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Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette (born 1955)

radio personality, actor, circus performer, jongleur, television actor, podcaster, comedian, musician, magician, illusionist, film actor, film director

  • Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College

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In Darkness, Delight
Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic
God, No!
Sock
Penn & Teller's cruel tricks for dear friends
Penn and Teller's How to Play With Your Food
How to cheat your friends at poker
Every Day Is An Atheist Holiday More Magical Tales From The Author Of God No
How to Play with Your Food
Presto!
Random
Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!
How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker
Spider-Man/Deadpool Vol. 2
Presto! How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
My Name is James Randi and Today I Die
Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater (born 1981)

musician, portraitist, artist

  • University of Mary Washington

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Ballad
Shiver
Hunted
Spirit Animals 13 Books Box Set Series 1 & 2 Collection
All the Crooked Saints
Forever
Sinner
The Raven King
The Scorpio Races
Lament
Call Down the Hawk
Linger
Curiosities (The Curiosities Series, Book 1)
Kiss Me Deadly
The Dream Thieves
Ballad
Ballad
Forever
The Anatomy of Curiosity (The Curiosities Series, Book 2)
Blue Lilly, Lilly Blue
Blue lily, lily Blue
Dreamer Trilogy #2
El tercer durmiente
Król Kruków
The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
Spirit Animals Book 2
Shiver
Dreamer Trilogy #3
The Raven Boys
Bravely
In Hexenwäldern und Feentürmen
The Scorpio Races
Forever
Call Down the Hawk
Linger
Linger
Wer die Lilie träumt
Was die Spiegel wissen
Forever
Wo das Dunkel schläft
Sinner
Shiver. Wolves Of Mercy Falls 1
Linger
Forever (Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 3)
Swamp Thing
The Raven Cycle Series 4 Books Collection Box Set by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver
Forever
Forever
The dream thieves
Linger
Linger
Pip Bartlett Et Son Guide Indispensable Des Créatures Magiques
Wen der Rabe ruft
Shiver Trilogy
Linger
Call down the Hawk (the Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1)
Mister Impossible
Shiver
Huiver
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Sea Monsters (Pip Bartlett #3)
Hunted
Forever (Shiver, Book 3)
Pip Bartlett's guide to magical creatures
Lamento
Scorpio Races
The Raven Boys
Temblor
Ballade. Der Tanz der Feen
Ballad
Ukojenie
Scorpio Sea Tarot
Naʻare ha-ʻorev
Las Carreras de Escorpio
Drzenie
Linger
Opal (a Raven Cycle Story)
Shiver Series
Call down the Hawk
Forever - Audio Library Edition
Beklenti
ZÅ‚odzieje snów
Ebedi
Raʻad
Sinner. Il ritorno dei Lupi di Mercy Falls
Dream Thieves
Greywaren (the Dreamer Trilogy #3)
Pip Bartlett und die magischen Tiere
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures
CARRERAS DE ESCORPIO, LAS
Şovăire (Lupii din Mercy Falls, #2)
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Llama Al Halcón
Linger
Greywaren
Shiver Trilogy
Mister Impossible (the Dreamer Trilogy #2)
Ürperti
Lament
Lament
Shiver, Linger, Forever
Animal Tatoo saison 1, Tome 02
Sinner - Audio Library Edition
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures (Pip Bartlett #1)
Sinner
De ravenjongens (De ravenserie Book 1) (Dutch Edit
Forever
Greywaren
Niepokoj
Fratia Corbilor Seria Fratia Corbilor, Vol 1
Shiver Vol. 1 of 2 (Japanese Edition)
Sinner
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures - Audio
Linger
Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner
Greywaren (the Dreamer Trilogy #3) (ebook)
Hunted
Wie Eulen in der Nacht
Saga Frisson - tome 3 - Fusion
Shiver Vol. 2 of 2 (Japanese Edition)
Las carreras de Escorpio
Raven Cycle Series Collection 4 Books Set By Maggie Stiefvater
Soñador Imposible
Maggie Stiefvater Wolves of Mercy Falls 4 Books Collection Set
Dream Thieves
Frisson
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures - Audio Library Edition
Sinner (Shiver)
Akrep Yarislari
Curiosities
The Dream Thieves
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training #2
Shiver
Günahkar
The Scorpio Races - Audio
Raven's Prophecy Tarot
Greywaren
Tremolor
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training (Pip Bartlett #2)
Fièvre (French Edition)
Shiver
Ballad (Books of Faerie #2)
Sinner
Scorpio Races
Scorpio Races (2022 Edition)
Rastro
La caza
Przeklęci święci
Perdido
Wyścig śmierci
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick (1968-2022)

