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James A. Michener
James A. Michener (1907-1997)

military officer, autobiographer, teacher

  • Swarthmore College, University of Northern Colorado

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Chesapeake
Alaska
Caravans
Mexico
Legacy
Poland
The source
Space
The source
The source
The Source
Texas
Hawaii
The Bridges at Toko-ri
Poland
The covenant
The drifters
Tales of the South Pacific
Caribbean
Journey
Centennial
Rascals in Paradise
Sayonara
The eagle and the raven
Centennial
Hawaii
The Fires of Spring
Chesapeake
The drifter, a novel
Centennial
Hawaii
Mexico
The fires of spring
Poland
The Drifters: A Novel
Centennial
Journey.
Centennial
MEXICO
The fires of spring
Alaska-Open Mkt Ed
Centennial
The covenant
The source
Rascals in Paradise
The Fires of Spring
Sayonara
Fires of Spring -3
Caribbean-Limited Ed
Sayonara
Drifters -1
The eagle and the raven
Caribbean
The Watermen
Hawaii
Mexico
Centennial
Legacy
Source
The source
Legacy
Caribbean
Journey
Hawaii
Chesapeake
Mexico
Drifters
Texas
Alaska
Bridges at Toko-Ri
Watermen
Rascals in Paradise
Covenant
Poland
Rascals in Paradise
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The World Is My Home
Space
Iberia
Six days in Havana
Recessional
The Hokusai Sketchbooks
Return to Paradise
Iberia; Spanish travels and reflections
The novel
Sports in America
Firstfruits
The floating world
The quality of life
Kent State
Pilgrimage
Great World War II Stories
This Noble Land
The modern Japanese print
A Michener miscellany: 1950-1970
My lost Mexico
Darcourt
Texas
Creatures of the kingdom
Literary Reflections
South Pacific
Best Sellers
Japanese prints
Covenant, The
The watermen
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Presidential lottery
The source
Animals Tame & Wild
James A. Michener's writer's handbook
Report of the county chairman
The bridge at Andau
Creatures of the kingdom
The novel
Centennial 1
Matecumbe
America vs. America
Space.
Selected writings
Hawaii (Audiobook on 42 CDs) (Unabridged audiobook on 42 CDs)
The voice of Asia
Miracle in Seville
Miricle in Seville
The voice of Asia
Space
Miracle in Seville
America
Sayonara
Iberia
Caravans
A century of sonnets
Miracle in Seville
Bridges at Toko-ri / Caravans / Sayonara / Source
Hawaii
The bridge at Andau
Bridges at Toko-ri / Sayonara
Caravans
Mexique
Pologne
Verheißene Erde. Roman
Mexico
Journey
The Novel
Mazurka. Roman
The Covenant
Legacy / Recessional
Caravans 1
Tales of the South Pacific
Japanese prints from the early masters tothe modern
The Novel
The James Michener Value Collection
The Bridge at Angau. --
Michener on sport
Colorado - Saga. Roman
Die Südsee. Roman
Caravans [Book]
Collectors, forgers--and a writer
Die Kinder von Torremolinos. Roman
Texas
Klondike
Endstation Florida
The Novel
Texas
Novel
Return to paradise
Klondike. Roman
The bridge at Andau
The future of the social studies
L'alliance
Die Welt ist mein Zuhause. Erinnerungen
Caravans
Dresden, Pennsylvania
Chesapeake
Creatures of Kingdom
L'Alliance, tome 2
Tales of the South Pacific
Mexiko
Classic Stories of World War II
L' alliance
The Novel
Iberia
World is My Home
The Hokusai sketch-books
The legacy
Docteur Zorn
La course aux étoiles
Alaska. Roman
James A. Michener on the Social Studies (Bulletin (National Council for the Social Studies))
Rascals in paradise
Recessional
Pologne
Two complete novels
Le roman
The Drifters Unabridged Audiobook Part 1 of 2
Islam
Space - Canada Audio
Texas
Drifters Part 1
Texas PT 1
Fiction Recessional
Half-Blood
Source
Hawaii (12 cassettes, Part I of III)
Caribbean Part 2
The unit in the social studies
Texas
About Centennial; some notes on the novel
Rascals in Paradise-1
Covenant Part 2
THE COVENANT
Hawaii-Part 2
The floating world
Pilgrimage
Recessional Part 1 of 2
