prison: poems, and, Rainbow valley
Wild Peavines
The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems
Del Arte a La Idea/ the Art of Idea (Arte Contemporaneo)
Land diving
The Religion of the Incarnation
Teacher's resource book to accompany Magruder's American government, William A. McClenaghan
Green River
For Lofthouse
Land Diving
Zirconia poems
The night's prison, poems & Rainbow Valley, a play for broadcasting
Roberto Coda Zabetta
Gap Creek
As rain turns to snow and other stories
Geest van verlangen
Comme une vallée de larmes
Zirconia poems
Growing Younger : How to Measure and Change Your Body's Age
Trunk & thicket
Bronze age
Mason Locke Weems
Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825)

biographer, pastor, bookseller

  • University of Edinburgh

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The life of Washington
God's revenge against adultery
The life of William Penn
The life of General Francis Marion, a celebrated partisan officer, in the revolutionary war, against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
The life of Benjamin Frankin
Hymen's recruiting sergeant, or, The maid and bachelor's friend ..
The drunkard's looking glass, reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard in sundry very interesting attitudes
Three discourses
God's revenge against murder, or, The drown'd wife of Stephens's Creek
The philanthropist; or, A good twelve cents worth of political love powder, for the fair daughters and patriotic sons of America
Anecdotes of gamblers
An anecdote from the life of George Washington
God's revenge against duelling, or, The duellist's looking glass
The Patriot
God's revenge against gambling
The Immortal Mentor, Or, Man's Unerring Guide to a Healthy, Wealthy & Happy Life: Or, Man's ...
The immortal mentor
The bad wife's looking glass
Narrative of Peter and John Hay
Mason Locke Weems, his works and ways
An anecdote concerning a cherry-tree and George Washington, general and commander of the armies of America
The true patriot, or, An oration, on the beauties and beatitudes of a republic and the abominations and desolations of despotism
Life of General Francis Mar
The life of General Francis Marion
Mason Locke Weems
God's revenge against drunkenness
Patrick French
Patrick French (1966-2023)

biographer, historian, academic

  • University of Edinburgh, Ampleforth College

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The world is what it is
Tibet, Tibet
Younghusband
The World Is What It Is
India
Liberty or Death
Tibet, Tibet
India A Portrait
After Bataille
Dreams and Memories of a Lost Land
The world is what it is
Tibet, Tibet (Collections Litterature) (French Edition)
TIBET, TIBET: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF A LOST LAND
Xizang zhui zong
V.S. Naipaul
French Brothers Wild and Crazy Film Quiz Book
Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam (born 1943)

flight engineer, autobiographer, soldier, coal miner, scuba diver, aerospace engineer

  • Virginia Tech

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Rocket boys
Sky of Stone
October sky
The Coalwood way
Red Helmet
The ambassador's son
The keeper's son
Rocket Boys
Sky of stone
The Ambassador's Son (Josh Thurlow Novels)
The Dinosaur Hunter
We are not afraid
The far reaches
The Ambassador's Son
The Far Reaches
The Keeper's Son (Josh Thurlow Novels)
Torpedo Junction
Back to the Moon
Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company
Back to the moon
Torpedo junction
Back to the moon
Red helmet
My Dream of Stars
Far Reaches
October Sky
Torpedo Junction
Carrying Albert Home
Crater
Rocket Boys. Roman einer Jugend
Carrying Albert home
The ambassador's son
The far reaches
Dinosaur Hunter
Red Helmet
Viaje de Albert a Casa
Keeper's Son
Sky of Stone
The Coalwood Way
October Sky
Crescent
October Sky
Arubāto, kokyō ni kaeru
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born 1930)

air force officer, fighter pilot, astronaut, autobiographer, engineer, businessperson

