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Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley (born 1949)

literary critic, journalist

  • University of Iowa, Vassar College

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Charles Dickens
Thirteen ways of looking at the novel
The Man Who Invented the Computer
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
The man who invented the computer
Charles Dickens
Dickens
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Charles Dickens
A thousand acres
Moo
Good faith
Barn Blind
The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton
Horse heaven
Duplicate keys
At Paradise Gate
Ten Days in the Hills
Ordinary love
The Greenlanders
Private life
The Georges and the Jewels
Twenty Yawns
Horse Heaven
Catskill crafts
Gee Whiz
True Blue
The Best American Short Stories 1995
March Sisters
A Year at the Races
A thousand acres
Some luck
A Thousand Acres (Flamingo Originals)
The age of grief
Ordinary Love
Some luck
Golden age
Horse heaven
Ten Days in the Hills
Early warning
Moo
A good horse
A Thousand Acres (Movie Tie-in Reissue) Cassette
All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie N
Golden age
The age of grief.
Private life
Duplicate keys
Moo
Ordinary love and Good will
A thousand acres
A Thousand Acres
Early warning
Moo
The age of grief
The sagas of Icelanders
Pie in the Sky
The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton
El Paraiso De Los Caballos / Horse Heaven
Mystery Horse
Tausend Morgen
Early Warning
The best American short stories, 1995
Writers on Writing, Volume II
The Best American Erotica 2005
Thousand Acres
Les Aventures véridiques de Liddie Newton
Private life
A thousand acres
Star Horse
Perestroika in Paris
Writers on writing
Private life
Tor zum Paradies
Best new American voices 2006
The sagas of Icelanders
Some luck
Die Scheune im Schatten
The Age of Grief
Jusqu'au lendemain
Good faith
Moo
The life of the body
Jusqu'au lendemain
Champion Horse
Ten Days in the Hills
Secret Horse
Die Grönland- Saga. Roman
Most Important Questions
Lucky
Gewöhnliche Liebe und Guter Wille. Zwei Novellen
De Buena Fe / Good Faith
Pie in the Sky
Diamond Lane
Dangerous Business
Ten days in the hills
Feuerpferd
Die Grönland-Saga
Private Life
Le Paradis des chevaux
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years Trilogy)
In den Jahren der Trauer
HORS E HEAVEN
In goed vertrouwen
A Year at the Races
GOOD FAITH.
Why we ride
True Blue
VEINTE BOSTEZOS
Gee Whiz
All True Travels & Adventures
Lidie Newton. Oder Ein abenteuerliches Frauenleben
De wetten van het land
Strays of Paris
Great American Short Stories
Heredaras La Tierra
Yedek Anahtar
Gee Whiz
Barn Blind
Greenlanders
Twenty Yawns
Dickens
The True subject
Riding Lessons
Strays of Paris
Riding Lessons (an Ellen and Ned Book)
Coffret Jane Smiley, 2 volumes
Taking the Reins (an Ellen & Ned Book)
Good Horse
Un amor cualquiera
Lidie Newton oder Ein abenteuerliches Frauenleben
Las Aventuras De Lydie Newton
All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
La edad del desconsuelo
Un appartement à New York
Moo
Tor zum Paradies
Saddles & Secrets (an Ellen & Ned Book)
Golden Age
Year at the Races
Muu
L'Exploitation
Private life
MyLab Literature Without Pearson EText -- Instant Access -- for a Writer's Introduction to Literature
Horse Heaven
Chagrins
Ordinary Love
Bin Dönüm
Pie in the Sky
Catskill Crafts Artisans of T
Moo
Sagas of the Icelanders
Thousand Acres
Life of the Body/With a Pair of Gloves (Deluxe)
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor (born 1942)

