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Peter Swirski
Peter Swirski (born 1966)

literary critic, journalist

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The Art And Science Of Stanislaw Lem
Between literature and science
From Literature To Biterature Lem Turing Darwin And Explorations In Computer Literature Philosophy Of Mind And Cultural Evolution
A Stanislaw Lem Reader
All Roads Lead to the American City
Of Literature and Knowledge
From Lowbrow to Nobrow
ARS Americana ARS Politica
Of literature and knowledge
American political fictions
The art and science of Stanislaw Lem
Literature, analytically speaking
When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow
Art And Science of Stanislaw Lem
Richard Marcinko
Richard Marcinko (1940-2021)

military officer, radio personality, sailor, veteran

  • Auburn University, Admiral Farragut Academy

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Rogue warrior Seize The Day
Rogue warrior II
Rogue warrior--Green Team
Rogue warrior--Echo Platoon
Rogue warrior--Task Force Blue
Rogue warrior--SEAL Force Alpha
Rogue warrior--violence of action
Rogue Warrior--Vengeance
Rogue warrior--dictator's ransom
Rogue warrior--Designation gold
The Real Team
Rogue warrior--Detachment Bravo
Rogue warrior--Blood lies
Green Team
Rogue warrior--Detachment Bravo
Task Force Blue (Rogue Warrior)
Rogue warrior
Rogue warrior--Domino theory
Echo platoon
Rogue warrior
Rogue warrior--SEAL Force Alpha
Rogue warrior--Task Force Blue
Rogue Warrior--Domino theory
Green Team
Rogue Warrior--Holy terror
Leadership secrets of the rogue warrior
Option Delta
The Rogue warriorʼs strategy for success
Designation Gold (Rogue Warrior)
ROGUE WARRIOR TASK FORCE BLUE CASSETTE
Violence of Action
ROGUE WARRIOR SEAL FORCE ALPHA CASSETTE
Red Cell Rogue Warrior Promotion
Rogue Warrior Detachment Bravo (Rogue Warrior)
Seal Force Alpha
Vengeance
ROGUE WARRIOR GREEN TEAM CASSETTE
Rogue warrior
Detachment Bravo
Holy Terror (Rogue Warrior)
Green Team
Red cell
Holy Terror
Rogue Warrior (Reissue) Cassette
Echo Platoon (Rogue Warrior)
The Rogue Warriors Strategy For Success A Commandos Principles Of Winning
Designation Gold Rogue Warrior
Red Cell (Rogue Warrior (Audio))
Rogue Warrior
Vengeance
Red cell
Detachment Bravo
Task Force Blue
Echo Platoon
Blood Lies
Violence of Action
Green Team
Seal Force Alpha
Option Delta
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley (1940-2006)

journalist, actor

  • Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy

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White Shark
Shark Life
Jaws
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 1992
Rummies
Beast
Shark Trouble
Three Complete Novels (Beast / Girl of the Sea of Cortez / Jaws)
The Island
Best Sellers
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 2 - 1974
Selected from Jaws
Ocean planet
The Deep
Time and a ticket
Shark!
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez
Jaws [Screenplay]
Q Clearance
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Lush
McDougal Littell Literature
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume M-1983
Interactive reader grade 7
Jonathan visits the White House
Shark
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" [story in] If - March 1967
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
L'ile sanglante 022796
ha-Naʻarah mi-Yim Ḳorṭez
ha-Karish
ha-I ha-neʻelam
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)

