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David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born 1969)

linguist, translator, actor, composer, teacher

  • University of Kent

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Cloud Atlas
Utopia Avenue
The Bone Clocks
Debugging Java
Choosing a government
Black Swan Green
Ghostwritten
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The fighting Pankhursts
Number9Dream
The history of Montrose
A 'peculiar' place
All Aboard!
Reason I Jump
The elegant shed
Travellers In Spain
What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education
New Year's sermon
British Railways Past and Present
[ Handbook and] a synopsis of the history of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
A valedictory sermon preached to the congregation of the New Church, Pultneytown Wick
JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON: RETROSPECTIVE
CSC 364H Readings, Summer 1998
CSC 364 Fall 1998 Course Readings
Fuller employment
Contextualising Inclusive Education
Slade House
A select number of spiritual hymns
An introduction to logic
British Railways Past and Present (British Railways Past & Present)
25 years
Recent Advances in Respiratory Medicine Five
"Alone with God," "Children dying in infancy" and other sermons
North and West Devon (British Railways Past and Present)
Assessing and responding to land tenure issues in disaster risk management
Devon (British Railways Past & Present)
Tea Love And War Searching For English Roots In Assam
1919: Red mirage
Dorset (British Railways Past & Present)
Your Child Is Different
Cartographie des nuages
To Chase the Wind
First Edition
Slade House
Old Tales for Tender Years
A key to the spiritual palace
David Mitchell
The Art of Administration
Làng thiên nga đen
Ling hun dai bi
Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places
Lattice Labyrinth Tessellations
Mil otoños
Feeding the Dinosaur Gene
Razón Por la Que Salto/ the Reason I Jump
The Bluffer's Guide to Law
This Is Your Life
A Boy from Nowhere
Cornwall (British Railways Past & Present)
Untitled Novel (Tpb)
Taming the Dinosaur Gene
Labour, Likud and the Oslo Peace Process, 1992-2000
Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education
Women on the warpath
EL BOSQUE DEL CISNE NEGRO
Lust auf asiatischen Kampfsport
... But not forgotten
Relojes de hueso
Crime, policing & geographic information systems
Bluffer's Guide. to Divorce
Bonsai (Pb)-Bok Edition
Distribution of liquid in knitted packing materials
The Talyllyn Railway (British Railways Past & Present)
The Mark Degree
East Cornwall
Gone for a soldier
Poor Man\'s Justice
Dimsum
Making Foreign Policy
New mission for a new people
Jesuits
Queen of the Methodists
The Diesel-hydraulic Era
Synod of Toronto and Kingston!
Making acquisitions work
William R. Forstchen
William R. Forstchen (born 1950)

teacher, historian

  • Purdue University

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One second after
Pillar To The Sky
Rally Cry (Lost Regiment)
Star Trek The Next Generation - The Forgotten War
Down to the sea
One Year After
Fateful lightning
Terrible Swift Sword
Men of war
False colors
Star Voyager Academy
End run
Union forever
The Flame upon the Ice
A band of brothers
The Crystal Sorcerers
Darkness upon the Ice
John Matherson Series : (One Second after, One Year after, the Final Day)
Arena
Honoured Enemy
We Look Like Men of War
Never sound retreat
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant
Heart Of The Tiger (Wing Commander, Volume 3)
Battle Hymn (Lost Regiment)
It Seemed Like a Good Idea..
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor (Pacific War)
Hot shots
The gamester wars
Ice Prophet
The Assassin Gambit
If the Allies had fallen
48 Hours
Into the Sea of Stars
Pearl Harbor
Victory at Yorktown
The Alexandrian Ring
Wing commander
The Final Day: A John Matherson Novel
Hot Shots
Grant Comes East
The Napoleon wager
The Crystal Warriors
Article 23
Days of Infamy
Gettysburg
A Band of Brothers (Lost Regiment)
The four magics
To Make Men Free
Fleet Action
To Try Men's Souls
Pearl Harbor
Grant Comes East
The Alexandrian ring
Action Stations
Catseye
The Battle of the Crater
Der Sternenturm
Day of Wrath
False colors
The Lost Regiment (Roc)
Valley Forge
Magic - The Gathering (Magic)
Heart of the tiger
Five Years After
Bir Saniye Sonra
Le régiment perdu, Tome 2
The price of freedom
Heart of the Tiger (Wing Commander Book 3)
Fleet action
Ice Prophet
Battle Hymn
Le Régiment perdu T04 Riposte
Boualem Sansal
Boualem Sansal (born 1949)

engineer, teacher, business executive, official, essayist

  • National Polytechnic School, Télécom Paris

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The German Mujahid
An unfinished business
Le serment des barbares
2084
2084
Harraga
2084 La fin du monde
An unfinished business
Harraga [Nov 06, 2014] Sansal, Boualem and Wynne, Frank
Rue Darwin
L'Enfant fou de l'arbre creux
Dis-moi le paradis
Poste restante, Alger
Le village de l'Allemand, ou, Le journal des frères Schiller
[Ḥrāfạh
2084. El fin del mundo
Das Dorf des Deutschen oder das Tagebuch der Bru˜der Schiller
Jack Dann
Jack Dann (born 1945)

teacher, poet

  • Binghamton University

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The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Microcosmic Tales
Wandering Stars
Ghosts
Armageddons
Dark Alchemy
Aliens among us
Future power
The Dragon Book
More wandering stars
The Man Who Melted
Jubilee
Escape from earth
Immortal
Magicats II
Little People
Nebula awards 32
Clones
The Fiction Factory
Faster Than Light
Genometry
Timetipping
Unicorns II
Starhiker
Space soldiers
The Killer plants, and other stories
A.I.s
Dinosaurs!
Visitations
Future past
Dreaming down-under
Invaders
Robots
Seaserpents!
Immortals
Nanotech
Dangerous Games
Beyond flesh
Da Vinci Rising / The Diamond Pit (Wildside Double #9)
Beyond singularity
Counting Coup
Mermaids!
Future crimes
The Man Who Melted
Dangerous games
Nebula awards showcase 2005
Man Who Melted
Jubilee
More wandering stars
Dreaming Again
The Vampire Archives
Magicats!
Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers
Blood Is Not Enough: Stories of Vampirism
The Silent
In the field of fire
The Rebel
Counting coup
Wizards
Ghosts by gaslight
Memory Cathedral
Horrors
Nebula Awards Showcase 2005
Orbit 10
Alternative Rock
The Zombie Megapack
Gathering the Bones
Nebula Awards 32
More Wandering Stars
Demons
Unicorns
Der Tag, an dem ich unsichtbar wurde
Die Kathedrale der Erinnerung. Das geheime Leben des Leonardo da Vinci
Nebula Awards
Future sports
Time Bride
Wizards
Wizards
Mermaids!
La Catedral de La Memoria
Sorcerers!
Unicorns!
Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories / Decimated: Ten Science Fiction Stories (Wildside Double #27)
Dreaming again
Bad Medicine
Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean
In the Field of Fire
Horses!
Junction
Shadows in the Stone
Wizards
Weltenvagabund. ( Knaur Science Fiction).
Promised Land
Das Zeit-Tippen (Ai6t)
Christs
Dinosaurs
Bestiary!
Jubilee
Junction [jhc]
Counting Coup
Concentration
Bestiary!
Der schmelzende Mensch
The Rebel
Junction [hc]
Legends of Australian fantasy
La grande hurle
Invaders
Dogtails!
Concentration [Signed Slipcase]
Rebel
Dreaming in the Dark [Signed Slipcase]
Silent
Concentration
Starhiker
Nano Tech
Shadows in the Stone
Tai nai Ła istorii Ła Leonardo da Vinchi
The Man Who Melted
Dogtails!
Dreaming in the Dark
Promised Land
Unicorns!
Grenzland der Hölle [Perfect Paperback] [Jan 01, 1985] Dann, Jack
Sorcerers!
Michael Bishop
Michael Bishop (1945-2023)

journalist, poet, teacher, essayist

  • University of Georgia

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The Second Omni book of science fiction
Close encounters with the deity
Count Geiger's blues
No Enemy But Time
Catacomb years
One winter in Eden
Ancient of days
And strange at Ecbatan the trees
Brittle innings
Unicorn Mountain
The Best of Subterranean
UNICORN MOUNTAIN (Spectra)
Transfigurations
Nebula Awards 24
Dangerous vegetables
Little Knowledge/a
Philip K. Dick is dead, alas
Brighten to incandescence
Damon Knight's Orbit 12
Blooded on Arachne
Changes
Blue Kansas sky
At the city limits of fate
Transfigurations
BLOODED ARACHNE (Timescape Book)
A little knowledge
Who made Stevie Crye?
Ancient of days
And strange at ecbatan the trees
Catacomb Years
Light years and dark
Transfigurations
Who Made Stevie Crye?
Transfigurations (S.F. Masterworks)
Unicorn mountain
A reverie for Mister Ray
Science fiction emphasis I
The secret ascension
Who made Stevie Crye?
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
Stolen faces
The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
Shadows
Detailing cars & trucks
Women's Poetry in France, 1965-1995
Robin Hood
Stolen faces
Thirty Voices In The Feminine.
Seven Deadly Sins
Touch-up & dent repair
L'Art français et francophone depuis 1980 / Contemporary French and Francophone Art
Pierre Reverdy : a bibliography
Terrors
A funeral for the eyes of fire
Nebula Awards 25
Clinical Chemistry
Desgraciadamente, Philip K. Dick ha muerto
The Endless Theory of Days
Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 14, May 2015 (Heinlein Special)
Tune-up & electrical service
Jacques Prévert
Contemporary French Women Poets
Rene Char. Les dernieres annees. (Collection Monographique Rodopi en Litterature Francaise Contemporaine 14)
Galaxy Magazine, February 1975
Time pieces
Contemporary French art
A cross of centuries : twenty-five imaginative tales about the Christ
Nebula Awards, 23
Brittle Innings
Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows
Robin Hood (Award Classics)
The Language of Poetry
Light Years/dark Tr
Wind in the Willows
Good Life
Emphatically Not Sf, Almost
Gestohlene Gesichter
Beneath the Shattered Moons
Jean-Paul Michel
Eyes of Fire
Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls
A Cross of Centuries
Contemporary French Women Poets.Volume II from Hyvrard and Baude to Etienne and Albiach. (Chiasma 3)
Rene Cjar
Jacques Prevert Revisited
Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
Kenneth Grahame's the Wind in the Willows
Il segreto degli Asadi
The New Color
Univers 02
A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals
ESLABON PERDIDO, EL (R/S)
A Little Knowledge
Contemporary French Art 1
And strange at ecbatan the trees
Quickening
Lube, oil & chassis service
Nebula Awards 25 (Nebula Awards Showcase)
LA Poesie Quebecoise Depuis 1975 (Dalhousie French Studies, Volume 7)
The City and the Cygnets
The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales
Beneath the Shattered Moons
Jacques Prevert
Under Heaven's Bridge
Geographic information science and mountain geomorphology
Death Angel
Bru chige Siege
The door gunner
Craig Thomas
Craig Thomas (1942-2011)

playwright, teacher

  • Cardiff University

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Firefox
There to here
There to here
There to here
Jade Tiger
Firefox
Playing with cobras
A wild justice
Winter hawk
Firefox
The Bear's Tears
Firefox Down
Wolfsbane
Wildcat
Emerald decision
Lion's Run
A wild justice
Firefox
Emerald decision
Winter hawk
Wildcat
A hooded crow
The last raven
A Hooded Crow
Rat trap
Sea Leopard
Snow Falcon
Rat Trap
A different war
The last raven
The last raven
A Hooded Crow
Snow falcon
Playing with cobras
Slipping into shadow
The Last Raven
Snow falcon
All the grey cats
THE BEAR'S TEARS
Froide vengeance
Die Krähe
See- Leopard
Emerald Decision
Winter Hawk
Snow Falcon
Jahmo and the Giant
Sea Leopard
Sea leopard
A Different War
Rat trap
Snow Falcon
A Wild Justice
Wolfshane
Firefox/Firefox Down/Sea Leopard
Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition
Rat Trap
Wild Cat
All the Grey Cats
The bear's tears
A different war
Lion's Run
Rat trap
A wild justice [Book]
All the grey cats
Playing With Cobras / Sea Leopard
Wildcat
A hooded crow
A hooded crow
Winter Hawk
Ultimo Cuervo
A different war
Snow Falcon
Wildcat
Thomas
Wildcat
National Parks and Rural Development
A wild justice
Skhvatka s kobrami
Playing with cobras
WINTER HAWK
Winter hawk
Nachtaanval
Suspense Collection
A hooded crow
Schlangenspiel
Cobra
Vladislav Krapivin
Vladislav Krapivin (1938-2020)

journalist, pedagogue, teacher, poet

  • Ural State University

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Bruce Coville
Bruce Coville (born 1950)

