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Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips (born 1958)

pedagogue, playwright

  • University of Oxford, King Edward VI King’s Norton School for Boys

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Cambridge
Crossing the river
The nature of blood
Higher ground
In the falling snow
Foreigners
A view of the empire at sunset
Nature of Blood
The lost child
The Lost Child: A Novel
Cambridge
Foreigners
Rough crossings
Crossing the River
Higher Ground
Banjo
A distant shore
The Atlantic Sound
A new world order
A state of independence
The European tribe
The European tribe
The final passage
Dancing in the dark
Dancing in the dark
Colour Me English
Extravagant Strangers
Color me English
Higher ground
Higher ground
The Right Set
In the falling snow
In the Falling Snow (Vintage)
Dancing In The Dark A Novel
Extravagant strangers
The Shelter
Strange Fruit (Plays)
The right set
La Traversée du Fleuve
Housing Lark
Conversations with Caryl Phillips
Sonido del Atlantico, El
Cruzar el rio / Crossing the River
Playing away
A View of the Empire at Sunset
Extravagant strangers
Where There Is Darkness (Plays)
Auf festem Grund. Ein Roman in drei Teilen
Color Me English
Colour Me English
La Naturaleza de La Sangre
Foreigners
Strange Fruit
Final Passage
Caryl Phillipss Radio Plays : The Wasted Years, Crossing the River, the Prince of Africa, Writing Fiction, a Kind of Home
Distant Shore
The shelter
Dancing in the Dark
The Nature of Blood
Where there is darkness
New World Order
Caryl Phillips : Plays One
The wasted years
Extravagant strangers
The Passion of Joan Paul II
Atlantic Sound
Odległy brzeg
Rough crossings
Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer (born 1948)

teacher, zoologist, biologist

  • University of Oxford

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The glass room
Tightrope
The glass room
The girl who fell from the sky
The glass room
Prague spring
Prague Spring
Trapeze
The girl who fell from the sky
Trapeze
Prague Spring EPub
Mendel's dwarf
The gospel of Judas
The Fall
Swimming to Ithaca
Gospel of Judas, The
Gregor Mendel : planting the seeds of genetics
Fall
The gospel of Judas
A jealous God
Mendel's dwarf
The Glass Room
Mendels Zwerg
Gregor Mendel
Chimera
El evangelio de Judas (The Gospel of Judas)
Le palais de verre
Place in Italy
De val
Trapeze
Ancestry
SWIMMING TO ITHACA
The Bitter Cross
Swimming to Ithaca
The glass room
Karzeł Mendla
Fall
Gospel of Judas Hb Book Club
La chica que cayó del cielo
De glazen kamer
Irene Hunt
Irene Hunt (1902-2001)

teacher

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Minnesota

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No Promises in the Wind
Up a road slowly
The Lottery Rose
Trail of apple blossoms
William
Across Five Aprils
Claws of a Young Century
The everlasting hills
Across Five Aprils with Connected Readings
A midsummer night's fling
ACROSS FIVE APRILS and Related Readings
Lift (LIFT, literature is for thinking)
Qing se sui yüeh
David Benioff
David Benioff (born 1970)

film producer, television producer, teacher, actor, journalist, manufacturer, television director, showrunner, film director

  • Trinity College Dublin, Dartmouth College

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City of thieves
City of thieves
The 25th hour
The Kite Runner
When the Nines Roll Over
When the nines roll over and other stories
LA Ultima Hora
Descalza Sobre El Trebol y Otros Relatos
Game of Thrones
24 heures avant la nuit
25 Stunden
25 Stunden. Der Roman zum Film
City of thieves
Stadt der Diebe
X-Men origins
Stad der dieven
Het 25ste uur
Qie dao cheng shi
Eric Walters
Eric Walters (born 1957)