radio personality, voice actor, comedian, television producer, humorist, singer

  • University of Minnesota

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Homegrown Democrat
The Keillor Reader
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Lake Wobegon summer 1956
Pontoon
Liberty
Wobegon boy
The old man who loved cheese
Good Poems
Daddy's Girl
A Prairie Home Companion
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Copper Level
Pilgrims
The Best American short stories, 1998
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Life among the Lutherans
A prairie home companion pretty good joke book
A Prairie Home Companion Commonplace Book
In search of Lake Wobegon
Good Poems for Hard Times
A Prairie home companion pretty good joke book.
APHC Anniversary 1st 5 Yrs
A Prairie Home Companion Commercial Radio
Local Man Moves to the City
Happy to be here
APHC Christmas
Horrors!
The Adventures of Guy Noir
APHC 10 Anniv Show
Good Poems American Places
Guy Noir and the straight skinny
Summer
It's Only a Show (Prairie Home Companion)
More News from Lake Wobegon Humor
Fall
Mother Father Uncle Aunt
The Minnesota homegrown cookbook
Prairie Home Commonplace Book
Life These Days
Prairie Home Comedy
More News from Lake Wobegon Love
A Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary
More News from Lake Wobegon Hope
APHC Comedy
Garrison Keillor
More News from Lake Wobegon: Faith
A Prairie Home Companion 10th Anniversary
Winter
Humor
More News from Lake Wobegon Love (More News from Lake Wobegon)
A Christmas blizzard
Me
Guy Noir, Radio Private Eye
The Family Radio
Songs Of The Cat
Love Me
Lake Wobegon USA (Lake Wobegon)
Spring Stories from the Collection News from Lake Wobegon
A Prairie Home Companion Duets
When I Get Home
Home on the Prairie
Dusty and Lefty, The Lives of Cowboys
Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary Collection
The Christmas Companion
O What A Luxury Verses Lyrical Vulgar Pathetic Profound
New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion)
Horrors (Prairie Home Companion)
Lake Wobeon USA (Lake Wobegon)
Never Better (Prairie Home Companion)
Definitely Above Average
Stories
A Prairie Home Companion 25th Anniversary Collection
Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion)
A Few More Pretty Good Jokes
Gospel Birds and Other Stories of Lake Wobegon
A Prairie Home Christmas (Lake Wobegon)
The Lake Wobegon Virus
Mother Father Uncle Aunt (Stories from Lake Wobegon)
More News from Lake Wobegon
A Prairie Home Companion Song Book
News from Lake Wobegon
The Family Radio (Prairie Home Companion)
The Best American short stories, 1998
Life & Love
APHC 4th Final Perform
Even More Pretty Good Jokes November 6 2004 February 6 2004 March 8 2008
The book of guys
APHC 2nd Final Perform
News from Lake Wobegon Fall
Rhubarb Stories From The Collection Lake Wobegon Usa
News from Lake Wobegon
APHC 3rd Final Performance
My Little Town
Three Dozen Poems
Stories
Motherhood A Radio Collection
Radio Romance
Sandy Bottom Orchestra
A prairie home companion folk song book
Patience Stories From The Collection Lake Wobegon Usa
Pretty Good Joke Book 4th edition
A Visit to Mark Twain's House
A Radio romance
Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater
News from Lake Wobegon Summer
The Best American Short Stories 1998
APHC Final Performance
Threebies
News from Lake Wobegon Winter
Church People The Lutherans Of Lake Wobegon
Lake Wobegon Loyalty
Summer Love
We Are Still Married
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book 6th Edition
Great houses of Summit Avenue and the Hill District
Boom Town
Tourists with Garrison Keillor (Prairie Home Companion)
Es könnte schlimmer sein
Le Vieil Homme Qui Aimait Le Fromage = the Old Man Who Loved Cheese
Lake Wobegon USA Youth (Lake Wobegon)
Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack
The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra
Ten Years
That Time of Year
APHC Movie Tie-In
Pretty Good Joke Book
Ain't that Good News
Cheerfulness
Cat, you better come home
Mrs. Sundberg's Recipes
The Best American Short Stories 1998
Don the True Story of a Young Person
Life & love
Leaving Home
Sommerstücke.
Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company
Lake Wobegon USA Rhubarb (Lake Wobegon)
Katz, komm bitte nach Haus
Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes Lib/E
A Prairie home companion pretty good joke book
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Lib/E
Lake Wobegon Days (lake wobegon days)
Lake Wobegon USA Patience (Lake Wobegon)
The Old Man Who Loved Cheese
Das Buch der Kerle
Lake Wobegon USA
Down-home-news
Lake Wobegon USA Fertility (Lake Wobegon)
Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories
Tom Keith Lib/E
Hope
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Jokes Live!
A Life in Comedy
A Life in Comedy
Never Better Lib/E
Aphc Show Collection
Keillor Christmas
A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album
Parables That Jesus Told
The Christmas Companion
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
The Christmas Companion
A Prairie Home Companion
News from Lake Wobegon
Prairie Home Comedy
The Road Home
A Prairie Home Companion Lib/E
When I Get Home
The Family Radio
77 love sonnets
The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952
Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection
Climbing Up on the Rough Side
Minnesota days
Lake Wobegon Family Reunion
News from Lake Wobegon
Misunderestimated & overunderappreciated
The Book of Guys
Luxury of Limericks
A Prairie Home Companion
More News from Lake Wobegon
Serenity at 70, Gaiety At 80
We Are Still Married by Keillor Garrison (1989) Paperback
Pretty Good Joke Book
Guy Noir
A book will wait
The Gospel of Jesus Lib/E
The Garrison Keillor box
Afscheid van Lake Wobegon
Sean Williams
Sean Williams (born 1967)