journalist, film producer, playwright

  • University of Oxford, Accrington and Rossendale College

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Frankissstein
The stone gods
12 Bytes
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The world and other places
Art Objects
Gut symmetries
Written on the Body
The King of Capri
The Body
Granta 110
The Battle of the Sun
The PowerBook
Tanglewreck (Blackbirds)
Weight
Boating for beginners
The daylight gate
Lighthousekeeping
The passion
Sexing the cherry
Oranges are not the only fruit
Midsummer nights
The gap of time
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
The Myths Series Collection : Books 1-3
Myth Series Floor Display
The Battle of the Sun
Frankenstein and Sexing the Cherry
Art and Lies Edition
Midsummer Nights
Passion Fruit
The Myths
Art objects
Ox-Tales
Frankissstein
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
The powerbook
The powerbook
The gap of time
The Battle of the Sun
Oranges are not the only fruit
Oranges are not the only fruit
Simetrias Viscerales
Night Side of the River
Love
What? Why? Witch?
Lion, the Unicorn and Me
Hansel and Greta
Midsummer Nights
Going Through a Phrase, An Anthology of Writing from London's Lesbian and Gay Community
Fit for the Future
World's Wife
Love
Oranges are not the only fruit
The Lion The Unicorn And Me
Art & Lies
The battle of the sun
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Land
Gut symmetries
The gap of time
Night Side of the River
Great Moments in Aviation and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
The bedside Guardian 2014
Khozi Łai stvo sveta
Ju zi bu shi wei yi de shui guo
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford (1917-1996)

journalist, human rights activist

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Daughters and rebels
Lifeitselfmanship, or, How to become a precisely because man
The American way of death
The American way of birth
The trial of Dr. Spock
The American way of death revisited
Grace had an English heart
Kind and usual punishment
Decca
Faces of Philip
Poison penmanship
A fine old conflict
The American way of death
The American way of death.
The American prison business
Poison penmanship
The Making of a Muckraker
Literary Voices #1
The trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr, Michael Goodman and Marcus Raskin
Poison penmanship
The American way of death
Poison penmanship
The trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman and Marcus Raskin
Hons and rebels
William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)

