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Malwida Freiin von Meysenbug
Malwida Freiin von Meysenbug (1816-1903)

autobiographer

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Memoiren einer Idealistin und ihr Nachtrag
Memoiren einer Idealistin
Der Lebensabend einer Idealistin
Briefe an Johanna und Gottfried Kinkel, 1849-1885
Die Korrespondenzen der Malwida von Meysenbug
Individualitäten
Malwida von Meysenbug - Paul Rée
Ausgewählte Schriften
Märchenfrau und Malerdichter
Aus den Memoiren einer Idealistin
Florence
Gesammelte Werke
Im Anfang war die Liebe
Rebel in bombazine
Stimmungsbilder
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins (1920-2003)

politician, historian, biographer

  • Cardiff University, University of Oxford

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Churchill
Gladstone
Portraits and miniatures
Asquith - Portrait Of A Man And An Era
Truman
The Chancellors
Baldwin
Twelve Cities
Asquith
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt
A Life at the Center
Roy Jenkins' gallery of 20th century portraits
A life at the centre
Nine men of power
Roy Jenkins' gallery of twentieth century portraits and Oxford papers
Victorian scandal
Dilke
Mr. Attlee
Essays and speeches
The British liberal tradition
Britain and the European Economic Community (British Association for the Advancement of Science)
Afternoon on the Potamac?
European diary
The chancellorship of Oxford
Roy Jenkins in Australia
Sudan, 1950-1985
Partnership of principle
What matters now
Government, broadcasting and the press
Mr. Balfour's poodle
Britain and the European Economic Community
Racing Fuel For The Spirit
Europe Beyond 1992 (Leverhulme Memorial Lectures)
Pursuit of progress
The quest for national satisfaction
The Past, the Present and the Future of the European Union
Fair shares for the rich
The labour case
British foreign policy since 1945
Home thoughts from abroad
The European Community
Charlemagne Award speech
You did it for me
British universities
British government and politics
Human rights, is the British empirical tradition enough?
The role of the European Community in world affairs
Sir Charles Dilke
Europe and you
Learning the lessons of history
Europa
Britain and the Eec
Afternoon on the Potomac?
Europe
Europe and trade in the 1980s
Asquith
Post-war Italy
Home thoughts from abroad
Ellen Emerson White
Ellen Emerson White (born 1961)

biographer

  • Tufts University

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Shaquille O'Neal
Bo Jackson
Jennifer Capriati
Jim Abbott against all odds
Friends for Life
Long live the queen
The President's Daughter
Voyage on the Great Titanic
Kaiulani
Where have all the flowers gone? -The diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968
White House Autumn
The Road Home
Romance is a wonderful thing
The Road Home (Point Signature)
The journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps
Long May She Reign
Thirteen
Life without friends
Voyage on the Great "Titanic" (My Story)
Santa paws
Life without friends
All emergencies, ring super
Webster
All Emergencies Ring Super
Into No Mans Land The Journal Of Patrick Seamus Flaherty United States Marine Corps
Mordaith Ar Y "Titanic" (Fy Hanes I)
Dear America Voyage On The Great Titanic
Ka'iulani, The People's Princess
A season of daring greatly
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
White House Autumn (President's Daughter)
Bo Jackson
Long Live the Queen (President's Daughter)
Jim Abbott
My Story Titanic
Long Live the Queen
Voyage on the Great Titanic, the Diary of Margaret Ann Brady
Titanic (reloaded)
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805-1877)

