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Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth (born 1938)

aircraft pilot, foreign correspondent, spy, journalist

  • University of Granada, Tonbridge School

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The outsider
Outsider
The Odessa File
The Day of the Jackal
The Dogs of War
The Afghan
The Veteran
Kostaja
Reader's Digest condensed books--Volume 2 1980
No Comebacks
Reader's Digest--Volume 1 1997
The devil's alternative
The phantom of Manhattan
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 1994
The deceiver
Emeka
The fourth protocol
Forsyth's three
The negotiator
Icon
The fourth protocol
The fist of God
The Day of the Jackal
Best Sellers
Icon (Cdn.Edition)
The deceiver
The day of the Jackal
O fantasma de Manhattan
La Alternativa Del Diablo
The perilous spring of Morris Seidman
The veteran and other stories
The Biafra story
The Fourth Protocol
No Comebacks
The fist of God
No comebacks
Avenger
FIST OF GOD, THE
The veteran
The Cobra
Cobra
The devil's alternative
Odessa
The fourth protocol
The fox
The negotiator
The making of an African legend
The Day of the Jackal
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 - 1974
The phantom of Manhattan
Odessa File, The
El Negociador/ The Negotiator
The Afghan
Chacal
Icon
Navigator
Best Sellers
Vengador/ Avenger (Best Seller)
The dogs of war
The cobra
The Odessa file
The Deciever
El veterano
Three complete novels
El Chacal (edición en español)
Shepherd
The fourth protocol
The Afghan
The kill list
The Day of the Jackal (Bull's-eye S.)
The Odessa file.
The day of the Jackal
Great Flying Stories
Der Weekend-Krimi
El Veterano
English crime stories of today
The veteran
The Deceiver
Fist of God
Le Poing De Dieu
El Manipulador/ The Deceiver (Best Seller- Biblioteca Frederick Forsyth)
The kill list
El Cuarto Protocolo
The negotiator
Die Akte Odessa. / Das vierte Protokoll
The deceiver
The fourth protocol
El Emperador Y Otros Relatos /The Emperor
The Four Novels
La Alternativa Del Diablo / The Devil's Alternative
Los Perros De La Guerra / The Dogs of War (Best Seller- Biblioteca Frederick Forsyth)
McCreadys Doppelspiel
El Puno de Dios
El Afgano
El Emperador
Cobra
Die Akte Odessa
Biafran War
The Odessa file
Dogs of War
Das Phantom von Manhattan
Emperor/Audio Cassettes/84062
Crime Movies
Le quatrième protocole
Das Schwarze Manifest
Los Perros de La Guerra (Jet de Plaza & Janes)
In Irland gibt es keine Schlangen. Zehn Stories
Der Unterhändler
Vengador/ Avenger
Das vierte Protokoll
Génesis de una leyenda africana
Day of the Jackal Dogs of War
The Devil's Alternative
El manifiesto negro
El cuarto protocolo (Los Jet De Plaza & Janes, 221/1)
Dogs of War
The Frederick Forsyth Film Omnibus
Die Faust Gottes
L'Alternative du diable
The cobra
El Fantasma de Manhattan
El manipulador
PLPR4:Day of the Jackal, The RLA
Fantasma de Manhattan, El
Sharp Practice
Le manipulateur
Der Veteran
El Vengador
Genesis de una Leyenda Africana / The Making of an African Legend
Le négociateur
Used in evidence and other stories
THE PHANTOM OF MANHATTAN
Des Teufels Alternative
El Guia
El Emperador y Otros Relatos
I remember
Die Hunde des Krieges
No Comebacks; From No Comebacks/Audio Cassette Part 1
Le Fantôme de Manhattan
The Dogs of War
The Fist of God
El manifiesto megro
Negotiator, The
Used in Evidence (Macmillan Reader)
El Emperador Y Otros Relatos / The Emperor and Other Stories