illustrator, musician

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The Ghosts of Heaven
Doctor Who
Floodland
The Ghosts of Heaven
The Ghosts of Heaven
Ghosts of Heaven
Ghosts of Heaven
Ghosts of Heaven
Snowflake, AZ
A Christmas wish
White crow
The dark horse
The Dark Flight Down
Everywhere
The book of Dead Days
Midwinterblood
The Foreshadowing
My Swordhand Is Singing
Cowards
A Love Like Blood
Dread Desert
Witch hill
She Is Not Invisible
A Love Like Blood
The emperor's new clothes
Diamonds And Doom
Cudweeds Birthday
Dark Flight Down (Book of Dead Days)
Revolver
Fright forest
Blood Red, Snow White
Ghosts And Gadgets
White crow
Lunatics And Luck
Midwinterblood
Flood And Fang
Vampires And Volts
Ghosts And Gadgets
She is not invisible
Monster mountains
Vampires And Volts
Mister Memory
Diamonds And Doom
Revolver
La Amenaza del Caballo Oscuro
Floodland
Dark Satanic Mills
A Winter's Tale
The Book of Dead Days
OUTREMER
Mister Memory
The Book of Dead Days
Terror Town (Elf Girl and Raven Boy)
Saint death
Blood red snow white
A love like blood
Het boek van de dode dagen
The Dark Horse
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Blood red, snow white
Floodland
Floodland
Flut und Fangzahne
Foreshadowing
Cudweed in outer space
The kiss of death
El Libro de Los Dias Malditos
Love Like Blood
No es invisible
El Ultimo Invierno del Fantasma
Midwinterblood
The Emperor's new clothes
Scarlett Hart
Floodland
Creepy caves
Revolver
Midwinterblood
The dead days omnibus
The book of Dead Days
Saint Death
Niezauważalna
My Swordhand is Singing
Puck of Pook's Hill
El último invierno del fantasma
Kiss of Death
Los monstruos que merecemos
The truth is dead
Killing the dead
Killing the Dead
Monstruos y mareas
De donkere trap
Saint Death
Emperors New Clothes
Book of Dead Days
Raven Mysteries 3
Swordhand Omnibus Ebook
Disputes et disparitions
The Dark Horse (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Book of Dead Days
Monsters We Deserve
The kiss of death
White crow
Dark Flight Down
El diamant maleït
She Is Not Invisible
Edgar sacré lascar, Tome 3
Untitled Marcus Sedgwick 5 of 5 Untitled Marcus Sedgwick 5 Of 5
El diamant maleït
Canavar Daglari<br>cüce Kiz ve Kuzgun Oglan
She Is Not Invisible
Magic and mayhem
Snow
Fright Forest
Midwinterblood
Kilic Tutan Elin Sarkisi
Mister Memory
El diamant maleït
Una festa monstruosa
Witch Hill PROOF
Ravencave
Chalados y chamba
Snowflake, AZ
Elf Girl and Raven Boy Fright Forest
Una festa monstruosa
Wrath
La forêt des maudits
The Dark Horse
Together We Win
Marcus Sedgwick Chapter Sampler
Fright forest
Wrath 30 Copy Class Set
Wrath 15 Copy Class Set
Dead Days Omnibus Ebook
Scream Sea
Ullals passats per aigua
Una festa monstruosa
Dead Days
Blood Red, Snow White
White Crow
White Crow
Cudweed's Birthday
Be the Change : Be Kind
Witch Hill
Kiss of Death
Flood and fang
Erets ha-mabul
Kanli Bir Kis Gecesi
Dark Peak
Foreshadowing
Blood Red, Snow White
Flood and fang
Cudweed's Time Machine
Mister Memory
Les jours sombres
Be the Change : Be Calm
She Is Not Invisible
Le livre des damnés, Tome 2 (French Edition)
Blood Red Snow White
Midwinterblood (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
All in Your Head
Midwinterblood, Free Chapter Sampler
Monsters We Deserve
Doctor Who: The Spear of Destiny: Third Doctor (Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts Book 3)
Adrienne Maree Brown
Adrienne Maree Brown (born 1977)

