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Vincent Price
Vincent Price (1911-1993)

art collector, art historian, voice actor, autobiographer, character actor, stage actor, film actor, television actor

  • Courtauld Institute of Art, Yale University

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I Like What I Know
18 Best Stories
A Treasury of Great Recipes
Vincent Price, His Movies, His Plays, His Life
Public opinion
Monsters
Treasury of American Art
Tales of witches, ghosts and goblins
Monsters
The Vincent Price treasury of American art
La Opinion Publica / Public Opinion
Tales of Terror Audio
Cooking Price-wise
The book of Joe
The Saint
The Ghouls
A Treasury of Great Recipes
Vincent Price, actor and art collector
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins
The Price of Fear
Tales of Witches, Ghosts and Goblins (1393/Cassette)
Three hundred years of great American poetry, from Anne Bradstreet through Stephen Crane
Vincent Price collects drawings
How to Host a Murder
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham (born 1969)

journalist, historian, biographer, editor-in-chief, editor

  • Sewanee: The University of the South, The McCallie School

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Destiny and power
American lion
His Truth Is Marching On
Franklin and Winston
American Gospel
Voices in Our Blood
Thomas Jefferson
The Hope of Glory
The soul of America
Songs of America
The impeachment report
Voices in Our Blood
American Lion
The soul of America
The Donald J. Trump presidential twitter library
Impeachment
Franklin and Winston
We Do Our Part
And There Was Light
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
Rose Water
On Democracy
Soul of America
In the Hands of the People
Voices in our blood
Civil War Trilogy Box Set : With American Homer : Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic the Civil War
Reconciliation, Healing, and Hope
TIME Andrew Jackson
Call to Serve : The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush
Beyond Bin Laden
The soul of America
Voices in Our Blood
American Gospel
American Lion
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Lacey
Robert Lacey (born 1944)

biographer, journalist, historian

  • Bristol Grammar School, University of Cambridge

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Great tales from English history
The crown
Grace
The Kingdom
Majesty
The year 1000
Aristocrats
Year What Life Was Like At the Turn
Grace
Ford, the men and the machine
Sotheby's
Princess
Monarch
The Queens of the North Atlantic
Queen Mother
Sir Walter Ralegh
Henry VIII
Inside the Kingdom
Robert, Earl of Essex: an Elizabethan Icarus
Great Tales from English History (3)
Royal
Little Man
Ford
The Crown
A Brief Life Of The Queen
The Queen Mother's Century
Robert, Earl of Essex
The Peninsula War
God bless her!
French Revolution
Sothebys Bidding for Class
The queen
Sir Walter Raleigh
Phoenix: Robert, Earl of Essex
Battle of Brothers
The rise of Napoleon
The life and times of Henry VIII
Little Man-Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life
Inside The Kingdom Kings Clerics Modernists Terrorists And The Struggle For Saudi Arabia
Sir Walter Ralegh (Raleigh)
Elizabeth II (Jackdaw)
The management of public expenditures
The retreat from Moscow, 1812
Life and Times of Henry VIII (Kings & Queens of England)
Die Sotheby's Story. Hinter den Kulissen des internationalen Kunstgeschäfts
Great Tales: Battle of the Boyne to DNA v. 3
Ford
Great Tales From English History 1387 - 1688 (Chaucer to the Glorious Revolution)
The Crown 2
Model woman
Hendrik VIII
Le parrain des parrains
Battle of Brothers
The Life and Times of Henry VIII (Kings and Queens of England Series)
Majesty Elizabeth and the House of Windsor
Majesty
Great Tales of Eng Hist 2
Gulf charities and Islamic philanthropy in the "age of terror" and beyond
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the Age of Terror and Beyond
Ford the Men and the Mach-V1
Drake and the Golden Hinde
Ford the Men and the Mach-V2
Sotheby's
The Crown : The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series
Monarch
Queen Mother's Century Hb Special
Peninsular War
Royal Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth/Banner
Majestät
Queen
Kingdom at War
Brief Life of the Queen
Queen Mother's Century
Retreat from Moscow, 1812
Majesty
Great Tales of English History
Royal Msr
The Crown vol. 2
Aristocrats
Royal
The Life and Times of Henry VIII (Kings & Queens of England) by Robert Lacey (1972-07-20)
The Crown
Elizabeth Two
Royal Hb Special
Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the 'Age of Terror' and Beyond
The life and times of Henry VIII by Robert Lacey (1995-11-06)
Kingdom at War B
Ford, the men and the machine
Kingdom at War C
French Revolution
Great Tales from English History
Great Tales from English History. CHAUCER TO THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION 1387-1688
Inside the Kingdom
Inside the Kingdom
Inside the Kingdom
Royal (Aar)
Queen Mother's Century Hb Lbus
Year 1000 d/Bx18 Inc 3 Free
Drake and the Golden Hinde
The Crown vol. 2
Ford
Year 1000 Hb Special
Great Tales from English History
Great Tales Eng History Hb Bk Cl
Sotheby?'s Hb D/Bx10
Great Tales from English History : Volume 3
Great Tales of Eng Hist 3 Hb Sign
Grace : Her Lives - Her Loves
Great Tales from English History Vol. 3
Model Woman
Majesty - Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor (Book Club Associates)
Sir Walter Ralegh.
Great Tales of English History 2 Hb Signed from Agincourt to the Glorious Revolution
Rise of Napoleon
Great Tales of English History B
Graham Farmelo
Graham Farmelo (born 1953)

