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Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Simonetta Agnello Hornby (born 1945)

jurist, lawyer

  • University of Palermo

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The Almond Picker
The Almond Picker
The marchesa
La Tia Marquesa/ Aunt Marchioness
La Mennulara /The Almond Picker
The nun
Un filo d'olio
Entre la bruma
Vento scomposto
Boccamurata
La Mennulara
Un anno in giallo
L'Amandière
Mi Londres
Mi Londres
El veneno de las adelfas
La cucina del buon gusto
Caffè amaro
Thomas King
Thomas King (born 1943)

radio personality, photographer, essayist, scholar of English, actor, film director, academic, activist

  • University of Utah

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Green grass, running water
Truth & Bright Water
The truth about stories
One good story, that one
Coyote sings to the moon
All my relations
Medicine River
A short history of Indians in Canada
Coyote tales
A Coyote Columbus story
All my relations
Une brève histoire des Indiens au Canada
Denis Guedj
Denis Guedj (1940-2010)

mathematician, actor

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Le théorème du perroquet
La Méridienne
One zéro show et Du point à la ligne
La gratuité ne vaut plus rien
Génis, ou, Le bambou parapluie
Les cheveux de Bérénice
L'empire des nombres
Meraklisina Matematik
La Bela
Zéro, ou, Les cinq vies d'Aémer
La Révolution des savants
Villa des hommes
Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig (1935-2003)

essayist, philosopher, activist

  • Sorbonne

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Les Guérillères
Les Guerilleres
Guérillères
Corps lesbien
Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes
The straight mind and other essays
The straight mind and other essays
Lesbian peoples
The lesbian body
The Opoponax
Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes
L'Opoponax
Le Corps Lesbien
El pensamiento heterosexual y otros ensayos/ The Straight Mind and Other Essays (Colección G/ G Collection)
La Pensée straight
The Opoponax
Across the Acheron
Le corps lesbien
The Guérillères
Paris-la-politique et autres contes
L' Opoponax
Le voyage sans fin =
Across the Acheron
El cuerpo lesbiano
L' Opoponax
Virgile, non
Le Voyage san Fin
Le voyage sans fin =
Borrador Para un Diccionario de las Amantes Draft of a Dictionary for Lovers
Lesbian People
Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer (born 1959)

  • Brown University, Smith College

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The dream book
Belzhar
The Uncoupling
This is your life
The ten-year nap
Sleepwalking
Caribou
The Interestings
Wednesday night match
The Position
The Moth Presents Occasional Magic
The female persuasion
La Esposa
Fitzgerald did it
The Best American Short Stories 2017
Surrender, Dorothy
Friends for life
Saturday night toast
Hidden pictures
Fourteen Days
The fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
Tuesday night pie
To Night Owl From Dogfish
Millions of Maxes
What Car is That?
Scott C. Holstad
Scott C. Holstad (born 1966)

professor, researcher, entrepreneur, policy analyst, editor

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, California State University, Long Beach

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Shadows Before the Maiming
The Napalmed Soul
Industrial Madness
Hang Gliding on X
Cells
Junction City
Artifacts
Grungy Ass Swaying
Places
Dancing With The Lights Out
Never-Ending Cigarettes
Distant Visions, Again and Again
Street Poems
Binge
[sarah] Cavar
[sarah] Cavar

scientist, researcher, poet

  • University of California, Davis

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bugbutter
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
CO/NOTATIONS
Failure to Comply
Mad Scientist Journal
A Hole Walked In
The Dream Journals
Out of Mind & Into Body
A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson (1862-1925)

poet, academic, diarist

  • Eton College, University of Cambridge

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The Isles of Sunset
The Child of the Dawn
Brontë poems
The Upton letters
At large
Joyous Gard
Alfred Tennyson
Where No Fear Was
Rossetti
The Altar Fire
The house of quiet
Until the evening
Edward Fitzgerald
The thread of gold
The trefoil
The reed of Pan
Along the road
The schoolmaster
Meanwhile
Father Payne
William Laud
The leaves of the tree
Genealogy of the Family of Benson of Banger House and Northwoods, in the ..
Essays
The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years ...
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories
The life of Edward White Benson
Men of might
The professor
Edwardian excursions
Ghosts in the House
The Silent Isle
The diary of Arthur Christopher Benson
The gate of death
Hugh - Memoirs Of A Brother
Beside still waters
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Peace
Memories and friends
The Life Of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop Of Canterbury V1
Thy rod and Thy staff
Life and letters of Maggie Benson
Walter Pater
From A College Window
Escape, and other essays
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A
Chris Gascoyne
Lyrics
Cambridge Essays on Education
Fasti etonenses
Tennyson
Le cahier jaune
Secret Wells
Watersprings (1913)
Rossetti
The orchard pavillion
Ruskin; A Study In Personality
Letters of Queen Victoria 9 Volume Set
The Temple of Death and Other Stories
The happy warrior
The poems of A.C. Benson ..
The house of Menerdue
Collected Works of Arthur Christopher Benson
The letters of one, a study in limitations by Charles Hare Plunkett
The book of the queen's dolls' house
Bensoniana
Cressage
Lord Vyet, and other poems
Magdalene College Cambridge
Godolphin
Rossetti
The Life Of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop Of Canterbury V2
Poems
Extracts from the letters of Dr. A.C. Benson to M.E.A
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson: One Novel 'The Child of the Dawn,' One Novelette 'The Uttermost Farthing' and Eight Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual
Herb Moly and Heartsease
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson
Cambridge Essays in Education
Rambles and reflections
Essays of to-day and yesterday
Lest we forget
Basil Netherby
The canon
The hill of trouble and other stories
Thomas Gray
A. C. Benson
Everybody's book of the queen's dolls' house
Selected poems
Poems
The life of Edward White Benson
Essays
Thy rod and Thy staff
The secret of Christ, the essentials of Christianity
The orchard pavillion
Father Payne
Walter Pater
The Upton letters
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton
Lyrics
A Cluster of Grapes
Life and letters of Maggie Benson
Poems
The beauty of life
The child of the dawn
Ode to Japan
Beside still waters
William Laud, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury
Monnow
Ode in memory of the Rt. Honble. William Ewart Gladstone
Edward Fitzgerald