climate activist, podcaster, musician, poet

  • Columbia University

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Octavia's Brood
Fables and Spells
Emergent strategy
Cómo sacar a idiotas del govierno
Pleasure Activism
How to get stupid white men out of office
All We Can Save
Loving Corrections
Journal of Radical Permission
Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint (born 1951)

poet, musician

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Yarrow
Spiritwalk
Into the green
Greenmantle
Exploring Science Fiction
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection
Moonheart
Svaha
Drink Down the Moon (Jack of Kinrowan, Book 2)
The Hidden City (The Dungeon, Book 5)
Ill Met in Lankhmar/The Fair in Emain Macha (Tor Science Fiction Doubles, No 19)
Under my skin
Trader
The Urban Fantasy Anthology
Widdershins
Wolf Moon
Forests of the heart
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Eleventh Annual Collection
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012
The little country
The ivory and the horn
Dreams Underfoot
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Excalibur
The blue girl
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
A Handful of Coppers
The Mammoth Book Of Angels and Demons
Riddle of the Wren
Spirits in the wires
My Favorite Fantasy Story
The mystery of grace
Medicine Road
Waifs and strays
Seven Wild Sisters
The wild wood
A circle of cats
The harp of the grey rose
Angel of darkness
The Very Best Of Charles De Lint
The valley of thunder
Little (grrl) lost
Jack of Kinrowan
Mulengro
From a Whisper to a Scream
The Onion Girl (Newford)
The book of ballads
Jack, the Giant Killer
Ravens in the Library - Magic in the Bard's Name
Moonlight and vines
The Onion Girl
Muse and reverie
Welcome to Bordertown
A Wizard's Dozen
The dreaming place
Someplace to be flying
Dingo
Protectors 2: Heroes (Protectors Anthologies) (Volume 2)
Memory and Dreams
Quicksilver & Shadow
Magic City
Season of Wonder
Road to Lisdoonvarna
Memory and Dream (Newford)
The Painted Boy
New Magics
Promises To Keep A Novel
Moonlight & Vines (Newford)
What the Mouse Found
Hellboy
Woods Waters Wild Collected Early Stories Volume 3 High Fantasy Stories
Tapping the dream tree
Widdershins (Newford)
Eyes Like Leaves
Spirits in the Wires (Newford)
The Hour Before Dawn
I'll Be Watching You
Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon 2
Ascian in rose
Urban Green Man: An Archetype of Renewal
Tapping the Dream Tree (Newford)
Triskell Tales
Promises to Keep
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
The Art of Amy Brown
Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok
The Ivory and the Horn (Newford)
Triskell Tales 2 6 More Years of Chapbooks
Jack in the green
I'll Be Watching You (Key Books Book 3)
Philip Jose Farmer's the Dungeon Vol. 5
Philip Jose Farmer's the Dungeon Vol. 3
Uncle Dobbins Parrot Fair
Memory and Dream (Newford, Book 1)
Blue Girl (Firebird)
The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass
Woods and Waters Wild
Old Man Crow
Moonlight and Vines (Vampire Cat)
THE [10TH] WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION 1984 [SOUVENIR / PROGRAM BOOK]
Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon 3
Our Lady of the Harbour
Make a Joyful Noise
Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery
Juniper Wiles
Riddle of the Wren (Firebird)
Hedgework and Guessery
The tangled tale of a circle of cats
Berlin
Little Lost
The fair in Emain Macha
Out of This World
The Buffalo Man
Newford Stories
Yarrow: An Autumn Tale (U.K.)
Dreaming Place (Firebird)
Ghostwood
The calendar of the trees
Ghosts of wind and shadow
Little Girl Lost
Paperjack
The Wind in His Heart
Kevin Brooks
Kevin Brooks (born 1959)