Privilege and Other Stories
Emperor (84062)
The fist of God
The devil's alternative
Frederick Forsyth Omnibus
Der rächer
El Manifiesto Negro (Los Jet De Plaza & Janes)
The Afghan
Kill List
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE DOGS OF WAR, THE DEVIL'S ALTERNATIVE
AVENGER
Icône
Frederick Forsyth Stories
The fist of god.
El afgano
Day of the Jackal
Chacal (Spanish)
The Emperor
Three complete novels
The Negotiator
Dogs of War
To fantasma tou manhatan
The Devil's alternative
Avenger
The Sporting Life
The Outsider
The Dogs of War
El Puno de Dios (Los Jet De Plaza & Janes)
The devil's alternative
Modern Classics
Chacal/ The Day of The Jackal
The day of the Jackal
Afghan, The
The Devil's Alternative (Bull's-eye)
Los Perros De LA Guerra/the Dogs of War
The day of the jackal
Los Perros De LA Guerra (New Format T)
Le Quatrième protocole
O Afegão
Le Vétéran
Avenger
Fist of God
Fox
The Devil's Alternative
The dogs of war
Il Pugno Di Dio
The Novels of Frederick Forsyth
Forsythe's Three
Les\Chiens de Guerre
The Careful Man
Afghan
El Manipulador
Odessa / The Odessa File
Cobra
Odessa
Icon
Los Perros de La Guerra
Great flying stories
Le Fantome de Manhattan
Money With Menaces
No Comebacks/ The Shepherd
The Fox
ODESSA
De prediker
Veteran
Odessa File
The dogs of war
Afghan
La alternativa del diablo
Dogs of War
The Fourth Protocol
El intruso
The Odessa File
El Zorro
Il simulatore
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
Weteran
La lista
Fisildayan Rüzgar
Die Todesliste
Die Akte Odessa
Miracle (Storycuts)
Peguin Readers 4
Veteran (Storycuts)
Le poing de Dieu
The cobra
Veterano
Neljas Sopimus
The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war
Whispering Wind (Storycuts)
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
Avenger
Phantom of Manhattan
Afgan
Odessa File
L'al ternativa del Diavolo
Cobra
Das Schwarze Manifest (German Edition)
Negocjator
Le fantôme de Manhattan
No Comebacks
The Devil's alternative
El afgano
Holy Terror
Fantasma de Manhattan
Avenger
El negociador
Deceiver
El zorro
Cakal
No Comebacks
Great Flying Stories
İntikam Gönüllüsü
De verrader
Phantom of Manhattan
The fourth protocol
O punho de Deus
Chacal
Alter in Afrika
Icône
Odessa (Spanish ed)
Icon
Kill List [Paperback] [Sep 26, 2013] Frederick Forsyth
Sans Bavures
Citizen (Storycuts)
Sans bavures
Fox
No comebacks
The Art of the Matter
La lista
Der unterhändler
Biafra Story
El intruso
Devil's Alternative
THE DOGS OF WAR
Avenger
Icône
El negociador
No Comebacks
The Day of the Jackal
The Deceiver
Die Faust Gottes
Le vengeur
The odessa file
Biafra Story
Devil's Alternative
L'alternative du diable
Damashiya
Der Lotse
Fist of God
Art of the Matter (Storycuts)
Avenger
Vengador (Campanas)
Upiór Manhattanu
Der Afghane
Fourth Protocol
Plpr4
Kobra
The cobra
Des Teufels Alternative
El fantasma de Manhattan. Traducción de Eduardo García Murillo.
Great flying stories
Người tù binh Afghanistan
Great flying stories
De verrader
Icon
Die Akte Odessa
Chacal
To tsakali
De vuist van God
Whispering wind
La lista nera
Het vierde protocol
De honden van de oorlog
Dossier odessa
De veteraan
The devils alternative
El emperador
Aporritas Fakelos odessa
Nessuna Conseguenza
Daiyon no kaku
De onderhandelaar
De dag van de Jakhals
De cobra
Haidingu pureisu
Le poing de dieu
De veteraan
The making of an African legend
El puno de Dios
El puño de Dios
El manifiesto negro
De Afghaan
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

