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Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007)

poet, essayist, librarian, poet, essayist, librarian, poet, essayist, librarian

  • Smith College

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The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family #1)
A Wrinkle in Time
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3)
A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet #2
Many Waters (Time Quintet #4)
A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family Chronicles #4)
An Acceptable Time (Time Quintet #5 / O'Keefe Family #4)
Witches
The Young Unicorns (Austin Family Chronicles #3)
A Treasury of Christmas Classics
A House Like a Lotus (O'Keefe Family #3)
Watch For The Light
Meet the Austins (Austin Family Chronicles #1)
A Severed Wasp (Katherine Forrester Vigneras #2)
Camilla (Camilla #1)
Troubling a Star (Austin Family Chronicles #5)
Two-Part Invention
Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters [24 stories]
And Both Were Young
The Small Rain (Katherine Forrester Vigneras #1)
The Irrational Season (Crosswicks Journals #3)
The Love Letters
The other side of the sun
A Live Coal in the Sea (Camilla #2)
Witches & Wizards
The Sphinx at Dawn
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (Austin Family Chronicles #0.5)
Dance in the Desert
The Joys of Love
Certain Women
Asimov's Ghosts
Second Sight
The journey with Jonah
Walking on water
Visions of Fantasy
Trailing clouds of glory
A Full House
The Rock That Is Higher
A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals #1)
Penguins & Golden Calves
A Stone for a Pillow (Genesis #2)
The Genesis trilogy
The other dog
A Wrinkle In Time Trilogy
Anytime Prayers
Friends for the journey
Glimpses of Grace
Lines scribbled on an envelope
The anti-muffins
Miracle on 10th Street & Other Christmas Writings (Austin Family Chronicles #5.4)
The Moment of Tenderness
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journals #2)
Scholastic Literature Guide to A wrinkle in time
Madeleine L'Engle herself
Ladder of angels
A winter's love
Mothers and Daughters
The glorious impossible
Dragons in the waters
And It Was Good
The ordering of love
Bright evening star
Sold into Egypt
A Cry Like a Bell
Spirit and light
The weather of the heart
The Moon by Night (Austin Family)
From This Day Forward
The Polly O'Keefe quartet
Mothers and Sons
Newbery Boxed Set (Island of the Blue Dolphins, Johnny Tremain, Belle Prater's Boy, Wrinkle in Time, Black Cauldron, Black Pearl, Watson's Go to Birmingham 1963, Lily's Crossing)
Dare to be creative!
Wrinkle in Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Moses, Prince of Egypt
Prelude (Katherine Forrester Vigneras series)
The Time Trilogy
Everyday prayers
Wintersong
The time quartet
A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends
Prayers for Sunday
The Wonder Years
The Prince of Egypt
Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet-Boxed Set 4 Vols
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
Small Rain
Austin Family Pack
A Wrinkle in Time
The Wrinkle in Time Boxed Set, Includes 5 books and an Exclusive Journal
Intergalactic P.S. 3: A Wrinkle in Time Story (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet)
Penguin Readers Level 5
The Crosswicks Journal
Novels of Madeleine l'Engle Volume One
Stay Angry, Little Girl
Wrinkle in Time (50-Minute One-act)
Fact of the Matter - Free Short Story
Crosswicks Journals
Access to Literature
Books for Children
Literature Guide
Penguin Readers Level 3
24 Days Before Christmas
Be Not Afraid
Ilsa
Wrinkle in Time Series
The Patriots
My Own Small Place
The swiftly tilting worlds of Madeleine L'Engle
Time Quartet Prebind Set (Quartets, Grades 4-6)
The Risk of birth
Madeleine L'Engle : The Kairos Novels : The Wrinkle in Time and Polly O'Keefe Quartets
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman (born 1946)

