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Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (1936-2021)

historian, essayist, businessperson, opinion journalist

  • University of North Texas, Rice University

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Lonesome Dove
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
By Sorrow's River
Telegraph Days
The Last Kind Words Saloon
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Pretty Boy Floyd
Zeke and Ned
Boone's Lick
Comanche moon
The wandering hill
Terms of Endearment
The Last Picture Show
Dead Man's Walk
Duane's Depressed
Evening Star
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
Buffalo Girls
Texasville
Some Can Whistle
Cadillac Jack
The desert rose
Somebody's Darling
Leaving Cheyenne
Folly and Glory
Anything for Billy
Roads
Brokeback Mountain. Story to Screenplay
Rhino Ranch
The Colonel and Little Missie
Streets of Laredo
Moving On
Sacagawea's Nickname
Loop group
Still Wild
Sin killer
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
Crazy Horse
The late child
When the Light Goes
Film flam
Horseman, pass by
In a narrow grave
Selected from Lonesome Dove
Custer
Lonesome Dove [2/2]
Books
Novels (Last Picture Show / Leaving Cheyenne / Lonesome Dove)
Lonesome Dove [1/2]
Oh what a slaughter
Hollywood
Lonesome Dove [1/3]
Lonesome Dove [3/3]
Moving On. 1/2
Paradise
Novels (All my friends are going to be strangers / Terms of endearment)
The Berrybender narratives
Moving On. 2/2
Literary life
Lonesome Dove [2/3]
Texasville-V1
Tendres passions
It's always we rambled
Texasville-V2
Retour a Los Dolores
Brendan DuBois
Brendan DuBois (born 1959)

journalist

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The First Lady
Shattered Shell
Betrayed
The Cornwalls Are Gone
The Summer House
Killer waves
Tales from the dark woods
Primary Storm (Lewis Cole Mysteries)
Fatal Harbor
Resurrection Day
Blowback
Dead sand
Crimes by Moonlight
Boston noir
Six Days
Final Winter
Countdown
Blood foam
After the End
Twilight
Night road
Black Tide
Black tide
Deadly cove
Lewis Cole Mystery
FINAL WINTER
Buried dreams
Cross Down
The dark snow and other mysteries
Witnesses
Twilight
Hard aground
The negotiator
Buried dreams
End
Primary storm
Dark Victory: A Novel of Alien Resistance
Rapunzel's Revenge
Dead Sand
Florida happens
Red Vengeance (Dark Victory)
Dead Sand
Red Vengeance (Dark Victory)
Dark Victory: A Novel of Alien Resistance
Storm cell
Dead of night
Black Tide
The Cornwalls Vanish
Clarkesworld Issue 96
Black Triumph
Der Tag, an dem das Feuer fiel
Blood Foam
Black tide
Shattered Shell
Fatal Harbor
Hard Aground
Betrayed
Tales of Music, Murder, and Mayhem
De laatste dagen van Amerika
Twilight
Hard Aground
Fatal harbor
Terminal Surf
Night Road
Blood Foam
Killer Waves
Buried Dreams
Black Triumph (The Dark Victory Series Book 3)
Final Winter
Primary Storm
Buried Dreams
Storm Cell
Storm Cell
Betrayed
Deadly Cove
Primary storm
Red Vengeance (The Dark Victory Series Book 2)
Franz Kurowski
Franz Kurowski (1923-2011)

journalist, photographer

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Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist

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The hour and the man
Deerbrook, a novel
The peasant and the prince, a story of the French revolution
Society in America
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
Illustrations of political economy
Eastern life, present and past
The essential faith of the universal church
Autobiography (Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies)
Letters on mesmerism
Dawn Island
Life in the sick-room
The faith as unfolded by many prophets
Harriet Martineau's letters to Fanny Wedgwood
The 'manifest destiny' of the American union ..
Household education. By Harriet Martineau
Retrospect of Western Travel-3VOLS
A British friendship
Illustrations of political economy
Harriet Martineau
Traditions Of Palestine
Harriet Martineau on women
Biographical sketches, 1852-1875
A history of the thirty years' peace, A.D. 1816-1846
The factory controversy
Introduction to the history of the peace, from 1800-1815
Die Gesellschaft und das Sociale Leben in Amerika
Guide To Windermere With Tours To The Neighboring Lakes And Other Interesting Places
The history of England from the commencement of the 19th century to the Crimean War
England and her soldiers
The English lake district
The history of England during the thirty years' peace
History of the peace
A View of the Swamp
Harriet Martineau's writing on British history and military reform
Letters from Ireland
The Crofton boys
The Billow and the Rock
History of England, A.D. 1800-1815
Five years of youth, or, Sense and sentiment
Women, emancipation and literature
Writings on slavery and the American Civil War
Berkeley the banker, or bank notes and bullion
The playfellow
Harriet Martineaus's Autobiography Part Two
How to observe
Poor laws and paupers illustrated
Times of the Saviour
British Rule in India; a Historical Sketch
Suggestions towards the future government of India
Harriet Martineau's writing on the British Empire
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older and Other Stories
A complete guide to the English lakes
Harriet Martineau in the London Daily news
Retrospect of Western Travel-VOL3
The martyr age of the United States of America
The settlers at home
Endowed schools of Ireland
Novelas económicas de H. Martineau
An independent woman's Lake District writings
Devotional exercises
Society In America V1
A description of the English lakes
The History of England From the Commencement of the 19th Century to the Crimean War Volume 4
Health, Husbandry And Handicraft
Forest and game-law tales
Retrospect of Western Travel-VOL1:
Harriet Martineaus's Autobiography Part One
Miscellanies
Our farm of two acres
Feats on the fiord, and Merdhin
Society in America; Volume 1
Brooke and Brooke Farm
The English Lakes
Health in the camp
Sowers not reapers
Principle and Practice the Orphan Family
The sickness and health of the people of Bleaburn
Illustrations of political economy
Feats on the fiord or Rolf and Oddo among the pirates
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte 2 Volume Paperback Set
History Of The Peace V1, Being A History Of England From 1816 To 1854
Sketches from life
For each and for all
Biographical sketches, 1852-1868
The young repealer
Providence as manifested through Israel
French wines and politics
The charmed sea, or, Polanders in Siberia
Illustrations of Political Economy
Illustrations of Political Economy, Taxation, Poor Laws and Paupers
Health in the hospital
Life in the wilds
Ella of Garveloch
The Jerseymen meeting
[Ireland
Views of slavery & emancipation
The hamlets
Illustrations of taxation
Illustrations of Political Economy
Prize Essays
Three English Women in America
The children who lived by the Jordan
Retrospect of Western Travel; Volume 2
Miscellanies
The Farrers of Budge-Row
Society in America, Volumes 1-2
Harriet Martineau and America
The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte; Volume 3
Miss Martineau's popular tales
Illustrations Of Political Economy
Illustrations of Political Economy, Issues 5-8
Society in America; Volume 3
Illustrations of Political Economy; Volume 9
Illustrations of Political Economy
Illustrations of Political Economy - Vol VIII
The parish
Christmas-day
Miscellanies; Volume 1
The friends
Illustrations of Political Economy
The three ages
Harriet Martineau
The tendency of strikes and sticks to produce low wages, and of union between masters and men to ensure good wages
An epitome of the positive philosophy and religion explanatory of the Society of Humanity in the City of New York
The rioters
Briery Creek
The tenth haycock
Homes abroad
The land's end
The park and the paddock
Illustrations of Political Economy
Voyage aux États-Unis
Memorials of Old Haileybury College
Harriet Martineau in London Da
The scholars of Arneside
The moral of many fables
Cinnamon and pearls
History of the Thirty Years' Peace. A, Volume 2
The Hampdens
Society in America; Volume 2
Contes choisis sur l'économie politique. Tome 1
The hill and the valley
Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte; Volume 1
[Letters additional]
Life in the Wilds. the Hill and the Valley. Brooke and Brooke Farm
Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek. the Loom and the Lugger. in Two Parts
Manchester Strike. Cousin Marshall. Ireland
Illustrations of Political Economy
English Lake District
Illustrations of Political Economy
Peasant and the Prince
A tale of the Tyne
Society in America, Volumes 1-2
Eastern Life
Harriet Martineau's autobiography
ha-Mityashvim ʻal ha-i
The children who lived by the Jordan
Prefatory letter to Henry Whitworth, Esq., secretary to the National Assoc. of Factory Occupiers
Miscellanies
Harpatḳah ba-Feyord
Two letters on cow-keeping
A Manchester strike
Biographical sketches
The settlers at home
Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek
[Letter to] My dear friend
Harriet Martineau's autobiography
The moral of many fables
Miscellanies
[Letter to] My dear friend
Ireland
Providence as manifested through Israel
Glen of the echoes
Feats on the fjord
Society in America
Corporate tradition and national rights
Voyage aux États-Unis
Biographical sketches
On the duty of studying political economy
Illustrations of political economy
De la société américaine
Six letters from a very high personage
The essential faith of the universal church
Berkeley the banker, or bank notes and bullion
The Factory controversy
[Letter to] My dear friend
Addresses
A complete guide to the English lakes
The hour and the man
Loom and lugger, or, Weavers and smugglers
[Letter to] My dear friend
Diana L. Paxson
Diana L. Paxson (born 1943)