poet, literary critic, journalist, translator

  • Kenyon College, Vanderbilt University

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Randall Jarrell's letters
Raymond F. Dasmann
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
The United States in Literature
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The juniper tree, and other tales from Grimm
Poetry and the age
Poems
The animal family
Fly by Night
Pictures from an institution
Kipling, Auden & Co
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
No other book
The Gingerbread Rabbit
The Anchor book of stories
The complete poems
A bat is born, from The bat-poet
The bat-poet
Bat-Poet
Snow-White and the seven dwarfs
The third book of criticism
Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden
The lost world
The animal family
Kenneth S. Norris, naturalist, cetologist & conservationist, 1924-1998
A sad heart at the supermarket
Bat-Poet
Pictures from an Institution
Jerome: the biography of a poem
Raymond F. Dasmann
Six Russian short novels
Kipling, Auden and Company
Randall Jarrell, selected poems
Kipling, Auden and co
Letters of Randall Jarrell
The seven-league crutches
Goethe's Faust: Part One
The fisherman and his wife
The woman at the Washington Zoo
Losses
The achievement of Randall Jarrell
Poetry and the Age (Faber Library Ser.)
LA Familia Animal/the Animal Family
A Bat Is Born, from the Bat-poet
The Complete poems
Pictures from an Institution
Randall Jarrell's book of stories
The complete poems
Il coniglio di panpepato
Fly by night
Animaux pour toute famille
About popular culture
ANIMAL FAMILY
The Animal Family
Strawberry-growing in the Pajaro Valley
The gingerbread rabbit
THIRD BOOK OF CRITICISM
Lost World
Blood for a stranger
Baixue gong zhu he qi ge xiao ai ren
El murciélago poeta
A sad heart at the supermarket
Randall Jarrell Reads and Discusses His Poems Against War (Swc 1363)
Little friend, little friend
The Fisherman and His Wife
Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
Pictures from an institution
Volar de noche
Five young American poets
Poets, critics, and readers
Selected poems
The third book of criticism
Poetry and the age
A sad heart at the supermarket
Le lapin de pain d'épice
Poetry and the age
Poetry and the age
Selected poems
About popular culture
The lost world
A sad heart at the supermarket
The animal family
The gingerbread rabbit
Tim Parks
Tim Parks (born 1954)

journalist, translator

  • University of Cambridge, Harvard University

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Teach us to sit still
Novel
Mimi's Ghost
Destiny
Home thoughts
Medici Money
Loving Roger
Dreams of rivers and seas
Rapids
An Italian Education
Goodness
Europa
Family planning
A Season with Verona
Italian neighbors, or, A lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
Translating Style
Tongues of flame
Shear
Italian Education
Teach Us to Sit Still
Goodness (Parks, Tim)
Cleaver
Italian Neighbors
Juggling the stars
Europa
Judge Savage
Painting death
Sex Is Forbidden A Novel
Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories
The fighter
Where I'm reading from
Sex Is Forbidden
Cara Massimina
Hell and Back
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Italian Life
A literary tour of Italy
Sweet Days of Discipline
Numbers in the Dark
Europa
The Book of All Books
Message from the Shadows
Path to the Spiders' Nests
The server
Numbers in the Dark
Moon and the Bonfires
Destiny
Life and work
Shear (Parks, Tim)
Ein Haus im Veneto
Cleaver
Destino
A season with Verona
Literary Tour of Italy
Cleaver
Cara Massamina
Road to San Giovanni
Italian Ways
Italian Ways
The Hero's Way
Numbers in the Dark
Dreams of rivers and seas
Schicksal
Alle lieben Raymond
Thomas and Mary
Where I'm Reading From
Adultery and Other Diversions
Ehebruch und andere Zerstreuungen
Rapids
Talking About It (Hesperus Contemporary)
Under the Jaguar Sun
Complete Cosmicomics
Painting Death
Why Read the Classics?
Money and beauty
Tartar Steppe
Road to San Giovanni
Destiny
In Extremis
Family Planning
Medici Money
Sex Is Forbidden
Rapids
There is a place on earth
Comment peut-on aimer Roger!
Judge Savage
Loving Roger
Cara Massimina
Mr. Duckworth wird verfolgt
Shear
Mimi's Ghost
Pen in Hand
Judge Savage
Novel (1996)
Judge Savage
Dromen over zeeën en rivieren
Italien in vollen Zügen
Eine Saison mit Verona.
Mimi's Ghost
Thomas and Mary
Kader
Adultery and Other Diversions
Shear
Goodness
Mimi's Ghost
Out of My Head
Home Thoughts
An Italian education
Italian Education
Juggling the Stars
Translating Style
Sex ist verboten
Italian Life
Tongues of Flame
Cara Massimina : Duckworth and the Italian Girls
Season with Verona
Cara Massimina
Fighter
Adultery and Other Diversions
Out of My Head
Dialogues on Consciousness
Teach us to sit still
Europa
Italian Neighbours
De dienares
Teach Us to Sit Still
Goodness
Italian Ways
Hell and Back
Träume von Flüssen und Meeren
Cleaver
Family Planning
Home Thoughts
Loving Roger
Hero's Way
Leer ons stil te zitten
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively (born 1933)

