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Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015)

missionary, biographer, orator

  • Wheaton College, Prairie College

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Shadow of the Almighty
The savage my kinsman
A chance to die
Secure in the Everlasting Arms
Through gates of splendor
Through Gates of Splendor
Through gates of splendor
Through gates of splendor
Love has a price tag
Amy Carmichael
Shadow of the Almighty
Through gates of splendor
Made for the Journey
Au seuil de l'éternité
Who shall ascend
Shadow of the Almighty
Chuan yue rong yao zhi men
Through gates of splendour
These strange ashes
The shaping of a Christian family
Let Me Be a Woman
Passion and Purity
These strange ashes
A path through suffering
Quest for love
The path of loneliness
Keep a quiet heart
God's guidance
No graven image
Be Still My Soul
Marriage is a gift
Gateway to joy
The music of His promises
A Lamp for My Feet
The Liberty of Obedience
Path of Loneliness, The
The warlord
Loneliness
Facing the Death of Someone You Love
The mark of a man
Discipline
Mark of a Man, The
A lamp unto my feet
On asking God why
The How-to book
Trusting God in a twisted world
Through the gates of splendour
Furnace of the Lord
A slow and certain light
No graven image, a novel
Twelve baskets of crumbs
Discipline, the glad surrender
Faith That Does Not Falter
Path Through Suffering
How To Overcome Loneliness
La sombra del Todopoderoso
A Heart for God 2001 Calendar
Love Knows No Limit
Twelve Baskets of Crumbs
Come boldly
Keep a Quiet Heart (Inspirational Authors)
What God Hath Joined:
Pasión Y Pureza
No graven image
Let Me Be a Woman
Notes on Prayer
As We Forgive Those..
Discipline
Who shall ascend
All that was ever ours--
Taking Flight
Through Gates of Splendour
Lamp unto My Feet
Not Everybody's Doing It
And When You Pray
Musik in meinem Herzen. Mit Gottes Verheißungen leben
Forget-me-not
Knowing God's Will
What's the Difference?
Through gates of splendor (Christian family library)
Gates of Splendor
Secure in the Everlasting Arms
Keep a Quiet Heart
Sufrir Nunca Es en Vano
Discipline, the glad surrender
Sex is a Lot More Than Fun
Portales de esplendor
Mentiras que las mujeres creen y la verdad que las hace libres
Your Happiest Birthday
The Glory of God's Will
Finding Your Way Through Loneliness
Elisabeth Elliot Omnibus: " Through Gates of Splendour" , " Shadow of the Almighty" , " No Graven Image"
Elisabeth Elliot Omnibus
These Strange Ashes
What's the Difference?
The glad surrender
Licht ist stärker als Finsternis
Quest for Love
Guided by God's Promises
Passion and Purity
Elisabeth Elliot Classics Collection
Furnace of the Lord
Made for the Journey
Heart of God
Facing the Death of Someone You Love (Pack Of 25)
Secure in the Everlasting Arms
These Strange Ashes
Love Has a Price Tag
Suffering Is Never for Nothing
All That Was Ever Ours
Shaping of a Christian Family
Let Me Be a Woman
Pasión y Pureza
THROUGH GATES OF SPLENDOR the Martyrdom of Five American Missionaries in the Ecuador Jungle
Guided by God's Promises
Pureza y Pasión
Shadow of the Almighty;
The savage my kinsman
SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY - the Life-Adventure, Witness, Testament and Glory of Jim Elliot, One of the Five Martyrs of Ecuador
The Mark of a Man
Through Gates of Splendor
No Graven Image
Path of Loneliness
A Path through Suffering
Who shall ascend; the life of R. Kenneth Strachan of Costa Rica
Portales de Esplendor
Seeking God's Guidance
The Music of His Promises, Listening to God with Love, Trust, and Obedience
Furnace of the Lord Relfections on the Redemption of the Holy City
Journals of Jim Elliot
Shadow of the Almighty - The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
Be Still My Soul
Passion & Purity
Be Still My Soul
Lies Women Believe
Joyful Surrender
Who shall ascend; the life of R. Kenneth Strachan of Costa Rica.
On Asking God Why
Journals of Jim Elliot
Twelve Baskets of Crumbs
The savage my kinsman
Finding Your Way Through Loneliness
Through Gates of Splendor
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
My lamp still burns
Lions of the West
Our father
The showies
Lions of the West
Gap Creek
The truest pleasure
This rock
The blue valleys
The hinterlands
Brave enemies
The Mountains Won't Remember Us
In Search of Humanity And Deity
Essays
Growing younger
Red owl
Gap Creek
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
Wild Peavines
Bob-Tales
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
Anthony Holden
Anthony Holden (1947-2023)

journalist, biographer, translator, music critic, poker player

  • University of Oxford, Oundle School

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Laurence Olivier
The tarnished crown
Olivier
Charles at fifty
William Shakespeare
Big deal
The wit in the dungeon
Tchaikovsky
Diana (Diana Princess of Wales)
Charles
King Charles III
William Shakespeare
A Princely marriage
The Queen Mother
Bigger Deal
Prince Charles
The Man Who Wrote Mozart
Prince Charles
Their Royal Highnesses
Great royal front pages
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles
Diana
Prince Charles
Of presidents, prime ministers and princes
Behind the Oscar
Big deal
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
Poems that make grown men cry
Greek pastoral poetry
The St. Albans poisoner
Poems that make grown women cry
The British royal family
Royal quiz
The Oscars
Big Deal
The drama of love, life & death in Shakespeare
Holden on hold 'em
Behind the Oscar
Holden on hold 'em
Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt (1930-2009)

