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Wilfried F. Schoeller
Wilfried F. Schoeller (1941-2020)

television presenter, literary critic, opinion journalist, literary historian, film producer

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Schubart
Heinrich Mann
Oskar Maria Graf
Hubert Fichte und Leonore Mau: der Schriftsteller und die Fotografin - eine Lebensreise
Franz Marc
Hubert Fichte und Leonore Mau
Michail Bulgakow
Nach Berlin!
Alfred Döblin
Ernst Litfass, der Reklamekönig
Das Abseits als belebter Ort
Jorge Semprun: der Roman der Erinnerung
Wendepunkt 11. September 2001
Diese merkwürdige Zeit
Kleines Lexikon der Tour- Mythen. Triumphe, Kuriositäten und Rekorde
Das Silhouetten-Cabinet
Die neue Linke nach Adorno
Erinnerte Zukunft
Abschied von Bitterfeld
Widerstand des Textes
Weisswerwas & Allerleiwo
Deutschland vor Ort
Buch des Monats, 1997-2006
Künstler und Gesellschaft
60 Jahre Buch des Monats, 1952-2012
Jorge Semprún
William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)

journalist, television presenter, politician

  • Yale University, Davenport College

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The Reagan I knew
Atlantic high
Miles Gone by
Nearer, my God
Happy days were here again
WindFall
W.F.B.--an appreciation
Airborne
Flying high
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription
Overdrive
The Reagan I Knew
WindFall
Saving the Queen
Stained Glass
High jinx
The story of Henri Tod
Tucker's Last Stand
Spytime
Nuremberg
Up from liberalism
Marco Polo, if you can
Who's on first
Brothers no more
Getting It Right
God and man at Yale
Elvis in the Morning
The temptation of Wilfred Malachey
The Redhunter
The jeweler's eye
The Blackford Oakes reader
Mongoose, R.I.P
Right reason
Four reforms--a guide for the seventies
Last call for Blackford Oakes
Gratitude
A hymnal
In search of anti-Semitism
On the firing line
Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr
Racing through paradise
Buckley
The rake
McCarthy and his enemies
The Do-It-Yourself Bestseller
Buckley, the right word
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Saving the Queen
Let Us Talk of Many Things
Inveighing we will go
The Rake
Spytime
The National Review Treasury of Classic Children's Literature
A very private plot
The unmaking of a mayor
Cruising speed--a documentary
Gratitude
See you later alligator
See you later alligator
Rumbles left and right
Elvis in the Morning
Mongoose, R.I.P.
See You Later Alliga
Spytime
Mongoose, R.I.P
The unmaking of a mayor
Mongoose R.I.P
Tucker's last stand
Let us talk of many things
Execution eve, and other contemporary ballads
Quotations from Chairman Bill
United Nations journal
The committee and its critics
Airborne
Marco Polo, if you can
Unmaking of a May
Four reforms
The Galbraith viewpoint in perspective
Let us talk of many things
The governor listeth
Keeping the Tablets
Buckley
Windfall
Start the presses!
Rumbles left and right
American conservative thought in the twentieth century
Tuckers Last Stand-19.95
Stained Glass
Happy Days Were Here Again-Pre
Mongroose R I P
Inveighing we will go
Did you ever see a dream walking?
The lexicon
Miles gone by
Who's on first
Miles Bone By
Up from liberalism [by] William F. Buckley, Jr
Airborne
Selected Works of Js Bach
Marco Polo, If You Can
Brothers No More
Stained glass
Operation Mongoose
The world of Soviet disinformation
The Role of the Advocate CD
Athwart history
On faith and religious institutions
Taiwan: the West Berlin of China
Operation Mongoose, R.I.P
Last Call for Blackford Oakes
The jeweler's eye
Mongoose R. I. P.
Up from liberalism
The unmaking of a mayor
Will the Real Jesus Please Stand-Up!
Selected Works of W.A. Mozart (Speedlearning)
Quotations from Chairman Bill
The committee and its critics
Tods Leben
McCarthy and His Enemies; The Record and Its Meaning
Shaviṭ ha-bedolaḥ
Hymnal the Controversial Arts
Stained glass
La vidriera
American conservative thought in the twentieth century
McCarthy and his enemies
Nuremberg
In search of Anti-Semitism
Tucker's Last Stand
Athwart history
The Buckley-Little Catalogue 1985
Just William - An Eton Diary
The Buckley-Little Catalogue
The governor listeth
National review
The Theodore H. White lecture with William F. Buckley, Jr
El Relato De Henry Tod/the Story of Henri Tod
Buckley-Little Book Catalogue 1987
Let us talk of many things
Kennwort Marco Polo
Mickey is sixty!
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (born 1947)

journalist, television presenter, news presenter, radio personality

  • Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Centre de formation des journalistes