musician, primary school teacher

  • Duke University

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My Teacher Fried My Brains
The attack of the two-inch teacher
The Monsters of Morley Manor
Aliens Ate My Homework
I was a sixth grade alien
The Monster's Ring
I left my sneakers in dimension X
Space brat
Too many aliens
The search for Snout
I lost my grandfather's brain
Aliens stole my body
There's an Alien in My Backpack
Zombies of the science fair
The saber-toothed poodnoobie
The Dragon Book
Peanut butter lover boy
Snatched from Earth
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters
Don't fry my veeblax!
My Teacher Flunked the Planet
My Teacher Glows in the Dark
Space Brat 3
Farewell to earth
MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN / MY TEACHER FRIED MY BRAINS / MY TEACHER GLOWS IN THE DARK / MY TEACHER FLUNKED THE PLANET
Blork's evil twin
My Teacher Is an Alien
Space Station Ice-3
Robot Trouble
Space Brat 4
Bruce Coville's Is your teacher an alien?
Bruce Coville's strange worlds
Alien Visitors
Bruce Coville's UFO's
Murder in Orbit
Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens
Aliens Ate My Homework Collection
The Alien Who Came to Dinner (My Alien Classmate)
My Teacher Is an Alien
Zombies of the Science Fair
Operation Sherlock
Murder in Orbit
My Teacher Fried My Brains
13
Into the Land of the Unicorns
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream
Jennifer Murdley's Toad
The dragonslayers
Armageddon summer
Goblins in the castle
The Skull of Truth
The Last Hunt
Juliet Dove, Queen of Love
Dark Whispers
Oddly enough
The lapsnatcher
The ghost wore gray
William Shakespeare's Macbeth
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
The evil elves
The Mischief Monster
The dinosaur that followed me home
Amber Brown is tickled pink
The Ghost in the Third Row
Odds are Good
Hans Brinker
Visions of Fantasy
The Prince of Butterflies
The Weeping Werewolf
The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Song of the Wanderer
A glory of unicorns
Thor's wedding day
Odder than ever
The Dragon of Doom
The Unicorn Treasury
Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers II
Waiting Spirits (Chamber of Horrors, Book 4)
Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold
Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares II
Revolt of the miniature mutants
Sarah's Unicorn
Oddest of All
How I Survived My Summer Vacation
Bruce Coville's book of spine tinglers
Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares
Amulet of Doom
Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts II
Always October
Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is on the move
Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters
William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
A Wizard's Dozen
Sarah and the dragon
Moongobble & Me
Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II
The world's worst fairy godmother
William Shakespeare's Twelfth night
There's an Alien in My Underwear
Eyes of the Tarot
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle with Connections
William Shakespeare's The tempest
Some of My Best Friends Are Monsters
My Grandfather'S House
Operation Sherlock
The Unicorn Anthology
Fortune's journey
THE UNICORN CHRONICLES
The naughty Nork
Bruce Coville's book of magic II
Swan Sister
Russell Troy, Monster Boy (Magic Shop)
Der Tag, an dem die Welt untergeht
Paula Danziger's Amber Brown horses around
Charlie Eggleston's Talking Skull (Magic Shop)
Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens 2
Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens and Ghosts
Monster of the Year
Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon 2
Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts
Hatched
Half-human
Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon
Forever begins tomorrow
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
I Shrank My Teacher
There's an Alien in My Classroom
The Foolish Giant
MY TEACHER GLOWS IN THE DARK / MY TEACHER FLUNKED THE PLANET
The Science Project of Doom
Rigolo, numéro 22
Diary of a mad brownie
Goblins on the prowl
Rigolo, tome 20
Spirits and Spells
Bruce Coville's Book of Magic
Spirit World
Mon prof est un extraterrestre
Cursed
Aliens Stole My Dad
Restless Spirits (Spirit World)
Creature of Fire
Lunch Swap Disaster
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
The One Right Thing
Magic Shop
Alien Kiss Chase
La prof a rétréci, tome 2
Missing―One Brain!
Un extraterrestre dans ma classe, tome 6
THE INVASION OF LUSTER
Où est le cerveau de Grand-père ? Tome 3
My teacher is an alien ; My teacher fried my brains ; My teacher glows in the dark
Read on Two (Workbook Four)
Sors de la dragon
Read on Ii, Workbook 6 (81236)
Wounded Tree
Read on Two (Book Four)
Fou, fou d'amour !
My Teacher-4 Vol. Boxed Set
The Thief of Worlds
Bruce Coville's Box of Thrills and Chills
Aliens, Underwear, and Monsters
Amber Brown Is on the Move
33 extraterrestre dans ma classe
Read on Two, Book Six
The dark abyss
Trolled
Dogrucu Kurukafa
Un extraterrestre dans ma classe, tome 1
Bleurk et Mimi Sékotine
Sixth-Grade Alien Out-Of-This-World Collection
Angells Players
I Was a Sixth Grade Value Colllection
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits 1
Ghost Wore Gray
My Alien Classmate 26 Copy C/Pack (My Alien Classmate)
BOOKPEOPLE Magic Shop Pack BOOKPEOPLE Magic Shop Pack
Prehistoric People
Wrath of Squat
World's Worst Fairy Godmother
Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Eyes of the Tarot
Sixth-Grade Alien Complete Cosmic Collection
Jennifer Murdley's Toad
Bruce Coville, 4 Vols., Boxed
Bruce Coville's Book of Fear
Vampire's Tooth
Amulet of Doom
Am I Blue?
Fortune's Journey
Ghost in the Third Row
In the Land of Always October
Magic Shop
Waiting Spirits
Robot Trouble
Snatched from Earth
Der Geheime Zauberladen/Ein Drache in Der Schultasche (German Edition)
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Fortune's Journey
World's Worst Fairy Godmother
The Dragon of Doom
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien #1
My Teacher Is an Alien 3-Books-In-1!
SONG OF THE WANDERER
Spirits and Spells
Grakker a mange mon devoir de maths
The Revolt of the Miniature Mutants (I Was a Sixth Grade Alien)
Tekboynuzlu Atlarin Gunlukleri 2 - Gezgin'in Sarkisi
Class Pet Catastrophe
My Teacher, 4 Vol., Boxed
Tekboynuzlu Atlar Ulkesi
Gathered Glory
Forever Begins Tomorrow
Thief of Worlds
My Teacher Glows in the Dark (My Teacher (PB))
Roddy und ich - Chaos währt am längsten
Bruce Coville-4 Vol. Boxed Set
Enter the Whisperer