journalist

  • University of Adelaide

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Bright Star of the West
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order - Force Heretic II - Refugee
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order - Force Heretic I - Remnant
Star Wars - The New Jedi Order - Force Heretic - Reunion
Blood Ties
Star Wars - The Old Republic - Fatal Alliance
Star Wars - The Force Unleashed
The resurrected man
Meeting Infinity
Heirs of earth
Spirit Animals 13 Books Box Set Series 1 & 2 Collection
The Best Science Fiction of the Nineties
Star Wars - The Force Unleashed II
Echoes of earth
The Crooked Letter: Books of the Cataclysm
The dying light
Troubletwisters
The blood debt
The Dragon Book
The Monster
Geodesica
A dark imbalance
Have Sword, Will Travel
Saturn Returns
Geodesica
Troubletwisters
Hollowgirl
The hanging mountains
Earth ascendant
Writers of the Future Vol 32 (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future)
Prodigal sun
Orphans of earth
Metal fatigue
Impossible Music
The Grand Conjunction
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36
Crashland
Magic dirt
Evergence
The Storm Weaver and the Sand
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 14, May 2015 (Heinlein Special)
Old Republic Series : Star Wars Legends 4-Book Bundle
Troubletwisters Book 4
Twinmaker
Lazos de sangre
Star Wars : The Old Republic Sammelband : Bd. 1
Scarecrow
Stone Mage and the Sea
Troubletwisters (Troubletwisters #1)
Monster
Mystery
Have Sword, Will Travel
Doorway to eternity
Clarkesworld
Let Sleeping Dragons Lie (Have Sword, Will Travel #2)
Animal Tatoo saison 1, Tome 03
The Sky Warden and the Sun
The unknown soldier
Troubletwisters 5
The Stone Mage and the Sea (Book of the Change)
Cenotaxis
Troubletwisters
The Dust Devils (Broken Land)
Missing
Girl Dad
English Grammar
Boy Dad
Kaleidoscope
Storm Weaver and the Sand
Storm Weaver and the Sand
Incendiary Words
Resurrected Man
Self-Discipline
WJEC/Eduqas GCSE PE
Fatal Alliance
Hanging Mountains
Fall
Finally the Truth Comes Out... : the True Fruit of Knowledge Has Been Hidden!
Sky Warden and the Sun
Last Man
Devoured Earth
Force Unleashed
Jesus and the Magic Mushroom
Geodesica Ascent
Crashland
Star War - numéro 107 L'ancienne République - tome 1
Star Wars
Reconstitué (French Edition)
The Big Picture Making Sense Out of Life and Religion
Jump: Twinmaker 1
Fatal Alliance
Dreamer's Heart
Stone Mage and the Sea
Earth Ascendant
Jesus and the Magic Mushroom
Evergence III 18-Copy Floor Display
Her Perilous Mansion
Prodigal Sun
View Before Dying, A
Geodesica Descent
Force Unleashed II
Refugee : Star Wars Legends
Twinmaker
Meditation, the Mystic Path, and the Keys of Knowledge
Crooked Letter
Changeling
Hollowgirl
My Nanna Nelly Will Tour the Illawarra Tomorra
Reunion : Star Wars Legends
Capture the Dragons Treasure
Sky Warden and the Sun
Time Travel Tales
Force Unleashed
The Stone Mage and the Sea
Devoured Earth
Remnant : Star Wars Legends
Cbac Tgau Addysg Gorfforol Canllaw Astudio Ac Adolygu
Blood Debt
Coast to Coast
New Adventures in Sci-fi
Levelling Down
L'hérétique de la Force
Invasion of the weird
Crash
Le nouvel ordre Jedi
Schalom Ben-Chorin
Schalom Ben-Chorin (1913-1999)