composer, journalist

  • Mills College at Northeastern

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Excalibur
Priestess of Avalon
The book of the cauldron
The book of the stone
The book of the spear
The book of the sword
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ravens of Avalon
The Hallowed Isle
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
Forests of Avalon
Wings of Omen
The Blood of Ten Chiefs Vol. 3
Master of Earth and Water
The Face of Chaos
The White Raven
The Golden Hills of Westria
Storm Season
Wolfsong
The shield between the worlds
The Wolf and the Raven
Sword of Fire and Shadow
Elfquest, The Blood of Ten Chiefs 1
Taking Up The Runes
The Earthstone (Westria, No 4)
In Celebration of Lammas Night
Shadows of Sanctuary
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon
Flights of fantasy
Lord of Horses
Against the Wind
Dragon's of the Rhine
Sword and Sorceress XXI
The Jewel Of Fire
White mare, red stallion
The serpent's tooth
Celestial Wisdom for Every Year of Your Life
Silverhair the Wanderer
The sea star
Lady of Darkness
Brisingamen
Dark Hours
Wind Crystal Paxson
Heathen Garb and Gear
Odin
Extraterrestrials & Eclipses
The Paradise Tree
LADY OF LIGHT
Pagan anthology of short fiction
The Mistress of the Jewels (Westria, No 1)
Essential Asatru
Blood Ties
Gunsmoke & Dragonfire
Lady of Avalon
Essential Asatru
Words for Warriors
Die Herrin der Raben
Trance-portation
Die Töchter der Nibelungen 3. Gudruns Rache
Tochter des Lichts
Die Töchter der Nibelungen
The way of the oracle
Essential Guide to Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships
Casting Lots
Lady of light, lady of darkness
Die Töchter der Nibelungen 02. Sigfrids Tod
Celestial Guide to Every Year of Your Life
Die Töchter der Nibelungen 1. Brunhilds Lied
Irving Bacheller
Irving Bacheller (1859-1950)