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Lettres à l'absente
Elle n'était pas d'ici
Hemingway, ou, la vie jusqu'à l'excès
Rencontres
À demain!
Aimer c'est agir
L'expression des sentiments
Nostalgie des choses perdues
Seules les traces font rêver
Lettre ouverte aux violeurs de vie privée
Les rats de garde
L' homme d'image
Un enfant
La traversée du miroir
Les loups et la bergerie
Les derniers trains de rêve
First Class
J'ai aimé une reine
Rapaces
Une trahison amoureuse
L'irresolu
La mort de Don Juan
Deux amants
L' irrésolu
Les plus beaux poèmes d'amour
La traversee du miroir
Petit prince du désert
Mai 68-mai 78
Les enfants de l'aube
Petit homme
Horizons lointains
Mai 68 [i.e. soixante-huit]-mai 78 [i.e. soixante dix-huit]
Les 100 mots de la Bretagne
Un héros de passage
Confessions
Les Chemins de la résilience
Les enfants de l'aube (Moia bieda)
Les enfants de l'aube
A LA RECHERCHE DE LA GRANDE ROUTE INCA
Rapaces
La Bretagne
Les femmes de ma vie
Tenir et se tenir
Les Plus beaux poèmes d'amour
Le roman de Virginie
Fragments d'une femme perdue
Rencontres
Et puis voici des fleurs--
"pirates et corsaires ; flibustiers et autres freres de la cote"
La Bretagne au coeur
Les Chemins de la résilience
La vengeance du loup
L'ambitieux
Corrado Augias
Corrado Augias (born 1935)

journalist, television presenter, politician, playwright

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I segreti di Londra
Il viaggiatore alato
Modilʹi︠a︡ni
I segreti di Parigi
L'ultima primavera
I segreti di Roma
The Secrets of Rome
Una ragazza per la notte
The secrets of Italy
N'iu-Ĭork s iznanki
I segreti di New York
Inchiesta sul cristianesimo
Disputa su Dio e dintorni
Quella mattina di luglio
Una manciata di fango
I segreti di New York
I segreti d'Italia
L' ultima primavera
1978, cronaca di un anno drammatico
Leggere
Il fazzoletto azzurro
Tre colonne in cronaca
Giornali e spie
Inchiesta su Gesu
L' onesto Iago
Il disagio della libertà
Sekrety Vatikana
Quel treno da Vienna
Italia
Tre colonne in cronaca
Harry Hill
Harry Hill (born 1964)

actor, comedian, television presenter, television actor, physician

  • Island School, Cranbrook School

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Livin The Dreem A Year In My Life
He Was My Father
Harry Hills Whopping Great Joke Book
Last Flight from Deathrow
Harry Hill's Fun Book
A voice for the theatre
The Further Adventures Of The Queen Mother
Thomas & Friends
I Wonder Why Cars Go Fast Sticker Activity Book
Tim The Tiny Horse At Large
Make it unanimous
Harry Hills Tv Burp Book
A Complete History of Tim The Tiny Horse
The singing period
Flight from Deathrow
Teacher's manual
A study of the voice of the boy
Flip the Flaps
Knit Scarves and Shawls Now
In the Footsteps of Abraham: The Holy Land in Hand Painted Photographs
Harry Hill's Colossal Compendium
Harry Hills Bumper Book of Bloopers
Matt Millz on Tour!
Automotive service and repair tools
A Whole Life
Matt Millz
Harry Hill's Fight!
Tiny touch animal colours
Making Room for Jesus
Matt Millz Stands Up!
Sanitary science notes
Clean milk
food Food inspection notes
Pasteurisation
Jurassic World
Harry Hill's Whopping Great Joke Book
Food inspection notes
Tiny touch jungle animals
Paradise City
Concise Larousse Gastronomique
Sanitary science notes, a handbook for students
King Leopold
Proceedings of Planning Division seminar, University of Waterloo, February, 1971
EXILES
Macmillan Exams Skills for Russia Secondary Level Speaking
Santa is Coming to Edinburgh Colouring
Life Cycles
Minions
Sanitary science notes
France 2015 Mini Atlas (Michelin Tourist and Motoring Atlas)
Harry Hill's TV
I'm Glad My Mom Died By Jennette McCurdy, Fight!
Tim the Tiny Horse Shrinkwrapped
The Night Jesus was Born (Press Out Nativity)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Song Sounds)
Look and Learn Fun Counting
Ultimate Graphic Element Collection
Seven Days in the Art World
Lullaby Sounds
The Christmas Bear
Livin' the Dreem
Over 2001 Pretty Stickers for Girls
Laser B1 TB w Test CD
Tim the tiny horse
Santa is Coming to Scotland Colouring
Black and White My First Vehicles
Tim the Tiny Horse at large
Keto Diet : Breakfast Recipes : : Breakfast Recipes : : Breakfast Recipes
US Navy Divers Handbook
Mrs J.Rules
Scottish Ghost Stories
Leo Leopard's Play Day
EASY INDIAN SNACKS STARTERS
How to Be Silly Every Day of the Year
Go Wild be an Explorer
My Sleeping Beauty Sticker Scenes
Meir Shalev
Meir Shalev (1948-2023)

