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John Buchan
John Buchan (1875-1940)

journalist, politician, military personnel, biographer, poet, barrister, diplomat

  • University of Oxford, University of Glasgow

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Mr. Standfast
Huntingtower
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The power-house
Midwinter
The gap in the curtain
The Runagates Club
The Free Fishers
A prince of the captivity
The Complete Richard Hannay
Greenmantle
Ready Readers
Dickson Trilogy
Prester John
Faeries
Salute to Adventurers
The half-hearted
The Path of the King
The Courts of the morning
Castle Gay
Nelson's history of the war
Pilgrim's way
The dancing floor
The three hostages
John Macnab
Sick Heart River
27 Classic Short Stories
Witch Wood
Sir Quixote of the Moors
The massacre of Glencoe
Augustus
Memory hold-the-door
The house of the four winds
The blanket of the dark
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole 02. Das rote Zimmer
The last secrets
A Date With Danger
THE DEVIL'S COVEN
The moon endureth
The Magic Walking-Stick
Brasenose college
Sir Walter Scott
A history of English literature
Montrose
A history of the great war
Oliver Cromwell
The Marquis of Montrose
The African colony
Sir Walter Ralegh
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories
Poems
Francis and Riversdale Grenfell
The battle of the Somme
Italy
Some eighteenth century byways, and other essays
To catch a spy
Island of Sheep, the
A lost lady of old years
Scottish Stories
The Leithen Stories
The far islands and other tales of fantasy
The long traverse
The novel and the fairy tale
No-Man's-land
Musa piscatrix
The four adventures of Richard Hannay
The law relating to the taxation of foreign income
Two ordeals of democracy
The long road to victory
The history of the South African forces in France
The clearing house
Third Clasic Thriller Collection
Julius Caesar
The Watcher by the Threshold and Other Tales
The Pilgrim Fathers
The thirty-nine steps and The power-house
The Battle of the Somme, second phase
Homilies and recreations
These for remembrance
The King's Grace
The kirk in Scotland, 1560-1929
John Burnet of Barnes
The northern muse
The complete short stories
The battle of the Somme, first phase
Grey weather
Mandate of Heaven
Lord Minto
Britain's war by land
The Scotswoman by Fletcher, Inglis
Yugoslavia
The causal and the casual in history
John Bernet of Barns - A Romance
John Buchan
Nilima Mrutyu Pami Chhe (Gujarati Edition)
The Thirty-Nine Steps" / "Witchwood"
Supernatural Tales
The man and the book
The Best Supernatural Stories of John Buchan
Gordon at Khartoum
Second Classic Thriller Collection
Best of John Buchan
Days to remember
Call Of The Wind, White Fang, The Scarlet Plague
Episodes of the Great War
A book of escapes and hurried journeys
Andrew Lang and the Border
The people's king, George V
The Thirty-Nine Steps & the Greenmantle
The best short stories of John Buchan
Some notes on Sir Walter Scott
Lord Rosebery, 1847-1930 [!]
Thriller and Modern Literature Pack Updated
The Adventures of Dickson McCunn
Adventures of James Jan Sales Boa
Presbyterianism, yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow
Adventures of Richard Hannay
Anthropologica Incognita
1918-Catastrophe to Victory
Hannay's War
Men and deeds
Cromwell
Journey into Fear / The 39 Steps / And Then There Were None / The Maltese Falcon / The Nine Tailors / The Doorbell Rang
A lodge in the wilderness
A shorter history of English literature
Basilissa
Musa Piscatrix
Die neununddreißig Stufen
Lake of gold
Modern short stories
The battle of Jutland
John Buchan. 1
Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall
Keeper of Cademuir
Richard Hannay Trilogy
War with Turkey, 1914-18----Volume 1
Comments and characters
Richard Hannay- The First Trilogy
An address by His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir ... at a special convocation, November 23rd, 1935
Scholar-gipsies
El poder ocult
Prester John
English literature
The interpreter's house
Selected Stories of John Buchan
Journey of Little Profit
The Best Short Stories
Supernatural Buchan - Stories of ancient spirits uncanny places and strange creatures
Thriller and Modern Literature Pack
Essays And Studies
Le collier du prêtre Jean
La Centrale d'énergie
The Complete Short Stories - Volume One
Companions of the Way
Grove of Ashtaroth
A Five-Fold Salute to Adventure
Essential John Buchan Collection
Quality and quantity
The history of the Royal Scots fusiliers (1678-1918)
John Buchan - Nelson's History of the War - Volume III
Dangerous Dimensions New Pub Date Jan 2021
Space
The Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Prester John
Richard Hannay's War Adventures
Bulgaria and Romania [The Nations of To-Day]
Naval episodes of the great war
Adventurers all
The man from the Norlands
Outgoing of the Tide
John Buchan
Buchan's war
THE FOUR ADVENTURES OF RICHArD HANNAY.
Classic John Buchan Stories
British America
Fullcircle
Four tales
The written and the spoken word
John Buchan By Wife Friends
Scottish Historical Fiction
Three Great Thrillers Set (For Son of Whitesale Only)
The Thirty-Nine Steps
El viento en el pórtico
Modern Mystery and Adventure Novels
El Baston Magico
Best Short Stories of John Buchan
Farewell to Priorsford
The Richard Hannay Collection
Ultimate Richard Hannay Collection
Meditations of a country chiel
India
The nations of to-day
Canadian occasions
The Changing IT Skills Scene
Sir Walter Scott : 1832-1932
Witch wood
Dalquharter
PAMs into the 1990s
Glimpses of John Buchan
The Supply of Teachers
The adventures of Sir Edward Leithen
Im Westen was neues
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1920-1999)

diplomat

  • City College of New York, New York University

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Fools Die
The Sicilian
The fortunate pilgrim
The Dark Arena
Six Graves to Munich
The Fourth K
The Family
The Last Don
The Godfather
Inside Las Vegas
Omerta
Best of Classics (The Call of the Wild / The Godfather / The Time Machine)
The godfather papers & other confessions
The Godfather / The Last Don
The Godfather and Valley of the Dolls
Selected from the Godfather
The runaway summer of Davie Shaw
Novels (Fortunate Pilgrim / Godfather)
The Godfather (adaptation)
The Godfather. Part two
Omertá / Omerta
Fortunate Pilgrim
Omertà
Omerta
Last Don, The
Omerta
Die dunkle Arena. Roman.
Fortunate Pilgrim
Mamma Lucia - French Language Edition
El padrino
La familia Corleone
Inside Las Vegas
Baba
Dark Arena
Aile
último Don / the Last Don
LOSCORLEONE
Penguin Readers 4
Cest Idiot De Mourir
The Fourth K
Ojciec Chrzestny
Mamma Lucia
Making of the Godfather
El siciliano
Rodzina Borgiow
En tierras extrañas
Fools Die
Los tontos mueren
Mario Puzo 4 Books Collection Pack Set RRP
Münih'e Kadar 6 Mezar
Making of the Godfather
Siciliano
Seis tumbas en Múnich
FOOLS DIE By Puzo, Mario (Author) Mass Market Paperbound on 01-Oct-1979
De Laatste Don (Dutch Edition) The Last Don
Dark Arena
Los Borgia
Aptallar Erken Ölür
Omerta
Tontos Mueren, Los
Els Borja
Last Don
Godfather Papers and Other Confessions
Sicilian
Family
Krikstatevis by Mario Puzo
El Padrino
Penguin Readers Level 7
The godfather papers & other papers
The Sicilian
Gambler Mother
Los Borgia
Los Tontos Mueren / Fools Die
El Padrí
BORGIA , LOS
Dziesiata Aleja
Los tontos mueren
Sicilian
Corleone, Los
Frank Sinatra / Godfather
Fools Die
Penguin Readers Level 7
Untitled Novel
ha-Sitsilyani
Rodzina Borgiów
Shoṭim metim
דון קורליאונה איש המפיה
מאמה לוצ׳יה הסנדקית
O Poderoso Chefão
Arena mraka
Sześć grobów do Monachium
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton (born 1946)

politician, lawyer, diplomat, autobiographer, teacher, statesperson, saxophonist, governor, jurist