biographer

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The strangest man
It must be beautiful
Churchill's Bomb
It Must Be Beautiful
Universe Speaks in Numbers
Der seltsamste Mensch
Churchill's Bomb
Museum visitor studies in the 90s
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
Here And Now
Paul Dirac
Discovering physics
Formulas Elegantes
Eder behar du. Zientzia modernoko ekuazio bikainak
Robert Sellers
Robert Sellers (born 1965)

biographer

  • Cecil Jones College

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Hollywood hellraisers
Hellraisers
Sting
Cult TV
Tom Cruise
Peter O'Toole
An A-Z of Hellraisers
What Fresh Lunacy Is This The Authorised Biography Of Oliver Reed
Don't let the bastards grind you down
The films of Sean Connery
Little Ern
Sean Connery
Hello, Darlings!: The Authorised Biography of Kenny Everett
The Battle for Bond
Harrison Ford
Sean Connery:A Celebration
Hellraisers
Bad Boy Drive
What Fresh Lunacy Is This The Authorized Biography Of Oliver Reed
Shean Connery
Very Naughty Boys
Very naughty boys
Harrison Ford a Biography
Hollywood hellraisers
The battle for Bond
Sigourney Weaver
Hellraisers
Hellraisers
The Blue Jeans Poet
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser (born 1932)

