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May Birthdays

Happy birthday to all the great authors born in May.

Title	Author	Cover
Inferno	1265-1321 Dante Alighieri
The uncommon reader	Alan Bennett
Alexander Pope	Alexander Pope
New & collected poems, 1917-1976	Archibald MacLeish
Mary Ann in autumn : a Tales of the city novel	Armistead Maupin
Adventures of Gerard	Arthur Conan Doyle
Why I am not a Christian : and other essays on religion and related subjects	Bertrand Russell
Far journeys : photographs and notebooks	Bruce Chatwin
Echoes from the macabre : selected stories	Daphne Du Maurier
The big knockover : selected stories and short novels	Dashiell Hammett
East of the mountains	David Guterson
An inquiry concerning human understanding : with a supplement, An abstract of A treatise of human nature	David Hume
I capture the castle	Dodie Smith
The rise of Theodore Roosevelt	Edmund Morris
The devils and Canon Barham; ten essays on poets, novelists and monsters.	Edmund Wilson
A book of nonsense	Edward Lear
The summer of the osprey	Elisabeth Ogilvie
Sweet Valley confidential : ten years later	Francine Pascal
Father Brown : short stories	G K Chesterton
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen
Goodbye, Janette : a novel	Harold Robbins
The glory : a novel	Herman Wouk
The human comedy : selected stories	Honoré de Balzac
Diamonds are forever : a James Bond novel	Ian Fleming
Peter Pan	J M Barrie
Lucy	Jamaica Kincaid
The journals of John Cheever.	John Cheever
Catch-22, a novel.	Joseph Heller
Karl Marx : a reader	Karl Marx
The annotated Wizard of Oz : the wonderful Wizard of Oz	L Frank Baum
Seabiscuit : an American legend	Laura Hillenbrand
The Builders	Maeve Binchy
The essential Margaret Fuller	Margaret Fuller
Hotel Paradise	Martha Grimes
Manhood for amateurs : the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son	Michael Chabon
The early plays of Mikhail Bulgakov.	Mikhail Bulgakov
The prince	Niccolò Machiavelli
Wallflower at the orgy.	Nora Ephron
The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds; a drama in two acts.	Paul Zindel
Jaws	Peter Benchley
The quiet girl	Peter Høeg
The edge of the sea	Rachel Carson
Selected journals, 1841-1877	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will you please be quiet, please? : stories	Raymond Carver
Tales from Watership Down	Richard Adams
The Brownings' correspondence	Robert Browning
For love : poems, 1950-1960	Robert Creeley
The Janson directive	Robert Ludlum
Working : People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do	Studs Terkel
Either/or	Søren Kierkegaard
The sword in the stone	T H White
The collected poems of Theodore Roethke.	Theodore Roethke
Peppercanister poems, 1972-1978	Thomas Kinsella
Slow learner : early stories	Thomas Pynchon
Sacred clowns	Tony Hillerman
The moccasin telegraph and other Indian tales	W P Kinsella
Selected poems	Walt Whitman

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