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Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007)

poet, essayist, librarian, poet, essayist, librarian, poet, essayist, librarian

  • Smith College

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Troubling a Star (Austin Family Chronicles #5)
Dragons in the waters
A Wrinkle in Time
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3)
A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet #2
Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)
A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles #4)
An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet #5 / O'Keefe Family #4)
Witches
The Young Unicorns (Austin Family Chronicles #3)
A Treasury of Christmas Classics
A House Like a Lotus (O'Keefe Family #3)
Watch For The Light
Meet the Austins (Austin Family Chronicles #1)
A Severed Wasp (Katherine Forrester Vigneras #2)
Camilla (Camilla #1)
Two-Part Invention
Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters [24 stories]
And Both Were Young
The Small Rain (Katherine Forrester Vigneras #1)
The Irrational Season (Crosswicks Journals #3)
The Love Letters
The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family #1)
The other side of the sun
A Live Coal in the Sea (Camilla #2)
Witches & Wizards
The Sphinx at Dawn
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (Austin Family Chronicles #0.5)
Dance in the Desert
The Joys of Love
Certain Women
Asimov's Ghosts
Second Sight
The journey with Jonah
Walking on water
Visions of Fantasy
Trailing clouds of glory
A Full House
The Rock That Is Higher
A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals #1)
Penguins & Golden Calves
A Stone for a Pillow (Genesis #2)
The Genesis trilogy
The other dog
A Wrinkle In Time Trilogy
Anytime Prayers
Friends for the journey
Glimpses of Grace
Lines scribbled on an envelope
The anti-muffins
Miracle on 10th Street & Other Christmas Writings (Austin Family Chronicles #5.4)
The Moment of Tenderness
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journals #2)
Scholastic Literature Guide to A wrinkle in time
Madeleine L'Engle herself
Ladder of angels
A winter's love
Mothers and Daughters
The glorious impossible
And It Was Good
The ordering of love
Bright evening star
Sold into Egypt
A Cry Like a Bell
Spirit and light
The weather of the heart
The Moon by Night (Austin Family)
From This Day Forward
The Polly O'Keefe quartet
Mothers and Sons
Newbery Boxed Set (Island of the Blue Dolphins, Johnny Tremain, Belle Prater's Boy, Wrinkle in Time, Black Cauldron, Black Pearl, Watson's Go to Birmingham 1963, Lily's Crossing)
Dare to be creative!
Wrinkle in Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Moses, Prince of Egypt
Prelude (Katherine Forrester Vigneras series)
The Time Trilogy
Everyday prayers
Wintersong
The time quartet
A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends
Prayers for Sunday
The Wonder Years
The Prince of Egypt
Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet-Boxed Set 4 Vols
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
Small Rain
Austin Family Pack
A Wrinkle in Time
The Wrinkle in Time Boxed Set, Includes 5 books and an Exclusive Journal
Intergalactic P.S. 3: A Wrinkle in Time Story (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet)
Penguin Readers Level 5
The Crosswicks Journal
Novels of Madeleine l'Engle Volume One
Stay Angry, Little Girl
Wrinkle in Time (50-Minute One-act)
Fact of the Matter - Free Short Story
Crosswicks Journals
Access to Literature
Books for Children
Literature Guide
Penguin Readers Level 3
24 Days Before Christmas
Be Not Afraid
Ilsa
Wrinkle in Time Series
The Patriots
My Own Small Place
The swiftly tilting worlds of Madeleine L'Engle
Time Quartet Prebind Set (Quartets, Grades 4-6)
The Risk of birth
Madeleine L'Engle : The Kairos Novels : The Wrinkle in Time and Polly O'Keefe Quartets
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman (born 1946)

playwright, librarian, executive producer, audiobook narrator

  • University of Oxford, Ysgol Ardudwy

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The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)
Detective stories
The tin princess (Sally Lockhart #4)
Shadow in the north (Sally Lockhart #2)
The tiger in the well
The Butterfly Tattoo
The Adventures of the New Cut Gang
The White Mercedes
Two crafty criminals!
Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
Northern Lights
The Amber Spyglass
The Subtle Knife
The Firework-maker's Daughter
The scarecrow and his servant
His Dark Materials
The book of dust - La Belle Sauvage
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Spring-Heeled Jack
I was a rat!
Clockwork
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Volume 2
The Broken Bridge
Lyra's Oxford
The Secret Commonwealth
Once Upon a Time in the North
Thunderbolt's Waxwork
Grimm Tales
Scary! 2
Once Upon A Poem
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The adventures of John Blake
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel Volume 3
His Dark Materials set
Count Karlstein, or the Ride of the Demon Huntsman
Galatea
Flipper
His Dark Materials (Adapted)
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
The Writer's Map
Daemon voices
Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary
Frankenstein (Oxford Playscripts)
Puss in Boots
Writer's handbook guide to writing for children
Told Again
Story of the Year 06
The New Cut Gang
Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales
Imagination Chamber
Serpentine
Nelson Thornes Dramascripts Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
Contra la «identidad»
The Subtle Knife Graphic Novel
Life and death
How to be Cool
Private Peaceful By Michael Morpurgo Aladdin And The Enchanted Lamp By Philip Pullman The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark By Jill Tomlinson
Inside the Rainbow : Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Complete Edition
Darkness Illuminated
Northern Lights - the Graphic Novel Volume 1
His Dark Materials (stage Version)
THE REPUBLIC OF HEAVEN
' Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things'
Firework-Maker's Daughter (Stage Adaptation)
Using the "New Oxford School Dictionary"
Book of Dust TR 9-Copy Floor Display
Philip Pullman Slipcase
Four Tales
Using the Oxford Illustrated Junior Dictionary
There was a knock at the door
Borzoi Young Reader
A materia escura
Dictionary of Symbols
The Collectors: A His Dark Materials Story (Kindle Single)
Northern Lights - the Graphic Novel
Book of Dust - la Belle Sauvage (stage Version)
Northern Lights - the Graphic Novel Volume 2
His Dark Materials (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
The haunted storm
Golden Compass Graphic Novel
ha-Daḥlil u-mesharto
Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
Sally Lockhart Slipcase
סאלי לוקהארט
Reading Group Guide to The Subtle Knife
Mossycoat
Edmund Pearson
Edmund Pearson (1880-1937)

librarian

  • Harvard University, New York State Library School

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The adventure of the lost manuscripts & one other
The old librarian's almanack
The secret book
Masterpieces of murder
The librarian at play
The Voyage of the Hoppergrass
Theodore Roosevelt
The library and the librarian
Books in Black or Red
Dime novels
Instigation of the devil
Studies in murder
Book-reviews
The Librarian
Books in black or red
More studies in murder
The believing years
Murder at Smutty Nose and other murders
Queer books
Murder at Smutty Nose
Five murders
Sherlock Holmes and the Drood mystery
Murders that baffled the experts
Annette Curtis Klause
Annette Curtis Klause (born 1953)

librarian

  • University of Maryland

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Alien Secrets
Blood and chocolate
Color of Absence
The silver kiss
Freaks
Freaks
Welcome to Bordertown
Freaks Alive, On the Inside!
El Beso De Plata
The silver kiss
Bloed en chocolade
Beso de Plata, El
Blod & choklad
Blood and Chocolate
Blood and Chocolate, Homework Set
Blood and Chocolate, Class Set
The Silver Kiss
Alien Secrets
De zilveren kus
Lady Moon
Alien Secrets
The silver kiss
Margaret Yorke
Margaret Yorke (1924-2012)

librarian

  • Prior's Field School

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Admit to murder
A small deceit
Dangerous to know
Evidence to destroy
The smooth face of evil
Almost the truth
A question of belief
The price of guilt
Speak for the dead
Act of violence
Crime in question
Find me a villain
Pieces of justice
Safely to the grave
A case to answer
Dead in the morning
No medals for the major
The scent of fear
Devil's work
Cast for death
Find me a villain
Come-on
The hand of death
Grave Matters
Summer Flight
Mortal remains
The small hours of the morning
Silent Witness
A Small Deceit
Guilty Secrets
Intimate kill
Death on Account
John Creasey's crime collection 1983
Dead in the Morning Patrick Grant
Cast for Death Patrick Grant
Cause for concern
Evidence to destroy
Crime in Question
Christopher
Serious intent
Criminal damage
False pretences
The scent of fear
The cost of silence
Safely to the grave
Criminal damage
Deceiving Mirror
Silent witness
The Limbo Ladies
The Birthday
The China Doll
Come on
No fury
Once a stranger
The apricot bed
MARGARET YORKE OMNIBUS
False pretences
Criminal damage
Pray, Love, Remember
Le Disparu du Perséphone
Price of Guilt
The Smooth Face Of Evil
Pudding mortel
The Hand Of Death
O motivo do crime
Full Circle
Find Me a Villain
Safely to the Grave
Full Circle
Grave Matters
Scent of Fear
Death on Account (Ulverscroft Mystery)
Pray, Love, Remember
Louise Riley
Louise Riley (1903-1956)

