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Helen Keller
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

orator, essayist, political activist, trade unionist, peace activist, suffragette, linguist, autobiographer

  • Radcliffe College, Harvard University

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The story of my life
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
The World I Live in
My Religion
Light in my darkness
The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics)
The Story of My Life (Enriched Classics)
Teacher
The faith of Helen Keller
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
The Story of My Life
Midstream
Midstream: my later life
The Story of My Life (Illustrated Classics Collection 2)
Midstream
The story of my life
The story of my life
Story of My Life
Wei da de san da nv xing zi zhuan =
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
Wo de sheng huo
המורה אן סוליבן מייסי
The story of my life =
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Die Geschichte meines Lebens
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
Wo di sheng he
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming
My religion
Iz zhizni sli͡epoĭ i glukhoni͡emoĭ
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan
Jia ru gei wo san tian guang ming =
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
We the Resistance
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Copper Level
Rezeption des Völkerrechts
To Love This Life
My Key of Life: Optimism
Helen Keller
Let us have faith
The story of my life, by Helen Keller
The open door
The world I live in and Optimism
To love this life
The Story of My Life
Optimism
My religion
The Story of My Life
The Story Of My Life And Optimism
The Story of my Life (100th Anniversary Edition)
Helen Keller's Journal
Story of My Life
Friendly Settlements Before the European Court of Human Rights
The Story of My Life
The world I live in
Teacher
The Door Opens and Our Mark Twain
The World I Live In
The Story of My Life (With Her Letters)
Teacher
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Taking international law seriously
Out of the dark
An Alabama Christmas
Optimism
The story of my life. With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementrary account of her education. Including passages from the Reports and Letters of her teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan
The Story of My Life
To Love This Life, Quotations by Helen Keller
The Story of My Life
Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy
Helen Keller's journal
How I would help the world
Out of the dark
The Song Of The Stone Wall
Peace at eventide
Story of My Life (Dover Large Print Classics)
The story of my life
My religion
My key of life (optimism)
Story of My Life/C-21/Pocket Classics
The Story of My Life (Watermill Classic)
Sourde, muette, aveugle
Die Flucht
Seek Happiness
Historia de Mi Vida - Ciega - Sorda - Muda
Out of the dark
The chant of the stone wall
Story of My Life (Now Age Illus Ser 2)
The song of the stone wall
Optimism
Helen Keller, her Socialist years
The world I live in, Optimism and other essays
The world I live in
El mundo donde vivo
Helen Keller's journal, 1936-1937
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 1
Ḳorot hayai
Chun feng hua yu - Sha Li Wen lao shi de gu shi
Our duties to the blind
The story of my life
The Spirit of Easter
We bereaved
Three days to see
The story of my life
My religion
Helen Keller in Scotland
My religion
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 4
Midstream
Messages to veterans blinded in World War II
The chant of the stone wall
Byline of hope
The world I live in and Optimism
Being some timely extracts from the reviews of "My religion" by Helen Keller
The modern woman
Wie ich Sozialistin wurde
Hailun Kaile zi zhuan =
The story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
Wo de xin yang
Helen Keller papers
The world I live in
Our duties to the blind
The miracle of life
The world I live in
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 3
The story of my life
The New York that Helen Keller "sees."
Optimism
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices - Volume 2
Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic (born 1946)

autobiographer, peace activist, political activist, veteran

  • Hofstra University

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Born on the Fourth of July
Hurricane street
Around the world in eight days
A Dangerous Country
Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman (1870-1936)

typographer, journalist, peace activist, autobiographer

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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
The Russian tragedy
Prison blossoms
Life of an Anarchist
The Kronstadt Rebellion
The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922)
Now and After
Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917
Anarchists and War Between States
Deportation, its meaning and menace
1917
What Is Communist Anarchism?
Mother Earth
What Is Anarchism?
Mother Earth
The " anti-climax"
Deportation : Its Meaning and Menace
Mother Earth; Volume 7
Mother Earth; Volume 5
Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Mother Earth; Volume 1
Mother Earth; Volume 6
The tragic procession
The blast
Violence and anarchism and other essays
The Russian tragedy
Reformers, Socialists and Communists: An Anarchist Critique
John Lennon
John Lennon (1940-1980)

