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Anna : the biography

Odell, Amy, 1985- author.

Publication Date

2022

Format:

Books

Call Number

920.542 WIN

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:647653

Brazil : a biography

Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz, author.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Books

Call Number

981 SCH

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SD_ILS:425153

Orlando : a biography

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author.

Publication Date

2017

Format:

Books

Call Number

WOO

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SD_ILS:548795

A. Lincoln : a biography

White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric), 1939-

Publication Date

2009

Format:

Books

Call Number

923.173 LIN

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SD_ILS:177220

Kate Bush : the biography

Jovanovic, Rob

Publication Date

2005

Format:

Books

Call Number

927.8242 BUS

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SD_ILS:121466

Shakespeare revealed : a biography

Weis, René, 1953-

Publication Date

2007

Format:

Books

Call Number

928.2233 SHA

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SD_ILS:142656

Peter Gzowski : a biography

Fleming, Rae Bruce, 1944-

Publication Date

2010

Format:

Books

Call Number

927.9144 GZO

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SD_ILS:204569

Maggie Smith [large print] : a biography

Coveney, Michael, 1948- author.

Publication Date

2016

Format:

Books

Call Number

927.92028 SMI

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SD_ILS:386664

Elizabeth I : Renaissance prince : a biography

Hilton, Lisa, 1974- author.

Publication Date

2014

Format:

Books

Call Number

923.141 ELI I

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SD_ILS:365118

10.

Louis Riel : a comic-strip biography

Brown, Chester, 1960-

Publication Date

2010

Format:

Books

Call Number

971.051 BRO

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SD_ILS:406635

11.

Mark Twain himself : a pictorial biography

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 author.

Publication Date

2002

Format:

Books

Call Number

928.14 TWA

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SD_ILS:362720

12.

Gray matters : a biography of brain surgery

Schwartz, Theodore H., author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Books

Call Number

617.481 SCH

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SD_ILS:724328

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Alive Mind Cinema.

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