poet, journalist, religious studies scholar

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Luitpold Gymnasium

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Jugend an der Isar
Mein Glaube, mein Schicksal
Der Mann, der Friede heisst
Ich lebe in Jerusalem
Mutter Mirjam
Betendes Judentum
Paulus
Narrative Theologie des Judentums
Akh ṭov le-Yiśraʼel Elohim le-vare le-vav
Was ist der Mensch
Die Tafeln des Bundes
Die Antwort des Jona zum Gestaltwandel Israels
Brother Jesus
Schalom Ben-Chorin
Theologia Judaica
Jüdische Ethik anhand der patristischen Perikopen
Paulus
Germania Hebraica
Paul
Das Gebet bei Juden und Christen
Vom Kirchenvater Abraham und anaderen Ungereimtheiten
Bruder Jesus
Jüdischer Glaube
The Jewish world of yesterday, 1860-1938
Von Antlitz zu Antlitz
Zwiesprache mit Martin Buber
Das Judentum der Gegenwart
Dass der Mandelzweig wieder blüht
Judentum und Christentum im technologischen Zeitalter
Jüdische Existenz heute
Betendes Judentum
Junge Juden in Deutschland
Die Ernte
Weil wir Brüder sind
Die Antwort des Jona
Der dreidimensionale Mensch
Brother Jesus
Die Tränen des Hiob
Jenseits von Orthodoxie und Liberalismus
Auf der Suche nach einer jüdischen Theologie
Dialogische Theologie
Schalom Ben-Chorin Werke, 6 Bde., Bd.1, Jugend an der Isar
Das brüderliche Gespräch
Die Antwort des Jona
SKH Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preussen zum 75. Geburtstag am 9. November 1982
Die Erwählung Israels
Jesus im Judentum
Als Gott schwieg
Kritik des Esther-buches
Hear, O Israel
Jüdischer Glaube
Gestaldwandel Israels
Ich lege meine Hand auf meinen Mund
Bruder Jesus (6969 682). Der Nazarener in jüdischer Sicht
Bruder Jesus
Aus Tiefen rufe ich
Das Hohelied der Liebe. Ein einziger Blick deiner Augen.
Der Engel mit der Fahne
Das weisse Licht
Paulus
Die Jüdische Welt von Gestern, 1860-1938
Paulus
Der unbekannte Gott
Rubem Alves
Rubem Alves (1933-2014)

journalist, philosopher, theologian, poet, pedagogue, psychoanalyst

  • Union Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary

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O velho que acordou menino
O sapo que queria ser príncipe
Se eu pudesse viver minha vida novamente--
Protestantismo e repressão
Tomorrow's child: imagination, creativity, and the rebirth of culture
Against machismo
A theology of human hope
I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body
O suspiro dos oprimidos
Transparencies Of Eternity
Aprendiz de mim : um bairro que virou escola
The poet, the warrior, the prophet
El enigma de la religion
Christianisme, opium ou libération?
A maçã e outros sabores
Variações sobre a vida e a morte
Je crois en la résurrection du corps
Entre a ciência e a sapiência
I believe in the resurrection of the body
What is religion?
Um céu numa flor silvestre
Aprendiz de mim
Religión
O amor que acende a lua
O flautista mágico
De la iglesia y la sociedad
Religion
Perguntaram-me Se Acredito em Deus
O retorno e terno--
A festa de Maria
The Poet, the Warrior, the Prophet (scm classics)
O infinito na palma da sua mão
O enigma da religião
A boneca de pano
O melhor de Rubem Alves
Do universo a jabuticaba
Alegria de Ensenar
Tempus fugit
Tendências da teologia no Brasil
Estórias de quem gosta de ensinar
Conversas com quem gosta de ensinar
Religião, mundo moderno, sabedoria, sentimentos
Rubem Alves & Moacyr Scliar conversam sobre o corpo e a alma
Ostra feliz não faz pérola
Estórias de quem gosta de ensinar
Dogmatismo e tolerância
O que é religião
A menina, a gaiola e a bicicleta
Conversas sobre poli tica
Hijos del mañana
As melhores crônicas de Rumbe Alves
Variações sobre a vida e a morte
A pedagogia dos caracóis
Cristianismo, opio o liberación?
Variações sobre o prazer
La muerte de la iglesia y el futuro del hombre
Educação
O Deus que conheço
Injustice and revolt
Sobre demônios e pecados
Pensamentos que penso quando não estou pensando
A theology of human hope
Desfiz 75 anos
O enigma da religião
Towards a theology of liberation
Russell Jacoby
Russell Jacoby (born 1945)