children's librarian, broadcaster, librarian

  • McGill University, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Helen MacInnes
Helen MacInnes (1907-1985)

librarian

  • University of Glasgow, University College London

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Prelude to terror
Ride a Pale Horse
While Still We Live
Snare of the Hunter
The deadly decisions
The Unconquerable
Mystery
Agent in place
Assignment in Brittany
The Venetian affair
Rest and Be Thankful
The Double Image
Above suspicion
The hidden target
North from Rome
Friends and lovers
I and my true love
Assignment, suspense
Cloak of darkness
Message from Málaga
Triple Threat
Pray for Brave Heart
Best Sellers
Home is the hunter
The Deadly Decisions
Neither 5 nor 3
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume I - 1966
The way to the amusement park (Korean edition)
Heinähattu, Vilttitossu ja vaari (Heinähattu ja Vilttitossu, #3)
Molière's Comedies. Volume 2. Everyman's Library No. 831
The Salzburg Connection
Helen Macinnes: Three Bestselling Novels of Terror & Espionage : Agent in Place : The Hidden Target
Decision At Delphi (Keith Jennison Book)
Assignment
Contatto a Salisburgo
Le Résident
La proie du chasseur
Helen MacInnes / North From Home First Edition 1958
Stewart MacInnes
Casuslar Safakta olur
Horizon, a novel
The Share of the Hunter
Noodsein uit Malaga
Rokhev ʻal sus yerakrak
Roma'nin kuzeyinde
ha-Ḳesher ha-Yeṿani
Bugang die ying
Helen Macinnes
Aḳdamah la-ṭeror
Yedidim ṿe-ohavim
Tazkir sodi be-yoter
Malkodet la-tsayad
תקרית בזאלצבורג
The Slazburg connection
Helen MacInnes Anthology
שדר ממלגה
Burton Egbert Stevenson
Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962)

librarian, journalist

  • Princeton University

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The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet
That Affair at Elizabeth
The Home Book of Verse
The Standard Book of Shakespeare Quotations
The home book of quotations, classical and modern
A Soldier of Virginia
Days and deeds
American men of mind
Poems Of American History
The girl from Alsace
Affairs of State
Great Americans as seen by the poets
The Gloved Hand
The Holladay Case
The Kingmakers
The charm of Ireland
The destroyer
The MacMillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases (Formerly Entitled the Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases)
The Home Book of Great Poetry
A Guide To Biography For Young Readers
Little comrade
Famous single poems and the controversies which have raged around them
Home Book of Verse for Young Folks
The spell of Holland
The Home Book of Modern Verse
My country
Home Book of Bible Quotations
The Marathon mystery
The heritage
American history in verse, for boys and girls
American men of action
THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE AMERICAN AND ENGLISH NINTH EDITION
The Home Book of Verse, Vol. II
The Home Book of Verse - Two Volume Set American and English
The Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases
The Home Book of Verse, Volume 3 (Dodo Press)
The Home Book of Verse, Volume 2 - Part 1 (Dodo Press)
Home Book of Verse
The Home Book of Verse, Volume 4 (Dodo Press)
Stevenson's Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern
The Home Book of Verse American and English with an Appendix Containing A Few Well-Known Poems in Other Languages Vol. I and Vol. II
The young section-hand
Tommy Remington's battle
The Home Book of Shakespeare Quotations
Cadets of Gascony
The Home Book Of Verse American and English [Vol. I] NINTH EDITION
The young train dispatcher
The young train master
The Home Book of Verse
A king in Babylon
Child's Guide to Biography
At odds with the Regent
The coast of enchantment
The home book of verse, American and English
The home book of verse, American and English, 1580-1920
Burton Egbert Stevenson papers
The home book of verse, American and English, 1580-1918
The house next door
The red carnation
The path of honor
The home book of verse
The home book of modern verse
The girl with the blue sailor
The quest for the rose of Sharon
The storm-center
Famous single poems