journalist

  • St. Lawrence University

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A Man for the Ages
Eben Holden
In the Days of Poor Richard
In the days of poor Richard
Eben Holden a Tale of the North Country
D'ri and I
Eben Holden; A Tale Of The North Country
D'Ri and I (A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British)
Eben Holden
The Light in the Clearing (A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright)
A Budget of Christmas Tales
The light in the clearing
Vergilius
Keeping up with Lizzie
Darrel of the Blessed Isles
The master
The master, being in part copied from the minutes of the school for novelists
Silas Strong
The turning of Griggsby
The marryers
The prodigal village
"Charge it"
Keeping up with William
In Various Moods
The martyers
The hand-made gentleman
Silas Strong, emperor of the woods
Librivox Short Story Collection 054
From stores of memory
Eben Holden's last day a-fishing
Catcher Featured picture book village of the legendary master of the fox collection (all 8) (Paperback)
The story of a passion
A Man for the Ages (A Story of the Builders of Democracy)
Father Abraham
A man for the ages
The master of chaos
Dawn
The House of the three ganders
Thick-lens optics;
Coming up the road
Best things from American literature
Silas Strong
A candle in the wilderness
A man for the ages
A Man for the Ages
Opinions of a cheerful Yankee
Light in the Clearing : A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas
Lyskasteren
Light in the Clearing
In Various Moods Poems and Verses
Life Work of Louis Klopsch
Candle in the Wilderness
Eben Holden
Hand-Made Gentleman
Coming up the road
In the Days of Poor Richard
The Light in the Clearing
埃本-霍尔登，北方国家的故事
The big loot and murder trust
The Master of Silence
A Man for the Ages
The Turning of Griggsby Being a Story of Keeping Up with Daniel Webster
A boy for the ages
Darrel of the Blessed Isles
Man for the Ages. a Story of the Builders of Democracy
Keeping Up With Lizzie - Charge It
Eben Holden
'Charge It'
Keeping up with Lizzie
Eben Holden's Last Day a-Fishing - Large Print
Eben Holden
Silas Strong, emperor of the woods
The winds of God
Prodigal Village: A Christmas Tale
The Master of Silence
In Various Moods
The Scudders
A man for the ages
Charge It or Keeping Up with Harry
The oxen of the sun
Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing
Dawn
The Prodigal Village
D'ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of ..
Uncle Peel
The Light in the Clearing
Darrell Of The Blessed Isles
Darrel of the Blessed Isles (Classic Reprint)
The Turning of Griggsby
Vergilius (A Tale of the Coming of Christ)
A man for the ages;
Turning of Griggsby
Eben Holden : Unabridged Original Classics Series - Complete Paperback Edition
Prodigal Village
Eben Holden : A Tale of the North Country
A Man for the Ages by Irving Bacheller (2009-03-01)
Great moments in the life of Washington
The Scudders A Story of Today
Lincoln and the ladies
The light in the clearing
The master being in part copied from the minutes of the school for novelists, a round table of good fellows in New York City
The prodigal village
Vergilius
The story of a passion
The still house of O'Darrow
Best things from American literature
Vergilius
D'ri and I
The harvesting
Michel Zevaco
Michel Zevaco (1860-1918)

journalist, film director

  • Lycée Saint-Louis

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The Pardaillan
De cape noire en épée rouge
Kraljev vitez
Kapitan
Hṛomi papin zawaknerě
Fosṭah ṿe-Pardayan
אהבתו הגדולה של פארדאיאן
Le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy
הנאהבים מוונציה
Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984)