radio personality

  • University of Oxford

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Dancing fish and ammonites
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Oleander, Jacaranda
Heat wave
Dragon trouble
The house in Norham Gardens
City of the mind
According to Mark
The voyage of QV 66
Spiderweb
The whispering knights
Fanny's sister
Consequences
Moon tiger
A house unlocked
The road to Lichfield
In Search of a Homeland
Perfect Happiness
Making it up
Passing on
Astercote
The revenge of Samuel Stokes
Family album
The Photograph (Today Show Book Club #21)
Beyond the blue mountains
Treasures of time
The driftway
Good night, sleep tight
The photograph
Going back
One, two, three, jump!
A house inside out
Pack of cards and other stories
Cleopatra's sister
Judgment day
Uninvited ghosts and other stories
Pack of Cards
The wild hunt of the ghost hounds
MAKING IT UP
The cat, the crow, and the banyan tree
A Stitch in Time
The wild hunt of Hagworthy
How it all began
Perfect happiness
Ammonites And Leaping Fish A Life In Time
Debbie and the Little Devil (Banana Books)
The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy
A House Unlocked
Fanny and the Monsters
Debbie and the Little Devil (Yellow Banana Books)
Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Goldilocks
Next to nature, art
Princess by Mistake (Red Storybooks)
Dragon Trouble (Banana Books)
Moon tiger
One, Two, Three...Jump! (Storytime Giants)
The Ghost of Thomas Kemp
A Martian Comes to Stay
Astercote
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Consequences
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
City of the mind
The five thousand and one nights
Judgement Day
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
A Martian Comes to Stay (Red Storybooks)
Uninvited Ghosts
Family album
A Martian in the Supermarket
Ghostly Guests (Banana Books)
A Stitch in Time
The Driftway (Cover to Cover Story Tapes)
CONSEQUENCES
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Making it up
Stained Glass Window (Redwing Books)
Treasures Of Time
Fanny's sister
Judy and the Martian (Red Storybooks)
The Whispering Knights
A Stitch in Time (Collins Modern Classics)
Heckenrosen
A House Inside Out
Boy without a name
Corruption
Staying with Grandpa
City of the mind
Astercote
Nothing missing but the samovar, and other stories
Whispering Knights
The Voyage of Qv66
Kleopatras Schwester. Roman
Una De Dragones/Dragon Trouble
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Judgement day
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Cover to Cover Story Tapes)
Fanny and the Monsters (Long Ago Books)
Voyage of QV 66
Hinter dem Weizenfeld
Dragon Trouble
No Title Exists
Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1855491427)
Debbie and the Little Devil (Yellow Bananas)
The Whispering Knights
Next to nature, art
The presence of the past
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Un été au Bout-du-Monde
The voyage of QV 66
OLEANDER, JACARANDA, A CHILDHOOD PERCEIVED. (SIGNED)
The wild hunt of Hagworthy
Der wilde Garten
Die lange Nacht von Abu Simbel
A long night at Abu Simbel
The driftway
Ghostly Guests (Yellow Bananas)
Disastrous Dog (Red Storybooks)
Consequences
How it all began
Penelope Lively
Going back
In Search of a Homeland: The Story of The Aeneid
Judgement Day/6 Audio Cassette
Life in the garden
Fanny andthe monsters
Revenge of Samuel Stokes (Children's Audio Books)
Treasures Of Time
Astercote
Judy & the Martian Closter Ppre Bk
The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories
Moon Tiger
Dragoin Chrosda (Banana)
The purple swamp hen and other stories
Red Devils
Debbie and the little devil
The house in Norham Gardens
Goldilocks and the three bears
En busca de una patria
Moon Tiger (88560)
Fanny andthe battle of Potter's Piece
Dragon Trouble (Yellow Bananas)
How it all began
Ammonites and leaping fish
The stained glass window
Yellow Bananas
Moon Tiger
Whispering Knights Lively
City of the mind
Princess by Mistake
The voyage of QV 66
Next to Nature
Wild Hunt of Hagworthy Lively
The Photograph
The Whispering knights
Heat wave
Disastrous Dog
City of the mind
Kak vse ėto nachinalosʹ
El mundo según Mark
En busca de una patria
Familienalbum
Going back
ha-Tatslum
Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter (born 1957)

