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Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams (born 1955)

historian, poet, memoirist, essayist, environmentalist, ecologist

  • University of Utah

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Refuge
When women were birds
Two in the Far North
When Women Were Birds
Refuge
Tori to sabaku to mizuumi to
When women were birds
Leap
The open space of democracy
The secret language of snow
An Unspoken Hunger
Emmet Gowin
Pieces of White Shell
The hour of land
This Is Dinosaur
Mosaic
Red
Utah on my mind
Erosion
Testimony
A voice in the wilderness
Refugio
Between cattails
Dakotah
Desert quartet
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
Magic lights & streets of shining jet : (published in England as Fancy free)
Fancy free
New genesis
American Silence
Great & peculiar beauty
Island
Wilderness
Feather Beard
When women were birds
New Genesis
Finding beauty in a broken world
Coyote's Canyon
Still
Visiting the Oracle
Cocaine Kids
Small Heart of Things
Unspoken Hunger
Weathers and seasons
bone fire
Clan of One-Breasted Women
Between Land and Sea : the Great Marsh
Thirst
Wild Promise
American Birds
Mni Wiconi/Water Is Life
Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley (born 1952)

journalist, satirist, editor, playwright, editor-in-chief, actor, poet

  • Yale University, Fordham University

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Losing Mum and Pup
Losing Mum and Pup
Sleepwalk
Losing Mum and Pup
Holy Days of Obligation
American Family
Losing Mum and Pup
Back Room at the Philosophers' Club
Little green men
Die allerneueste klassische Sau
Boomsday
No way to treat a First Lady
The White House mess
Thank you for smoking
Steaming to Bamboola
Supreme courtship
Boomsday
Washington schlepped here
Wry martinis
God Is My Broker
On the Poetry of Philip Levine
Wet Work
Florence of Arabia
Wet work
Thank You for Smoking
Campion
They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
Greece and Crete 1941
They eat puppies, don't they?
Florence of Arabia
Steaming to Bamboola
The judge hunter
Boomsday
Road to Rome
The White House Mess
Wry Martinis
But enough about you
Naming the Lost
Now What?
Judge Hunter
The relic master
Homage to Vallejo
Five ventures
Blossoms and Bones
World War, Second, 1939-45
Star Journal
And the sea
Supreme courtship
Long Embrace
Kleine grüne Männchen
Hombrecitos verdes
Campion
Norway
Make Russia Great Again
Aspects of Robinson
Consolations of Science and Philosophy
Gott ist mein Broker
Spanish Notebook
No way to treat a First Lady
No Way To Treat A First Lady
L'étrange enlèvement de Mr Banion
Has Anyone Seen My Toes?
Chaos Theory
Wry Martinis
Supreme courtship
No Way to Treat a First Lady Aar
Sky
They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
Varieties of Religious Experience
Greece & Crete 1941
Airborne
Divine justice (French Edition)
Eight by eight
Seven Deadly Virtues
Boomsday
Steaming to Bamboola - The World of a Tramp Freighter
Izzy and the Whispering Walls
Christopher Buckley
No Way to Treat a First Lady Msr
Star Journal
Washington Schlepped Here
The Judge Hunter
Relic Master
Thank You for Not Smoking
Soviet-Era Airliners
Florence of Arabia
Funny Business
Supreme Courtship
The Far Republics
Active Inference
Thank You for Smoking
Dios Es Mi Agente de Bolsa
Cloud Memoir
No Way to Treat a First Lady
Atlantic High
God Is My Broker
New York Times Essential Book of Cocktails
Christopher Buckley
Danke, Dass Sie Hier Rauchen
Make Russia Great Again
Steaming to Bamboola
White House Mess By Christopher Buckley
Greece and Crete, 1941
Agnostic
Pre Eternity of the World
IX poems
De Hallivand Canada
One Sky to the Next
One for the Money
Has Anyone Seen My Toes?
Verkhovnye sudorogi
The essential New York Times book of cocktails
S pervoĭ ledi tak ne postupai︠u︡t
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
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947)