poet, journalist, politician

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Tikhiĭ Don
The Don Flows Home to the Sea, Vol. 2
And Quiet Flows the Don
Тихий Дон
Sudʹba cheloveka
Short stories
Podni︠a︡tai︠a︡ t︠s︡elina
Donskie rasskazy
The Don flows home to the sea
Seeds of tomorrow
The Don flows home to the sea
Tikhii Don
And Quiet Flows the Don
Selected tales from the Don
Di ḳoylnṿarfer-ḳomande
Early stories
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Slovo o rodine
Oni srazhalisʹ za rodinu
One man's destiny
Quiet Flows the Don
Pisatelʹ i vozhdʹ
And Quiet Flows The Don
Sobranie sochinenii v semi tomakh
Tikhii Don
Tales from the Don
They fought for their country
Hate And Down South
Nauka nenavisti
Podnyataya tselina
M. Sholokhov: Oni srazhalisʹ za rodinu
Collected works in eight volumes
Tikhiĭ Don
At the bidding of the heart
The Don Flows Home to the Sea, Vol. 1
Podnyataya tselina
HARVEST ON THE DON
And Quiet Flows The Don Part 1 Of 2
The silent Don
The Don Flows Home
Po veleni|i|a dushi
[Sudʹba cheloveka (romanized form)] =
Virgin soil upturned
Sobranie sochinenii v semi tomakh
And quiet flows the Don
Rossii͡a︡ v serdt͡s︡e
The fate of a man
[The silent Don] Translated from the Russian by Stephen Garry
Tikhiĭ Don
Podnyataya tselina
Rossiya v serdtse
Tixii Don
Harvest on the Don
Sudb́a cheloveka = (Destiny of a man)
Rannie rasskazy
Syd'ba cheloveka = (Destiny of a man)
Sobranie sochinenii v vos'mi tomakh
And Quiet Flows the Don Part 2 of 2
Rannie rasskasy
And Quiet Flows the Don A Novel
At the bidding of the heart
Nakhalenok
Sobranie sochinenii
Fedotka i drugie
And Quiet Flows the Don Part 1 of 2
Oru Manushyante Vidhi
Sud'ba cheloveka
Put'-dorozhen'ka
Fierce and gentle warriors
Zhivaya sila realizma
Collected works in eight volumes
Donskie rasskazy
Rasskazy
Virgin Soil Upturned, Book 1 (Volume 1)
Sud'ba cheloveka (Destiny of a man)
Aur Don bahtā rahā
Zhivai͡a︡ sila realizma
The Don Flows Home to the Sea
Ernte am Don
Terres défrichées
The fate of man
Soldatskai͡a︡ druzhba
The Don Flows Home To The Sea Part 1 Of 2
Tales from the Don
Jing jing de Dun He
(Sbornik
Selected tales from the Don
Slovo o rodine
Kumārī maṭira ghuma bhāńalo
Der Stille Don
Oni srazhalis' za rodinu
Soviet war stories
Seeds of tomorrow
Tikhii Don. V 2-kh knigakh
Tikhiĭ Don
Sobranie sochinenii v deviati tomakh
Le Don paisible
The Don Flows Home To The Sea Part 2 Of 2
Sāgare milāẏa D̤ana
The Don Flows Home to the Sea
Destiny of man
Stories
And Quiet Flows the Don; A Novel
And Quiet Flows The Don Part 2 Of 2
Po velenii︠u︡ dushi
Sobranie sochinenii
Moguchiĭ talant
Der stille Don
Tikhiĭ Don
Ein Menschenschicksal
Rannie rasskazy
Hate
Sudʹba cheloveka
The silent Don
Proza i publit︠s︡istika o voĭne
Put'-dorozhen'ka
Tikhiĭ Don
Podni︠a︡tai︠a︡ t︠s︡elina
Neuland unter dem Pflug
Seeds of tomorrow
Pisʹma, 1924-1984
The soil upturned
Fuego en el Don
Sobranie sochineniĭ v vosʹmi tomakh
Rannie rasskazy
Bei kai ken de huang di
Virgin soil upturned
Herkats khopan
Seeds of tomorrow
Rasskazy
Mardu chakatagirě
Putʹ-dorozhenʹka
And quiet flows the Don
Virgin Soul Upturned
Sobranie sochinenii
Podni︠a︡tai︠a︡ t︠s︡i︠e︡lina
Cichy Don
גורלו של אדם
Di ḳoylnṿarfer- Ḳomande
Oni srazhalisʹ za Rodinu
Kuṉvāre khet
Podn︠i︡ata︠i︡a ︠t︡selina
Tikhiĭ Don
Donskie rasskazy
Slovo o rodine
25 Stories from the Soviet Republics
Don Flows Home to The-V1
And Quiet Flows The-V01
Pisʹma
Neuland unterm Pflug
Der shṭiler Don
We Carry On Tales Of The War
Oni srazhalisʹ za Rodinu ; Sudʹba cheloveka
Shizukanaru Don
Poėzii︠a︡ XIX-nachala XX veka
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Podni︠a︡tai︠a︡ t︠s︡elina ; Sudʹba cheloveka
Iṃsāna kā nasībā
Ilm-i kin
Dȯlgȯȯn Don
Jing jing de Dun He
Они сражались за родину
ha-Don ha-shaḳeṭ
Sudʹba cheloveka
Zu guo song
Zhivai︠a︡ sila realizma
Podni︠a︡tai︠a︡ t︠s︡elina
Don Flows Home to The-V2
Donskie rasskazy
Tichý Don
[The silent Don]
קרקע בתולה
Tales from the Don
One man's destiny, and other stories, articles and sketches 1923-1963 [by] Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows The-V02
Ufgeaḳerṭe royerd
Bei kai ken de chu nu di