Caravanas/Caravans
Hawaii Part 1 of 3
Kent State Part 2 of 2
Iberia Part 2
Poland Part 1 of 2
Sayonara, o l'amore impossibile
Hijos De Torremolinos/the Drifters
Poland Part 2 of 2
Texas PT 3
Centennial Part 1 of 3
Chesapeake Part 3
Centennial, Part 3
Covenant Part 3
Texas PT 2
Cenntennial Part 2 of 3
The Source Part 3 of 3
Space Part 1
Space Part 2
Iberia Part 2 of 2
Iberia Part 1 of 2
The Source Part 1 of 3
The source
Hawaii-Part 1
The fires of spring
Australia
Space
Iberia Part 1
Mexico Part 2
Three by James A. Michener
The Covenant Part 3 of 3
Source Part 1
South Pacific-16.95
The Source Part 2 of 2
Space
The future of the social studies
Alaska
THE SOURCE
Iberia, Spanish travels and reflections
The novel
Das dreckige Dutzend / Die Brücken von Toko-Ri / Feindfahrt
Recessional Part 2 of 2
Texas Part 2 of 3
Centennial, Part 2
IBERIA
Espacio/Space
The Eagle and the Raven
Bahía de Chesapeake
Chesapeake Part 2 of 3
Recessional
Texas Part 1 of 3
Bridge at Andau
The Fires of Spring Part 2
Mexico Part 2 of 2
Caribbean Part 1 of 2
Hawaii-Part 3
Chesapeake Part 1 of 3
The Drifters Part 2 of 2
James A. Michener on the social studies
The Drifters Part 1 of 2
Mexico Part 1 of 2
Alaska Part 1
Caribbean
Chesapeake Part 1
Alaska Part 3
James Michener Conversations With Writers (L051 Cassette)
Kent State Part 1 of 2
Hawaii Part 3 of 3
bahia de chesapeake
The Fires of Spring Unabridged Audiobook Part 2 of 2
Hawai
Centennial, Part 1
Creatures/Kingdom
Caravans
Poland Part 2
Alaska Part 1 of 3
Alaska Part 2 of 3
The Fires of Spring Part 1
James A. Michener's USA
The modern Japanese print
Novel - Header
Caribe Caribbean
The Covenant Part 1 of 3
Alaska Part 2
Texas
Hawaii
Chesapeake Part 2
Drifters Part 2
Texas (Part 3 of 3)
The Novel
Caribbean Part 1
Bitmeyen aci
The drifters
Caribbean Part 2 of 2
Legacy-Open Mkt
Michener Novels
Mexico
Space : a novel
Chesapeake Part 3 of 3
The Covenant Part 2 of 3
Mexico Part 1
Tales of South Pacifi
Hawaii Part 2 of 3
Return to paradise
Alaska Part 3 of 3
Space Part 1 of 2
Wings Bestsellers: James Michener
Sagionara
Centennial Part 3 of 3
Sports in America Part 1 of 2
Collectors Editions Americana-3 Vol. Boxed Set
Selected Works
The future of social studies
Poland Part 1
Source Part 3
Covenant Part 1
Space Part 2 of 2
Polonia/Poland
Hit Bilanz. Deutsche Chart Singles 1956 - 1980 'Top 10'.
Caravans : a novel
La course aux étoiles
The novel
Journey
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Modern Japanese Prints
Modern Japanese Print
Recessional
Caravans [ Sept. 1973, Fawcett Crest ] (The Place: Afghanistan. The Assignment: To find a missing American girl whose parents have not heard from her since her impetuous marriage to a young Afghan engineer...)
My lost Mexico
Japanese Prints
Bridges at Toko-Ri
The Source, A Random House Novel
Sayonara
Poland
Presidential Lottery
Return to Paradise
The world is my home : a memoir
Pilgrimage
Ceux Qui Dérivent
Die Brücken von Toko-Ri
Recessional
Exhibition, February 2-March 20, 1963
The Floating World, rev. ed.
Pacifique sud - traduit de l'americain
Recessional
Selected Works
La saga del Colorado
The source; a novel
Sayonara
La source - Pavillons Poche NE
Kent State
The Covenant
Der Adler und der Rabe
Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Sayonara
Mexique
Creatures of the Kingdom
South Pacific
The source
Mexico
La course aux étoiles
Patrioten
Karawanen der nacht
Alaska
Islam, the misunderstood religion
Alaska
Ḥalal
Alaska
אל הוואי
הוואי
Az andaui híd
Texas
Collectors, forgers -- and a writer
The bridges of Toko-ri
Hawai
James A. Michener papers
Colorado Saga
Tales of the South Pacific
Sayonarah
Der Adler und der Rabe
Texas
De ruimte
Iberia
Klondike
Verdammt im Paradies
L'alliance
Iberia
Presidential lottery
David Rees
David Rees (1936-1993)

teacher, publisher

  • King's College School, University of Cambridge

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The Estuary
The marble in the water
Risks
What do Draculas do?
The Exeter blitz
Silence
Painted desert, green shade
The house that moved
The wrong apple
Quintin's man
Words & music
Not for your hands
Landslip
Islands
The colour of his hair
Flux
The mysterious rattle
Friends and neighbours
The burglar
Watershed
In the tent
The ferryman
The missing German
The spectrum
The lighthouse
Fabulous tricks
Storm surge
Oranges and lemons
The Freezer Counter
Sara Lövestam
Sara Lövestam (born 1980)

teacher

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Géza Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi (1863-1922)

journalist, playwright, poet, primary school teacher, editor

  • Sárospatak Reformed College, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University

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Láthatatlan ember
Eclipse of the crescent moon
Titkosnapló
Szüleim gyémántja
Szívlobbanás
A tükörkép
Aggyisten, Biri
Kátsa
Egri csillagok
Állatmesék
Evangéliumi álmok
Szüleim gyémántja voltam
Ida regénye
Leánynézöben
Tükörképeim
Hosszúhajú veszedelem
Tukorkepeim
Fekete nap
Versek - drámák
Isten rabjai
Szunyoghy miatyánkja
Láthatatlan ember, történelmi regény
Mai csodák
Szegény ember jó órája
Aggyisten, Biri, kisregények 1914-1922
Zvezdy Ėgera
Egri csillagok, Bornemissza Gergely élete
Dávidkáné
Isten rabjai
Dávidkáné
Atkozott jozanság
A lámpás
Versek-drámák
Göre Gábor újabb kalandjai
Tükörképeim
Gárdonyitól Gárdonyiról
Az öreg tekintetes
Gárdonyi Géza összes meséi
A természet kalendáriuma
Fekete nap
Hidden Among the Huns
Eclipse of the crescent moon
Két katicabogár és más elbeszélések
Szüleim gyémántja
Versek
Vasily Aksyonov
Vasily Aksyonov (1932-2009)

poet, physician, teacher

  • First Pavlov State Medical University

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Ozhog
The winter's hero
Winter's Hero
Skazhi izi︠u︡m
Tuli tuha all
V poiskakh grustnogo bebi
The new sweet style
SAY CHEESE!
Kraĭ nedostupnykh fudzii︠a︡m
Desi͡a︡tiletie klevety
The destruction of Pompeii
The new sweet style
Zenit͡sa oka
The burn
В поисках грустного Бэби
Colleagues
It's time, my friend, its' time
Generations of winter
In search of melancholy baby
Quest for an island
Your murderer
Zenit︠s︡a oka
The winter's hero
The destruction of Pompeii
Zolotai͡a nasha Zhelezka
Ozhog
Say cheese!
Delo o i︠a︡ntarnoĭ komnate
Zenit︠s︡a oka
Kvakaem, kvakaem--
Quest for an island
Ostrov Krym
Our golden Ironburg
V poiskakh grustnogo bebi
Surplussed barrelware
Na polputi k lune
Novyi sladostnyi stiĺ
Kesarevo svechenie
Zatovarennai︠a︡ bochkotara ; Randevu
The burn
Amerikanskai͡a︡ kirillit͡s︡a
Lyubov' k elektrichestvu
Aristofaniana s li͡a︡gushkami
The steel bird, and other stories
Zatovarennai͡a︡ bochkotara
Volʹterʹi͡a︡nt͡s︡y i volʹterʹi͡a︡nki
Katapul'ta
Apelʹsiny iz Marokko
Novyĭ sladostnyĭ stilʹ
Moskovskaia saga
Negativ polozhitelʹnogo geroi͡a︡
Lyubov' k elektrichestvu
Rasskazy, povesti, roman
Zheltok i︠a︡ĭt︠s︡a
A starry ticket
Moskovskai︠a︡ saga
Zolotai︠a︡ nasha Zhelezka
Poiski zhanra
Kollegi
It's time, my love, it's time
Sobranie sochineniĭ
Der rosa Eisberg
Wojna i więzienie
Li︠u︡bovʹ k ėlektrichestvu
Zvezdnyi bilet
Redkiezemli
A starry ticket
The Burn
The burn
[Bumazhnyĭ peĭzazh
Pravo na ostrov
Logovo lʹva
It's time, my friend, it's time
Our Golden Ironburg
Tainstvennai︠a︡ strastʹ
Pravo na ostrov
The Winter's Hero
Sobranie sochinenii
Pora, moĭ drug, pora
Zolotai͡a︡ nasha zhelezka
Vsegda v prodazhe
Generations of Winter
Katapulʹta
Zhalʹ, chto vas ne bylo s nami
Rasskazy, povesti, roman, ėsse
Moĭ dedushka-pami︠a︡tnik
Gibelʹ Pompei
It's time, my friend, it's time
Randevu
The island of Crimea
Na polputi k lune
W pół drogi do ksie̜życa
A ticket to the stars
Kollegi
Der Genosse mit der schönen Uniform
Pokolenie zimy
Metropolʹ
Antologii︠a︡ satiry i i︠u︡mora Rossiĭ XX veka
V. Vysot︠s︡kiĭ
Więzienie i pokój
Generations of Winter
Ozhog
Recherche d'un genre
Zvëzdnyj bilet
It's time, my friend, it's time
Ostrov Krym
Negativ polozhitelʹnogo geroi︠a︡
Metropolʹ
S. Yizhar
S. Yizhar (1916-2006)