playwright, librarian, executive producer, audiobook narrator

  • University of Oxford, Ysgol Ardudwy

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The ruby in the smoke (Sally Lockhart #1)
Northern Lights
The Amber Spyglass
The Subtle Knife
The Firework-maker's Daughter
Detective stories
The tin princess (Sally Lockhart #4)
The scarecrow and his servant
Shadow in the north (Sally Lockhart #2)
The tiger in the well
His Dark Materials
The book of dust - La Belle Sauvage
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Spring-Heeled Jack
I was a rat!
Clockwork
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Volume 2
The Broken Bridge
Lyra's Oxford
The Butterfly Tattoo
The Secret Commonwealth
Once Upon a Time in the North
Thunderbolt's Waxwork
Grimm Tales
Scary! 2
Once Upon A Poem
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The adventures of John Blake
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel Volume 3
The Adventures of the New Cut Gang
His Dark Materials set
Count Karlstein, or the Ride of the Demon Huntsman
Galatea
Flipper
The White Mercedes
His Dark Materials (Adapted)
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
The Writer's Map
Daemon voices
Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary
Frankenstein (Oxford Playscripts)
Puss in Boots
Writer's handbook guide to writing for children
Told Again
Story of the Year 06
The New Cut Gang
Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales
Two crafty criminals!
Imagination Chamber
Serpentine
Nelson Thornes Dramascripts Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
Contra la «identidad»
The Subtle Knife Graphic Novel
Life and death
How to be Cool
Private Peaceful By Michael Morpurgo Aladdin And The Enchanted Lamp By Philip Pullman The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark By Jill Tomlinson
Inside the Rainbow : Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935
The Golden Compass Graphic Novel, Complete Edition
Darkness Illuminated
Northern Lights - the Graphic Novel Volume 1
His Dark Materials (stage Version)
THE REPUBLIC OF HEAVEN
' Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things'
Firework-Maker's Daughter (Stage Adaptation)
Using the "New Oxford School Dictionary"
Book of Dust TR 9-Copy Floor Display
Philip Pullman Slipcase
Four Tales
Using the Oxford Illustrated Junior Dictionary
There was a knock at the door
Borzoi Young Reader
A materia escura
Dictionary of Symbols
The Collectors: A His Dark Materials Story (Kindle Single)
Northern Lights - the Graphic Novel
Book of Dust - la Belle Sauvage (stage Version)
Northern Lights - the Graphic Novel Volume 2
Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
His Dark Materials (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
The haunted storm
Golden Compass Graphic Novel
ha-Da岣il u-mesharto
Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
Sally Lockhart Slipcase
住讗诇讬 诇讜拽讛讗专讟
Reading Group Guide to The Subtle Knife
Mossycoat
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy (1936-2012)

librarian

  • University of Canterbury, University of Auckland

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The Changeover
The Tricksters
Other Side of Silence
The horribly haunted school
The rattlebang picnic
Great piratical rumbustification
The pumpkin man and the crafty creeper
Tingleberries, tuckertubs and telephones
The seven Chinese brothers
Beaten by a balloon
A summery Saturday morning
Aliens in the Family
Ultra-violet catastrophe!
The Great White Man-Eating Shark
It's Great To Be Eight
Boom, Baby, boom, boom!
A tall story and other tales
Clancy's cabin
Jam
The man from the land of Fandango
Maddigan's Fantasia
Down the dragon's tongue
Simply delicious!
Nonstop nonsense
The greatest show off earth
The horrendous hullabaloo
The Haunting
The Magician of Hoad
Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles
L Enlevement De La Bibliothecaire
The gargling gorilla
A Fortunate name
The man whose mother was a pirate
The Pirates Mixed-Up Voyage
Underrunners
The new house villain
The pirate uncle
Queen's Goat
Tangled fortunes
Twenty-four Hours
Bubble trouble
Down the back of the chair
The five sisters
My Wonderful Aunt
The boy with two shadows
Midnight Feast
The girl with the green ear
Mister Whistler
Sightlines 9
The World in 1492
The Boy Who Made Things Up
The downhill crocodile whizz
The dragon of an ordinary family
Dashing dog!
The horrible story and others
The green bath
The Catalogue of the Universe
My mysterious world
Memory
Leaf magic and five other favourites
The second Margaret Mahy story book
Dangerous spaces
Keeping house
The terrible topsy-turvy, tissy-tossy tangle
Down in the dump with Dinsmore
The Boy who bounced and other magic tales
The bus under the leaves
Tale of a Tail
Mahy magic
Shock Forest (White Wolves)
A busy day for a good grandmother
Mrs. Bubble's baby
Mrs Discombobulous
Chewing-gum Rescue and Other Stories
Don't Read This
The princess and the clown
The Christmas tree tangle
Baby's Breakfast
Alchemy
The birthday burglar
The Pop Group
A lion in the meadow
The witch in the cherry tree
Feeling Funny
kids' night in
The Blood and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak
Guinea pig grass
The little witch
Tick tock tales
The dragon's birthday
A very wicked headmistress
Wait for Me!
The earthquake
The door in the air and other stories
Shock Forest and Other Stories
Chewing Gum Rescue
A very happy bathday
Sailor Jack and the 20 orphans
Operation Terror
The haunting of Miss Cardamon
The good fortunes gang
Lion in the Meadow and Other Favorite Stories
Stop that stew!
A Fortune branches out
When the king rides by
The third Margaret Mahy story book
Seventeen kings and forty two elephants
Clever Hamburger
The Fiddle and the Gun
Iris La Bonga and the locked door
Leaf magic
The girl who washed in moonlight
A dissolving ghost
The rare spotted birthday party
The three-legged cat
Beautiful Pig
The tree doctor
A Villain's Night Out
Footsteps Through the Fog
The procession
Chocolate Porridge and Other Stories
The catten
The little witch and 5 other favourites
Trouble on the Bus
The midnight story
Wonderful Me!
Watch Me!
Muppy's ball
Tai Taylor and his education
Portable Ghosts
The word witch
Birthday Burglar and a Very Wicked Headmistress
Arguments
The Riddle of the Frozen Phantom
There's a King in the Cupboard
The boy who was followed home
The dentist's promise
Sophie's singing mother
Iris La Bonga and the helpful taxi driver
The adventures of a kite
Margaret Mahy Treasury
The funny, funny clown face
Bubble trouble & other poems and stories
The three magicians
Heriot
The great piratical rumbustification & The librarian and the robbers
Mr Rumfitt
The robber pig and the ginger beer
Iris la Bonga and the boomerzoomer
Tinny tiny tinker
Making friends
The solar system
The Father who Walked on his Hands
The railway engine and the hairy brigands
The mad puppet
Rooms to Let
Witch Dog : (Early Reader)
Tai Taylor goes to school
Awesome Aotearoa
The tin can band and other poems
Crocodile, crocodile
The man who enjoyed grumbling
Tai Taylor is born
How Mr Rooster didn't get married
Tai Taylor and the Sweet Annie
The mouse wedding
Organ Music
Aunt Nasty (Early Reader)
No dinner for Sally
Friends and families
Wild Blackberries
Fantail, fantail
A pet to the vet
Stepmother
Pillycock's shop
The great millionaire kidnap
The garden party
The fight on the hill
Questions Kids Ask
A Good Knee for a Cat
Moon and Farmer Mcphee
The Fiddle and the Moon
David's witch doctor
Leap year
The first Margaret Mahy story book
Kaitangata Twitch
Sunshine Level 8 Stories
Crocodile Lake
Sunshine
The Robber pig and the green eggs
The Greatest Binnie in the World
Jacko, the junk shop man
Shopping with a crocodile
My Wonderful Aunt - Story Four
Look under V
New Zealand
By Margaret Mahy - The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate (Viking Kestrel picture books) (1986-05-16) [Hardcover]
Cobwebs, elephants and stars
Dark Blue 100-ride Bus Ticket
White elephants
The cake
ADEC G 5 Volume F
Mr. Mossop's table
The little round husband
Chocolate porridge
The longgrass of Tumbledown Road
The Wind Between the Stars
The big brown pot
Crocodile's Christmas Jandale
Giant Soup
An elephant in the house
Rigby Read-Along Book Stage 6 Sarah, the Bear and the Kangaroo
Fingers on the Back of the Neck
Sunshine books
Gargling Gorilla
Sophie und das verzauberte Amulett.
Kangaroo from Woolloomooloo
Early Reader
My Wonderful Aunt Story Three
The King's jokes
Going to the beach
Stories of my wonderful aunt
Ups and Downs and Other Stories
The spider in the shower
Maddigan's Quest
Sunshine
Aussie Bites- The Excuse, Plus Three More
The great grumbler and the wonder tree
A crocodile in the library
Helen MacInnes
Helen MacInnes (1907-1985)