columnist, journalist, blogger

  • Harvard University, Phillips Academy

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His Very Best
The Defining Moment
The Center Holds
The Promise
The promise
The promise
Inside the system
Between the lines
Two Faces of Mr. Clinton
Home Fires
The promise
American Reckoning
Mechanical Ventilation
Marc Spitz
Marc Spitz (1969-2017)

journalist, biographer, music critic

  • Bennington College

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NOBODY LIKES YOU
God and man
How soon is never?
Nobody likes you
Bowie
Too much, too late
Jagger
We Got the Neutron Bomb
Nobody likes you
Twee
Poseur
Bowie
David Bowie
Green day
Jagger (Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue)
Loud Pictures
Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson (born 1947)

journalist

  • Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Brandeis University

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Negroland
Roots of time: a portrait of African life and culture
On Michael Jackson
Constructing a Nervous System
Black dolls
Maud Martha (Faber Editions)
André Thévet
André Thévet (1515-1592)

explorer, journalist, cosmographer, geographer, historian, translator, engraver, world traveler, visual artist

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André Thevet's North America
La grande et excellente cité de Paris
Portraits from the Age of Exploration
Cosmographie moscovite
Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres (1584)
Les singularités de la France antarctique
Jean Guttemberg, inventor of printing
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet, cosmographe du roy
Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet, cosmographe du roy
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet, cosmographe du roy
Histoiré d'André Thevet Angoumoisin, cosmographe du Roy de deux voyages par luy fait aux Indes Australes et Occidentales
Histoire d'André Thevet Angoumoisin, cosmographe du roy, de deux voyages par luy faits aux Indes australes, et occidentales
Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens
Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique
La cosmographie universelle d'André Thevet cosmographie du Roy
Jeanne d'Arc
Histoire des plus ilustres et scavans hommes de leurs siecles
Les singularitez de la France antarctique; nouv. éd
The new found worlde or Antarctike
Les singularitez de la France antarctique
Le Brésil d'André Thevet
La grande et excellente cité de Paris
Cosmographie de Levant
Les singularités de la France antarctique autrement nommée Amérique et de plusieurs terres et îles découvertes de notre temps
Les singvlaritez de la France antarctiqve, avtrement nommée Amerique
The New found vvorlde, or Antarctike
Le Brésil et les Brésiliens
Description du plusieurs isles
Les singvlaritez de la France Antarctiqve, avtrement nommeé Aḿerique
Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique, & de plusiers terres & isles decouvertes de nostre temps
Singularidades da França Antarctica
Histoire des plus illustres et scavans hommes de leurs siecles
Les singularitez de la France antarctique acutrement nommée Amerique & de plusieurs terres & isles decouvertes de nostre temps
Les singularitez
Les singularitez de la France antarctique
Cosmographie de Levant
La cosmographie vniuerselle
As singularidades da França Antartica
Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion
Le Brésil d'André Thevet
The new found worlde, or Antarctike, wherein is contained wonderful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trees, plants, mines of golde and silver: garnished with many learned aucthorities
Historia dell' India America detta altramente Francia Antartica
A cosmografia universal de André Thevet, cosmógrafo do rei
Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion