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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 1942)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Barnard College, Columbia University

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Fear of Fifty
The Devil At Large
Seducing the demon
Fear of fifty
Four visions of America
Rambles through an Alaskan wild
Botero: La corrida
Fear of fifty : a midlife memoir
Fanny
Inventing Memory
How to Save Your Own Life
Parachutes & kisses
At the edge of the body
Fear of Flying
Loveroot
Serenissima
Sugar in my bowl
Witches
Sappho's Leap
Ordinary miracles
Ballata di ogni donna
What Do Women Want?
Any Woman's Blues
Any woman's blues
Fear of flying
Megan's book of divorce
Parachutes and kisses
Megan's Two Houses
Sappho's leap
Fear of Flying CD
Love comes first
Shylock's Daughter
How to save your own life
Witches (Abradale Books)
Fruits & vegetables
Half-lives
How to save your own life
The devil at large
Becoming Light
Here comes & other poems
Witches
Becoming light
Serenissima
Serenissima
Here comes and other poems
Cancion triste de cualquier mujer
Fruits and Vegetables
Of Blessed Memory
Fear of flying
Keine Angst vor Fünfzig
Manolito Gafotas En LA Radio
La peur de l'âge
Miedo a Los 50
No más miedo
Der Buddha im Schoß. Über Sex, Macht und Literatur
FANNY
Devil At Large Miller
Serenissima
Les parachutes d'Icare
Fanny
Bendita Memoria
At the edge of the body
Fanny ou la Ve ridique histoire des aventures de Fanny Troussecottes-Jones
De mémoire de filles
Que Queremos Las Mujeres? - 2
Any Woman's Blues International
Fruits & vegetables
Miedo a Los Cincuenta
Paracadute e baci
Inventing memory
Diazugio
Here comes & other poems
Fear of flying
De mémoire de filles
Selected Poems
La planche de salut
Miedo a volar
Serensissima
In Their Own Voices - Volumes Three and Four
Half-lives
Erica Jong Fear of Flying
Ordinary miracles
Selected Poems Vol 2
Paracaidas Y Besos/Parachutes and Kisses
Miedo a Volar/Fear of Flying
Iliggos
Parasutculer ve Opucukler
Angst vorm Fliegen
Fallschirme & Küsse
Hekse
How to Steal Millions
Botero
Fear of flying
Megan's Book of Divorce
Witches
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

poet, theologian, autobiographer

  • Princeton University, Union Theological Seminary

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The sacred journey
Now and then
The alphabet of grace
The Eyes of the Heart
Telling Secrets
Peculiar treasures
The Longing for Home
The yellow leaves
Brendan
The Son of Laughter
The wizard's tide
The Storm
The book of Bebb
Telling the truth
Whistling in the dark
Love feast
On the road with the archangel
A room called Remember
The magnificent defeat
Wishful thinking
A long day's dying
Secrets in the Dark
Godric
Beyond Words
Lion country
Open heart
Speak What We Feel
The final beast
The hungering dark
Listening to Your Life
The clown in the belfry
Treasure hunt
The entrance to Porlock
Godric de Finchale
The return of Ansel Gibbs
Remarkable Ordinary
Crazy, Holy Grace
The Faces of Jesus
A Crazy, Holy Grace Participant Guide
One Life, Four Seasons
The season's difference
Faith That Matters
Learning to Speak
Christmas Tide
A long day's dying
The magnificent defeat
Family Album Boxed Set
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
Danny Siegel
Danny Siegel (born 1943)

lecturer, poet, fundraiser

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The encyclopedia of Talmudic sages
Munbaz II and other Mitzvah heroes
Soulstoned
Where Heaven & Earth Touch
Tell me a mitzvah
Mitzvah magic
The unorthodox book of Jewish records and lists
Giving your money away
Healing-Readings and Meditations
A hearing heart
Gym shoes and irises
Mitzvahs
Family reunion
Gadol kevod ha-beriyot
The humongous pushka in the sky
The Garden
Unorthodox Book Of Jewish Records & Lists
The meadow beyond the meadow
Danny Siegel's bar and bat mitzvah book
Angels
Before our very eyes
After the rain
Danny Siegel's bar and bat mitzvah book
Where heaven and earth touch
Unlocked doors, 1969-1983
1+1=3-And 37 Other Principles to Live By
Nine entered Paradise alive ... =
And God Braided Eve's Hair
Where Heaven and Earth Touch
Gym Shoes and Irises ( Personalized Tzedakah )
100 Blessings Every Day
The Lord is a whisper at midnight
Tzedakah
Heroes and miracles workers
Unlocked doors
Angels
Who- me? Yes- you!
Radiance
Lord Is a Whisper at Midnight
Good People
116 practical Mitzvah suggestions
Where Heaven and Earth Touch, Book 3
Unlocked Doors
Between Dust and Dance
Gym Shoes and Irises Personalized Tzedakah)
Gym Shoes and Irises ( Personalized Tzedakah )
Nine entered Paradise alive ...
The Unorthodox Jewish Book of Records and Lists
Kids Can Do Mitzvahs
John Barnie
John Barnie (born 1941)

poet, editor

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The King of Ashes
Footfalls in the silence
Tales of the shopocracy
The big biscuit
Ice
Heroes
The Wine Bird
No hiding place
Sea lilies
War in medieval society
The city
Abergavenny
Y felan a finnau
War in medieval English society
The Confirmation
The roaring boys
Clay
A year of flowers
At the salt hotel
Lightning country
The forest under the sea
Fire drill
The forest under the sea
Georg Weerth
Georg Weerth (1822-1856)

journalist, poet

  • University of Bonn

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Georg Weerth, 1822-1856
Vergessene Texte
Nur unsereiner wandert mager durch sein Jahrhundert
Das Blumenfest der englischen Arbeiter
BloĢˆdsinn deutscher Zeitungen und anderes
"Nur unsereiner wandert mager durch sein Jahrhundert"
Gedichte
A young revolutionary in nineteenth-century England
Humoristische Skizzen aus dem deutschen Handelsleben
Leben und Taten des beruĢˆhmten Ritters Schnapphahnski
Die Bedeutung des viehschwachen und des viehlosen Betriebes für die Landwirtschaft
Weerths Werke
SaĢˆmtliche Werke
Fragment eines Romans
Gedichte, Prosa
Weerths Werke in zwei Ba nden
Weerths Werke in zwei Bänden
Briefwechsel mit Betty Tendering
Werke in zwei BaĢˆnden
AusgewaĢˆhlte Werke
Selected extracts from the writings of Georg Weerth
Samtliche Werke
SaĢˆmtliche Briefe
Weerths Werke in zwei Bänden
Sa mtliche Briefe
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1568-1646)

poet

  • University of Pisa

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Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Love sonnets and madrigals to Tommaso de'Cavalieri
Michelangelo
Introducing Michelangelo
Poems
Il givdizio di Paride
La fiera
Michelangelo Gedichte und Briefe
La Fiera
Il natal d'Ercole
Opere varie in versi ed in prosa, di Michel-Angelo Buonaroti
Michelangelo
La fiera
Opere varie in versi ed in prosa
Letters of Michelangelo
La Tancia
Michelangelo
Descrizione delle felicissime nozze della cristianissima maestà di madama Maria Medici
Michelangelo
La fiera commedia
Carrara
La Tancia
[Tancia
Michelangelo Poems
Il givdizio di Paride
La Tancia
Boris Almazov
Boris Almazov (1827-1876)

poet, literary critic, translator, journalist

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Rasputin i RossiiĶ”aļø”
PamiĶ”aļø”ti M.V. Lomonosova
Dissonansy