historian, theologian, biographer, preacher, pastor, pedagogue

  • Bowdoin College, Andover Theological Seminary

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Christopher Carson
The history of the Civil War in America
The history of Napoleon Bonaparte
The history of Christianity
History of Mme. Roland
The life of Christopher Columbus
Benjamin Franklin
David Crockett
Lives of the presidents of the United States of America
Daniel Boone
Miles Standish
Captain William Kidd and Others of the Pirates or Buccaneers Who Ravaged the Seas the Islands and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago
History of King Philip
Kings and queens
Napoleon at St. Helena
Boone, the backwoodsman
Kings and queens, or, Life in the palace
South and North
Hortense
The history of Napoleon III, emperor of the French
History of Louis Philippe
Italy
Austria, its rise and present power
Maria Antoinette
Ferdinand de Soto
Prussia and the Franco-Prussian war
Louis XIV
The school-boy
The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time
The Empire of Russia
The history of Maine
Chevalier De La Salle and his companions
The mother at home, or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated
Italy, from the earliest period to the present day
Confidential Correspondence of the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
The history of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and of Italy
The Life and Adventures of Rear Admiral John Paul Jones Commonly Called Paul Jones
Peter Stuyvesant
The history of the state of Ohio
History of Frederick the Second, called Frederick the Great
The Empire of Austria Its Rise and Present Power
The life of General Ulysses S. Grant
George Washington
The romance of Spanish history
The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Henry IV
The pictorial New Testament
The path of peace
The story of Francis, Day and Hunter
Through prairie and forest, or, The adventures of de La Salle, discoverer of the Mississippi
John Paul Jones
The French revolution of 1789, as viewed in the light of republican institutions
The young astronomer
The history of Prussia
Them other at home, or, The principles of maternal duty
Practical Christianity
Life of Abraham Lincoln
The History Of The Civil War In America V1
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 3
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 4
The Life And Adventures Of Daniel Boone And David Crockett
Benjamin Franklin And George Washington
The life of Napoleon Bonaparte
The child at home
Native Life in South Africa
Abbott's Concise History of Christianity
The history of the Civil War in America
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 2
360 Degrees of Tailgaiting
The hero of the prairies
Strategy Six 2
The history of Napoleon Bonaparte. By : John S. C. Abbott
Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power Volume 1
Italy, and the war for Italian independence
Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power Volume 2
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte 2 Volumes
The Buccaneer Chiefs
The History Of Napoleon Bonaparte : With Maps And Illustrations
Famous Characters of History . . ; Volume 5
The history of the empire of Russia
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1
Empire of Russia Volume 1
The History of the Civil War in America; Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rebellion Volume 1
Empire of Russia Volume 2
那翁 外傳 閨秀 美談
Napoleon Bonaparte and the French revolution
Die Familien-Mutter, oder, Vertrauliche Darstellung der Grundsätze, welche eine Mutter in der Erziehung ihrer Kinder leiten sollen
The history of Napoleon III
Advice to young tradesmen
A sermon on the reciprocal duties of pastor and people
Das Kind im elterlichen Hause, oder, Vertrauliche Darstellung der Grundsätze
Heroic deeds of heroic men
Heroic deeds of heroic men
Preussen und der französisch-preussische krieg
Hortense
Geschichte des Bürgerkrieges in Amerika
Daniel Boone, pioneer of Kentucky
Christian duty
Dr. Abbott's letter
Prussia and the Franco-Prussian war
Christopher Carson, known as Kit Carson
Mader
True stories of famous men and women of America for young people
Heroic deeds of heroic men
True stories of the favorites sons and daughters of America for young people
The school-girl, or, The principles of Christian duty familiarly enforced
Madame Roland
Zélia Gattai
Zélia Gattai (1916-2008)

autobiographer, photographer

  • University of Paris

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Códigos de família
Chão de meninos
Memorial do amor
Jardim de inverno
Città di Roma
Vacina de sapo e outras lembranças
Um chapéu para viagem
Reportagem incompleta =
A casa do Rio Vermelho
Crônica de uma namorada
Jorge Amado
Jonas e a sereia
Anarquistas, graças a Deus
Senhora dona do baile
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges (1898-1959)

film director, autobiographer, playwright, actor, director

  • Lycée Janson-de-Sailly

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Preston Sturges
Four more screenplays
Five screenplays
Concordance to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges
Sullivan's Travels
Michael Bar-Zohar
Michael Bar-Zohar (born 1938)

