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James Gleick
James Gleick (born 1954)

biographer, journalist, historian of science, essayist

  • Harvard University, Harvard College

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Genius
Faster
Isaac Newton
The Information
Chaos
Time Travel
What Just Happened
Nature's Chaos
The Best American Science Writing 2000
Genius Hb S/Wx10
Chaos X10 S/W Whs
Genius Export X12 D/B
Genius Hb D/Bx12
Genius Pb Tsp
Genius B D/Bx18
George Harrison
George Harrison (1943-2001)

guitarist, singer, actor, horticulturist, film producer, composer, autobiographer, poet, record producer, film score composer, film actor, bass guitarist, musician, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist

  • Dovedale Primary School

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I, me, mine
I, me, mine
All things must pass
George Harrison
By George by Bachman
All things must pass
Concert for George
Living in the material world
Cloud nine
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born 1937)

film actor, stage actor, model, actor, film producer, television actor, autobiographer, voice actor

  • Vassar College, Art Students League of New York

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My Life so Far
Jane Fonda's words of politics and passion
My life so far
Prime time
Prime Time
Prime time
Prime time
My Life So Far
Jane Fonda's workout book
Women coming of age
Jane Fonda cooking for healthy living
Jane Fonda's New Workout & Weight-Loss Program
My Life So Far
Jane Fonda cooking for healthy living
Memorias
Jane Fonda My Life So Far
What Can I Do?
Old Gringo
Women Coming Age
Being a teen
Women Coming of Age
En Forma Con Jane Fonda/Jane Fonda's Workout Book
Cooking for Healthy Living
Jane Fonda's Complete Workout
Jane Fonda's New Workout & Weight-loss Programme
Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness and Health, 1984
Jane Fonda's New Workout Book
Working 9 To 5
Jane Fonda's workout book
Jane Fonda's New Workout and Weight Losspprogram
Jane Fonda's health and fitness diary 1984
Women Coming of Age / Jane Fonda, with M
Jane Fonda's Fitness Walkout
Complete Workout
Jane Fonda's Workout Book for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery
The Jane Fonda Workout
Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness, Health and Nutrition, 1985
Being a Teen
Jane Fonda Prime Time
Being A Teen
MEMORIAS
Agnes Of God
Jane Fonda's Workout Book
Easter Patterns - Color by Number
Le Bel Age De La Femme
Jane Fonda's Workout Book
Toi, ton corps, ta vie
MA Vie (French Edition)
Gimnastike Aerobik
Que faire ?
Amazing Animals
Méthode Jane Fonda pour la grossesse...
Jane Fonda's Stretch and Stress Reduction Program
Jane Fonda Workout Book for Pregnancy
Colorful Seasons Adult Coloring Book
My Life So Far (with Bonus Content)
Prime time. Mis mejores años
Jane Fonda's health and fitness dairy 1985
Jane Fonda's workout record
Le bel age de la femme
Jane Fondas Fitness-Buch
Ma vie
Ma méthode
Klute
Jane Fonda's New and Improved Workout
Stevie Davies
Stevie Davies (born 1946)

biographer, docent

  • University of Manchester

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Unbridled spirits
Emily Brontë
Arms and the girl
Primavera
Images of kingship in Paradise lost
Boy blue
Emily Bronte
Barbara Pym
Barbara Pym (1913-1980)

autobiographer

  • University of Oxford, Huyton College

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A very private eye
Some Tame Gazelle
Excellent women
No fond return of love
The sweet dove died
An Unsuitable Attachment
Quartet in Autumn
Crampton Hodnet
Jane and Prudence
An academic question
A few green leaves
Less than angels
Civil to strangers and other writings
Excellent women ; Jane and Prudence ; An unsuitable attachment
A glass of blessing
Civil to strangers
The Barbara Pym cookbook
Jane andPrudence
Less than angels / Barbara Pym
Quatuor d'automne
Comme une gazelle apprivoisée
Some Tame Gazelle
A Few Green Leaves / Barbara Pym
Secret, très secret
Unsuitable Attachment
Barbara Pym
La douce colombe est morte
Une demoiselle comme il faut
Lorsqu'un matin d'orage
Crampton Hodnett
Civil to Strangers (Gold Range)
a la Pym
Academic Question
Civil To Strangers And Other W
A Glass for Beginners
Mujeres Excelentes/Excellent Women
The Barbara Pym Omnibus Some Tame Gazelle Excellent Women Jane Andprudence
Crampton Hodnet
Amor no correspondido
Moins que les anges
Adam et Cassandra
Less than angels
La Douce colombe est morte
L. T. C. Rolt
L. T. C. Rolt (1910-1974)

