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John C. Wright
John C. Wright (born 1961)

lawyer

  • College of William & Mary, St. John's College

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Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood (born 1954)

playwright, poet lawyer, lawyer, jurist

  • University of Melbourne, Maribyrnong College

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Raisins and almonds
Cocaine Blues
Murder on the Ballarat train
Urn burial
Heavenly pleasures (A Corinna Chapman mystery # 2)
Death Before Wicket
Death By Water
Blood and Circuses
Death at Victoria Dock
Earthly Delights
Murder in Montparnasse
Ruddy gore
Murder In The Dark
Queen of the Flowers
Raisins and Almonds
The Green Mill Murder
Away With The Fairies
Murder on the Ballarat Train (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)
A question of death
Unnatural Habits A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Murder on a midsummer night
Trick or treat (A Corinna Chapman Mystery # 4)
Forbidden Fruit (A Corinna Chapman Mystery # 5)
Flying too high
Out of the Black Land
Trick Or Treat
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mystery, Volume 1)
The Castlemaine Murders
Urn Burial (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)
Earthly Delights A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Death Before Wicket (Large Print)
Castlemaine Murders, The
Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates
Blood and Circuses
Murder in the Dark a Phryne Fisher Mystery
Unnatural Habits Phryne Fisher Mysteries Paperback
Earthly Delights A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Dead Mans Chest A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Cassandra / Kerry Greenwood
The Green Mill Murder
Unnatural Habits A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Cooking the Books Corinna Chapman Mysteries Poisoned Pen Press
Away with the fairies; a Phryne Fisher mystery
Devils Food A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Flying Too High (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)
Introducing the Honorable Phryne Fisher Phryne Fisher Mysteries Paperback
Murder and Mendelssohn
Ruddy Gore (Phryne Fisher Mystery)
The Three-Pronged Dagger
Danger
On Murder
Recipes for Crime
Heavenly Pleasures A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Blood And Circuses A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Forbidden Fruit Corinna Chapman Mysteries Poisoned Pen Press
A different sort of real
On Murder 2
The Spotted Dog
Unnatural Habits
A question of death
Murder and Mendelssohn
Trick Or Treat A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Flying too high
Cooking the Books Corinna Chapman Mysteries Poisoned Pen Press
Ruddy Gore Phryne Fisher Mysteries Audio
Medea
Cooking The Books A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Death at Victoria Dock
Dead Mans Chest A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Raisins And Almonds A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Murder On A Midsummer Night A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Ruddy Gore
Electra
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher Mystery, Book 10)
Cooking The Books
Blood And Circuses A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Queen Of The Flowers A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Heavenly Pleasures A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Medea
Trick or treat
Heavenly Pleasures A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Death by Misadventure
Unnatural Habits
Dead Mans Chest A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Murder in the Dark
Death by water
Cassandra
Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher
Devils Food A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Flying too high
Murder On A Midsummer Night A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Urn Burial
Death Before Wicket
The thing she loves
The childstone cycle
Spotted Dog
Forbidden Fruit
Feral
Blood and Circuses
Question of Death
Murder on the Ballarat train
Queen of the Flowers
Evan's Gallipoli
Dead Man's Chest
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Medea
Cave rats
Whaleroad, Cave Rats, Feral
Devil's Food
Alien Invasions (Thrillogy)
Raisins and Almonds
Devil's food
Blood and Circuses
The Wandering Icon
Murder in Montparnasse
Whaleroad
Death by water
Murder in the Dark
Death at Victoria Dock
Dead Man's Chest
Death Before Wicket
Green Mill Murder
Death in Daylesford
Quest (Moonstone)
Smertʹ v doke Viktorii︠a︡
The Rat and the Raven
Electra
Forbidden Fruit
Devil's Food
Castlemaine Murders
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Medea
Raisins and Almonds
Cocaine Blues
Green Mill Murder
Murder and Mendelssohn
Tamam Shud
Queen of the Flowers
Dead Man's Chest
Earthly Delights
Forbidden Fruit
Devil'S Food
Away with the Fairies
Out of the Black Land
Electra
Cocaine Blues
Spotted Dog
Ruddy Gore
Ruddy Gore
Heavenly Pleasures
Out of the Black Land
Away with the Fairies
Cooking the Books
Heavenly Pleasures
Murder in the Dark
Flying Too High
Herotica
Electra
Dead Man's Chest
Death at Victoria Dock
Ruddy Gore
Unnatural Habits
Death by Water
Castlemaine Murders, The
Queen of the Flowers
Urn Burial
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Castlemaine Murders
Blood and Circuses
Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman Mysteries)
Death by Water
Away with the Fairies
Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
Death by Water
Lightning Nest
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Murder in Montparnasse
Nebesnye naslazhdenii Ła
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Bundle, Books 1-4
The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
Murder and Mendelssohn
Death in Williamstown
Heavenly Pleasures
Cocaine Blues
Ruddy Gore
Cooking the Books
Evan's Gallipoli
Urn Burial
Murder and Mendelssohn
Flying Too High
Raisins and Almonds
Flying Too High
Heavenly Pleasures
Question of Death
Flying Too High
Death Before Wicket
Murder in Montparnasse
Murder on a Midsummer's Night
Miss Phryne Fisher investigates
Queen of the Flowers
Devil's Food
The Green Mill Murder
Raisins and Almonds
Away with the Fairies
Medea
Murder on a midsummer night
Earthly Delights
Cocaine Blues
Raisins and Almonds
Lightning Nest
Forbidden Fruit
Trick or Treat
Murder in Montparnasse
Raisins And Almonds
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Murder in the Dark (16pt Large Print Edition)
Urn Burial
Murder and Mendelssohn
Unnatural Habits
Trick or Treat
The Castlemaine Murders
Death Before Wicket
Murder in Montparnasse
Earthly Delights
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Introducing the Honorable Phryne Fisher by Kerry Greenwood (2011-11-01)
Death in Daylesford
Unnatural Habits
Away with the Fairies
Cassandra
Cassandra
Heavenly Pleasures
Green Mill Murder
Devil's Food
Un misterio de altos vuelos
Death at Victoria Dock
Blood and Circuses
Murder in Williamstown
Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries
Death Before Wicket
Urn Burial
Death in Daylesford
Question of Death
Tamam Shud
Queen of the Flowers
Death by Water
Trick or Treat
Flying Too High
Electra
Castlemaine Murders
Ken Liu
Ken Liu (born 1976)

linguist, poet, translator, lawyer, programmer, consultant, jurist

  • Harvard Law School, Harvard College

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Lightspeed
Dead Man's Hand
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Star Wars - The Legends of Luke Skywalker
Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1
Broken Stars
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2021 Edition
Invisible Planets [Paperback]
Invisible planets
Legends of Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Three-Body Problem Series
Haha no kioku ni
The Anderson Project: A Tor.Com Original
Remembrance of Earth's Past
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014
Unidentified Funny Objects 2
Timeshift: Tales of Time
Humanity 2.0
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty)
Sins and Other Worlds
Made To Order
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
Unidentified Funny Objects 6
Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018 (Issue 100) (Volume 100)
Unidentified Funny Objects
The End Has Come
Escape Pod
The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty)
Time Travel: Recent Trips
Genius Loci
Love, Death + Robots : The Official Anthology
The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories
Planetas invisibles
In Situ
Clarkesworld
Invisible Planets
Vagabonds
Bridging Infinity (The Infinity Project Book 5)
Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016
La gracia de los reyes
The Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series) (Volume 1)
Veiled Throne
Kaleidoscope
Clarkesworld: Year Six
Funny Science Fiction
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
TOUTES LES SAVEURS
A la deriva en el mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos (Nova fantástica) (Spanish Edition)
Clarkesworld: Year Five
TOUTES LES SAVEURS
El zoo de papel y otros relatos
LA MENAGERIE DE PAPIER
Clarkesworld Issue 102
Timeshift
The Grace of Kings
Coffee: 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic
OCEANS: The Anthology (Frontiers of Speculative Fiction) (Volume 2)
This Side of the Divide
Storie dal domani 5: I migliori racconti di Future Fiction 2018 (Italian Edition)
Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #1
Kami no dōbutsuen
Speaking Bones
Zwielicht 8
The Wall of Storms
Wall of Storms
Speaking Bones
Estrellas rotas
Clarkesworld Issue 98
Multiverses
Mono no aware
El trono velado
Invisible Planets
Mono no Aware e altre storie (Future Fiction Vol. 20) (Italian Edition)
Krallarin Merhameti
Die Götter von Dara
Invisible Planets
Die Schwerter von Dara
Arterial Bloom
Isolation
Star Wars : Journey to Star Wars : Die letzten Jedi
La gracia de los reyes
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Bifrost n° 83: Dossier Laurent Kloetzer (REV BIFROST) (French Edition)
Terra Nova: Antología de ciencia ficción contemporánea (Spanish Edition)
El Muro de las Tormentas
Die Götter von Dara: Seidenkrieger (Die Legenden von Dara 2) (German Edition)
Storie Dal Domani 4
Star Wars Episodio VIII Las leyendas de Luke Skywalker
Freestyle Graphics
El trono velado
Asian Monsters (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters) (Volume 3)
Wall of Storms
Legends of Luke Skywalker
The Wall of STorms by Ken Liu Unabridged CD Audiobook
Steampunk Universe
Star Wars Episodio VIII Las leyendas de Luke Skywalker
Die Schwerter von Dara - Seidenkrieger Band 1
Stray Skies
Ciudad Nómada y otros relatos
La chica oculta y otros relatos
Grace of Kings
Krolowie Dary
Grace of Kings
Speaking Bones
Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Beast Within 4
Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One: Fantasy Scroll Magazine
Vagabond
Faszination Evangelium. Wo Franziskus weiter lebt.
First Contact: Digital Science Fiction Anthology (Digital Science Fiction Short Stories Series One) (Volume 1)
Crossed Genres Quarterly 01: Volume One of Crossed Genres quarterly editions
Veiled Throne
La gracia de los Reyes
La chica oculta y otros relatos
Pod sztandarem Dzikiego Kwiatu. Tom 2. Sciana burz
Tochi Onyebuchi
Tochi Onyebuchi (born 1987)

lawyer, opinion journalist, jurist, computer scientist

  • Yale University, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

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Riot baby
Goliath
Riot Baby
Made To Order
War Girls
Beasts made of night
Black Enough
Black Panther Legends
Rebel Sisters
Crown of thunder
Goliath Sneak Peek
Crown of Thunder
L'architecte de la vengeance
Captain America
Captain America : Sentinel of Liberty Vol. 1
Corona de trueno
(S)kinfolk
Émile Souvestre
Émile Souvestre (1806-1854)

lawyer, journalist, playwright, folklorist, teacher

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Le monde tel qu'il sera
En quarantaine
Le foyer breton
Sous la tonnelle
Chroniques de la mer
Pleasures of old age. From the Fr
Confessions d'un ouvrier
Gaspar, Melchor y Baltasar, o, El ahijado de todo el mundo
Sous les filets
Les réprouvés et les élus
Scènes et moeurs des rives et des côtes
Le mât de cocagne
Les derniers Bretons
Causeries historiques et littéraires
Le foyer breton: contes et récits populaires
Popular Legends of Brittany: An English Version of Souvestre's "Foyer Breton," from a German ..
Scènes et récits des Alpes
"Attic" Philosopher
Pendant la moisson
Théâtre de la jeunesse
Leaves from a Family Journal
Au coin du feu
Le mémorial de famille
Histoires d'autrefois
Dans la prairie
Mémoires d'un sans-culotte bas-breton
Ainée et cadette
Les derniers paysans
Au bord du lac
Souvenirs d'un vieillard
Scènes de la chouannerie
Brittany and La Vend©Øee
Contes et nouvelles
Norva
Le serf
La lune de miel
Popular Legends Of Brittany
Deux misères
L\'échelle de femmes
Pleasures of old age
Le mari de Madame de Solange
A workman's confessions
La protectrice
La goutte d'eau
Le roi du monde
Mrs. Willis's will
Three plays
La valise noire
Les merveilles de la nuit de noël
Pierre et Jean
Le riche et le pauvre
Le chevrier de Lorraine
En bretagne
Les clairieres
Gaspar, Melchor y Baltasar, o, El ahijado de todo el mundo
L' oncle Baptiste
Souvenirs d'un bas-breton
Les péchés de jeunesse, drame en trois actes
Le mousse
La loterie de Francfort, ou, L'occasion fait le Larron
Lectures journalières à l'usage des écoles et des familles
Au bord du lac: l'esclave, le serf, le chevrier de Lorraine, l'apprenti
Trois femmes
Isle of the dead; or, the keeper of the lazaretto
Les Récits de la muse populaire
O que ha ser o mundo no anno tres mil
...Le chirurgien de marine
Lettres d'Emile Souvestre à Edouard Turquéty
Le foyer breton, contes et récits populaires
L' homme et l'argent
Chouans et Bleus
Les péchés de jeunesse
Les péches de jeunesse
Scènes de la chouannerie
Les derniers pavsans
El tío Pablo, o, La educación
O Mundo no Ano Três Mil
Le sceptre de roseau
Riche et pauvre. Matilda. Lord Normanby
La vieille cousine, ou, Il ne faut pas juger l'arbre d'après l'écorce
An attic philosopher in Paris
Contes du foyer Breton
Sur la pelouse
Confessions of a working man
Scènes de la vie intime
Le mari de la fermière
Contes et nouvelles
Confessions of a working man
Bugail geifr Lorraine
Les anges du foyer
Les clairières
Philosophe Sous les Toits
Le monde tel qu'il sera
Le chevrier de Lorraines
An attic philosopher in Paris, or, A peep at the world from a garret, being the journal of a happy man
Le mendiant de Saint-Roch
Le pasteur d'hommes
Attic Philosopher
Monde Tel Qu'il Sera
Le mémorial de famille
Les contes du foyer
Derniers Bretons
Attic Philosopher, Vol 2
Trois mois de vacances
Un philosophe sous les toits
An attic philosopher in Paris; or, A peep at the world from a garret. Being a journal of a happy man.
Scènes de la vie intime
La maison rouge
Contes de la vielle Bretagne
Serf;
Au coin du feu
Les promenades matinales
Souvenirs d'un Bas-Breton
Théatre de la jeunesse
Au Bord du Lac
Le journaliste
Popular legends of Brittany
En famille
Sous les filets--scènes et murs des rives
Peronnik
Contes
Le mendiant de Saint-Roch
An attic philosopher in Paris, or A peep at the world from a garret
Riche et pauvre
Brittany and la Vendée
Souvenirs d'un vieillard
Le mari de la fermière
O que há-de ser o mundo no ano três mil
Mrs. Willis's will
L'oncle Baptiste
Le serf; Le chevrier de Lorraine
Le foyer breton
Les drames parisiens
The Duchess of Mansfeldt
Un philosophe sous les toits
The Mother of Washington: And Other Tales
Wu ding jian di zhe xue jia
Scènes et récits des Alpes
Contes et legendes de Basse-Bretagne
Leaves from a family journal
Les derniers paysans
Au bout du monde
Causeries historiques et littéraires
Ai de zhe xue
Scènes et récites des Alpes ..
George Tucker
George Tucker (1775-1861)

politician, economist, lawyer, historian, biographer

  • College of William & Mary

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A Voyage to the Moon
Progress of the United States in population and wealth in fifty years
Political economy for the people
The theory of money and banks investigated
Defence of the character of Thomas Jefferson
Valley of Shenandoah or Memoirs of the Graysons (Chapel Hill Books)
The history of the United States, from their colonization to the end of the Twenty-sixth Congress, in 1841
The life of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
The Valley of Shenandoah
A century hence
The Life Of Thomas Jefferson, Third President Of The United States V1
Speech of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia on the Restriction of Slavery in Missouri
Progress of the United States in Population and Wealth in Fity Years
A Voyage to the Moon
The History of the United States
The Life of Thomas Jefferson
The Life Of Thomas Jefferson, Third President Of The United States V2
A letter to a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina
The theory of money & banks investigated (1839) With the article "National debts" (1815) and an introductory essay, "George Tucker and economic growth"
Progress of the United States in population and wealth in fifty years, as exhibited by the decennial census
The history of the United States
Essays on Subjects of Taste, Morrals and National Policy
The laws of wages
The valley of the Shenandoah
Letters from Virginia
The theory of money & banks investigated (1839)
Autobiography of George Tucker, 1775-1861
To the freeholders of the counties of Campbell, Pittsylvania and Halifax
The life and philosophy of George Tucker
The valley of Shenandoah, or, Memoirs of the Graysons
To James Madison, fourth president of the United States. Sir, your long intimacy with Mr. Jefferson, your accordance with him in the principles of civil government ... In submitting to you the biography of that friend ..
The laws of wages, profits, and rent, investigated
Speech of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, on the restriction of slavery in Missouri
Speech of Hon. Henry St. George Tucker
Essays
The valley of Shenandoah
Essays on various subjects of taste, morals, and national policy
Memoir of the life and character of John P. Emmet, M. D., professor of chemistry and materia medica in the University of Virginia
The theory of money and banks investigated
A discourse on the progress of philosophy and its influence on the intellectual and moral character of man
A voyage to the moon
Letters from Virginia
Speech of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, on the restriction of slavery in Missouri
To the freeholders of the counties of Campbell, Pittsylvania and Halifax ...
The history of the United States
Political economy for the people
Progress of the United States in population and wealth in fifty years, as exhibited by the decennial census from 1790 to 1840
Bob Ingersoll
Bob Ingersoll (born 1952)

lawyer

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Miguel Oliveros
Miguel Oliveros (1924-1971)

lawyer

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Muy alto, muy rubio, muy muerto
Dos Mil Dolares Por Mi Piel
El Puente De Los Malditos
Un Caballero Y Dos 'Colt'