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Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Simonetta Agnello Hornby (born 1945)

jurist, lawyer

  • University of Palermo

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Un anno in giallo
The Almond Picker
The Almond Picker
The marchesa
La Tia Marquesa/ Aunt Marchioness
La Mennulara /The Almond Picker
The nun
Un filo d'olio
Entre la bruma
Vento scomposto
Boccamurata
La Mennulara
L'Amandière
Mi Londres
Mi Londres
El veneno de las adelfas
La cucina del buon gusto
Caffè amaro
Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019)

  • Stanford University, San Francisco State University

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A Gathering of Old Men
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
A Lesson Before Dying
Bloodline
Porch talk with Ernest Gaines
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
In my father's house
Catherine Carmier
Of love and dust
Mozart and Leadbelly
A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
The tragedy of Brady Sims
D'amour et de poussière
The Sky Is Gray
Ernest Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying Vintage Contemporaries Turtleback
A long day in November
Ernest Gaines, Interview
A Lesson Before Dying (Cliffs Notes)
Par la petite porte
Die Geschichte Der Jane Pittman Roman
Ti-Bonhomme
Colère en Louisiane
Vintage Ernest Gaines Assortment
Dites-leur que je suis un homme
Die geschichte der Jane Pittman
Miss Jane Pittman
Dites-leur que je suis un homme
4 heures du matin
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings
The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
D'amour et de poussière
Sani ṿe-horaṿ
Une longue journée de novembre
Vintage Modern Classics
Javier Sierra
Javier Sierra (born 1971)

journalist, television presenter, researcher

  • Complutense University of Madrid

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The lost angel
The Lady in Blue
Cena secreta
La Dama Azul
The Master of the Prado
La Cena Secreta
El ángel perdido
El secreto egipcio de Napoleón
La España extraña
Roswell
La cena secreta
La Dama Azul/the Blue Lady
Las Puertas Templarias / the Templar Gates
La cena secreta
el angel perdido
En busca de la Edad de Oro
En Busca De La Edad De Oro/ In Search of the Golden Age
El Secreto Egipcio De Napoleon/The Egypcian Secret of Napoleon
La cena secreta/The Secret Dinner
De dame in blauw
La Dama Azul, El Vaticano Nunca Conto Toda La Verdad (Mr Novela Historica)
Las puertas templarias
La Cena Secreta/ the Secret Supper
El fuego invisible
La Dama azul (The Lady in Blue)
La dama azul
Napoleonova egipatska tajna
Izgubljeni andeo
El maestro del Prado y las pinturas proféticas
La Cena Secreta (Exitos)
Las puertas templarias
Le Secret égyptien de Napoléon
La cena secreta
Libro La ruta prohibida y otros enigmas de la Historia
El mensaje de Pandora
La dame en bleu
La pirámide inmortal: el secreto egipcio de Napoleón
El quinto mundo
La dama azul
La dama azul
El Secreto Egipcio De Napoleon/ The Secret Egypt of Napoleon
Cena Secreta, La
La dama azul
L'àngel perdut
La Dama azul
La dama azul
La dama azul
Ölümsüz piramit
La España extraña
En busca de la edad de oro
La pyramide immortelle
Das geheime abendmahl
En busca de la Edad de Oro
Die rache der engel
Nevidimiyat ogün
Las puertas templarias
El fuego invisible
La dama azul
El maestro del Prado y las pinturas proféticas
La cène secrète
Las Puertas Templarias.que Se Esconde Tras La Ultima Puerta (Mr Dimensiones)
Las puertas templarias
Seis años de desarrollo rural en la comarca
O anjo perdido
The Secret Supper
La cena segreta
La cena secreta
Dama u plavom
La Cène secrète
O anjo perdido
El ángel perdido
Egiptietiskoji Napoleono paslaptis
Paslaptingoji vakariené
A kék dáma titka
La dama azul
La cena secreta
Die pforten der templer
La pirámide inmortal
Mélynoji dama
La pirámide inmortal
El ángel perdido
Taynata becheria
La cena secreta
Napoleonovo egyptské tajemství
Il memoriale della signora in blu
Das geheimnis der spanischen nonne
A ceia secreta
O chamenos aNgelos
La dama azul
El hilo dorado
La Cena Secreta (Best Selle)
El ángel perdido
Nattvardens hemlighet
L'angelo perduto
Los guías del cosmos
A dama azul
La ruta prohibida i altres enigmes de la història
Leynda kvöldmáltíðin
Doamna în albastru
Blekitna dama
La Pirámide Inmortal
Le porte dei templari
La cena secreta
Modrá dáma
El secret de la Santa Cena
A rota proibida o outros enigmas da história
El secreto egipcio de Napoleon (Best Seller) (Spanish Edition)
En busca de la edad de oro
La dama azul
A ceia secreta
Gospa v modrem
¿Qué se oculta tras los expedientes X?
Egipetskata taina Napoleon
La cena secreta
El ángel perdido
A. J. Hartley
A. J. Hartley (born 1964)

theatrical director, dramaturge

  • University of Durham

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Steeplejack
Steeplejack: Book 1 in the Steeplejack series
Guardian
Guardian: Book 3 in the Steeplejack series
Steeplejack: Book 1 in the Steeplejack series
Act of Will
Will power
Macbeth
What time devours
Firebrand
Darwen Arkwright & the school of shadows
Firebrand: Book 2 in the Steeplejack series
Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
Instinct
Tertiary Deep-Marine Reservoirs of the North Sea Region
Act of Will
Steeplejack Series
Firebrand: Book 2 in the Steeplejack series
Chains
Burning Shakespeare
Trinity
Written Stone Lane
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Prozhorlivoe vremi͡a
Mirrors Shattered
Mirroculist Mission
Impervious
Tears of the Jaguar
Hideki Smith, Demon Queller
Hideki Smith
Will Power
Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
Masahiko Shimada
Masahiko Shimada (born 1961)

poet

  • Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

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Nitchi o sagashite
Yumetsukai
Soseki o kaku
Soshite, Anju wa nemuri ni tsuku
Hinabita gochisō
Rokoko-cho
Eigo kaiki mashin no hanayagi
Yasashii sayoku no tame no kiyūkyoku
Shinshu Nihongo no saisei
Oboreru shimin
Mi farò mummia
Kodomo o sukue!
Nairan no yokan
Gisakuka no riaru raifu
Kōshoku ichidaiotoko
Higan Sensei =
Mikakunin biko buttai
Yasashii sayoku no tame no kiyukyoku
Okotoba
Mōsō jinsei
Boku wa mozō ningen
Fukayomi Nihon bungaku
Akutagawa-shō rakusensaku zenshū
Shōsetsu sahō ABC
Kaosu no musume
Jinrui sainenchō
Utsukushii tamashii
Shōnen
Keikoku shijo
Suisei no jūnin
Akka
Higan Sensei
Katasutorofu mania
Sunōdoroppu
Zetsubō kyarameru
Tsurezuregusa in USA
Yogensha no namae
Ankoku gūwashū
Etorofu no koi
Taihai shimai
Hui xing zhu ren
Pan to sākasu
Ōjōgiwa no warui yatsu
Kimi ga itan datta koro
Kyojin no hoshi
Wolfram Eilenberger
Wolfram Eilenberger (born 1972)

journalist, philosopher, opinion journalist, coach, literary editor, presenter

  • Otto-Hahn Gymnasium, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg University

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Der Tatort und die Philosophie
Zeit der Zauberer
Feuer der Freiheit
Kleine Menschen, große Fragen
Philosophie für alle, die noch etwas vorhaben
This is not America
Das Werden des Menschen im Wort
Raymond Smullyan
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017)

mathematician, pianist, philosopher, computer scientist, magician, chess composer

  • Princeton University, University of Chicago

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Detective stories
Satan, cantor, and infinity
The lady or the tiger? and other logic puzzles
This book needs no title
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
What is the name of this book?
Forever undecided
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
The chess mysteries of the Arabian knights
Who Knows?
The tao is silent
Logical labyrinths
Theory of Formal Systems
First-order logic
Alice in puzzle-land
The Riddle of Scheherazade
Set theory and the continuum problem
A Beginners Guide To Mathematical Logic
5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies
Diagonalization and self-reference
Recursion theory for metamathematics
Some Interesting Memories
Ça y est, je suis fou!!
King Arthur in search of his dog and other curious puzzles
Four Lives
A beginner's further guide to mathematical logic
The magic garden of George B
A Spiritual Journey
Mixed Bag
The Gödelian puzzle book
Reflections
Juegos de Ajedrez y Los Misticos Caballos
In Their Own Words
Rambles Through My Library
The lady or the tiger?
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)

poet, playwright

  • University of Oxford

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Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
The highwayman
Sightlines 9
Collected poems
Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
The torch-bearers
Poems
The wine-press
The magic casement
Sherwood
William Morris
Watchers of the Sky
Forty Singing Seamen
Drake, an English epic, books I-XII
The unknown God
The Highwayman (Visions in Poetry)
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Open boats
...The last voyage
Beyond the desert
A Belgian Christmas eve
The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
The edge of the abyss
Prentice Hall Literature--Sample Selections--Bronze
The lord of misrule
Two worlds for memory
Rada
A poet's anthology of poems
Mystery ships
Horace
Poems of the new world
What is England doing?
A salute from the fleet
Orchard's bay
A Belgian Christmas eve, being "Rada" rewitten and enlarged as an episode of the great war
Walking shadows
The secret of Pooduck Island
A letter to Lucian, and other poems
The opalescent parrot
The New morning
No other man
The Golden Hynde
Daddy fell into the pond, and other poems for children
Le sort du sous-marin allemand
...The book of earth
Sherwood; or, Robin Hood and the three kings
Forty singing seamen
The secret of Pooduck Island
Portrait of Horace
A Book of Princeton Verse 1916
A tale of old Japan
Pageant of Letters
The Enchanted Island
Voltaire
The flower of old Japan
Drake
Pageant of letters
The secret of Pooduck Island
The poems of Alfred Noyes
If judgement comes
Shadows on the down and other poems
The Wine Press a Tale of War
Collected poems in one volume
The secret of Pooduck island
The loom of years
Nine selections from Alfred Noyes
The elfin artist and other poems
The Golden hynde, and other poems
Some aspects of modern poetry
The Magic Casement - An Anthology of Fairy Poetry
Selected verse
If judgment comes
Shadows on the down and other poems
The enchanted island, and other poems
The golden book of Catholic poetry
Shadows on the down
Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes
Robin Hood
Tennyson
The Forest of Wild Thyme: A Tale for Children Under Ninety
The accusing ghost of Roger Casement
Walking shadows
The New Morning, and Rada
Drake, an English epic
New essays and American impressions
Drake, an English epic, books 1-12
The devil takes a holiday
The forest of wild thyme
Open boats
Dick Turpin's ride
The return of the scare-crow
The edge of the abyss
The Lord Of Misrule And Other Poems
Ballads and poems
Youth and memory
IF judgment Comes Collected poems
Wizards
The hidden player
A book of Princeton verse, 1916
The accusing ghost, or, Justice for Casement
The flower of old Japan, and other poems
Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes V1
Walking shadows
Songs of shadow-of-a-leafand other poems
The edge of the abyss
The torch-bearers
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Collected poems
The avenue of the allies and Victory
A salute from the fleet and other poems
Some aspects of modern poetry
The wine press
Alfred Noyes
The magic casement
A salute from the Fleet, and other poems
Rada
Songs of Shadow-of-a-leaf and other poems
The wine press
Some aspects of modern poetry
Horace
The flower of old Japan
The unknown God
The incompleat gardener
Collected poems by Alfred Noyes
The opulescent parrot
Voltaire
Pageant of letters
Selected verse including A victory dance and other poems old and new
The return of the scare-crow
The golden book of Catholic poetry
Collected poems
The torch-bearers ...
Le sort du sous-marin allemand
The strong city
The new morning
The elfin artists and other poems
The prayer for peace
Open boats
The wine press
Mystery ships
The wine press
The last voyage
The strong city
The sun cure
The accusing ghost
The last man
Poems
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Dick Turpin's ride, and other poems
Open boats
The avenue of the allies and Victory
Rada
The golden hynde, and other poems
The torch-bearers
The New morning
The unknown God
Two Christmas poems
Mystery ship (trapping the "U" boat)
Selected verse including A victory dance and other poems old and new
The carol of the fir tree