journalist

  • The Manchester Grammar School

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Rookwood
Crichton
Guy Fawkes; or, The gunpowder treason
THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Ovingdean Grange; a tale of the South Downs
The Constable de Bourbon
the new monthly magazine
The Admirable Crichton
Bentley's Miscellany
THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
Old Saint Paul's, a Tale of the Plague And the Fire
The spendthrift, a tale
Bentley's Miscellany
THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
The miser's daughter
The new monthly magazine
The leaguer of Lathom
The Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest
Saint James's
Beau Nash, or, Bath in the eighteenth century
The goldsmiths' wife
The star-chamber, an historical romance
The Star-Chamber Volume 1
Talbot Harland
Jack Sheppard (1839)
Bentley's Miscellany
The elixir of life (Auriol)
Bentley's Miscellany
The fall of Somerset
Merry England
The Lord Mayor of London
Windsor Castle, an historical romance
The Star-Chamber, Volume 2
Bentley's Miscellany
Bentley's Miscellany
The New Monthly Magazine VOL.127
Bentley's Miscellany
The Manchester rebels of the fatal '45
Cruikshank's Water Colours
Bentley's Miscellany
The Works of William Harrison Ainsworth
Bentley's Miscellany
Preston Fight
Bentley's Miscellany
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 11
Ballads: romantic, fantastical, and humorous
John Law, the projector
Hilary St. Ives V1
Chetwynd Calverley
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 50
Cardinal Pole
The maid's revenge
Historical romances of William Harrison Ainsworth
Mervyn Clitheroe
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 23
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 26
James The Second Or The Revolution Of 1688
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 7
The flitch of bacon
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 40
Rockwood
The good old times
Myddleton Pomfret
The Spanish match
December tales
Bentley's Miscellany
Old court
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 5
The Constable Of The Tower V2
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 41
Bentley's Miscellan, Volume 14
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 59
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 47
Stanley Brereton
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 15
Bentley's Miscellany
Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. XXXV
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 36
Ainsworth's novels
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 51
Hilary St. Ives
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 30
Tower of London
Jack Sheppard a Romance
Myddleton Pomfret V3
Letters from Cockney lands
Old St. Paul's
Rookwood, a romance
Spanish Match : Or, Charles Stuart at Madrid
The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of '45
Bentley's Miscellany; Volume 6
The Historical Romances of William Harrison Ainsworth Rockwood in One Volume
The South-Sea Bubble
Goldsmith's Wife
Myddleton Pomfret
NOVELS
Bentley's Miscellany; Volume 1
Historical romances
Crichton
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 5
Auriol the Elixir of Life
The Lancashire Witches
Novels and romances
The Good Old Times V2
Jack Sheppard Volume I A Romance
The Spectre Bride, Auriol or the Elixir of Life, and a Night in Rome
Ainsworth's Magazine
Bentley's Miscellany; Volume 7
Mervyn Clitheroe
The South-Sea bubble. With nineteen illus. by Edward Henry Corbould
Twr Llundain
History of the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon Custom
Tower of London
Hilary St. Ives
Ainsworth's Magazine
The Projector
The Combat of the Thirty. From a Breton Lay of the Fourteenth Century. With an Introduction, Comprising a New Chapter of Froissart
Windsor Castle
New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2
Lancashire Witches
Guy Fawkes
The Goldsmith's Wifes
Jack Sheppard
The tower of London
Lancashire Witches, a Romance of Pendle Forest. with Illus. by Sir John Gilbert
Jack Sheppard Volume III A Romance
Mervyn Clitheroe
South-Sea Bubble
Old Saint Paul's
Old Saint Paul's; Volume 2
The Tower of London, V.II (Historical Romances of William Harrison Ainsworth)
Boscobel
New Monthly Magazine
Nell Gwynne
Beatrice Tyldesley
Old Saint Pauls (The Evergreen library)
El castillo de Windsor
Crichton; Volume 1
Star-Chamber
The tower of London, an historical romance
The novels of William Harrison Ainsworth
Tower Hill
Spanish Match
Guy Fawkes, or, the Gunpowder Treason
Jack Sheppard
Windsor castle
Boscobel
The constable of the tower
Beau Nash
Turpin's ride to York
Auriol, or, The elixir of life
Old Saint Paul's
The admirable Crichton
Legend of the Devil's dyke
The Manchester rebels of the fatal '45 ...
<VIEWS OF THE DEVIL'S DYKE>. VIEWS AND LEGENDS OF THE DEVIL'S DYKE
Old Saint Paul's
The New Monthly Magazine
Crichton
Sir John Chiverton
Saint James's; or, The court of Queen Anne
Saint James's
Beatrice Tyldesley V3
The tower of London
The Stone jug
Preston fight
Flitch of bacon
Flæskeskinken
Rookwood
Ainsworth's novels
The spendthrift
Historical romances of William Harrison Ainsworth
<VIEWS OF THE DEVIL'S DYKE>. VIEWS AND LEGENDS OF THE DEVIL'S DYKE
Historical romances of William Harrison Ainsworth
William Le Queux
William Le Queux (1864-1927)

journalist, diplomat

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The closed book
The invasion
The room of secrets
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Book of the Sleuth
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
The great war in England in 1897
The House of Whispers
The Doctor of Pimlico
Rasputin, the rascal monk
The secrets of Potsdam
Britain's deadly peril
The golden face
Scribes and Pharisees
The price of power
The great white queen
Zoraida
A secret service
German atrocities
The white lie
The hunchback of Westminster
Hushed up!
Sant of the Secret Service
The intriguers
The count's chauffeur
The Marked Man
Spies of the kaiser plotting the downfall of England
German spies in England
Sign of Silence
The eye of Istar
The zeppelin destroyer
As we forgive them
Third Clasic Thriller Collection
Tracked by wireless
Secrets of the Foreign Office
Stolen souls
Wiles of the Wicked
The money-spider
Cipher six
The seven secrets
Number 70, Berlin
The veiled man
The devil's spawn
The Lady in the Car
The Near East
Further secrets of Potsdam
The mystery of the green ray
The voice from the void
The Gay Triangle: The Romance of the First Air Adventurers
The crystal claw
The pauper of Park lane
The crimes club
At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium
The white glove
Revelations of the Secret Service
Whither thou goest
A woman's debt
The death-doctor
Supernatural Detectives 5: The Colour-Criminologist / From Whose Bourne
Her Royal Highness
Whoso findeth a wife
Whatsoever a man soweth
The Minister Of Evil
The temptress
The day of temptation
If sinners entice thee
The stolen statesman
Voice from the Void and the Middle Temple Murder
The place of dragons
The Four Faces A Mystery
The Czar's Spy: A Story of a Matter of Millions
The mysterious three
If England Were Invaded
The Stretton Street affair
Things I know about kings, celebrities, and crooks
The Great God Gold
Her majesty's minister
The under-secretary
This house to let
Behind the German lines
The bomb-makers
The Red Room
The sign of the stranger
Red Widow
Devil's Dice
William Le Queux, best novels
The Riddle of the Ring
Gamblers
Foreign Spy
The Mysterious Mr. Miller
The great court scandal
The blue bungalow
In White Raiment
The German Spy System From Within
Der einfall der Deutschen in England
Dr. Crippen--lover and poisoner
The Sign of the Seven Sins
The crime code
Behind the Throne
The idol of the town
Behind the bronze door
The Lawless Hand
Love intrigues of the Kaiser's sons
The secret life of the ex-Tsaritza
Khadī lưklap hǣng mahānakhō̜n
Treasure of Israel
Way to Win
Secrets of Monte Carlo
Guilty bonds
The Tickencote mystery
On the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea
The Lost Million
An observer in the Near East
Istoria ekstraordinaria de Rasputin, el papas kriminal...
Gerry Sant of the Secret Service
Of Royal Blood
The bond of black
Works of William le Queux (13 Books)
House to Let
The Broken Thread
An Eye for an Eye
Wither Thou Goest
La dame en bleu
The Balkan trouble
The crinkled crown
The dangerous game
The mystery of Mademoiselle
Pʻotsʻtami gaghtnikʻnerĕ
Poison shadows
The scarlet sign
Beryl of the biplane
L-ghelm tas-skiet
The tattoo mystery
The rat trap
Lying lips
The Lure of Love
Blackmailed
The king's incognito
The Captain of the "Mary Rose": A Tale of Tomorrow (Sources of Science Fiction: Future War Novels of the 1890s, Vol. 2)
Histoire extraordinaire de Raspoutine: le moine scélérat
The spider's eye
The sting
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service (1874-1958)

war correspondent, poet, autobiographer

  • McGill University

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The master of the microbe
Creepy Classics
The best of Robert Service
Ballads of a Cheechako
The cremation of Sam McGee
Ploughman of the moon
Songs of a sourdough
The shooting of Dan McGrew and other poems ..
The shooting of Dan McGrew
Best Tales of the Yukon
Rhymes of a rolling stone
The spell of the Yukon, and other verses
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
Ballads of a Bohemian
Collected poems of Robert Service
The best of Robert Service
Dan McGrew, Sam McGee, and other great Service
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Poems
The very best of Robert Service
Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Poems
The Bolshevik party in revolution
The Best of Robert Service
The trail of '98
Songs of the High North
Later collected verse
The complete poems of Robert Service.
The pretender
The rhymes of a Red-Cross man
Robert W. Service
German Course Handbook. Instructions, explanatory Notes, Vocabularies
The Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Verses by Robert Service
More collected verse
Harper of Heaven
The complete poems of Robert Service
Collected verse of Robert Service.
Dan McGrew, Sam McGee
Ballads of a Bohemian
Short Works of Robert William Service
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross man
The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man
Bar-room ballads
Songs of a sun-lover
Ballads of a Bohemian
Collected Works of Robert W. Service
[Album containing correspondence between Arthur Stewart and Robert and Madame Service. article on Service
The poisoned paradise
[Newspaper scrapbook and collected bibliography, including six poems published weekly in Weekly News]
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
More collected verse
Rhymes of a roughneck
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
The Ghosts of No Man's Land - The Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Collected poems
The Poems of Robert Service
Ballads of a Cheechako
The shooting of Dan McGrew, & other favorite poems
Yukon Poems of Robert W. Service
Collected verse of Robert Service
Songs for my supper
Poems
Rhymes of the midnight sun
Ploughman of the moon
Later collected verse
Under the Midnight Sun
The Trail of Ninety-Eight
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
The song of the campfire
My adventures in the North
Harper of heaven
Lyrics of a lowbrow
Why not grow young? Or, living for longevity
Why not grow young?, or, Living for longevity
Rhymes for my rags
THE MASTER OF THE MICROBE
The Poisoned Paradise; a Romance of Monte Carlo
The trail of '98
Rhymes for my rags
COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT SERVICE
Rhymes of a roughneck
Selected poems, with some account of his life and experiences
Collected Verse of Robert Service
Rhymes of a rolling stone
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
Later collected verse
Carols of an old codger
Rhymes of a rebel
The Master of the Microbe
The master of the microbe
The rough-neck;
Poisoned Paradise : a Romance of Monte Carlo
Rhyme and romance
Ballads of a Bohemian
Campfire poems
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Ballards of a Cheechako
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Ballads of a cheechako
Spell of the Youkon and Other Verses
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone [microform]
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
Rhymes of a Red Cross man. --
The rhymes of a Red-Cross man
Aunt Phil's Trunk Proudly Presents
Collected Works of Robert W. Service
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Rhymes of a rolling stone.
Ballads of a Bohemian
Tria l of '98
The house of fear
More collected verse
Pretender
Ballads of a Cheechako,
The complete poems
Songs of the high north
Harper of heaven
Roughneck
Rhymes of Rolling Stone
Ballads of a bohemian
Ploughman of the Moon
More Selected Verse of Robert Service
BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN, by ROBERT W SERVICE, 1921, FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL DJ
Carols of an old codger
The poisoned paradise
[ Postcard with photograph of Service's cabin in the Yukon.]
Lyrics of a low brow
Rhymes of a Roughneck
Robert Service Collected Poems
Rhymes for my rags
Why not grow young?
Ballads Of A Cheechako
The roughneck
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man. --
The trail of '98
Ballads of a Bohemian
Later collected verse
The poetry of Robert W. Service
The Poisoned Paradise; A Romance of Monte Carlo
The poisoned paradise
Trail Of '98 [microform]
Rhymes of a rebel
Harper of heaven, a record of radiant living
The poisoned paradise
Complete poetical works of Robert W. Service
Rhymes of a roughneck
More selected verse of Robert Service
Bar-room ballads
Rhymes of a rebel
Lyrics of a low brow
Ploughman of the Moon
The ballad of Salvation Bill
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
The pretender
Songs of a Sourdough
Rhymes of a rolling stone
Collected verse of Robert Service
Collected verse of Robert Service
Rhymes of a rolling stone
Rhymes of a rolling stone
Ballads of a Cheechako
Best tales of the Yukon
Ballads of a Cheechako
Ballads of a Cheechako
Collected verse of Robert Service.
The poisoned paradise
Ballads of a Bohemian
Rhymes of a rolling stone
The best of Robert Service
The best of Robert Service
The spell of the Yukon
The trail of '98
Scenes from the land of the midnight sun
Ballads of a Cheechako
Ballads of a Cheechako
Ballads of a Bohemian
Lyrics of a lowbrow
The trail of '98
The roughneck
Collected verse of Robert Service
Harper of heaven
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
The house of fear
The pretender
Ballads of a Cheechako
Ballads of a Cheechako
Ballads of a Cheechako
Rhymes of a rolling stone
The trail of '98
The house of fear
Rhymes of a rolling stone
Rhymes for my rags
The trail of '98
The house of fear
Ballads of a Cheechako
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
The pretender
Collected verse.
The trail of '98
The roughneck
Ballads of a Cheechako
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
The roughneck
The roughneck
The master of the microbe
Ballads of a Cheechako
The pretender
Ballads of a Cheechako
The pretender
Ballads of a Cheechako
Ballads of a Bohemian
The trail of '98
Ballads of a Cheechako
The trail of '98
The rhymes of a Red-Cross man
Carols of an old codger
The master of the microbe
The trail of '98
The pretender
The pretender
Rhymes of a Red Cross man