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Bryan Sykes
Bryan Sykes (1947-2020)

geneticist, croquet player

  • Eltham College, University of Liverpool

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The Seven Daughters of Eve
Adam's Curse
Blood of the Isles
DNA USA
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts
Once a Wolf
Bigfoot, Yeti, and the last Neanderthal
Les sept filles d'Eve
The Human Inheritance
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
BLOOD OF THE ISLES: EXPLORING THE GENETIC ROOTS OF OUR TRIBAL HISTORY
ADAM'S CURSE: A STORY OF SEX, GENETICS AND THE EXTINCTION OF MEN
Adam's Curse
One world-many genes
Wolf Within
From Wolf to Woof
Die sieben Töchter Evas
Las Siete Hijas de Eva
Bảy nàng con gái của Eva =
Nature of the Beast
La Maldicion De Adan/ the Curse of Adam (Referencia)
Mathias Énard
Mathias Énard (born 1972)

translator

  • Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, École du Louvre

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Boussole
Zone
L'alcool et la nostalgie
Brújula
Bréviaire des artificiers
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé (1934-2024)

playwright, literary scholar

  • Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3

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Windward heights
I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem
Ségou
Segou Vol. 3
Segou
The children of Segu
The children of Segu
Les Murailles de Terre, 1 vol
The Children of Segu
Tree of life
A season in Rihata
Crossing the Mangrove
The last of the African kings
Tales from the heart
La civilisation du bossale
Hérémakhonon
Le coeur à rire et à pleurer
En attendant le bonheur
Victoire
Land of many colors
Conversations with Maryse Condé
Who slashed Celanire's throat?
The Journey of a Caribbean Writer
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
Desirada
Célanire cou-coupé
Penser la créolité
The Story of the Cannibal Woman
Pays mêlé
La parole des femmes
Who slashed Celanire's throat?
Comme deux frères
Ségou
En attendant la montée des eaux
Hugo le terrible (French Edition)
Le ceur a rire et a pleurer
Haïti chérie
Conte Cruel
La vie scélérate
Le cœur à rire et à pleurer
Entretiens avec Maryse Condé
Sturminsel
tits Rêves amers
Nouvelles d'Amérique
Le Coeur A Rire Et A Pleurer
Insel der Vergangenheit
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
Les belles ténébreuses
Hai ti che rie
Se gou
Pension les alizés
La colonie du nouveau monde
Célanire cou-coupé
De Watergodin
La migration des cœurs
Barlovento
The Morne of Massabielle
La belle Créole
La colonie du nouveau monde
Tales from the heart
Segou I De Aarden Wallen
Pays mêlé
La Belle et la Bête
En attendant la montée des eaux
Dieu nous l'a donné ..
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, Cesaire
Mort d'Oluwémi d'Ajumako
Stadt, Gemeinde, Genossenschaft
Pension les alizés
An tan revolisyon
Wie Spreu im Wind
Travessa del manglar
Travessa del manglar
Le coeur à rire et à pleurer: contes vrais de mon enfance
La migration des coeurs
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

poet

  • University of Iowa, Northwestern University

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Jubilee
Jubilee
Jubilee
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Conversations with Margaret Walker
On Being Female, Black, and Free
Richard Wright, daemonic genius
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
How I wrote Jubilee and other essays on life and literature
Prophets for a New Day
October journey
Away With the Vicar
This is my century
How I wrote Jubilee
Cucumber Sandwiches & Fishnet Tights
Jubilee
Moral Understandings
Jubilee
Margaret Walker's "For my people"
Jubilee
For my people
Margaret Walker Alexander reads Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker
Jubilee (excerpts)
Interview With Margaret Walker
For my people
Letters and Second Indian Journal
Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander, January 22, 1977
For my people
Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland (1857-1945)

autobiographer, poet

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Wisdom of Fools
Old Chester tales
John Ward, preacher
Florida days
Around Old Chester
Small things
Florida days
Sidney
Where the laborers are few
Small things
Mr. Tommy Dove: And Other Stories
An Old Chester secret
Old Chester tales
John Ward, preacher
The Way to Peace
The promises of Alice
The vehement flame
R. J.'s mother, and some other people
Dr. Lavendar's people
Sidney
The way to peace
Mr. Tommy Dove
The old garden
The common way
Dr. Lavendar's people by Margaret Deland
The voice
Small things
Partners
The iron woman
Around Old Chester
An Old Chester secret
The wisdom of fools
The Awakening of Helena Richie
Philip and his wife
The rising tide
Good for the soul
The iron woman
Old Chester Days
An Old Chester Secret
Mr. Tommy Dove, And Other Stories
Around Old Chester
The Iron Woman
The Wisdom of Fools
Partners
Philip And His Wife
Good For The Soul
Golden yesterdays
Small Things
The old garden, and other verses
The wisdom of fools
The Rising Tide
The old garden and other verses
Old Chester Tales
John Ward, Preacher
R. J's mother and some other people
The hands of Esau
If This Be I, As I Suppose It Be
John Ward Preacher
Dr. Lavendar's people
The common way
Many Waters
An encore
R.J.'s mother
Philip and his wife
Way to Peace
Old Chester days
Mr. Tommy Dove
The story of a child in old Chester
Sidney
The voice
The rising tide
Way to Peace
Dr. Lavendar's People
Partners
The vehement flame
The promises of Alice
The story of a child
John Ward, preacher
Sidney
John Ward, Preacher
Captain Archer's daughter
Iron Woman:(illustrated Edition)
Iron Woman Illustrated
Iron Woman-Original Edition(Annotated)
Reencuentro
The Rising Tide
Where the Laborers Are Few
Iron Woman
Sidney
An Old Chester Secret
Dr. Lavendar's People
The Kays
Iron Woman (Illustrated)
Around Old Chester
The Voice
Old Chester Tales (Illustrated)
Iron Woman Annotated and Illustrated
Doctor Lavendar's People
Iron Woman by Margaret Deland Student Edition and Annotated Edition
Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Deland. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock
Partners
The Way to Peace
Iron Woman Illustrated
Iron Woman (Annotated Edition)
A Summer day
New friends in old Chester
The Vehement Flame
The old garden
Old Chester Secret
Way to Peace
Iron Woman Illustrate
The Awakening of Helena Richie
John Ward Preacher
Iron Woman by Margaret Deland
John Ward, Preacher
Iron Woman Annotated
Iron Woman (Annotated)
Voice
John Ward, preacher
Old Chester tales
If this be I, as I suppose it be
Dr. Lavendar's people
THE RISING TIDE
Old garden & other verses
Old garden and other verses
Bartolomé Bennassar
Bartolomé Bennassar (1929-2018)

historian, assistant professor, assistant professor

  • Faculty of Arts of Paris, University of Montpellier

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Tracy Sorensen
Tracy Sorensen

academic

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Kamal Ruhayyim
Kamal Ruhayyim (1947-2023)

police officer

  • Cairo University

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