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Christopher Tolkien
Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020)

editor

  • Dragon School, University of Oxford

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The book of lost tales
The peoples of Middle-Earth
The Shaping of Middle-Earth
Morgoth's Ring
The war of the jewels
The War of the Ring
The Treason of Isengard
Sauron Defeated
The Complete History of Middle-Earth
Lost Road
History of the Lord of the Rings
The History of Middle-earth
La Caida de Numenor
Pictures
The History of Middle-Earth: Index
La realtà in trasparenza. Lettere
History of Middle-Earth Part Two
The Complete History of Middle-Earth
History of Middle-Earth
History of Middle-Earth Part One
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #3
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Beowulf
The Great Tales of Middle-earth
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #2
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #1
The History of Middle-earth Boxed Set
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
The J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection
Complete History of Middle-Earth
Great Tales of Middle-Earth Boxed Set
History of Middle-Earth Part Three
History of Middle-Earth Box Set #4
The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise / Saga Heidreks Konungs ins Vitra
Morgoth's Ring : The Later Silmarillion, Part One
The saga of King Heidrek the Wise
Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks
Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
Saga of King Heidrek the Wise
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
John Crowley
John Crowley (born 1942)

  • Indiana University, Indiana University Bloomington

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Four Freedoms
Conor Kostick
Conor Kostick (born 1964)

historian

  • Trinity College Dublin

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Rachel Pollack
Rachel Pollack (1945-2023)

poet, translator, visual artist, lecturer

  • New York University, Claremont Graduate University

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People of the Book
Steampunk
Unquenchable fire
Temporary agency
Godmother Night
Child Eater
Temporary agency
The child eater
The Tarot of perfection
The journey out
The body of the goddess
Godmother night
The complete illustrated guide to tarot
Semiotext(e) SF
2001
Temporary agency
Teach Yourself Fortune Telling
New thoughts on tarot
Shining woman
The Beatrix Gates
Seventy eight degrees of wisdom
Haindl Tarot
Unquenchable fire
Salvador Dali's tarot
Walk Through the Forest of Souls
The Big Little Book of Tarot
Tarot tales
Seventy-eight degrees of wisdom
The Haindl tarot
The new tarot
The Haindl tarot, the minor arcana
Master the meanings of the cards
Godmother Night
Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack Omnibus
Fortune's Lover
A practical guide to fortune telling
Seeker
The Haindl tarot, the major arcana
The complete illustrated guide to tarot
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
Alqua Dreams
Haindl Tarot
Fabrications
The power of ritual
Golden Vanity
The Beatrix Gates (Outspoken Authors Book 22)
Haindl Tarot, Major Arcana, Rev Ed
Salvadore Dali's Tarot
Golden Vanity
Burning Sky
Golden Vanity
The Kabbalah tree
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #4
Tarot
Salvador Dali's tarot
Tarot, arcanos menores
Time Breakers
The forest of souls
Rachel Pollack's tarot wisdom
The Fissure King
Alqua Dreams
The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories
Tarot, arcanos mayores
A secret woman
Dead Beats
TAROT ARCANOS MAYORES
The shining tribe tarot
Burning Sky
Motherland
Archetypal sex
The Shining Tribe Tarot, Renewed and Expanded
The new tarot
The Haindl tarot, the major arcana
Im Ko rper der Go ttin
Tarot readings and meditations
Tarot Gift Set
The Haindl tarot, the minor arcana
Carl Sargent
Carl Sargent (1952-2018)

game designer, role-playing game designer, psychologist

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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness (born 1965)

historian, executive producer, blogger

  • Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University

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A Discovery of Witches
The Book of Life
Shadow of night
Time's convert
All Souls Trilogy Boxed Set
The world of All Souls
The Jewel house
John Dee's conversations with angels
The Voynich Manuscript
El libro de la vida
Many Europes
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La sombra de la noche
El hijo del tiempo
Wo die Nacht beginnt
Le Livre perdu des sortilèges
Many Europes with Connect Two-Term Access Card
Die Seelen der Nacht
Many Europes, Vol 2 w/ Connect Plus with LearnSmart History 1 Term Access Card
Księga wszystkich dusz
Lel kol ha-mekhashefot
Knjiga života
El descubrimiento de las brujas
P. Djèlí Clark
P. Djèlí Clark (born 1971)

historian

  • Texas State University, Stony Brook University

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Mark Schorer
Mark Schorer (1908-1977)

professor, critic

  • Harvard University, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Short Stories from the New Yorker
Sinclair Lewis
The literature of America: twentieth century
Sinclair Lewis (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Number. 27)
William Blake
Modern British fiction
Galaxy
Harbrace college reader
The state of mind
Criticism
The world we imagine
The novelist in the modern world
Pieces of life
Galaxy
Harbrace college reader
Sinclair Lewis ; an American life
Lawrence in the war years
The wars of love
The University of California centennial
Society and self in the novel
The story
HB College Reader
William Blake; the politics of vision
A house too old
The story
Harbrace college reader
The literature of America
The world we live in
Sinclair Lewis
The hermit place
The world we imagine
American literature
William Blake
Galaxy
Korrupsii︠a︡
Criticism
D.H. Lawrence