journalist, television presenter, opinion journalist, psychologist

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University Secondary School

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My Russian grandmother and her American vacuum cleaner
Neskol'ko toroplivykh slov lyubvi (Russkaya literatura)
ha-Davar hayah kakhah
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
Ma Bible est une autre Bible
Pocket Canons Bible II
Roman Rusi
Yonah ṿe-naʻar
The loves of Judith
Esau
Four meals
My Father Always Embarrasses Me
בביתו במדבר (Bebejto bambidbar)
Judiths Liebe (Diogenes Taschenbuch)
Sod aḥizat ha-ʻenayim
The first and second books of Samuel
Beginnings
Be-veto ba-midbar (Sifriyah la-am)
ʻEsaṿ
Que la terre se souvienne
A pigeon and a boy
Rewriting history in the Bible
Pocket Canons Bible II
Michael and the monster of Jerusalem
Esaus Kuß. Eine Familiensaga
Wie Der Neandertaler Den Kebab
Hannahs Grübchen
Vpervye v Biblii
Reshit
Two she-bears
PIGEON VOYAGEUR (LE)
Mi abuela rusa y su aspiradora americana
Ekh ha-adam ha-ḳadmon himtsi le-gamre be-miḳreh et ha-ḳabab ha-romani
Tanakh ʻakhshaṿ
My Wild Garden
Roman Rusi (Sifriyah la-am)
Der Sündenfall, ein Glücksfall? Alte Geschichten aus der Bibel neu erzählt
De grote vrouw
Ėsav
Fontanella
V dome svoem v pustyne--
Der Traktor im Sandkasten
Golub £ i Mal £chik
Obyknovennye udivitelʹnye istorii
Esav (Sifriyah la-am)
Fonṭanelah
Luzie, die Laus
Be-ʻiḳar ʻal ahavah
Sunburn
Fontanelle
Papa nervt
Por Amor a Judit/ for the Love of Judit
La meilleure façon de grandir
Fontanelle
Bibli︠i︡a segodn︠i︡a
Ke-yamim ahadim (Sifriyah la-am)
Pour l'amour de Judith
Dwie niedzwiedzice
Blue Mountain
Tanakh akhshav
הדבר היה ככה (Ha-davar haya kacha)
Mishkav letsim
Een geweer, een koe, een boom en een vrouw
Vyshli iz lesa dve medvedit︠s︡y
Ḳremer he-ḥatul lomed li-śeḥot
Lola
Mon jardin sauvage
ha-Yeled Ḥayim ṿeha-mifletset mi-Yerushalayim
Roni ṿe-Nomi ṿeha-dov Yaʻaḳov
The loves of Judith
Dört Ziyafet
Al tesaper le-aḥikha
Sekrety obmanchivykh chudes
Shetayim dubim =
Kak neskolʹko dneĭ--
Ḳremer ha-ḥatul yashen kol ha-zeman
De kus van Esau
Mein Wildgarten
La meilleure façon de grandir : roman
Snake, a Flood, a Hidden Baby
Dedushkin dozhd'
Aba ʻośeh bushot
Loves of Judith
Golubʹ i malʹchik
ʻEśaṿ
Aller Anfang
Four Meals
Ḳremer he-ḥatul yotse el ha-yaʻar
The loves of Judith
Four Meals
Delo bylo tak
Zwei Bärinnen
Kak neskolʹko dneĭ
El chico de las palomas
Leif G. W. Persson
Leif G. W. Persson (born 1945)

