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  2. Ashley Bryan - Wikipedia

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    Ashley Frederick Bryan (July 13, 1923 – February 4, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 [1] and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his contribution to American children's ...

  3. Christopher Fowler - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Robert Fowler (26 March 1953 – 2 March 2023) was an English thriller writer. While working in the British film industry he authored fifty novels and short story collections, including the Bryant & May mysteries, which record the adventures of two Golden Age detectives in modern-day London. His awards include the 2015 CWA Dagger in ...

  4. School Friends - Wikipedia

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    School Friends is a series of children's novels written by British author Ann Bryant. [1] The books were published in 2008 and 2009. There are 12 books, each with one of the School Friends narrating it. The series is based at Silver Spires, a modern-day boarding school. The first six books feature Katy, Georgie, Grace, Naomi, Jessica and Mia ...

  5. New York Public Library Main Branch - Wikipedia

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    Books are delivered from the Bryant Park stacks to the reading rooms on the first through third floors using the "book train". The $2.6 million book delivery system was installed in 2016. It contains a conveyor belt and 24 small red carts emblazoned with the library's lion logo, which each carry up to 30 pounds (14 kg) of books between the ...

  6. Arthur Bryant - Wikipedia

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    Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, CH, CBE (18 February 1899 – 22 January 1985) was an English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man of affairs. His books included studies of Samuel Pepys , accounts of English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history, and a life of George V .

  7. Before going to college bookstore, consider renting textbooks

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    From tuxedos to DVDs and cars, renting something for the short term makes a lot of sense.For college students spending the annual nationwide average of $700 to $1,100 for textbooks, Chegg.com and ...

  8. Jen Bryant - Wikipedia

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    Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupation. Children's and young adult writer and poet. Genre. Non-fiction, picture books, biographies, novels, poetry. Website. www .jenbryant .com. Jen Bryant (born 1960) is an American poet, novelist, and children's writer.

  9. Bonnie Bryant - Wikipedia

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    Barbara "Bonnie" Bryant Hiller (née Bryant; born in New York, New York, in 1946) is an American author; as Bonnie Bryant she wrote many children's and young adult books; she is best known for writing the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published by Bantam Books from October 1988 until November 2001.

  10. Possession (Byatt novel) - Wikipedia

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    978-0-7011-3260-6. Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction .

  11. Randal Bryant - Wikipedia

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    Randal E. Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware and software. Bryant has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984. He served as the Dean of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon from 2004 to 2014.