musician

  • Aston University, Exeter School

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Being
iBoy
iBoy
Dogchild
Black Rabbit summer
Lucas
Candy
Lucas
Killing gods
The road of the dead
The Bunker Diary
Kissing the rain
Martyn Pig
Road Of The Dead
Until The Darkness Comes
Naked
This Is Push
Kissing the rain
Bloodline
The road of the dead
A dance of ghosts
Johnny Delgado
Wrapped In White
Johnny Delgado Private Detective
Johnny Delgado
The Danger Game
The Snake Trap
Killing God
The Ultimate Truth
Naked '76
Killing God
Lucas
Kissing the rain
IBoy
El Camino de Los Muertos
Martyn Pig
Born Scared
Bad Castro
Being
Candy
Just Wiggle Your Toes
Lucas
The devil's angel
Martyn Big
Dawn
Bedreigd
Comment j'ai tué mon père... sans le faire exprès
Bloodline
Diari del búnquer
Five Hundred Miles
See Through Me
Dumb chocolate eyes
Martyn Pig
Until the Darkness Comes
Dance of Ghosts
Zwartkonijn
Travis Delaney - Was geschah um 16 : 08?
Mechanisms of suprathreshold stereomotion perception
IAm
Diario del Búnker
Legacy of Champions
Lucas (2019 Reissue)
Het dodenpad
Miedo
Wrapped in White
Martyn Pig
Born Scared
Naked
Kissing the Rain
Being
Johnny Delgado
I See You, Baby....
Dogchild
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context
Bunker Diary
Skip for Fun
Dawn
Ölüm Defteri
Nocny prom do Tangeru - Kevin Barry [KSIÄĹťKA]
Black Rabbit Summer
Bunker Diary
Lost Gospel of Barabbas
Martyn Pig (2020 Reissue)
Road of the Dead
Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou (born 1949)

mathematician, computer scientist, musician

  • Princeton University, National Technical University of Athens

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Turing
Złożoność obliczeniowa
Combinatorial optimization
Turing
Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth
Computational complexity
Theory of DB Concurr Con 27-1
Algorithms
The theory of database concurrency control
Turing (a Novel about Computation)
Neil Peart
Neil Peart (1952-2020)

drummer, lyricist, composer, jazz musician, musician

  • Beamsville District Secondary School

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Clockwork Lives
Clockwork Angels
Roadshow: Landscape With Drums
The Masked Rider
Traveling Music
Ghost Rider
Far and away
RUSH's Clockwork Angels
Far and Wide
Far and near
Clockwork Destiny
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #10
Clockwork Angels #4
More Drum Techniques of Rush (More Drum Superstar Series)
Far and Wide
Art of Rush
Drumbeats
tesssssssssssssssst
The Roadshow Illustrated Companion
Ghost Rider
Rush - Hal Leonard Drum Play-Along Volume 50
Clockwork Angels #6
Silver Surfers
Clockwork Angels
Modern Drummer Legends : Rush&apos;s Neil Peart - an Anthology of Neil&apos;s Modern Drummer Cover Stories
Modern Drummer Legends : Rush's Neil Peart
Clockwork Angels #2
Republic of Nothing
Drumbeats (Expanded Edition)
A Work in Progress Complete (DCI Music Video)
Roadshow
Far and Away
Roadshow : Landscape with Drums
Masked Rider
Neil Peart : Taking Center Stage Combo Pack
Traveling Music
Far and Near
Clockwork Angels #3
Roadshow
Clockwork Angels #1
A Work in Progress Complete