journalist, politician, historian, pedagogue, biographer

  • University of Paris, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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The quest for the Red Prince
Shimon Peres
Ben-Guryon
Arrows of the almighty
The quest for the Red Prince
Yaacov Herzog
Tsafnat paʻneaḥ
Mezimah
Massacre in Munich
Lionhearts
Ke-ʻof ha-ḥol
Hitler's Jewish Spy
Ben-Guryon
Ben Gourion
Muṭāradat al-Amīr al-Aḥmar
Sefer ha-gevurah
Sefer ha-mofet
Ben-Guryon
Shimʻon Peres
Ben Gurion
Loḥamot ha-Mosad
100 anshe mofet u-gevurah
בן־גוריון
The unknown soldier
Bitter scent
Facing a cruel mirror
The Enigma
The secret list of Heinrich Roehm
The spy who died twice
Double cross
Spies in the Promised Land
The deadly document
The Secret List of Heinrich Roehm
The devil's spy
Troisième vérité
Beyond Hitler's Grasp
Brothers
A spy in winter
Mossad
Be-ashmat retsaḥ
The devil's spy
The Enigma
Ben-Gourion, le prophète armé
The enigma sacrifice
Mossad
Vengeurs
ha- Memuneh
Suez
Suez
Histoire secrète de la guerre d'Israël
Phantom Conspiracy
Ben-Gurion, the new millennium edition
J'ai risqué ma vie
The avengers
Une histoire sans fard
Lionhearts
Spies in the Promised Land: Iser Harel and the Israeli Secret Service
Aḥim
Double Cross
Secret List of Heinrich
No Mission Is Impossible
Embassies in crisis
Shimon Peres et l'histoire secrète d'Israël
Gesher ʻal ha-yam ha-tikhon
La troisième vérité
Meragel ba-ḥoref
Mossad
ha-Ḥ odesh he-ʾarokh be-Yoter
The unknown soldier
The hunt for German scientists
Quest for the Red Prince
The phantom conspiracy
The third truth
Operation Enigma
A spy in winter
Spy in Winter
Les Vengeurs
ha- Ḥayal ha-almoni
Suez: ultra-secret
David Ben Gurion
Chasse aux savants allemands
Erets moledet
Brothers
Histoire secrète de la guerre des six jours
The Enigma
The armed prophet: a biography of Ben Gurion
Spy Who Died Twice
Tevat Pandorah
Enigma
Mishak kaful (Metah)
A SPY IN WINTER
Ben-Gurion
A spy in winter
Enigmah
Kesher ha-zahav (Sifre Yediot aharonot)
No mission is impossible
La chasse aux savants allemands
Begidah
ha-Mosad
L' espion Juif de Hitler
Un espion en hiver
ha-Ḥayal ha-almoni
Hitler's Jewish spy
Sefer ha-tsanḥanim
Ben-Gurion
Ein Spion Kehrt zurück
Sefer ha-tsanḥanim
al-Mūsād
Aḥim
ha-Emet ha-shelishit
Tsed ha-madʻanim ha-Germaniyim
Meragel ba-ḥoref
ha-Ḥodesh he-ʾarokh be-Yoter
Ḥisul memuḳad
L'homme qui mourut deux fois
Begidah
Miśḥaḳ kaful
Ḳitsur toldot Yiśraʼel
ha-Ḥodesh ha-arokh be-yoter
ha-Reshimah ha-sodit
ha- Reshimah ha-sodit
ha-Loḥamim pashṭu ʻim shaḥar
ha-Taʻalumah
Koch
Tsahal
ha- Reshimah ha-sodit
Mul ha-marʼah ha-akhzarit
J'ai risqué ma vie
Le Complot
La vingt-huitième enigma
ha-Emet ha-shelishit
ha-Rakavot yatsʼu reḳot
Liévin-Bonaventure Proyart
Liévin-Bonaventure Proyart (1743-1808)

biographer, college head

  • Saint-Quentin

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Histoire de Stanislas Ier, roi de Pologne, duc de Lorraine et de Bar
Histoire de Loango, Kakongo, et autres royaumes d'Afrique
Louis XVI détrôné avant d'être roi, ou, Tableau des causes de la révolution française et de l'ébranlement de tous les trônes