teacher, autobiographer

  • New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

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Angela's Ashes
Teacher Man
'Tis
Angela's ashes
Angela's Ashes
'Tis
'Tis
Teacher man
Les cendres d'Angela
'Tis
Lo es
Spark Notes Angela's Ashes
Angela's ashes
'Tis - A Memoir
Cendres D'Angela
C'est comment l'Amérique ?
The Angela's Ashes/'Tis Boxed Set
El Profesor _cfrank Mccourt Traduccin Laura Wittner
Lo es
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Angela and the baby Jesus
Yeats Is Dead!
Angela and the Baby Jesus
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes
Lo es
Angela's Ashes
Las cenizas de Ángela
Tis Unabridged
Angelas Ashes Movie Tie
'Tis
Brotherhood
Las Cenizas De Angela / Angelas Ashes
El Profesor/ the Professor (Biografias y Documentos)
Lo Es
Nauczyciel
The Frank McCourt Gift Package
Ireland Ever
Die Asche Meiner Mutter
Las Cenizas De Angela
Ein rundherum tolles Land. Erinnerungen. Sonderausgabe
Teacher Man
Le Ceneri Di Angela (Gli Adelphi)
Lo Es ('Tis)
Die Asche meiner Mutter. Irische Erinnerungen. Buch zum Film
Yeats ist tot. 15 Autoren schreiben einen sehr irischen Roman
Lo es (Tis): Una memoria (A Memoir)
C Est Comme L'Amerique 2002
' Tis
Las cenizas de Ángela
Do animal-assisted activities benefit people with intellectual disability
Les Cendre's D'Angela / Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes Reading Group Guide
A memoir
Cenizas De Angela
Las Cenizas De Angela/Angelas Ashes
Ángela y el Niño Jesús
Meester!
De nieuwe wereld
Morton N. Cohen
Morton N. Cohen (1921-2017)

biographer

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The selected letters of Lewis Carroll
The letters of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll and the Kitchins
Lewis Carroll
The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Volume One, ca. 1837-1885
Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan
Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan
Lewis Carroll a Biography
The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Volume Two, 1886-1898
A Study of H. Rider Haggard
William J. Mann
William J. Mann (born 1963)

historian, journalist, biographer

  • Wesleyan University

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Wisecracker
Kate
How to be a movie star
Behind the screen
Edge of midnight
Behind the screen
The wars of the Roosevelts
Edge of Midnight
Hello, gorgeous
The Contender
Edge of Midnight
Hello, gorgeous
How to be a movie star
Hello, gorgeous
The men from the boys
All American Boy
Where The Boys Are
Gay Pride
The men from the boys
Object of desire
Men Who Love Men
Grave Passions
Tinseltown
The Biograph Girl
Behind the Screen
Gay pride
Stallions & other studs
All American Boy
Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger
Gynecologic Surgery
All I want for Christmas
Where the boys are
Mann's tonnage conversion tables
Masters of midnight
Donde estan los chicos/ Where The Boys Are (Salir Del Armario/ to Come Out of the Closet)
Bogie and Bacall
Gay & Lesbian Reading Group Guide
Kate
Men Who Love Men
The men from the boys
Gay Pride
Amigos Y Amantes
Biograph Girl
Orson Bean
Orson Bean (1928-2020)

autobiographer, stage actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor

  • Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, HB Studio

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Mail For Mikey An Odd Sort Of Recovery Memoir
Too much is not enough
Me and the Orgone
25 ways to cook a mouse
Me andthe orgone
The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, Volume 10
ME AND THE ORGONE - One Man's Search for Sexual Fulfillment
Nature's way
A round with Ring
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs (1812-1897)

nanny, autobiographer

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl
Will to Be Free
Life under slavery
The grandmother of slaves
Words of Ages
African American Literature
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
If You Call My Name
In Their Own Voices
The Harriet Jacobs family papers
The Classic Slave Narratives
Deeper Wrong
Twelve Years a Slave, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
American Promise 5e V1 & Reading the American Past 5e V1 & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl & Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass 2e & Jefferson vs. Hamilton
American Promise Compact 4e V1 & Reading the American Past 4e V1 & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass & Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl
American Promise 5e V1 & Reading the American Past 5e V1 & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl & Cherokee Removal 2e & Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass 2e
American Promise 4e V2 Value Edition & HistoryClass 4e V1 & V2 & Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl
Understanding the American Promise & HistoryClass for Understanding the American Promise & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
The Marrow of Tradition and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Through Women's Eyes 2e & Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Through Women's Eyes 2e V1 & Triangle Fire & Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Through Women's Eyes, Combined Volume 3e & American Women's Movement & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Sovereignty and Goodness of God & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself & Triangle Fire
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself & HistoryClass for The American Promise 4e V1
HistoryClass for Understanding The American Promise, Combined & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Through Women's Eyes 3e, Combined Volume & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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