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Jules Feiffer
Jules Feiffer (born 1929)

comics artist, journalist, playwright, drawer, actor

  • Pratt Institute

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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick
Cousin Joseph
Kill My Mother
The White House murder case
The ghost script
Kill My Mother
Cousin Joseph
Meanwhile--
Ronald Reagan in Movie America
Passionella, and other stories
The explainers
Elliot Loves
I Lost My Bear
Knock, knock
Bark, George
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
Sick, sick, sick
Backing into forward
The great comic book heroes
I'm not Bobby!
The Man in the Ceiling (Michael Di Capua Books)
The house across the street
America, from Eisenhower to Reagan
The daddy mountain
By the Side of the Road
Birthday ball
Feiffer
Tantrum
Feiffer
A bad friend
Carnal knowledge
The man in the ceiling
The man in the ceiling
Little murders
Marriage is an invasion of privacy, and other dangerous views
I lost my bear
A room with a zoo
Feiffer's children
Boy, girl, boy, girl
Grown ups
Backing into forward
Der Fluch des Lachens.
Feiffer
Hold me!
Ackroyd
Passionella and other stories
Room with a Zoo, A
Best American Plays. Seventh Series 1967-1973
Feiffer on Nixon
Harry, the rat with women
Aboie, Georges!
Backing into forward
Der Mann an der Decke
Meanwhile--
House Across the Street, The
Jules Feiffer's America
Feiffer on civil rights
The Comics journal
Daddy Mountain, The (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
Pictures at a prosecution
Matar a mi madre
Out of Line
Feiffer, The Collected Works, Vol. 1
El peatge màgic
Feiffer's album
Smart George
Feiffer, the collected works
Crawling Arnold
The unexpurgated memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler
Rupert Can Dance
De r fluch des lachens
The Penguin Feiffer
Popeye, the movie novel
I'm Not Bobby!
Passionella
Feiffer's people
Bark, George
Ackroyd
Kitty Up!
God bless
Anthony Rose
Jules Feiffer papers
Zap! Pow! Bam! the superhero
Was getekend, Feiffer
By the Side of the Road
Knock knock
White House Murder Case
I Lost My Bear
Hold me
Sick, Sick, Sick
Passionella, and other stories
Feiffer's People
Smart George
A Room With a Zoo
Boy,girl,boy,girl
Crawling Arnold
Anthony Rose
Explainers
Little murders
Backing into forward
Pictures at a prosecution
The explainers
Man in the Ceiling
Passionella, and Other Stories
A bad friend
Hold me!
Sick, Sick, Sick (Fontana books)
I'm Not Bobby
Ghost Script
The White House murder case
Elliot loves
Little murders
The unexpurgated memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler
Knock Knock. Playbill.
Carnal knowledge
Crawling Arnold
The great comic book heroes
Bark, George
Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears
Little Murders- London Playbill/Programme 1967- Aldwych Theatre
Kill my mother
The White House Murder Case & Dick and Jane
The Man in the Ceiling
Meanwhile...
Feiffer's people
THE WHITE HOUSE MURDER CASE & DICK AND JANE
Retsaḥ poh, retsaḥ sham
Grown ups
Sick, Sick, Sick
A bad friend
Feiffer's album
Dick and Jane
Against the Grain
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer (1998-03-07)
Harry, the rat with women, a novel
The Great Comic Book Heroes
BOY, GIRL. BOY, GIRL.
Amazing Grapes
Meanwhile..
Feiffer's marriage manual
Feiffer Picture Book
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023)

singer, aircraft pilot, autobiographer, actor, film producer, entrepreneur, recording artist, lyricist, composer

  • Auburn University, Pearl River Community College

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A salty piece of land
Where is Joe Merchant?
Jolly Mon
A pirate looks at fifty
Where is Joe Merchant?
Trouble dolls
Where is Joe Merchant?
Tales from Margaritaville
Swine not?
Tales from Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffet / Beach House on the Moon
Jimmy Buffett
Easy Guitar Anthology 20 Greatest Hits
Trouble dolls
Songs You Know by Heart
Meet Me in Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffet
Jimmy Buffett Sheet Music Anthology Sheet Music Anthology
A pirate looks at fifty
The Jolly Mon
LuLu's Kitchen
Songs you know by heart
Tales from Margaritaville
A pirate looks at fifty
Jolly Mon
Stuart Woods
Stuart Woods (1938-2022)

actor, sociologist

  • University of Georgia

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New York Dead (Stone Barrington #1)
Orchid Beach
Shoot Him If He Runs
The Run
Chiefs
Santa Fe Dead
Iron orchid
Capital Crimes
Hot mahogany
L.A. Dead
Dark harbor
Short Straw
Dead in the Water
Santa Fe rules
Blood Orchid
Dirt
Dirty work
Hothouse orchid
Swimming to Catalina
Worst fears realized
Cold paradise
Beverly Hills Dead
Kisser
Dead eyes
Orchid Blues
Heat
Choke
Reckless abandon
Two-Dollar bill
The prince of Beverly Hills
Cold paradise
Fresh Disasters
L.A. times
Imperfect strangers
Bel Air Dead
Under the Lake
Strategic moves
Orchid blues
The short forever
Loitering with intent
D.C. dead
Grass roots
Loitering with intent
The short forever
Fresh disasters
Shoot Him If He Runs
Scandalous behavior
Dirt
Lucid intervals
Chiefs
Heat
Naked greed
Unnatural acts
Son of Stone
Dead paradise
L.A. dead
Santa Fe Edge
Doing hard time
Naked greed
The prince of Beverly Hills
Foreign affairs
Chiefs
Family jewels
Dc Dead A Stone Barrington Novel
Reckless abandon
White cargo
Collateral Damage A Stone Barrington Novel
Blood Orchid
Son Of Stone A Stone Barrington Novel
Cut and thrust
Hot mahogany
Grass roots
Hot pursuit
Beverly Hills Dead (A Stone Barrington Novel)
Insatiable appetites
Severe clear
New York Dead/Dead in the Water
Santa Fe rules
Insatiable appetites
Paris match
Under the lake
Orchid Beach
Under the Lake
Short Straw
Unnatural acts
Unnatural Acts A Stone Barrington Novel
Unintended consequences
Heat
Son of stone
L.A. dead
Paris match
Doing hard time
Dead in the water
Lucid intervals
Belair Dead A Stone Barrington Novel
Hot Pursuit
Bel-Air dead
Severe Clear
Severe clear
Desperate measures
Worst Fears Realized (Stone Barrington)
Fresh disasters
Dirt
Fresh Disasters (Stone Barrington)
Collateral damage
Mort à New York
Paris Match
Dark Harbor (A Stone Barrington Novel)
Collateral damage
Unintended consequences
Under the lake
Beverly Hills dead
The money shot
Doing hard time
Hot pursuit
Heat
The money shot
Naked Greed
Foreign affairs
Sante Fe Rules
Severe Clear
Choke
Son of Stone
Foreign Affairs
D. C. Dead
Santa Fe edge
Under the lake
D.C. Dead
Reckless abandon
Foreign Affairs
The Money Shot
UNDER THE LAKE.
Insatiable Appetites
Naked Greed
Bel-Air dead
Swimming to Catalina
New York dead
Dead in the Water
Desperate Measures
New York Dead
Unintended Consequences
Short Forever
Under the Lake
Desperate Measures
Unintended Consequences
Doing Hard Time
Dirt
Fresh Disasters
Loitering with Intent
Scandalous Behavior
Foreign Affairs
Prince of Beverly Hills
Unnatural Acts
Swimming to Catalina
Choke
Dirt
Grass Roots
Short Straw
Choke
Choke
Paris Match
Collateral Damage
Bel-Air Dead
Dirt
Chiefs
Worst Fears Realized
New York Dead
Hot Pursuit
Swimming to Catalina
Capital Crimes
Dirty Work
Dirt
Santa Fe Dead
Orchid Beach
Blood Orchid
Santa Fe Dead
Iron Orchid
Worst Fears Realized
Deep Lie
Palindrome
Run Before the Wind
Mounting fears
White Cargo
Dishonorable Intentions
Hothouse Orchid (Holly Barker)
Kisser
L. A. Dead (Stone Barrington)
Deep lie
Treason
Santa Fe Edge
Blood Orchid Abridged Audio
Stuart Woods CD Collection 1
Bombshell
Turbulence
Stuart Woods CD Collection 3
Cold Paradise (Stone Barrington)
Smooth operator
Mounting fears
Stuart Woods CD Audio Treasury Low Price
The run
Dead eyes
Stuart Woods CD Collection 2
Deep lie
Standup guy
Smooth operator
Dirty Work Abridged Audio
Contraband
Skin Game
Blue water, green skipper
New York Dead (Stone Barrington)
Hit list
Sex, lies & serious money
Deep lie
Stealth [large print]
Hit list [large print]
Cold Paradise Audio
Fresh disasters
Unnatural Acts A Stone Barrington Novel
Palindrome
Short Forever, The Abridged Cassette
Swimming to Catalina (Cassette, abridged)
Carnal curiosity
Short Forever, The (Stone Barrington)
Distant Thunder
Orchid Blues (Holly Barker)
Hothouse orchid
White cargo
Blue water, green skipper
The Run CD Low Price
Barely legal
Dirty Work (Stone Barrington)
Hothouse orchid
L.A. times
Dead in the Water
Unbound
Blood Orchid (Holly Barker)
Cut and thrust
Grass Roots (Will Lee)
Reckless Abandon (Stone Barrington)
Cut and thrust
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume M-1983
Piège à flic
Contraband [Large print]
Strategic Moves
A Delicate Touch
Indecent exposure
Contraband
Treason
Hit list
Wild Card
Lucid intervals
Class Act
Double Jeopardy
Santa Fe edge
Anonymement votre
Foul Play
Safe House
Shoot first
Treason [large print]
Hush-Hush
Worst fears realized
Bombshell
Hit List
Below the belt
Dead Eyes
Standup guy
Heat, By Stuart Woods, Unabridged 7 Audio Cassettes, 10.25 Hours, Narrated By Richard Ferrone
Shakeup
Hush-Hush
A romantic's guide to the country inns of Britain and Ireland
Strategic moves
Choppy Water
Untitled Stone Barrington #57
Indecent exposure
Fast & loose
Carnal curiosity
Shakeup
Contraband [large print]
Prince of Beverly Hills, The (Stone Barrington)
Hit list
Grass roots
White Cargo
Quick & dirty
Lucid intervals
White Cargo
Sex, Lies & Serious Money (A Stone Barrington Novel)
Untitled Stone Barrington #63
Criminal Mischief
Deep Lie
Safe House
Turbulence
Turbulence [Stone Barrington]
Turbulence
Below the belt
White cargo
Fast and loose
Mounting fears
Hollywood Mafia
Dishonorable Intentions
Grass roots
Chiefs
Foul Play
Safe House
Fast and Loose
Jackpot
Oculto En La Ciudad/ Reckless Abandon
White Cargo
Deep Lie
Shoot First
La Times-21.00
L. A. Times
Hit List
Prince of Beverly Hills, The
White cargo
Orchid Beach Low Price
Dead Eyes Low Price
Dishonorable intentions
Propositos Oscuros
Kisser [text (large print)]
Le Lac aux sortilèges
Shoot first
Smooth Operator
New York Dead
Double Jeopardy
Swimming to Catalina Low Price
Obsession
Run Before the Wind
Grass roots
Worst Fears Realized Low Price
Below the Belt
Unbound
Contrabando blanco
Piège à flic
Barely legal
Untitled Stone Barrington #64
Black Dog
Dead Eyes
White cargo
Carnal curiosity
Stealth
White Cargo
Imperfect Strangers
A Safe House
Untitled Stone Barrington #64
Quick and dirty
Víctimas de Nueva York
Unbound
Dead in the water
Standup Guy
Untitled Stone Barrington #65
Distant Thunder
Hothouse Orchid
A Delicate Touch
Readers Digest Condensed Books
Untitled Stone Barrington 63
L.A. Times Low Price
Sex, lies & serious money
La mort entre deux eaux
Untitled Stone Barrington #62
Palindrome
Untitled Stone Barrington #65
Untitled Stone Barrington #65
Choppy Water
Black Dog
Imperfect strangers
Foul Play
Distant Thunder
Orchid Blues
Under the Lake
Chiefs
Dishonorable intentions
Santa Fe Edge
Carnal Curiosity
Bas Belasi
Quick & Dirty
Swimming to Catalina Mixed
Santa Fe Rules Preprint
Dishonorable Intentions
Quick and Dirty
Desperate Measures
Chiefs
Standup Guy by Stuart Woods Summary
Doing hard time
Choppy Water
Strategic Moves [Large Print] Publisher
Imperfect Strangers Lib/E
Peraḳliṭ ʻal ha-kaṿenet
Shoot first
Under the Lake
Strategic Moves
DIRTY WORK 9 copy FDR (3 signed copies)
Dirty Work
Unbound
Strategic Moves
ha-Ḳesher ha-Ḳolombiʼani
L.A. Times
L.A. Times Lib/E
Palindrome
Santa Fe Rules
Orkide Sahili
Mounting Fears
DIRTY WORK 9 copy FDR + 4 audios (three signed copies)
Stuart Woods Mixed
Iron Orchid
The money shot
Gecmisin Karanlik Yuzu
Distant Thunder
Asfixia - L.E. -
Iron Orchid (Large Print Edition)
Denizden Gelen Ölü
Dirt
Dead Eyes Lib/E
Extravagant Life
New York Dead
Orchid Beach Lib/E
Bel-Air Dead
Criminal Mischief
Santa Fe edge
Choppy Water
Santa Fe Rules
Der irische Schatten
Black Dog
Run Before the Wind
Worst Fears Realized
Untitled Stone Barrington #61
Untitled Stone Barrington #62
Delicate Touch
Dead in the Water
Scandalous Behavior
Traicion En L.A
Choke
הבית מתחת לפני האגם
Black Dog
Quick & Dirty (A Stone Barrington Novel)
Beverly Hills Prensi
Run Before the Wind
Dirty Work
Quick and Dirty
Olum Adasi
Santa Fe Dead
Standup guy
Heat Lib/E
An Extravagant Life
Foul Play
Dirt : a novel
Mounting Fears
Indecent Exposure
Deep Lie
Pesadilla en Santa Fé
Sikiysa Yakala
The Run
The Prince of Beverly Hills 12-Copy Signed Pre-Pac
Kisser
Cut and Thrust (LARGE PRINT Stone Barrington Book 30)
Bel-Air Dead
Unbound
Unti Woods Novel 1
La veuve noire
Dead Eyes
Choppy Water
Blue Water, Green Skipper
Shoot First
Sex, Lies & Serious Money
Lucid intervals
Contraband
Swimming to Catalina Display
L.A. Times
The Short Forever (Stone Barrington)
Soluk Soluga
Grass Roots M/TV
Standup Guy
New York Dead
Sex, Lies and Serious Money
Class Act
Safe House
Demir Orkide
Beverly Hills Dead (Basic)
Orchid Beach
Dead in the Water/Dirt
Heat
Plain Tales from the Hills
Run
Statheré poreia
Takip
Cut and Thrust
Run
Lucid Intervals
Naked Greed
Run
Near Miss
Delicate Touch
Cut and Thrust
Foul Play
Kirli Is
Dirt
Dark Harbor (Stone Barrington Novels)
Barely Legal
Imperfect Strangers
Shoot First
Wild Card
Run
Family Jewels
Heat
Blood Orchid
Grass Roots
Blood Orchid
Reckless Abandon
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen (1863-1947)

translator, literary critic, journalist, stage actor, politician

  • Hereford Cathedral School

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The Terror
The three impostors or The transmutations
Antología de la literatura fantástica
The Nightmare Reader
Cuentos de terror
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
The Hill of Dreams
The angels of Mons
The house of souls
Tales Of The Occult
The great god Pan, and, The inmost light
Hieroglyphics
The Great God Pan
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole 02. Das rote Zimmer
Selected Letters
Ghostly Clients and Demonic Culprits
Welsh Tales of Terror
Memoirs of Casanova
Five Gothic Masterpieces
The secret glory
Shadows of Carcosa
Dreads and drolls
Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans
Best Short Stories of All Time
A Fragment of Life
The Great God Pan & Xelucha
The autobiography of Arthur Machen
Dr. Stiggins
A Collection of Fiction and Essays by Occult Writers on Supernatural, Metaphysical and Esoteric Subjects
The shining pyramid
Tales of horror and the supernatural
Far off things
The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams
The Heptameron
The chronicle of Clemendy
The white people and other weird stories
Dog and duck, a London calendar et caetera
The great return
The Great God Pan The Shining Pyramid The White People
The Terror & Other Tales
A few letters from Arthur Machen
Strange roads, sketches by Joseph Simpson
The Caerleon edition of the works of Arthur Machen
Great God Pan and Other Classic Horror Stories
The White People and Other Stories
The Inmost Light
The Novel Of The Black Seal
The Necronomicon
The collected Arthur Machen
Guinevere and Lancelot & others
The Canning wonder
Red Hand
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
Ornaments in jade
The Novel of the White Powder
Eleusinia and Beneath the Barley
A Machen Omnibus
The Ghost Ship and Other Stories
Supernatural Short Stories
Out of the Earth
Holy terrors
The Memoires of Casanova, Volume IV, V and VI
The Caeleon Edition of the Works of ARTHUR MACHEN, the terror, the bowmen, the great return.
The Works of Arthur Machen
Black Seal and Other Stories
The grande trouvaille
The Green Round
The children of the pool
'The Red Hand' and 'The White People'
The London adventure
The White People
Hieroglyphics and Other Essays
Gizli Ihtisam
The Islington Mystery
Short Fiction
La casa de las almas
Change
The Secret Glory, Chapters Five and Six
Le Peuple blanc
The Shining Pyramid & The Three Impostors
A Venerable Assembly
The White People and Other Stories (The House of Souls)
Strange roads
Fantastic and Horrific Stories
Arthur Machen
Secret of the Sangraal
Things near and far
The great god Pan and other horror stories
The glorious mystery
Black Crusade
Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
Düsler Tepesi. Translated by Büsra N. Erturan.
Ritual
Rus in Urbe and Others
Dr. Stiggins: his views and principles
LA COLLINE DES REVES
The Arthur Machen MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Works
Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Machen
Thesaurus incantatus
A note on poetry
Spirits of battle
Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Comopolita
The novel of the black seal, and other stories
Letters of Arthur Machen [esq
The Ritual and Other Stories
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: v. 1
The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
Arthur Machen: Masters of the Weird Tale
N
Arthur Machen, best weird stories
Under the Leads
The book of the prophet Jeremiah and that of the Lamentations
The rose garden
War and the Christian faith
Precious balms
Bridles & spurs
Arthur Machen Megapack
The strange world of Arthur Machen
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
Dehset
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural: v. 2
The anatomy of tobacco
Ciemnosc w poludnie
TALES OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Volume Two
Collected Fiction Volume 3
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
The day's portion
Notes and queries
Dr. Stiggins
The chronicle of Clemendy
The cosy room and other stories
The three impostors
In the eighties
War and the Christian faith
The hill of dreams
Thesaurus incantatus
The collector's craft
The London adventure
The terror
The shining pyramid
Les Trois imposteurs
The green round
Strange roads
Far off things
Tom o'Bedlam and his song
Starrett vs. Machen
Parish of Amersham
Things near and far
Dreads and drolls
Beneath the barley
The autobiography of Arthur Machen
Precious balms
The grande trouvaille (A legend of Pentonville)
Christina Crawford
Christina Crawford (born 1939)

actor, stage actor, television actor, film actor, film director

  • University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles

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Black Widow
No safe place
Mommie Dearest
No Safe Place
Survivor
Black Widow
Mommie dearest
Survivor
Mommie dearest
Mommie dearest
Black widow
Daughters of the Inquisition: Medieval Madness
SCAMMED
Daughters of the Inquisition
Daughters of the Inquisition : Medieval Madness
Mommie Dearest Collection
La Veuve noire
Mommie Dearest
A True Story Mommie Dearest
QUERIDÍSIMA MAMA. EDICIÓN ESPECIAL
Ces chers parents!--
Eric L. Haney
Eric L. Haney (born 1952)

soldier, actor

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Low Country
Inside Delta Force
Inside Delta Force
Inside Delta Force
Beyond shock and awe
No man's land
No Man's Land
Beyond Shock and Awe
Delta Force. Im Einsatz gegen den Terror
The Prefect of Panama
Beyond Shock and Awe
Lun 21shi ji zhan zheng
Delta Force
Ed Wood
Ed Wood (1924-1978)

film producer, film actor, film director, film editor, stage actor, director

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Killer in drag
The Hollywood rat race
Muerte de un travesti (Death of a Transvestite)
Death of a transvestite
Let me die in drag
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Parisian passions
Tom Tryon
Tom Tryon (1926-1991)

actor, film producer, stage actor, television actor, film actor

  • Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Yale University

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The Other
All That Glitters
Harvest home
Crowned Heads
Night magic
Lady
The adventures of Opal and Cupid
Night of the Moonbow, The
The wings of the morning
In the fire of spring
Night of the moonbow
The other
The night of the moonbow
Crowned heads
Lady
Lady
The night of the moonbow
The other
Lady
The other
Le visage de l'autre
Wings of Morn-Rdrs Edn
Lady
The Other
The other
Lady; a novel
La fête du mais