record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist

  • Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School

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Lennon remembers
John Lennon in his own words
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon
The Beatles anthology
The Lennon tapes
Last interview
Lennon on Lennon
Imagine John Yoko
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Yellow submarine
Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko
All We Are Saying
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Imagine
The Lennon companion
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon - Guitar Collection
The Lennon play
Tourism Statistics
Peace at Last
In his own write; & A spaniard in the works
Hospitality management
Great Songs of Lennon and Mccartney
158. The John Lennon Collection
Search for liberation
The John Lennon conversations
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
The Lennon play: In his own write
A Spaniard in the works
John Lennon - Greatest Hits
50 by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Ai
The writings of John Lennon
The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
The John Lennon Collection
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon in his own write
EKM #248 - John Lennon - Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Amor verdadero
Power To The People The Hits
The Penguin John Lennon
The lyrics of John Lennon
Society and health in Guyana
Imagine
In his own write ; and A Spaniard in the works
The Great Songs of John Lennon
Cal 96 Artwork
Bag one
Strawberry Fields Forever
Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes
John Ono Lennon
Lennon and Mccartney, Together Alone
Songs of John Lennon
A Hard Day's Night
The lyrics of Lennon & McCartney
En flagrant délire
Sometime in New York City
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles Lyrics
Por Su Propio Cuento Un Espaolito En Obras
John Lennon Piano Solos
Una Mala Faena
Last Lennon Tapes
Double fantasy
John Lennon
Golden Beatles
Lennon & McCartney
Best of the Beatles Greatest Hits
Beatles Anthology
Shaved Fish
The Beatles, 1962-1966
Hey Jude
Imagine
Muntliga röksignaler och andra stycken, däribland Balladen om John och Yoko
Les Beatles, Yoko Ono et moi
Beatlemania
Lennon and Mccartney
Le yoga des Beatles
Jon renon 120 no kotoba
Penny Lane
Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Oh! Darling
Imagine =
"Gimme some truth"
Lennon and McCartney
Zwei Jungfrauen oder wahnsinnig in Da nemark
Real love
Homenaje a John Lennon
Yellow Submarine
Beatles Piano Solos
Imagine
Plastic Ono Band
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

journalist, social activist, editor, trade unionist, peace activist, autobiographer, suffragist

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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The Long Loneliness
Loaves and Fishes
From Union Square to Rome
The duty of delight
The duty of delight
Thérèse
Peter Maurin
Watch For The Light
By little and by little
On Pilgrimage
Dorothy Day
Meditations
Therese
Meditations
All the way to heaven
Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
Plough Quarterly No. 12 - Courage
All the Way to Heaven
Praying in the presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day
Therese
House of Hospitality
Hold nothing back
Plough Quarterly No. 5
The reckless way of love
Therese
From Union Square to Rome
On Pilgrimage
Reckless Way of Love
Eleventh Virgin
Called to Community
Wisdom from Dorothy Day
Meditations
The Catholic worker
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born 1961)

musician, actor, blogger, human rights activist, singer, television actor, poet, journalist, film actor, peace activist, voice actor, radio personality, recording artist, spoken word artist, lyricist

  • Bullis School, American University

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The portable Henry Rollins
The first five
Henry Rollins
Solipsist
Eye scream
Do I Come Here Often?
Fanatic!
Get in the Van
Broken Summers
Do I Come Here Often? (Black Coffee Blues, Pt. 2)
Occupants
Smile, you're traveling
Smile You're Travelling (Black Coffee Blues 3)
Jackass Theory [Uk Only]
Black Coffee Blues
Roomanitarian
Unwelcomed songs
See a grown man cry
See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
Now watch him die
Bang !
A Dull Roar What I Did On My Summer Deracination 2006
The best of 2.13.61 Publications
Get in the Van
The First Five (Rollins, Henry)
One from none
Art to Choke Hearts and Pissing in the Gene Pool
High adventure in the great outdoors
Henry Rollins, Billy Childish, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Art to choke hearts
Body Bag [Uk Only]
Everything
Get in the Van - On the Road With Black Flag
Pissing in the Gene Pool
Vernon Richards
Vernon Richards (1915-2001)

peace activist, photographer, editor, editing staff, publisher

  • King's College London, Emanuel School

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George Orwell at Home (and Among the Anarchists)
Life and Ideas
Lessons Of The Spanish Revolution
Malatesta
Weekend Photographers Notebook
The impossibilities of social democracy
Un attimo di verità
Protest without illusions
World War-Cold War
Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie (1979-2003)

diarist, biographer, peace activist, human rights activist

  • Evergreen State College

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Let Me Stand Alone
My name is Rachel Corrie
Rachel's letters