poet, librettist

  • University of Lausanne

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Journal, 1896-1942
Journal
Entdeckung der Welt
When the Mountain Fell
Terror on the mountain
What is man
The end of all men
A propos de tout
Critiques littéraires
Notes du Louvre
Le règne de l'esprit malin
The young man from Savoy
Besoin de grandeur
Le tout-vieux et autres nouvelles (1910)
Les Signes parmi nous
Raison d'être
Jean-Luc persécuté
Lettres
Farinet ou la Fausse Monnaie
La guérison des maladies
Carnet de C. F. Ramuz
The reign of the evil one
Cezanne Form
Premiers écrits
La mort du grand Favre et autres nouvelles
Taille de l'homme
Chant de notre Rhône
Morceaux choisis
Samuel Belet
Vendanges ; (suivi de) Chant de notre Rhône
Werke in sechs Bänden
Découverte du monde
La guerra in Pajais-ot
Pays de Vaud
Une province qui n'en est pas une
Nouvelles et morceaux
Vie de Samuel Belet
L' exemple de Cézanne
Oeuvres complètes ..
Une main
René Auberjonois
Cézanne
Oeuvres comple tes
Aimé pache
Erlösung von den Übeln
Questions
Nouvelles, croquis et morceaux
Œuvres complètes
Fin de vie, récit
Fête des vignerons
La guerre dans le Haut-Pays
Souvenirs sur Igor Strawinsky
A propos de tout
Aline: histoire
La grande guerre du Sondrebond
Vater Antille, und andere Novellen
C.-F. Ramuz
Présence de la mort
Des saints, des sages
Si le soleil ne revenait pas
The triumph of death
Le Grand printemps
L' Histoire du soldat =
Vers
Poésies
Les signes parmi nous
Joie dans le ciel
Le grand printemps
Adam a Eva
Derborence
Les belles pages de C.F. Ramuz
Adieu à beaucoup de personnages
Les circonstances de la vie
L' Amour du monde
Nouvelles
La guerre aux papiers
La Vie meilleure
La beauté sur la terre
Liebe
Le garçon savoyard
La pensée remonte les fleuves
Le cirque
Vues sur le Valais
Paris (notes d'un Vaudois)
Le garc?on savoyard
La grande peur dans la montagne
La séparation des races
Le village brulé
Les grands moments du XIXe siècle français
Passage du poète
Vendanges
Aimé Pache, peintre vaudois
Salutation paysanne
Anthologie de la poésie française
Adam et Ève
Remarques
Journal; dernières pages, 1942-1947
Critiques d'art
Chant de pâques
La guérison des maladies
Chants de Pâques
Farinet; ou, La fausse monnaie
Le gros poisson du lac
Aline
L' exemple de Cézanne
Le règne de l'esprit malin
Vers
Derborans
Chant de pâques
The life of Samuel Belet
Oeuvres completes
Passage du poète
Souvenirs sur Igor Strawinsky
Vues sur le Valais
Jean-Luc persécuté
Chansons
Beauty on earth
Vendanges
Passage du poète
The triumph of death
Lettres 1919-1947
When the mountain fell
Raison d'e tre
Paris
Journal
C. -F. Ramuz
Salutation paysanne
When the mountain fell
Nouvelles
Le grand printemps
Derborence
La pensée remonte les fleures
Le cirque
Lettres 1900-1918
Pre sence de la mort
Lettres
What is man
L' amour du monde
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771)