historian, biographer, aristocrat

  • University of Oxford, Dragon School

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Love and Louis XIV
My history
Love and Louis XIV
The weaker vessel
The wild island
Marie Antoinette
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
King James VI of Scotland, I of England
Quiet As a Nun
The warrior queens
Royal Charles
Political death
A splash of red
The Gunpowder Plot
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and other stories
King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table
Your royal hostage
The gunpowder plot
Cool repentance
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Mary, Queen of Scots
The wives of Henry VIII
The Cavalier Case
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Cromwell, our chief of men
Oxford Blood (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories
King Charles II
Must you go?
Cromwell, Our Chief of Men
A history of toys
Love letters
Charles II
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Jemima Shore's first case, and other stories
A splash of red
A la carte
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
Jemima Shore's first case
The Warrior Queens (Women in History)
Mary Queen of Scots (Women in History)
English crime stories of today
Mary Queen of Scots
Cool Repentance
Kings and Queens of England
Faith and Treason
Heros and Heroines
The Lives of the kings & queens of England
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Cromwell
The weaker vessel
Jemima Shore's first case, and other stories
Splash of Red (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Must You Go?
The Wild Island (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Quiet as a nun
Love and Louis XIV
Scottish Love Poems
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Women in History)
KING CHARLES II
Wild Island, The
Mary, Queen of Scots
Cool Repentence
The cavalier case.
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Warrior Queens
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
Boadicea's chariot
Quiet as a Nun (Jemima Shore Mystery)
Love Letters
Oxford blood
Love Letters
Quiet As a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Love letters
Perilous Question The Drama Of The Great Reform Bill 1832
Your Royal Hostage (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Cromwell, the Lord Protector
Perilous Question Reform Or Revolution Britain On The Brink 1832
Must you go?
Shroud for Delilah
The Pleasure of reading
The Stuarts (A Royal History of England)
Las Seis Esposas de Enrique VIII
Love Letters
Oxford blood
The six wives of Henry VIII, volume 1
A Splash of Red (Jemima Shore Mystery)
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Las Seis Mujeres de Enrique VIII
The Weaker Vessel (Women in History)
Marie Antoinette
Dolls
Robin Hood - Fraser
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
OXFORD BLOOD (JEMIMA SHORE MYSTERY)
The weaker vessel
The lives of the kings and queens of England
The Weaker vessel
Thew arrior queens
La Conspiracion De La Polvora
Tartan Tragedy
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Revised and Updated (Kings & Queens of England)
Six Wives of Henry the VIII
Robin Hood
MARY,QUEEN OF SCOTS
Robin Hood
Mary, Queen Of Scots Part 1 Of 2
The cavalier case
The Warrior Queens
Pleasure of reading
THE WARRIOR QUEENS
CROMWELL, OUR CHIEF OF MEN
Quiet As a Nun
The Cavalier Case
Reinas Guerreras
Lawrence Durrell
Maria Stuart. Eine Biographie
Scottish love poems
Scottish love poems
Oxford and Oxfordshire in verse
Cavalier Case, The
Your royal hostage
Cromwell Our Chief of Men
Three Great Novels Jemima Shore On The Case
Cromwell, our chief of men. --
Marie Antoinette (MTI)
POLITICAL DEATH
A splash of red
Las Seis Esposas De Enrique VIII/ the Wives of Henry VIII
The Tudors (A Royal History of England)
Oxford and Oxfordshire in verse
Gunpowder Plots
Your royal hostage
Jemima Shore's First Case and Other Stories (Jemima Shore Mystery S.)
Oxford blood
Sukottorando joō meari
Cromwell-V01
Spielzeug
Mary, Queen of Scots Part 1 of 2
Mary, Queen Of Scots Part 2 Of 2
The King and the Catholics
Cromwell Part 2 of 3
Your Royal Hostage (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Tartan tragedy
More women of mystery
Cromwell Part 3 Of 3
Six Wives of Henry the VIII
Marie-Antoinette
Scottish love poems
Twentieth Century
Cool Repentance a Fraser
The cavalier case
Cool repentance
Normans and Angevins
Quiet As a Nun
Cromwell-V02
The pleasure of reading
Gunpowder Plot Terror and Faith In 1605
Heroes & heroines
Oxford Blood (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
Cromwell Part 2 Of 3
Heroes and Heroines
Oxford blood
Heroes & heroines
S&J;Robin Hood Frazer A
El Enigma Del Vizconde
Cromwell Part 1 of 3
Jemima Shore's first case
Cromwell Part 3 of 3
Mary Queen of Scot
Die sechs Frauen Heinrichs VIII
Maria Estuardo
Het wilde eiland =
Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Scottish love poems
The Lives of the kings & queens of England
Perilous question
Quiet as a Nun (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The six wives of Henry V111
Mary Queen of Scots and the historians
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Cavalier Case (Bloomsbury Modern Library)
The six wives of Henry VIII
Cromwell
Cromwell-V03
Mary, Queen of Scots Part 2 of 2
The Lives Of The Kings & Queens Of England
Cool Repentance (Jemima Shore Mysteries)
The lives of the kings & queens of England
Cromwell Part 1 Of 3
Three great novels
Political death
My history
Love letters
Scottish love poems
King Charles II
The warrior queens
A red rose or a satin heart
Mary Queen of Scots
The weaker vessel
Oxford Blood & Cavalier Case
Love letters
The gunpowder plot
Heroes & heroines
Cromwell, our chief of men
Mary Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
Die Nonne
Vous partez déjà?
The warrior queens
Poems
Malka Drucker
Malka Drucker (born 1945)

rabbi, biographer

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Rescuers
Jacob's rescue
Grandma's latkes
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The sea monster's secret
FRIDA KAHLO
Celebrating life
Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays
Sukkot, a time to rejoice
The George Foster story
Portraits of Jewish American Heroes
Series TV
Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew
White Fire
A Jewish holiday ABC
Passover, a season of freedom
Tom Seaver
A Jewish holiday ABC
Shabbat
Hanukkah
A Jewish Holiday ABC
Gay Block : Rescuers
Women and Judaism
Embracing Wisdom
Unthinkable Dreams
Jacob's Rescue
Hanukkah : eight nights, eight lights
Juanita Brooks
Juanita Brooks (1898-1989)

historian, biographer

  • Columbia University, Brigham Young University

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Emma Lee
John Doyle Lee
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
John Doyle Lee--zealot, pioneer builder, scapegoat
Jacob Hamblin, Mormon apostle to the Indians
On the ragged edge
Quicksand and cactus
Indexes to A Mormon chronicle
The Christmas tree
On the Mormon Frontier
Dudley Leavitt
George Brooks, artist in stone
Frontier tales; true stories of real people
History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho