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Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea (born 1955)

poet, humanitarian

  • University of California, San Diego, University of Colorado

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USA noir
Into the beautiful North
The Hummingbird's Daughter
The hummingbird's daughter
The Devil's Highway
In Search of Snow
Nobody's son
Wandering time
Mr. Mendoza's paintbrush
Across the wire
Six kinds of sky
McSweeney's Issue 58
Ghost sickness
Into the Beautiful North
The House of Broken Angels
Queen of America
The Fever of Being
Red Caddy
The house of broken angels
Nobody's Son
By the lake of sleeping children
Queen of America
The Devil's Highway
Debbie Fleming Caffery
The water museum
The Tijuana book of the dead
The Water Museum
Hummingbird's Daughter
Working it out : San Francisco youth solve real problems
Queen of America A
A world of turtles
Kanadı Kırık Melekler Evi
Wandering Time
Hija de la Chuparrosa
La hija de la esperanza
Queen of america
Many Mountains Moving Vol. 2 No. 1
Into the beautiful North
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux (born 1941)

literary critic, professor

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Kowloon Tong
A Dead Hand
Under the Wave at Waimea
Murder in Mount Holly
Kowloon Tong
The Great Railway Bazaar
The kingdom by the sea
My secret history
Picture Palace
The Mosquito Coast
The consul's file
Sunrise with seamonsters
Dark star safari
The Elephanta suite
My Other Life
Hotel Honolulu
The Pillars of Hercules
The stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and other stories
Doctor Slaughter
Sir Vidia's shadow
Chicago loop
Deep South
Saint Jack
The end of the game
The Family Arsenal
O-Zone
Travelling the world
Millroy the magician
A Christmas card
Fresh air fiend
The Sea
Jungle lovers
Great humorous stories
The happy isles of Oceania
Blinding light
Riding the iron rooster
Edge
Old Patagonian Express, The
Waldo
Sailing through China
Mother land
The London embassy
The black house
Girls at Play
The imperial way
Sinning with Annie, and other stories
London snow
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
World's end and other stories
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Today's best nonfiction
The collected stories
Fong and the Indians
To the Ends of the Earth
The Best American Travel Writing 2001
V.S. Naipaul, an introduction to his work
Mr. Bones
O-zone
V.S. Naipaul
Riding the Iron Rooster By Train Through
The lower river
Eli Reed
The Family Arsenal Paul Theroux
On the Plain of Snakes
The best American travel writing 2014
The Mosquito Coast
Figures in a landscape
Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction
The tao of travel
Dr. Demarr
Deep south
The Mosquito Coast
The collected short novels
Sinning with Annie
Jan Morris : around the world in 80 years
Tierra madre
Riding the Iron Rooster:By Train Through China
Where the Roads All End
Theroux
The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway
The Greenest Island
World's end
Blinding Light
Islands
Journey Without Maps
My Other Life
The lower river
Gentleman in the Parlour
Gentleman in the Parlour
Lower River
Picture Palace
Slow Trains to Simla
La Double vie de Lauren S.
The Cold World
Millroy the magician
Nurse Wolf & Dr Sacks
UC Riding the Iron Rooster
Down the Yangtze
Riding the Iron Rooster
Patagonie express
An den Gestaden des Mittelmeeres
Mein anderes Leben
Happy Iles of Oceania, the