librarian

  • University of Glasgow, University College London

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Agent in place
Prelude to terror
Assignment in Brittany
The Venetian affair
The Double Image
Above suspicion
The hidden target
North from Rome
I and my true love
Ride a Pale Horse
Cloak of darkness
Message from Ma虂laga
Pray for Brave Heart
While Still We Live
Neither 5 nor 3
Snare of the Hunter
The Unconquerable
The Salzburg Connection
Helen Macinnes: Three Bestselling Novels of Terror & Espionage : Agent in Place : The Hidden Target
Mystery
Decision At Delphi (Keith Jennison Book)
Horizon, a novel
Rest and Be Thankful
Friends and lovers
Assignment, suspense
Triple Threat
Best Sellers
Home is the hunter
The Deadly Decisions
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume I - 1966
The deadly decisions
The way to the amusement park (Korean edition)
Heinähattu, Vilttitossu ja vaari (Heinähattu ja Vilttitossu, #3)
Molière's Comedies. Volume 2. Everyman's Library No. 831
Assignment
Contatto a Salisburgo
Le Re虂sident
La proie du chasseur
Helen MacInnes / North From Home First Edition 1958
Stewart MacInnes
Casuslar Safakta olur
The Share of the Hunter
Noodsein uit Malaga
Rokhev 驶al sus yerakrak
Roma'nin kuzeyinde
ha-岣瞖sher ha-Ye峁縜ni
Bugang die ying
Helen Macinnes
A岣砫amah la-峁璭ror
Yedidim 峁縠-ohavim
Tazkir sodi be-yoter
Malkodet la-tsayad
转拽专讬转 讘讝讗诇爪讘讜专讙
The Slazburg connection
Helen MacInnes Anthology
砖讚专 诪诪诇讙讛