  • Walsh School of Foreign Service, University of Oxford

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The President is Missing
The President Is Missing: A Novel
My Life
Back to work
Putting people first
Health Security
Giving
Ripples of Hope
Between hope and history
Conversations
The Clinton foreign policy reader
Clinton on Clinton
The impeachment and trial of President Clinton
Time Haiti
My life
Climate change action plan
Preface to the presidency
Mi Vida
Willy Nilly
Reinventing regulation of drugs and medical devices
The new OSHA
Reinventing regulation of drugs made from biotechnology
Back to work
Ma Vie (French edition of "My Life")
Selected speeches of President William Jefferson Clinton
My Life, Part 2
"My friends, amidst all our differences, let us find a new common ground"
Reinventing the regulation of drugs made from biotechnology
National Security Strategy of the United States 1994-1995
Giving
My Life, Part 1
Science in the national interest
State of the Union Addresses of William J. Clinton
National Security Strategy 1995-1996
The impeachment and trial of President Clinton
Córka prezydenta
A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement
Fu chu
El presidente ha desaparecido
Reinventing the regulation of cancer drugs
My life
The new SBA
Summary of executive recommendations for the budget, State of Arkansas, fiscal years 1980-1981
Mi vida
Giving
Reinventing health care regulations
Technology for America's economic growth
Por uma governanca global democrática
Chemical and Biological Weapons Defense
Public papers of the presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
Clinton v. New York (1998) (Landmark briefs and arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States)
Mein Leben (German edition of "My Life")
Chemical Weapons Convention
From Red Tape to Results
Health Security Act of 1993
Proceedings of the United States Senate in the impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton
Building the U.S. - Africa Partnership
State Of The Union Addresses
Wo de sheng huo
Federal Financial Management Report, 2000
Weil es um die Menschen geht
Joint Convention On The Safety Of Spent Fuel And Radioactive Waste Management
El pueblo es primero
Donner
Zhitʹ otdavai͡a
Economic Report of the President of the United States & the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers 2001
Bill Clinton
Out of Many
U. S. Government Manual, 1994-95
Oral history interview with William J. (Bill) Clinton, June 15, 1974
Convention No. 182 for Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor
Campaign '92: Bill Clinton & Al Gore
A national security strategy for a new century
Mein Leben/my Life
National plan for information systems protection
The President Is Missing: A Novel
President Bill Clinton
Title Not Supplied
Public papers of the presidents of the United States
Statements by President Clinton on the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Photograph and The American Dream, 1840-1940, The
Reinventing Food Regulations
Remarks by the President and Prime Minister Blair upon the Prime Minister's arrival
Text of speeches and press conferences during visit to Britain and Ireland, November 1995
National Security Strategy for a New Century, 1998
Ma vie
Clinton says "peace dividend" needed in Northern Ireland
Comprehensive Readiness Program for Countering Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The President Is Missing: A Novel
Technology, the engine of economic growth
Blair House Papers
The Climate change action plan
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton (born 1947)

politician, lawyer, diplomat, autobiographer, podcaster, jurist, film producer

  • Wellesley College, Yale Law School

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State of Terror
It Takes A Village
Living history
The unique voice of Hillary Rodham Clinton
HARD CHOICES
Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
What Happened
Africa
An invitation to the White House
Hard choices
It takes a village
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Eine Welt für Kinder
Off the Sidelines
It Takes a Village, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Stronger together
How I Lost By Hillary Clinton
Living History
LIVING HISTORY 01
Living History
Mon histoire
Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy
Mon Histoire
Women on the Frontlines of Peace and Security with Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Leon Panetta - Women in the Military, Defense, Foreign Policy, NATO, Crisis, Special Operations Forces
Turnout
Living History (in Traditional Chinese)
It Takes a Village
The West and Islam
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Ti︠a︡zhelye vremena
Decisiones difíciles
And How Are the Children?
Grandma's Gardens
Remarks of the First Lady at Joyce McCartan Memorial Lecture
Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine--November 1997
Gelebte Geschichte
Es Labor de Todos. Dejemos Que
Tworzac historie
Los jardines de la abuela
Civiliser la démocratie
Women on the Frontlines of Peace and Security
Lisa Perry
Staat van terreur
Lo que pasó
Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Terror de Estado / States of Terror
Book of Gutsy Women
Watashitachi ga kodomo no mirai no tame ni dekiru koto
Vital Voices
Clinton - UN Fourth World Conference on Women
Qin li li shi
Hồi ký Hillary Clinton và chính trường nước Mỹ =
Zor Secimler
#StillWithHer
Sarainnun Yoksa / Living History (In Korean)(Volume 01)
It Takes a Village (Chinese Edition)
Protecting Against Genetic Discrimination
Hillŏri K'ŭllint'ŏn sara innŭn Yŏngŏ
Jue ze
Những lựa chọn khó khăn
It Takes a Village
Something Lost, Something Gained
Entscheidungen
Addressing Unmet Needs in Women's Health
William Le Queux
William Le Queux (1864-1927)

journalist, diplomat

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Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
The closed book
Sant of the Secret Service
The count's chauffeur
Secrets of the Foreign Office
Revelations of the Secret Service
The Four Faces A Mystery
The Czar's Spy: A Story of a Matter of Millions
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Book of the Sleuth
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!
The intriguers
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
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
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 mysterious three
The invasion
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)
The room of secrets
Histoire extraordinaire de Raspoutine: le moine scélérat
The spider's eye
The sting
Andreas Norman
Andreas Norman (born 1972)

diplomat

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Michael Punke
Michael Punke (born 1964)

jurist, lawyer, diplomat

  • George Washington University, Cornell Law School

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