historian, teacher, art historian, opinion journalist

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Chicago

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The repression of psychoanalysis
Dogmatic Wisdom
Social amnesia
Picture Imperfect
Dialectic of defeat
The Last Intellectuals
The end of utopia
The bell curve debate
My brother's keeper, my brother's killer
Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the left
Love and hate collide
Lisa See
Lisa See (born 1955)

journalist, essayist, biographer

  • Loyola Marymount University

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On Gold Mountain
On Gold Mountain
On gold mountain
Bai nian Jin shan
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Peony in Love
Shanghai girls
Dragon Bones
The Flower Net
Snow flower and the secret fan
The Interior
The Island of Sea Women
The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
Dreams of joy
Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls #2)
China Dolls
Muñecas chinas
Dreams of Joy
Shanghai girls
China Dolls
Muñecas chinas
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
La isla de las mujeres del mar
La Telarana China
Miłość Peonii
Shanghai girls
El Abanico De Seda/ the Silk Fan
Muñecas chinas
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Flower net
Kwiat Śniegu i sekretny wachlarz
365 Days in China Calendar 2007
La mort scarabée
China Dolls
365 Days in China Calendar 2008 (Picture-A-Day Wall Calendars)
Peony in love
Flower Net
Mu dan huan hun ji
Poupées de Chine (Littérature étrangère) (French Edition)
El abanico de seda
Die rote Klinge
On Gold Mountain
El pabellón de las peonías
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Auf dem Goldenen Berg. Die Geschichte einer chinesischen Familie
Le pavillon des pivoines
La Trama China
Flower net
L'illa de les dones del mar
Siec rozkwitajacego kwiatu
Ombres chinoises
Shanghai nü hai
Meisjes van Shanghai / druk 1
Dos Chicas de Shanghai / Shanghai Girls
Peony in Love - A Novel
Albanico de seda/ the Silk Fan (Spanish lang. ed.)
Kar Çiçeği ve Sırlar Yelpazesi
Island of Sea Women
Abanico de Seda / Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Muñecas chinas
Fleur de Neige
PABELLON DE LAS PEONIAS, EL
אדמונית מאוהבת
La ragazza di giada
The Flower Net (Red Princess Mysteries)
Dreams of Joy
Interior
Xue hua mi shan
Dragon Bones
Ḥalomot ʻal osher
Peony in Love
Kwiat Śniegu i sekretny wachlarz
The Interior
L'île des femmes de la mer
Dziewczeta z Szanghaju (polish)
Sueños de felicidad
Fiore di neve e il ventaglio segreto
Peony in Love
Sueños de Felicidad / Dreams of Joy
Long gu
Sueños de felicidad
Die rote Klinge
Flower Net, the Interior, and Dragon Bones
Dos chicas de Shanghai
Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy
Shanghai girls
Tuyết Hoa và cây quạt bí mật
El abanico de seda
Abanico de Seda / Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
סיפור כתוב במניפה
Dragon Bones
L'illa de les dones del mar
Filles de Shanghai
Dan Kurzman
Dan Kurzman (1922-2010)

journalist

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Day of the Bomb
No Greater Glory
Soldier of peace
Ben-Gurion, prophet of fire
Soldier of peace
Fatal voyage
Disaster!
Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
The race for Rome
Left to Die
Blood and water
A Special Mission
Miracle of November
A killing wind
The Bravest Battle
Santo Domingo
Left to die
Kishi and Japan
The bravest battle
Subversion of the innocents
Genesis 1948
Ben Gurion
Blood and water
Genesis 1948; the first Arab-Israeli war
Santo Domingo: revolt of the damned
FATAL VOYAGE, The Sinking Of The USS Indianapolis
Special Mission
Kishi and Japan;
Left to Die
Subversion of the innocents
Santo Domingo
Genesis
Genesis 1948
El asedio de Madrid
Genesis 1948
Fatal Voyage. the Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis. the True Story of the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster...
Genesis 1948