philosopher, French moralist, poet, encyclopédistes

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Correspondance générale d'Helvétius
Correspondance générale d'Helvétius
A treatise on man
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation
Oeuvres complètes
Le vrai sens du Systême de la nature: ouvrage posthume de M. Helvétius
Œuvres complettes de M. Helvétius
A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education
Correspondance générale d'Helvétius
De l'homme: de ses facultés intellectuelles, et de son éducation
De l'esprit
Oeuvres complettes de M. Helvétius
De l'esprit
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles & de son éducation
Notes de la main d'Helvetius
Œuvres complètes
Helvétius
De l'esprit
De L'espirit or Essays on the Mind And Its Several Faculties
Philosophical Works
De l'esprit
Oeuvres complètes
De l'esprit
Treatise On Man
De l'esprit, De l'homme
Bonheur
oeuvres complèttes de Mr. Helvétius: Tome 2
oeuvres complèttes de Mr. Helvétius: Tome 4
Oeuvres d'Helvetius
Politique Naturelle, Ou, Discours Sur les Vrais Principes du Gouvernement; Volume 1
De l'esprit
A Treatise on Man and His Education
De l'esprit
Oeuvres complètes de m. Helvétius
De l'esprit
De l'homme, de ses facultes intellectuelles et de son education . 1
uvres complèttes de Mr. Helvétius: Tome 1
Notes de la main d'Helvetius
Oeuvres completes
Oeuvres completes
Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education; Volume 1
Le vrai sens du Systême de la nature
The Golden Calf
Œuvres complèttes
De l'esprit, or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties
De l'esprit
Correspondance Générale d'Helvétius, Volume IV
Oeuvres completes
Bonheur, Poéme, en Six Chants. Avec des Fragments de Quelques épîtres. Ouvrages Posthumes de M. Helvétius
De L'Esprit
A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education
De l'esprit des Lois, Sixième Édition
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles & de son education. Ouvrage posthume de M. Helvetius. ... of 2; Volume 1
De l'homme
De L'esprit
A Treatise on man, his Intellectual Faculties and his Education. A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated From the French, With Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ... of 2; Volume 2
De l'esprit, or, Essays on the mind and its several faculties
Vom Menschen, seinen geistigen Fähigkeiten und seiner Erziehung
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume de M. Helvetius. ... of 2; Volume 2
Les progrès de la raison dans la recherche du vrai
Oeuvres Completes de M. Helvétius. of 4; Volume 1
Les progrès de la raison
Correspondance Generale D'Helvetius
Correspondance Générale D'Helvétius
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son education
OEuvres Completes de M. Helvétius. of 4; Volume 4
De l'homme, Volume 2...
De l'esprit, De l'homme, notes, maximes et pensées, Le bonheur, lettres, appendice: documents, anecdotes, bibliographie
Oeuvres complètes Tome 11
De l'homme, de Ses Facultés Intellectuelles et de Son Éducation, Volume 3...
Le Bonheur, poëme en 6 chants, avec des fragmens de quelques épîtres
Oeuvres Complettes D'helvetius
De L'esprit
The true meaning of the System of nature
Correspondance Générale d'Helvétius, Volume III
Herrn Johann Claudius Hadrian Helvetius hinterlassenes werk Vom Menschen
De l'homme
Oeuvres Complètes D'helvétius
Correspondance Générale d'Helvétius, Volume I
Correspondance Generale
Lettres de M. Helvétius au président de Montesquieu, et à M. Saurin, relatives à l'aristocratie de la noblesse
A treatise on man; his intellectual faculties and his education
Correspondance Générale d'Helvétius, Volume V
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles, et de son éducation. Ouvrage posthume de M. Helvetius. ... of 2; Volume 1
El verdadero sentido del sistema de la naturaleza
Correspondance Générale d'Helvétius, Volume II
A catechism
The child of nature
Œuvres d'Helvetius .
Oeuvres Complettes de M. Helvétius. Nouvelle Edition, Corrigée & Augmentée Sur Les Manuscrits de l'Auteur, Avec Sa Vie & Son Portrait. ... of 2; Volume 2
Œuvres complètes
De l'esprit
Oeuvres complettes d'Helvetius
Oeuvres complettes de M. Helvétius
Pro li͡udynu, ïï rozumovi zdibnosti ta ïï vykhovanni͡a
Oeuvres complettes de M. Helvetius
Le bonheur
Discurs über den Geist des Menschen ...
Oeuvres compláetes d'Helvetius
A treatise on man, his intelectual faculties and his education
Oeuvres completes
uvres complettes d'Helvetius
De l'homme
Notes de la main d'Helvétius
A ventura
Poésies de M. Helvetius
Oeuvres completes
Oeuvres completes
Oeuvres completes
De l'esprit tome premier-[second]
Oeuvres completes
A ventura
Oeuvres completes de M. Helvétius ; tome premier-[quatrieme]
Œuvres complettes de M. Helvétius
Le bonheur, poeme en six chants
Les principes d'intérêt personnel et d'utilité publique
Le bonheur, poéme, en six chants
Oeuvres complettes d'Helvétius
Oeuvres completes de M. Helvétius
Oeuvres completes
Oeuvres complettes de M. Helvetius
Johann Claudius Hadrian Helvetius hinterlasseness Werk vom Menschen
Poésies
Œuvres completes
Réflexions sur l'homme & autres textes
Oeuvres completes
[Oeuvres philosophiques de M. Helvétius
Oeuvres completes
Œuvres complètes de M. Helvétius
Oeuvres completes
Œuvres complètes d'Helvétius
Le bonheur
De l'homme
Oeuvres d'Helvetius ..
Oeuvres completes de M. Hélvetius
Oeuvres completes
Oeuvres complètes d'Helvétius ...
Oeuvres completes
Sochinenii︠a︡
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles, et de son éducation
De l'esprit, or Essays on the mind and its several faculties
Charles Osborne
Charles Osborne (1927-2017)