criminologist, television presenter

  • Stockholm University, Norra Real

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Gustavs grabb
Between summer's longing and winter's end
Bäckström
Entre La Promesa Del Verano Y El Frio Del Invierno/ Between the Summer Promise and the Cold of the Winter
Grisfesten
Another time, another life
Den som dödar draken
Another Time, Another Life
The dying detective
Between Summers Longing And Winters Cold
Kampen mot EKO-brotten
Direktobservation av brott
Våldtäkt
He Who Kills the Dragon
Linda, as in the Linda murder
Free falling, as if in a dream
Linda, as in the Linda Murder (Backstrom)
Horor, hallickar och torskar
Zweifel
Valdtakt: En kriminologisk kartlaggning av valdtaktsbrottet
Dying Detective
Brottstycken
Mörderische Idylle
Kan man dö tva ganger?
Falling freely, as if in a dream
The sword of justice
Den sanna historien om Pinocchios näsa
Linda - As in the Linda Murder Case
Comme dans un rêve
La nuit du 28 février
Den döende detektiven
Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld
El detective moribundo
Podlinnai︠a︡ Istorii︠a︡ Nosa Pinokkio
Comme dans un rêve
Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)

television presenter, journalist, radio personality, literary critic, editor

  • Columbia University

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Bartlett's book of anecdotes
The Little, Brown book of anecdotes
The Faber book of anecdotes
Profiles from the New Yorker
The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
A Subtreasury of American Humor
The lifetime reading plan
The new lifetime reading plan
Fifty Years
Any number can play
The American treasury, 1455-1955
Wally the Wordworm
Fantasia mathematica; being a set of stories, together with a group of oddments and diversions, all drawn from the universe of mathematics
The Treasury of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Party of one
The mathematical magpie
Fireside reader
Enter, conversing
World of the Short Story
The World treasury of children's literature
The World treasury of modern religious thought
Reading I've liked
Ecocide--and thoughts toward survival
Five American adventures
The people and places book
I believe
What Am I Doing Here?
The joys of wine
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
Reading I've liked
Cricket's choice
A Swinger of Birches
Empty pages
Wine buyers guide
A Toast to wines & spirits
The lifetime reading plan
Book-of-the-Month Club
Reading Ive Likd P
The Lifetime Reading Plan
The World of the Short Story
Little Brown Book of Anecdotes
Fifty Years
Wally the Wordworm
PARTY OF TWENTY. Informal Essays Form HOLIDAY Magazine, Edited, and with an Introduction By Clifton Fadiman.
Dionysus
Any Number Can Play
The story of young King Arthur
The Story of Young King Arthur (Legacy books)
Treasury of the Encyclopedia Britannica
Wally the Word Worm
The voyages of Ulysses
The people and places book
Five American adventures
Reading I've Liked, Personal Selections Drawn From Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing
The Treasury of the Encyclopedia Britannica
The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought
Fireside reader
Un plan de lectura para toda la vida
The World Treasury of Children's Literature
The voyages of Ulysses
The new joys of wine
Y16 Young King Arthur
The adventures of Hercules
Treasury Ency Brit6
The adventures of Hercules
Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader
The World of the short story
I believe, [by] W.H. Auden [and others]
Party of one;
Reading I've liked
The American Treasury 1455-1955
The three readers
Children's literature
gateway to the great Books volume 2 Imaginative Literature
The Well - Stocked Bookcase Sixty Enduring Novels By Americans Published Between 1926 - 1986
To the curious, intelligent reader
The American Treasury, 1455 - 1955
WORLD TREASURY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, Book Two (II)
Puffin Children's Treasury
Reading I'Ve Liked
World poetry
Appreciations
Voyages of Ulysses
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
Reading I've liked
Story of Young King Arthur
I believe
Un plan de lectura para toda la vida
Enter, conversing
Party of twenty; informal essays from Holiday magazine
Ten Years of Holiday
Ecocide... And Thoughts Toward Survivial
The adventures of Hercules
I believe
The American treasury, 1455-1955
I believe
Party of one
I believe
Reading I've liked
In praise of E.B. White, realist
The last Christmas
Any number can play
Un plan de lectura para toda la vida
"Books are weapons in the war of ideas."
Yi sheng de du shu ji hua =
Fantasia mathematica