Happy Isles of Oceania
Brazil Incarnate
The collected stories
Priya Ramrakha
Mother Land
Consul's File
The shortest day of the year
Les derniers jours de Hong Kong
Saint Jack
On the Plain of Snakes
Deep South
Hotel Honolulu
On the Edge of the Great Rift
Travelers' Tales Greece
Sandstorms
What Maisie Knew
The white man's burden
LA Calle De LA Media Luna/Half Moon Street
Bad Angel Brothers
La Chine à petite vapeur
La Costa de los Mosquitos
Die glücklichen Inseln Ozeaniens
Hotel Honolulu
Figures in a Landscape
Saint Jack (Om-Asia)
The Consul's File
Hotel Honolulu
Blinding Light-O.M.
The Happy Isles Of Oceania Part 2 Of 2
Zona Exterior
Bad Angel Brothers
Fresh-Air Fiend
My Other Life
Education by radio
Nature's Wonderlands
The Lower River
Family Arsenal
Strange Dispearance Imam Mousa Sadr
Paul Theroux Collected Stories
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Voyage excentrique et ferroviaire autour du Royaume-Uni
Ridng Iron Roostr-Opmkt
Der alte Patagonien- Express
Mi Otra Vida
Wiedersehen mit Patagonien
Lower River
Mi Historia Secreta
On the Plain of Snakes
De Laatste Dagen Van Hongkong
San Jack
Jechalem Zelaznym Kogutem
Saint Jack
De geschiedenis van een vriendschap
Mr. Bones
Der alte Patagonienexpress. 5 Cassetten
De geschiedenis van een vriendschap
Moederland
Mutterland
Happy Isles of Oceania-Open Ma
Paul Theroux
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Nurse Wolf and Dr. Sacks (Front Lines)
The London embassy
Bad Angel Brothers
La Sombra de Naipaul
Happy Isles of Oceania Part 2
Happy Isles of Oceania
Steve McCurry Lesen
Foreign Affairs
Murder in Mount Holly
El Mago Millroy
Collected Stories
Railway bazaar
Traveling the World
Fresh Air Fiend
En la Llanura de Las Serpientes
Mr Bones
Mexico
Mr. Bones
Figures in a Landscape
World's End and other Stories
Blinding Light
Belanger Brotherhood
The Happy Isles Of Oceania Part 1 Of 2
Kowloon Tong.
My Other Life
Poems for Travellers
On the Plain of Snakes
El geólogo
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
Milroy the Magician
Camp Echo
Riding the Iron Rooster
Hotel Honolulu
Millroy the Magician
Wāruzu endo (sekai no hate) =
Under the Wave at Waimea
El geólogo
Fresh-Air Fiend
The return of Bingo Humpage
Deep South
Mein geheimes Leben
Silk Road : Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran
Ultimi giorni a Hong Kong
Dispatches D1
Sailing Through China by Paul Theroux (1984-01-01)
Short Story International #34
Girls at Play
California the Other State
De Bendenrivier
Figures in a Landscape
Saint Jack
Millroy the Magician
Mother Land
Le Plaisir le plus triste
Kowloon Tong
Two Stars
Riding the Iron Rooster
Half Moon Street
The Consul's File
Jungle lovers
En el Gallo de Hierro
Happy Isles of Oceania Part 1
China per trein
Saint Jack
Sailing Through China
Collected Stories, the
Millroy the Magician
En El Gallo de Hierro
El último tren a la zona verde
Deep South
Asagi Nehir
Sunrise with Seamonsters
Luce accecante
Stary Ekspres Patagonski. Pociagiem przez Ameryki
Alone
Fresh-air fiend
Happy Isles of Oceania
A Dead Hand
Blinding Light
Consul's File
Fresh-Air Fiend : Travel Writings
My Other Life
De grote spoorwegcarrousel
De grote spoorwegcarrousel retour
Millroy de tovenaar
Sunrise with seamonster
Retour au Palazzo d'Oro
Spelende meisjes
China per trein
Murder in Mount Holly
Tren fantasma a la Estrella de Oriente
Docteur De Marr
De poort naar India
Verblindend licht
En Lower River
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977)

  • Princeton University, Georgetown Day School

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USA noir
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Everything Is Illuminated
Here I am
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . .
The Future Dictionary of America
Eating animals
Tree of Codes
Todo Esta Iluminado (21)
Here I Am
New American Haggadah
Feasting and Fasting
Wszystko jest iluminacją
Convergence of Birds
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Eating animals
A convergence of birds
We Are the Weather
Tan Fuerte, Tan Cerca / Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Long Never
Here I Am
Alles ist erleuchtet
We are the weather
Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell
New American Haggadah 5-copy Package
Me voici
The best American nonrequired reading, 2003
Extreem Luid & Ongelooflijk Dichtbij
Haggadah
New Jersey Noir
Penguin Readers Level 5
We Are the Weather
Tan fuerte, tan cerca
Here I Am
Eating Animals
Everything is Illuminated
Eating animals
Ogni cosa è illuminata
Salvar o Planeta Começa ao Pequeno-Almoço (Portuguese Edition)
Wir sind das Klima!
Here I Am
Eating animals
Convergence of Birds
Everything Is Illuminated
Eating Animals
Todo está iluminado
L'avenir de la planète commence dans notre assiette (Points) (French Edition)
Todo está iluminado
Aquí estoy
Aquí estoy
Tan fuerte, tan cerca
Aquí estoy
Om at spise dyr (in Danish)
Hier bin ich
Faut-il manger les animaux ?
Zjadanie zwierzat
Tan fuerte, tan cerca
Samataci Suclular ve Daha Fazlasi
Here I Am
TOT ESTÀ IL-LUMINAT
Aquí estoy
Aqui Estoy
Aqui Estou (Portuguese Edition)
Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino
Faut-il manger des animaux
Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942
New American Haggadah
Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century
Buradayim
Podem salvar el món abans de sopar
Todo está iluminado
Totul este iluminat Reeditare - Jonathan Safran Foer
extrêmement fort et incroyablement près
Tan fuerte, tan cerca
Hier bin ich
Tiere Essen
Extremement Fort Et Incroyablement Pres (Points) (French Edition)
Tiere Essen
We Are the Weather
Todo está iluminado
Tiere essen
We Are the Weather
Wir sind das Klima!
Penguin Readers Level 5
Comer animales
Eating Animals
Podem salvar el món abans de sopar
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Eating Animals
Eating Anamals
Oto jestem
Strasznie glosno niesamowicie blisko
Joe
Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près (French Edition)
Tan fuerte, tan cerca
Nos Somos o Clima - Salvar o planeta começa no cafe da manha (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Todo Esta Iluminado
Tìm bố ở New York
Mi͡aso
Podemos salvar el mundo
Le-ekhol baʻale ḥayim
Vot i︠a︡
Hagadah ḥadashah le-Fesaḥ
Žutko gromko & zapredelʹno blizko
Extreem luid & ongelooflijk dichtbij
Bradford Morrow
Zhutko gromko & zapredelʹno blizko
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler (born 1945)

  • University of Iowa, Northwestern University

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The Star Of Istanbul
The hot country
Words of Ages
The deep green sea
A good scent from a strange mountain
Mr. Spaceman
They whisper
Sun dogs
Had a good time
Countrymen of bones
The Alleys of Eden
Fair Warning
On distant ground
Wabash
Tabloid Dreams
Intercourse
Severance
The Deuce
Small Hotel
The empire of night
Perfume river
Late City
Hell
The 2009 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories
From where you dream
The Best Small Fictions 2015
Severance / Intercourse
New stories from the South
Paris in the dark
Hemingway Valise
Best Peace Fiction
New Stories from the South 1997
La nuit close de Saigon
From where you dream : the process of writing fiction / Robert Olen Butler ; edited, with an introduction by Janet Burroway
Full frontal fiction
Incroyable!
Kinder des Staubs
L'extraterrestre de mon coeur
La fille d'Hô Chi Minh-Ville
Susan Choi
Susan Choi (born 1969)

  • Yale University, Cornell University

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A Person of Interest
Person of Interest
The Foreign Student
My Education
Trust Exercise
Wonderful town
American Woman
Camp Tiger
Wonderful town
Selected references in educational planning
My Education
EJERCICIO DE CONFIANZA
The Foreign Student
Kamptaki Kaplan
Exercice de confiance
American Woman
Ernest Borneman
Ernest Borneman (1915-1995)

anthropologist, cultural studies scholar

  • University of London, University of Cambridge

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The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
Childhood phases of maturity
Das Patriarchat
The man who loved women
Das Geschlechtsleben des Kindes
Psychoanalyse des Geldes
Lexikon der Liebe
The psychoanalysis of money
Die Urszene
Sexuelle Marktwirtschaft
Sexualitäten in unserer Gesellschaft
Wir machen keinen langen Mist..
Sex im Volksmund
Ullstein Enzyklopädie der Sexualität
Tomorrow is now
Studien zur Befreiung des Kindes
Die Welt der Erwachsenen in den verbotenen Reimen deutschsprachiger Stadtkinder
Psychoanalyse des Geldes
Die Zukunft der Liebe
Psychanalyse de l'argent
A critic looks at jazz
Reifungsphasen der Kindheit
Der Neanderberg
Professor Ernest Bornemanns Lexikon der Sexualität
Tremolo
The compromisers
Das Patriarchat
Die Umwelt des Kindes im Spiegel seiner verbotenen Lieder, Reime, Verse und Rätsel
Unsere Kinder im Spiegel ihrer Lieder, Reime, Verse und Rätsel
Arbeiterbewegung und Feminismus
Die Urszene
Der Mann
Eifersucht
Erpresser-Journalismus in der Weimarer Republik
Die neue Eifersucht
Lexikon der Liebe
Lexikon der Liebe
The man who loved women
Rot-weiss-rote Herzen
Der Unterdrückte Sexus
Sexualität
Soziale Identität und Gruppendynamik
Kritik der Gruppendynamik
DAS GROSSE LEXIKON DER SEXUALITÄT
Linda Grant DePauw
Linda Grant DePauw (born 1940)

historian of Modern Age

  • Swarthmore College, Johns Hopkins University

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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Related Readings
Battle Cries and Lullabies
Remember the ladies
Seafaring women
In Search of Molly Pitcher
Founding mothers
Fortunes of war
The eleventh pillar
Sea changes
Four traditions
Baptism of fire
Founding mothers : women in America in the Revolutionary era
Documentary history of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791
Eleventh Pillar New York State & the Federal Constitution
Seeing a Unicorn
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895)

journalist, historian

  • University of Graz

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Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
Venus im Pelz
Venus in Furs
Aus dem Tagebuche eines Weltmannes: Causerien aus der Gesellschaft und der Bühnenwelt
A light for others and other Jewish tales from Galicia
Venus in Furs
Souvenirs
Venus in Furs
Venus In Furs
Die ideale unserer Zeit
Jewish tales
True Decadence
La venus de las pieles
Venus in Furs
Venus In Furs
Venus in Furs
Soziale Schattenbilder: Aus den Memoiren eines österreichischen Polizeibeamten
Venus im Pelz
Venus in Furs With Selected Letters of Sacher Masoch
Ueber den werth der kritik
Master Masochist
El Amor de Platon (Narrativa (el Cuenco de Plata))
LA Venus De Las Pieles
Venus in Furs
Classic Erotic Novels (5 Books)
Diderot in Petersburg
Venus in Furs
Jewish life
Her Secret Needs - 3 Classic Novels of Feminine Passion
Venus Im Pelz
Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs
La vénus à la fourrure
Venus in Furs (Erotic Classics)
Der Judenraphael
Liebesgeschichten
I Aphroditi me ti Gouna
Jüdisches leben in wort und bild
La pêcheuse d'âmes
Judisches Leben in Wort und Bild
L'amour de Platon
Venus in Furs and Selected Stories
Kürklü Venüs
Pantoufle de Sapho et Autres Contes
Venus in Furs
Venus im Pelz
DERECHO DEL MAS FUERTE Y OTROS CUENTOS, EL
Venus in Furs
Love
La pantufla de safo y otros cuentos
Madre de Dios
Venus in Furs :(illustrated Edition)
Venus in Furs
Venus Im Pelz
Czarine Noire et Autres Contes Sur la Flagellation
Neue Judengeschichten
Kolomea
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Annotated Edition
Vermächtnis Kains. Novellen
Jewish Tales
Venus im Pelz
Kolomeĭskiĭ Don Zhuan
Die Damen im Pelz
Venus in Furs
Polnische Geschichten
Historias de Amor y Sangre
Venus in Furs
The master masochist
Wiener Hofgeschichten ...
Frauen, Die Geschichte Schrieben - Band I (Illustriert und Bebildert)
Vénus à la Fourrure
Polnische Geschichten
I afroditi me ti gouna
Ungarns Untergang und Maria Von Oesterreich
Venus in furs
L' amour de Platon
Katharina II
Racconti Galiziani
Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs
Legs de Caïn
Die polnische Insurrection 1863 vor Europa
La madre santa
Novelly russkogo dvora
Venus in Furs
Grausame Frauen
Venus in Furs
Soziale Schattenbilder
Venus Im Pelz (Annotated)
Jewish Tales
Kaunitz
Femme Séparée
Venus Im Pelz (illustriert)
La Venus de las Pieles
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher Masoch Illustrated Edition
Venus Im Pelz (Illustriert) Deutsche Klassiker
Unsere Sclaven
La Vénus à la fourrure
Venus De Las Pieles La
Weiblicher Sultan
L' esthetique de la laideur
La Venus de les Pells
El encuadernador de Hort
Venus in Furs (Einstein Books)
Venus in furs
Venus in Furs
Venus in furs
Venus in Furs Illustrated
Jewis Tales
Galizische Geschichten
Venus Im Pelz and Don Juan Von Kolomea
Venus Im Pelz (Illustriert) Deutsche Klassiker
Venus à la Fourrure
Don Juan De Kolomea
Ungarns Untergang und Maria von Oesterreich
Venus In Furs
La Venus de las pieles
Jewish Tales
Batteuses D'hommes
The Black Gondola and Other Stories
Venus in Furs :(illustrated Edition)
Judengeschichten
Judisches Leben
Aufstand in Gent Unter Kaiser Carl V Von Leopold Ritter Von Sacher-Masoch
Venus de Las Pieles
Vénus à la Fourrure
Aus Dem Tagebuche Eines Weltmannes
Venus in Furs
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher Masoch:( Illustrated Edition)
L'Émissaire
La dame blanche et autres nouvelles
La Femme séparée
Venus in Furs
Venus im Pelz
Don Juan von Kolomea
Venus in furs together with the black czarina
Ungarns Untergang und Maria von Oesterreich: Zum Theil nach Urkunden des K.k ...
L' Esthétique de la laideur
LA PANTOUFLE DE SAPHO ET AUTRES CONTES
ha-Misḥar
Katharina II
Der Judenraphael
Venus im Pelz und Don Juan von Kolomea
L'ennemi des femmes
Russische Hofgeschichten
Venus im Pelz
LA PANTOUFLE DE SAPHO ET AUTRES CONTES
Die Messalinen Wiens
Russische Hofgeschichten
Ḳayin's tsaṿoe
Seraph
Ein weiblicher Sultan
Demoniczne kobiety
Mondnacht
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Venus & Adonis
Das Vermächtnis Kains
Contes et romans
Sascha et Saschka
Das Vermächtniss Kains
Cuentos judíos
Seraph: A tale of Hungary
Zur ehre Gottes
Don Juan von Kolomea. Galizische Geschichten.
... Nouveaux récits galiciens
L'amore crudele
Seiner Herrin Diener
Galizische Geschichten
Vybrani tvory