music critic, journalist, poet, music publicist, literary critic

  • University of Queensland

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The life and crimes of Agatha Christie
Verdi
W.H. Auden
The Dictionary of composers
Wagner and his world
Giving it away
Schubert and his Vienna
The dictionary of the opera
The dictionary of opera
The Dictionary of composers
Ned Kelly
The life and crimes of Agatha Christie
The Dictionary of composers
A-Z of classical music
W. H. Auden
Spider's web [adaptation]
Black Coffee [adaptation]
The unexpected guest [adaptation]
The unexpected guest
The complete operas of Verdi
The bel canto operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini
The complete operas of Richard Strauss
The complete operas of Puccini
The complete operas of Richard Wagner
The complete operas of Mozart
Spider's web [adaptation]
The opera lover's companion
Rigoletto
The opera house album
Kafka
Murder In Three Stages
An Anthology of Poems for Shakespeare
How to Enjoy Opera
Spider's web
Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific
The importance of being earnest
The unexpected guest
The world theatre of Wagner
The Complete Operas of Mozart
The bel canto operas
Classic Favourite Poems
The concert song companion
The Complete Operas of Verdi
Australian stories of today
The Complete Operas of Mozart
Klemperer stories
Charles Osborne's Theatricals
The Complete Operas of Verdi
The Complete Operas of Wagner
The Collins Book of Best-loved Verse
Max Oldaker
Favourite love poems
Favourite Love Poems
Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit"
The Collins Book of Best-Loved Verse
New poems 1973
New stories
Essential Practice Tests CAE with Answer Key
Works (Problem at Polynesia Bay and Other Stories / Spider's Web / Three Blind Mice and Other Stories)
The Pink Danube
Blithe spirit
Letter to W.H. Auden and other poems 1941-1984
Letter to W.H. Auden and other poems, 1941-1981
Kafka
Klemperer Stories
Swansong
Swansong
Richard Wagner and His World
Dictionary of Composers
Otto Klemperer
Tales of London's old theatres
Klemperer Stories
First Nights, Second Thoughts
Zabel Yesayan
Zabel Yesayan (1878-1943)

translator, opinion journalist, literary, poet

  • University of Paris

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Murati chambordutʻiwně
The gardens of Silihdar & other writings
Averaknerun mej
Aweraknerun mēj
Erker
Verjin bazhakě
Meliha Nuri Haněm
Silihtari partēznerě
Erker
Keghts hancharner
Shnorkʻov mardik
Erb aylews chʻen sirer
Martin Boyd
Martin Boyd (1893-1972)

poet, biographer

  • Trinity Grammar School Kew

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Day of my delight
Day of my delight
Lucinda Brayford
Nuns in jeopardy
Difficult Young Man
The cardboard crown
When blackbirds sing
Outbreak of Love
Retrospect
Such Pleasure
A Difficult Young Man
A difficult young man
The Picnic
A single flame
The Montforts
Cardboard Crown (Langton Quartet)
The lemon farm
The Langton Quartet
The aristocrat
Dearest idol
Outbreak of Love
The Madeleine heritage
Much else in Italy
The tea-time of love
Bridget Malwyn ..
When blackbirds sing