politician, teacher, scientist

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Khirbet Khizeh
Khirbet Khizeh
Khirbet Khizeh
Preliminaries
Omer
Peridah min ha-hinukh
Dape riv
Midnight Convoy & Other Stories (Hebrew Classics)
Shayarah shel ḥatsot
ha- Kirkarah shel ha-dod Mosheh
Prémices
Preliminaries (Hebrew Classics)
Midnight convoy & other stories
Gilui Eliyahu
Yeme Tsiklag
Sipure mishor
ha- Ḥorshah ba-givʻah
Tefiśot ḥalufot u-mashlimot bi-ḳeriʾat ha-sifrut uve-horaʾatah
ʻAl ḥinukh ve-ʻal ḥinukh la-ʻarakhim
Miḳdamot
ha-H ̣orshah ba-givʻah
Keriʾah le-ḥinukh / S. Yizhar ; [ba-ʻarikhat Berṭah Ḥazan ṿe-Shamai Gelander]
Ḳeriʼah le-ḥinukh
Etsel ha-yam
Be-faʾate negev
Malḳomyah yefehfiyah
Yeme Tsiḳlag
Be-faʾate negev
Tsalhavim
Sipurei mishor
Mikdamot
Sipur eno
Sheyarah shel ḥatsot
Be-raglayim yeḥefot
Be-ṭerem yetsiʾah ; Ḥavaḳuḳ ; ha-Shavui
ha- Kirkarah shel ha-dod Moshed
Shivʻah mesaprim
Sipur Ḥirbet Ḥizʻah
Shishah sipure kayits
Shene pulmusim
Efrayim ḥozer la-aspeset
Tsedadiyim
Shishah sipure ḳayits
Tapu u-Fuzah
Arba'ah sipurim
Li-ḳero sipur
Sipur Ḥirbet Ḥizʻah
Shivʻah sipurim
Tapu u-Fuzah
Harpatḳah ba-agam
Efrayim ḥozer la-aspeset
Tefiśot ḥalufot u-mashlimot bi-ḳeriʾat ha-sifrut uve-horaʾatah
Hirbat-Hiza
Sipur Ḥirbat Ḥizʻah ṿe-ʻod sheloshah sipure milḥamah
Be-faʼate Negev
Convoi de minuit
Shayarah shel ḥatsot
Be-ṭerem yetsiʼah ; Ḥavaḳuḳ ; ha-Shavui
Malḳomyah yefehfiyah
Efrayim ḥozer le-aspeset
ha-Kirkarah shel ha-dod Mosheh
ʻAlilot Ḥumit
Jewish leadership in modern times
Li-ḳero sipur
Sipure mishor
Le-yaldi
Tsedadiyim
Shishah sipure ḳayits
ʻAl ḥinukh ṿe-ʻal ḥinukh la-ʻarakhim
Zeh ha-zeman le-hatḥil li-lemod le-lamed
Tsalhavim
ha-Ḥorshah ba-givʻah
Sipurei mishor
Henry Treece
Henry Treece (1911-1966)

poet, editor, school teacher

  • University of Birmingham

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Man with a sword
Men of the hills
The queen's brooch
The Crusades
War dog
The windswept city
The magic wood
The burning of Njal
Amber princess
Fighting men
The road to Miklagard
Horned helmet
Dylan Thomas
The last of the Vikings
Viking's dawn
The dream-time
Vinland the Good
Swords from the North
The Children's Crusade
The invaders
Viking's sunset
Jason
Legions of the eagle
Perilous pilgrimage
Hounds of the king
How I see apocalypse
The great captains
The centurion
The eagle king
Don't expect any mercy!
Splintered sword
The green man
Oedipus
The last Viking
The dark island
Carnival king
The bronze sword
A fighting man
The further adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Dylan Thomas, 'dog among the fairies.'
Electra
The Great Captains (The Epic Romance of King Arthur)
Herbert Reade
Herbert Read
Wickham and the Armada
I cannot go hunting tomorrow: short stories
The golden one
The black seasons
Know about the Crusades
The master of Badger's Hall
Hunter hunted
The return of Robinson Crusoe
Bang, you're dead
Red settlement
The Dream-Time
Red queen, white queen
Horned helmet: book and tape pack
The true book about castles
Killer in dark glasses
Ask for King Billy
The rebels
The eagles have flown
I cannot go hunting tomorrow
The exiles
Horned Helmet
The bombard
The jet beads
Red settlemant
Westward to Vinland
Castles and kings
Dylan Thomas
Bang, you're dead!
Collected poems
Ride into danger
The golden strangers
The haunted garden
Invitation and warning
Wartime harvest
Herbert Read
Dylan Thomas, 'dog among the fairies.'
38 poems
Dylan Thomas, 'dog among the fairies.'
Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma (born 1985)

teacher

  • University of Michigan

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