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy

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Magnificent Desolation
No dream is too high
The return
Encounter with Tiber
First on the moon
Reaching for the Moon
Mission to Mars
Men from earth
Guinness World Records 2017
Look to the stars
Welcome to Mars
Return to earth
Reaching for the Moon
Buzz Aldrin Reaching for the Moon
Return to earth
Return to Earth
Paper astronaut
Men From Earth
Return to Earth
Space Atlas
The Everyday Space Traveler Discover 9 Lifeaffirming Insights Into The Wonders Of Inner And Outer Space
To the Moon and Back
Return
Men from Earth-19.95
The Wright Stuff
Men from Earth
Investing in Our Future
Galileo for Kids
Space 2.0 Lib/E
Guinness Dünya Rekorlar Kitabi 2017
Die Rückkehr.
NASA
Space Encyclopedia
Space 2. 0
Beyond Flagpoles and Footprints
Return to Earth
Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Zack O'Malley Greenburg (born 1985)

journalist, actor, biographer

  • Yale College

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A-List Angels
Empire state of mind
Michael Jackson, Inc
3 kings
Empire state of mind
Empire state of mind
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward (born 1977)

autobiographer

  • Stanford University, University of Michigan

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Dust tracks on a road
Salvage the Bones
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jonah's gourd vine
Men We Reaped
The Fire This Time
Where the line bleeds
The Fire This Time
Let Us Descend
Navigate Your Stars
Guernica #2
De mannen die we oogstten
Fire This Time
Vor dem Sturm
Kasırga Tutulması
Canteu, esperits, canteu
Navigate Your Stars
Fire This Time
The Best American Short Stories 2021
Het lied van de geesten
Söyle Hayalet Sarkini Söyle
Esta vez el fuego
Mark Aldanov
Mark Aldanov (1886-1957)

essayist, biographer

  • Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

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Armageddon
Nachalo kont͡s︡a
For thee the best
Peshchera
Zagadka Tolstogo
Chertov most ; Zagovor
Lenin
Sochinenii︠a︡ v 6 knigakh
Lenin und der Bolschewismus
Istoki
Kli︠u︡ch
Bolʹshai͡a︡ Lubi͡a︡nka
Povest' o smerti
Svi︠a︡tai︠a︡ Elena
The ninth Thermidor
Istrebitel'
Nightmare and dawn
The tenth symphony
Myslitelʹ
To live as we wish
Saint Helena, little island
Lenin und der Bolschewissmus (von) M.A. Landau-Aldanow
Before the deluge
Ul'mskaia noch'
IUnost Pavla Stroganova i drugiia kharakteristiki
Pri͡a︡moe deĭstvie
Svi︠a︡tai︠a︡ Elena, malenʹkiĭ ostrov
Kliuch: Roman ; Astrolog
Pavlinʹe pero
Kartiny Okti͡a︡brʹskoĭ revoli͡u︡t͡s︡ii
Punshevai︠a︡ vodka i Mogila voina
Ul'mskai Ła noch'; filosofii Ła sluchai Ła
Chortov most
Zagovor
Portrety
Sovremenniki
El alma de España
Zemli, li︠u︡di
Begstvo
Ogon' i dym
Der neunte Thermidor
Biegstvo
Samoubiĭstvo
The escape
C ertov most
The fifth seal. Translated by Nicholas Wreden
Devi︠a︡toe termidora
A night at the airport, stories
Zhivi kak khocheshʹ
Sobranie sochineniĭ v shesti tomakh
Belʹvederskīĭ tors
Belʹvederskiĭ tors
Samoubiistvo
Istoricheskie portrety
Desi͡a︡tai͡a︡ simfonii͡a︡
The devil's bridge
Ocherki
Zhivi kak khochesh
Zemli, li︠u︡di
Desi︠a︡tai︠a︡ simfonii︠a︡
Zhivi kak khocheshʹ
Devi︠a︡toe termidora
Deux révolutions
Ocherki
Sovremenniki
Portrety
Samoubiĭstvo
Kliuch
De la possibilité de nouvelles conceptions en chimie
Ogonʹ i dym
Ulʹmskai︠a︡ nochʹ
I︠U︡nostʹ Pavla Stroganova i drugīe kharakteristiki
Lénine
Kli︠u︡ch
Before the deluge
Sobranie sochineniĭ v vosʹmi tomakh
Sovremennyi︠a︡ problemy
La dernière symphonie
"Prava cheloveka i imperii"
Istoki
Lénine
Chortov most
Punshevai︠a︡ vodka i Mogila voina
L'enjeu des neutres
Istrebitelʹ
Nachalo kont︠s︡a
Zarisovki okti︠a︡brʹskoĭ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii