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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter (born 1924)

naval officer, diplomat, politician, farmer, autobiographer, submariner, statesperson, environmentalist, businessperson, engineer, peace activist, human rights activist, humanitarian

  • Georgia Southwestern State University, Georgia Tech

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The Hornet's Nest
The hornet's nest
Keeping Faith
An hour before daylight
We can have peace in the Holy Land
Living faith
Our Endangered Values
Everything to Gain
Turning point
The hornet's nest
Why not the best?
Talking peace
The blood of Abraham
Always a reckoning, and other poems
A remarkable mother
The little baby Snoogle-Fleejer
An outdoor journal
Sharing good times
Beyond the White House
The virtues of aging
Sources of Strength
White House Diary
The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter
The Nobel Peace Prize lecture
A call to action
A government as good as its people
A FULL LIFE
Christmas in Plains
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Leading a Worthy Life: Sunday Mornings in Plains
Empower Zone
Measuring Our Success: Sunday Mornings in Plains
Conversations with Carter
The spiritual journey of Jimmy Carter, in his own words
Negotiation, the alternative to hostility
Beyond the White House
Faith & Freedom
The personal beliefs of Jimmy Carter
Faith
To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process
Carter on the arts
Talking Peace A Vision For The Next Generation
Bringing Peace to a Changing World: Sunday Mornings in Plains
United States encyclopedia
State of the Union address
Through the year with Jimmy Carter
As Time Goes by
Negotiation
Sharing good times
Niv Lessons From Life Bible Personal Reflections With Jimmy Carter
Atlanta
Kids' letters to President Carter
Public lecture
White House diary
James Carter
444 rūz
State Of The Union Addresses
Faith
"I'll never lie to you"
Mémoires d'un président
Christmas in Plains
Family of Wiley Carter
The United States and the Soviet Union : [remarks]
Remarks of President Jimmy Carter at the opening session of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
Hang time
SALT II
Kingfisher Junior Illustrated Dictionary
Jimmy Carter
Le meilleur de nous-même
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Through the year with Jimmy Carter
National security goals
A full life
SALT-2: President Carter's address to Congress
U. S. Law Affecting Americans Living and Working Abroad
The American Revolution
Everything to Gain-LTD
State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter
Public papers of the presidents of the United States
Life after the White House
The Hornets Nest Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers
Das Beste geben. Interaktiver Workshop
Everything to Gain
Virtues of Aging (Library of Contemporary Thought)
Omar!
Trade Agreements Act of 1979
Bao chi xin xin
Oral History Interview with Jimmy Carter [exact date unavailable], 1974
Conference for Global Development Cooperation
Living Faith 6cp Counter W/Ris
Mei Zhong jian jiao qian hou
As virtudes de envelhecer
America's African policy
Jimmy Carter
piksel raders
Mā warāʼa al-Bayt al-Abyaḍ
Parlons de paix
Beyond the White House
America's African policy
1990 elections in the Dominican Republic
Robert E. Vardeman
Robert E. Vardeman (born 1947)

physicist, engineer

  • University of New Mexico

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The Resonance of Blood
Death Channels
The Screaming Knife
The Klingon Gambit
Mutiny on the Enterprise
Cenotaph Road
Sos the rope
DESTINY STONE
To demons bound
Iron Tongue (Cenotaph Road, #4)
A symphony of storms
The flame key
Blood Fountain
Echoes of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos, Bk. 1)
The infinity plague
A Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, Bk. 2)
A plague in paradise
The War of Powers
Vor
Sorcerer's Skull (Cenotaph Road #2)
The skeleton lord's key
To Demons Bound
Masters of Space 2
Road to the stars
The Sundered Realm
Demon of the Dark Ones
The Quaking Lands (The Jade Demons, Book 1)
Deathfall
God of War
Death's Acolyte (Swords of Raemllyn, No 4)
In the Shadow of Omizantrim (War of Powers, No 5)
The Fallen Ones (The War of Powers, Book 4)
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road No 3)
For Crown And Kingdom (Swords of Raemllyn, No 6)
Masters of space
The White Fire (Jade Demons, No 4)
The ruins of power
Crystal Clouds (The Jade Demons, No 3)
The sorcerer's skull
Ancient Heavens (War of the Powers) Robert E. Vardeman
The Klingon Gambit
Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline
The Yoke of Magic (Swords of Raemllyn, No 2)
World Of Mazes (Cenotaph Road, #3)
Cenotaph Road
The Destiny Stone (War of Powers, Book 3)
Alien death fleet
Mutiny on Enterprise Star Trek
The Jade Demons Quartet
Alien Web (Masters of Space, No 2)
Phantoms on the Wind (Demon Crown, No 2)
Sorcerer's Skull
Dark Legacy
Space Vectors (Biowarriors, No 3)
The Demon Crown Trilogy
Istu Awakened
The glass warrior
The Stellar Death Plan (Masters of Space, No 1)
Crisis at Starlight (Biowarriors, No 2)
God of War II
The Accursed
Statistical Quality Wave Site
Equations of Chaos (The Weapons of Chaos Book 2)
God of War II
To demons bound
Rocket's Red Glare
Plague in Paradise (Masters of Space, No 3)
Fate of the Kinunir
Dark legacy
BattleTech Legends
The destiny stone
God Of War
Hell Heart
Mutiny on the Enterprise
Khozyaeva kosmosa
Gene Roddenbery's Xander in Lost Universe
Intergalactic orgy (Beeline late night library)
The Stink of Flesh
Pillar of Night (Cenotaph Road No 6)
Ogre Castle
Sqa with Spc Excel Set
Sandcats of Rhyl
Gateway to Rust and Ruin
Funland Kill Zone
Demons Bound Raemllyn #1
Masters Of Space
The sundered realm
Colors of Chaos (Weapons of Chaos, Book 3)
The keys to paradise
Swords of Raemllyn, Book 2
The Black Nebula
Klingon Gambit
The long walk
Blood Fountain
Key of ice and steel
Fire and Fog (Cenotaph Road #5)
VOR
Keys To Paradise Book II
Colors of chaos
Symphony of Storms (Demon Crown, No. 3)
The colors of chaos
Equations of chaos
The Infinity Plague (Biowarriors, Book 1)
Klingon Gambit
The beasts of the mists
The weapons of chaos
Swords of Raemllyn
Tales from the Otherverse
Sandcats of Rhyl
Demon of the Dark Ones
To demons bound
For crown and kingdom
In the sea nymph's lair
Death's acolyte
The stellar death plan
Blue Kingdoms: Buxom Buccaneers
Outer space embrace
Weapons of Chaos
A Yoke of magic
The genetic menace
Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters (1952-2023)

engineer

  • University of Colorado Denver

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Romance of the Snob Squad
Between Mom and Jo
Luna
Far from Xanadu
Keeping You a Secret
Revenge of the Snob Squad
Rage
grl2grl
A snitch in the Snob Squad
Define Normal
How do you spell g*e*e*k?
It's our prom (so deal with it)
Love Me, Love My Broccoli
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me A Novel
B.J.'s billion dollar bet
The stinky sneakers contest
Revenge of the Snob Squad
She loves you, she loves you not--
Revenge of the Snob Squad
By the time you read this, I'll be dead
By the time you read this, I'll be dead
B.J.'s Billion-Dollar Bet
How Do You Spell Geek?
Le Gang des pestes, numéro 1
How do you spell g*e*e*k?
Keeping You a Secret
Le Gang des pestes, numéro 2
Amours & Brocolis
Pretend you love me
Le Gang des pestes, coffret numéro 1
Love Me, Love My Broccoli
Keeping You a Secret
Gang des pestes, tome 3
Sen Bunu Okudugunda Ben Olmus Olacagim
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Pretend You Love Me
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me
Grl2grl
How Do You Spell G-E-e-K?
Luna
It's Our Prom (So Deal with It)
Rage
Romance of the Snob Squad
Keeping You a Secret
She Loves You, She Loves You Not...
Define Normal
Snitch in the Snob Squad
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born 1961)

jurist, political activist, lawyer, computer scientist, politician, professor, teacher

  • University of Cambridge, Yale Law School

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Code
Remix
Free culture
Republic, lost
The Future of Ideas
Man of high fidelity
America, Compromised (Berlin Family Lectures)
El código 2.0
Cut
Republic, lost
Fidelity and Constraint
L'avenir des idées
The USA is Lesterland
El código y otras leyes del ciberespacio
Citizens Divided
They Don't Represent Us
Cut/Film As Found Object In Contemporary Video
Democracy Vouchers
Good Faith Collaboration
One Way Forward
Kayip Cumhuriyet
Creative economies
Democracy Days
Fidelity to the Constitution
Kurieitibu komonzu
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)

actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director

  • Lycée Saint-Louis, Institut national agronomique

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Les gommes
Le voyeur
Les gommes. English
La Jalousie
La maison de rendez-vous
Repetition
Dans le labyrinthe
Topology of a Phantom City
Project for a revolution in New York
Last year at Marienbad
Two novels
La belle captive
Souvenirs du triangle d'or
Djinn
Le Voyageur
Instantanés
Miroir qui revient
For a new novel: essays on fiction
Pour un nouveau roman
Repetition
Le Rendez Vous
La Jalousie (Twentieth Century French Texts)
Recollections of the Golden Triangle (Robbe-Grillet, Alain)
Las Gomas
A Sentimental Novel
Why I love Barthes
Djinn ; and, La maison de rendez-vous
Le miroir qui revient
Un roman sentimental
Topologie d'une cite fantome
Snapshots (European Classics)
Glissements progressifs du plaisir
L' immortelle
Immortal One
Alechinsky
Last year at Marienbad
Project for a revolution in New York
In The Labyrinth (Calderbooks)
Préface à une vie d'écrivain
Instantane s
Reanudacion
La forteresse
Projet Pour Une Revolution a New York
Angelica O El Encantamiento
Dans Le Labyrinthe
For a New Novel
Topologie d'une cité fantôme
La reprise
The immortal one
Two novels by Robbe-Grillet
Les derniers jours de Corinthe
La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn
L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad
Der Augenzeuge
Topology of a Phantom City
Les Gommes
In the labyrinth
L' année dernière à Marienbad
Corinthes letzte Tage
Le voyeur
L'immortelle
Die Wiederholung
Snapshots
Pour Un Nouveau Roman
Por una novela nueva
Projet pour une révolution à New York
Un régicide
Topologie d'une cité fantôme
The Immortal One (Calderbooks)
La Jalousie
Jealousy (Jupiter Books)
Voyeur Roman
The voyeur
Topologie d'une Cite Fantome
La\Jalousie Roman
Projet pour une révolution à New York
The house of assignation
Snapshots
Projet pour une révolution a New York
A Regicide
La\Maison de Rendez­Vous Roman
L'\Immortelle Cine Roman
Souvenirs du Triangle D'Or
Pour un Nouveau Roman Critique Litteraire
For a new novel
Die Radiergummis
Projet pour une révolution a New York
Angelique
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Projet pour une revolution a New York
Angélique, ou, L'Enchantement
The Voyeur
Projet pour une révalution à New York
The Erasers
Un re gicide
Correspondance, 1951-1990
Dans le Labyrinthe
La maison de rendez-vous
Djinn
Temple Aux Miroirs
Jealousy and the Labyrinth
C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle
Annee Derniere a Marienbad Cine Roman
Maison de Rendez-Vous
UN Regicide
Topologie d'une cite fantome
The Erasers
Scénarios en rose et noir
Generative literature and generative art
Snapshots AND Towards a New Novel
L' année dernière a Marienbad
Gommes
Snapshots, and
El Espejo Que Vuelve/the Recurring Mirror
In the Temple of Dreams
Le rendez-vous
Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad
Instantaneas
La jalousie
Les gommes
Recurring Mirror
Instantanees Roman
Djinn
La maison de rendez-vous
Projet pour une Revolution a New York
L'\Immortelle
Project for a revolution in New York
Last Year in Marienbad
Erasers, the
V labirinte
Kairaku no zenshinteki yokosuberi
Instantanés
L'annee derniere a Marienbad
Instantanés
Sogl︠i︡adatǎi
La jalousie
Last year at Marienbad
Dans le labyrinthe
La jalousie
Neuer Roman und Autobiographie
The erasers
Jealousy
La jalousie
Pour un nouveau roman
Dans le labyrinthe
Two novels by Robbe-Grillet
L'Immortelle
Réinventer le roman
Jealousy
L'Immortelle
Last year at Marienbad
Topology of a phantom city
Les gommes
In the labyrinth, a novel
Moi, Armand, né sourd et muet
Dans le labyrinthe
La maison de rendez-vous
Instantané
L'année dernière à Marienbad
La belle captive
The voyeur
Entretiens complices
Norman Manea
Norman Manea (born 1936)

engineer

  • Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest

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Plicul negru
Black Envelope
The hooligan's return
Bonheur obligatoire
October eight o'clock
The lair
On clowns
The Fifth Impossibility Essays On Exile And Language
The Black Envelope
Captives
October, Eight O'Clock Stories
Fericirea obligatorie
24 contes al dia
On Clowns: The Dictator and The Artist
Other Aliens (Conjunctions Book 67)
Romanian writers on writing
24 contes al dia
El Regreso del Huligan
Cabinet of Curiosity
Laptele negru
Curierul de Est
Fenster zur Arbeiterklasse
Lair
Saul Bellow : Settling My Accounts Before I Go Away
Über Clowns. Essays
Despre clovni
Casa melcului
Compulsory happiness
Pe contur
Paradise Found
Întoarcerea huliganului
L'heure exacte
Cartea fiului
La quinta imposibilidad
O klownach Dyktator i Artysta
Payasos
Compulsory Happiness
Octombrie, ora opt
Întoarcerea huliganului
Exiled Shadow
Die Höhle
El sobre negro
Sertarele exilului
Fifth Impossibility
Silent Woman
Octombrie ora opt
Le bonheur obligatoire
Felicidad obligatoria
Le thé de Proust et autres nouvelles
Viziuna
Plicul negru
Der Trenchcoat
October Eight O'Clock
Vorbind pietrei
Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances
Înaintea despărțirii
Anii de ucenicie ai lui August prostul
Textul nomad
El té de Proust
Ekim, Saat Sekiz
Atrium
La guarida
Holigan'in Donusu
Zilele și jocul
Vizuina
La sombra exiliada
Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam (born 1943)

flight engineer, autobiographer, soldier, coal miner, scuba diver, aerospace engineer

  • Virginia Tech

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Dinosaur Hunter
The Coalwood way
Rocket boys
Red Helmet
The ambassador's son
The keeper's son
Rocket Boys
Sky of stone
Sky of Stone
The Ambassador's Son (Josh Thurlow Novels)
The Dinosaur Hunter
October sky
We are not afraid
The far reaches
The Ambassador's Son
The Far Reaches
The Keeper's Son (Josh Thurlow Novels)
Torpedo Junction
Back to the Moon
Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company
Back to the moon
Torpedo junction
Back to the moon
Red helmet
My Dream of Stars
Far Reaches
October Sky
Torpedo Junction
Carrying Albert Home
Crater
Rocket Boys. Roman einer Jugend
Carrying Albert home
The ambassador's son
The far reaches
Red Helmet
Viaje de Albert a Casa
Keeper's Son
Sky of Stone
The Coalwood Way
October Sky
Crescent
October Sky
Arubāto, kokyō ni kaeru