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Petty : the biography

Zanes, Warren

Publication Date

2015

Format:

Books

Call Number

927.8242 PET

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SD_ILS:362409

Anna : the biography

Odell, Amy, 1985- author.

Publication Date

2022

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Books

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920.542 WIN

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SD_ILS:647653

Zelensky : a biography

Rudenko, Serhiĭ, 1970- author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Books

Call Number

923.1477 ZEL

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SD_ILS:659168

Piet Mondrian : a life : a biography

Janssen, Hans, 1954- author.

Publication Date

2022

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Books

Call Number

927.599492 MON

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SD_ILS:669401

Rembrandt : biography of a rebel

Bikker, Jonathan, author.

Publication Date

2019

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Books

Call Number

759.9492 REM

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SD_ILS:546919

Jane Austen at home : [a biography]

Worsley, Lucy, author.

Publication Date

2017

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Books

Call Number

928.217 AUS

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SD_ILS:423419

Robert Redford [large print] : the biography

Callan, Michael Feeney.

Publication Date

2011

Format:

Books

Call Number

927.9143 RED

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SD_ILS:233615

The Qurʼan [CD] : [a biography]

Lawrence, Bruce B.

Publication Date

2007

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Call Number

297.122 LAW

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SD_ILS:150018

The Bible [CD] : a biography

Armstrong, Karen, 1944-

Publication Date

2007

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220.09 ARM I24072898

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SD_ILS:157489

10.

Bourdain [large print] : the definitive oral biography

Woolever, Laurie, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Books

Call Number

926.415 BOU

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SD_ILS:632732

11.

Lawrence and the Arabs : an intimate biography

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985, author.

Publication Date

2018

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Books

Call Number

923.541 LAW

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SD_ILS:469451

12.

All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson

Griffin, Mark, 1968- author.

Publication Date

2018

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Books

Call Number

927.9143 HUD

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SD_ILS:475709

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