autobiographer, biographer, railway historian

  • Cheltenham College

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Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Landscape with Canals
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The story of Brunel
Landscape with figures
Landscape with machines
George and Robert Stephenson
The landscape trilogy
George and Robert Stephenson
James Watt
The railway revolution
George and Robert Stephenson
The Cornish giant
Great engineers
Narrow boat
Sleep no more
Red for danger
Railway adventure
The steam engine of Thomas Newcomen
Red for danger
Victorian engineering
The making of a railway
Navigable waterways
The aeronauts
High Horse Riderless (Green Classics)
Waterloo Ironworks: a history of Taskers of Andover, 1809-1968
From sea to sea
A short history of machine tools
Holloways of Millbank
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Navigable Waterways
High horse riderless
Narrow Boat
A Hunslet hundred
George and Robert Stephenson; the railway revolution
Horseless carriage
The Great Western Railway Museum, Swindon
Green and silver
Mariners' market Burnyeat limited
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Tools for the job
The mechanicals: progress of a profession
Transport and Communications (World We Are Making)
The Railway Museum, York
The balloonists
The Thames from mouth to source
Lines of character
TALYLLYN ADVENTURE
The inland waterways of England
Victorian Engineering
Waterloo Ironworks
The Dowty story
Inland waterways
Thomas Newcomen; the prehistory of the steam engine
Talyllyn century
RED FOR DANGER
The inland waterways of England
Alec's adventures in railwayland
Mariners' market; Burnyeat limited
The railway museum,York
Holloways of Millbank
Motor cars
Motoring
The mechanicals
Transport treasures
The Thames from Mouth to Source
The London-Birmingham motorway
Great Engineers
Transport and communications
First Brunel lecture on I. K. Brunel
Railway Adventure (Transport/Railway)
Railway Adventure
The motor car
Mechanics
The Severn Bridge
The Talyllyn Railway
Look at railways
George and Robert Stephenson
Patrick Stirling's locomotives
Motoring history
Look at canals
Worcestershire
The clouded mirror
From Sea to Sea
Best railway stories
Inside a motor car
Best Railway stories
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Landscapes With Figures
Railway Adventure
Narrow Boat
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Thomas Newcomen
The story of the Second Mersey Tunnel and approach roads
Landscape with machines
Navigable Waterways Industrial Archaeology Series
The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen
The potters' field
Green and Silver
Railway engineering
Winterstoke
The clouded mirror
Inland waterways
A picture history of motoring
James Watt
Green and silver
Winterstoke
The mechanicals
The aeronauts
The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen
Afanasy Fet
Afanasy Fet (1820-1892)

poet, translator, autobiographer

  • Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University

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Ulybka krasoty
Vospominani︠i︡a
Poems
Moi vospominaniia
I have come to you to greet you
Vechernie ogni
Vechernie ogni
Sochinenii͡a︡ i pisʹma
Afanasi Fet
Vesenniĭ dozhdʹ
Zhiznʹ Stepanovki, ili, Liricheskoe khozi͡a︡ĭstvo
Volshebnye zvuki
Polnoe sobranīe stikhotvorenīĭ / A. A. Feta ; pod redakt︠s︡īei︠u︡ B. V. Nikolʹskago
Rannie gody moeĭ zhizni =
Izbrannyi︠a︡ stikhotvorenii︠a︡
Stikhotvorenīi︠a︡
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡
Rannīe gody moeĭ zhizni
Stikhotvorenīi︠a︡
Sochinenii︠a︡ v dvukh tomakh
"Lishʹ u tebi︠a︡, poėt, krylatyĭ slova zvuk--"
Lirika
Polnoe sobranīe stikhotvorenīĭ A.A. Feta
"Videniĭ pestrykh verenit︠s︡a"
Izbrannyi͡a stikhotvorenii͡a
Afanasiĭ Fet
Стихотворения
William Prideaux Courtney
William Prideaux Courtney (1844-1912)

biographer

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Eight friends of the great
A bibliography of Samuel Johnson
A register of national bibliography
A register of national bibliography, with a selection of the chief bibliographical books and articles printed in other countries
The secrets of our national literature
English whist and English whist players
Dodsley's collection of poetry, its contents & contributors