teacher

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Camp 30
Grind
Diamonds in the Rough
Three on three
Long shot
My Name is Blessing
House Party
Road trip
Between Heaven and Earth
Overdrive
War of the eagles
Sketches
Boot Camp
Rebound
Caged eagles
Off Season
Trapped in ice
We All Fall Down
Tiger Town
The rule of thre3
When elephants fight : the lives of children in conflict in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Uganda
Hoop crazy!
Today Is the Day
Full court press
Camp X
Death by Exposure
Tiger in Trouble
An African Alphabet
Tiger by the Tail
In a flash
Safe As Houses
Underdog
Shattered
Fly Boy
Stuffed
The Hydrofoil Mystery
Triple Threat
Run
Special Edward
Juice
The Wild Beast
The Rule of Three: Will to Survive
Bifocal
Laggan Lard Butts
Fool's Gold (Camp X)
Stranded
Stand Your Ground
Bully Boys, The
The Falls
Visions
Tiger Trap
Splat!
Catboy
Power play
Stars
Beverly Hills Maasai
Light a Candle
Wounded
End of Days
Surfer Dog
Good Night, Noah
Elixir
The matatu
90 days of different
Alexandria of Africa
Ricky
The Money Pit Mystery
Regenesis
Voyageur
On the Line
Broken Strings
The Seven Prequels Boxed Set
Black And White
On the Rocks
Shell shocked
Au Pas Camarade
Bath Time!
Walking Home
Prince for a princess
Houston, Is There a Problem?
United We Stand
Don't Stand So Close to Me
Wave
Hunter
Elephant secret
From the heart of Africa
Bedtime 123
Saving Sammy
Branded
High and Dry
Shaken
Made 4 You
Tagged
Fourth Dimension
Hope springs
I've got an idea
The True Story of Santa Claus
Hockey Night in Kenya
Nothing to Fear
Sleeper
Eve Dönüs
Just deserts
Sleeper Unabridged CD Audiobook
King of Jam Sandwiches
Always with You
Wonderful Words of Life
My Life with Lukas (on Topanga Canyon Boulevard): The Photos
Northern Exposures
Innocent
Royal Ransom
Bear in the Family
Skye above
Camp X : Enigma
The Eric Walters Seven 2-Pack
Camp X : Trouble in Paradise
Batcat and the Seven Squirrels
Jungle Land
Tell me why
Stranded
The pole
Royal ransom
Shell shocked
Camp X
Voyageur
Trouble in paradise
The art of picking up girls (and other dangerous things)
The bully boys
Ricky
Will to surviv3
Just deserts
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889-1968)

opinion journalist, poet, teacher

  • School of Fine Arts in Warsaw

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Blessed are the meek
Troja północy
The covenant
W Polsce Podziemnej
Krzyżowcy
The leper king
Wspomnienia z Kornwalii 1947-1957
The meek shall inherit
Troja północy, 966-1966
Szaleńcy Boży
Złota wolność
Pożoga
Dzień dzisiejszy
Kłopoty Kacperka góreckiego skrzata
Rok polski
Z otchłani
Na emigracji
The blaze
Król trędowaty
Suknia Dejaniry
Błogosławiony Jan Sarkander ze Skoczowa
The blaze
Bursztyny
Dziedzictwo
Przymierze
Bez oręża
The gift of Nessus
Nieznany kraj
Pątniczym szlakiem
Bez ore̦źa
Dziedzictwo
The leper king
Blessed are the meek
Król trędowaty
Ognisty woz
Bursztyny
Du fond de l'abîme, Seigneur..
Krzyżowcy
Przymierze
Dziedzictwo
Beato sacrilegio
Rok Polski
Patniczym szlakiem
Złota wolność
The covenant
Rok polski
Król Tredowaty
The blaze
Blogoslawiona wina
Legnickie pole
Król trędowaty
Suknia Dejaniry
Ognisty wóz
Blessed are the meek
Bez oręża
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (born 1946)

teacher

  • Harvard University

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The Things They Carried
Words of Ages
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Critical Insights
En El Lago de Los Bosques
If I die in a combat zone box me up and ship me home
In the Lake of the Woods
A la poursuite de Cacciato
TOMCAT IN LOVE
Going after Cacciato
Ploughshares Winter 1978
Light years ago
Dad's Maybe Book
July, July
If I Die in a Combat Zone
Tomcat in Love
Persiguiendo a Cacciato
In the Lake of the Woods
July, July
The nuclear age
The Things They Carried - Activity Pack
Northern lights
Murakami Haruki haibu ritto
Yu lin hu shi zong ji shi
Matou amoureux
Elena Zamora O'Shea
Elena Zamora O'Shea (1880-1951)

teacher

  • Texas State University

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