Findings:

• references to high school in the 80's as if it were a common factor between the author and reader
• author
• author unknown
• The Author to Her Book
• Six Characters in Search of an Author
• I don't mind it when authors take their time
• Exchanging authors
• Don Quixote Author's Preface
• Don Quixote Author's Dedication
• Didymos Judas Thomas, Author of the Gospel of Thomas
• RimRod is a published author
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
• various authors
• Letters to Dead Authors
• Characters that the authors come to hate
• The Pilgrim's Progress: Author's Apology for his Book
• Author Function
• Everything Quests: Favourite Authors
• Famous authors as football announcers
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• Light Hearted Author
• Authors who refuse to be photographed
• Analogies Between "the Author" and Power in Foucault
• Black Hand Over Europe - Author's Preface to the English Edition
• Author's Message
• Author, interrupted
• Stop quoting fiction as the author's own beliefs
• 100 Authors Against Einstein
• Read by the author
• Questioning the author's digestion
• The New, Short and Easy Method of Fencing : Author
• Exercises for Exchanging Authors (document)
• The Pilgrim's Progress: Author's Apology for the Second Book
• Expressing political views in Author field of Word files
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• Webster's authors, pre-release edition (collaboration)
• The Death of the Author
• Author (user)
• Author, Author, Editor? (e2poll)
• Hidden Author (user)
• Society of Authors
• British Book Award for Author of the Year
• Hints for indy publishers, from a librarian
• Authors Guild
• British Book Award for Children's Author of the Year
• old author (user)
• 3-Step Marketing for Penniless Authors
• To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
• author removed writeup (notification)
• But the last half of the book is blank, and the author is gone.
• Handgun Basics for Authors
• Lies New Authors Tell Themselves
• Facebook for Authors
• The author is dead. Long live the author.
• Urban Contemporary
• Contemporary Christian music
• contemporary
• adult contemporary
• Contemporary Composers
• Contemporary Marriage
• A PC game guaranteed to suit the needs of contemporary society
• Racial Perceptions in Contemporary America
• Religious Contemporary
• Contemporary Racism in New Orleans
• The Black Death Part 8: The Contemporary Response to the Plague
• Contemporary tobacco smoking accessories
• The Museum of Contemporary Ideas
• the illusion of conviction offered by rock music, drugs, and contemporary poetry
• Contemporary Resort
• The metanarrative of contemporary America
• A Contemporary Theatre
• Northern School of Contemporary Dance
• Reflections on contemporary times
• Contemporary Dance Theater
• United Nations Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
• Institute of Contemporary Arts
• The largest carrot in Minnesota: A ripple effect through contemporary society
• the paradigms of contemporary archaeology
• Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
• Why I politely asked the contemporary lit major I was dating to stop writing me love letters
• being my own contemporary
• Media and the Threat to Contemporary Paganism
• Crest Presents: Great Contemporary Music
• Story Guide
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Linux Programmers Guide
• Project Galactic Guide
• Green Guide
• Everything Style Guide
• The All-Music Guide
• travel guide
• Field Guide
• TV Guide Channel
• TV Guide
• discofever's Millennium Guide for Champagnes and Sparkling Wines
• Guide
• Windows Error Lookup Guide
• Jabberwocky: Carroll's pronunciation guide
• Dungeon Masters Guide
• Dungeoneer's Survival Guide
• Guide to cheating in computer games
• Peterson Field Guides
• Nodebabies: a guide for the layperson
• Guide to determining if you are constantly being mauled by bears
• The Everything Guide to Fishkeeping
• The Hacker's Kitchen Guide
• Gary Reed's Guide to Self-Publishing
• Star Wars Ethnic Stereotype Equivalency Guide
• Bathroom Survival Guide
• Canada's Food Guide
• Men's guide to what a woman really means
• Paranoid's Pocket Guide
• Guides to Godel
• The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth
• The Guide to Finding Usenet Binaries
• Geek's guide to working out
• Tanks: A Brief History and Hunting Guide
• Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
• D.R. & Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide to Life
• A Short Guide to Comparative Religions
• Wilderness survival guide
• The Everything Guide to Guitar Chords
• It is the scent of women that guides a man
• A survival guide for the professionally outraged - constructing umbrage from common household items
• Babylon 5 Episode Guide
• ApoxyButt's Guide to Successful Boating
• The Simpsons episode guide
• The good drug guide
• Bluffer's Guide to "The Rules"
• Sororitorious Girlectus: A field Guide
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• ApoxyButt's guide to corporate email answering
• Universal Studios Tour Guide
• Complete guide to Driving
• Egyptian pronunciation guide
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
• A bloke's guide to taking a leak
• Everything Guide to Doric Words and Phrases
• Asimov's Guide to the Bible
• Essential Psychedelic Guide
• A Tourist's Guide To Fairyland
• Psychedelic Guide: Copyright
• Psychedelic Guide: Foreword
• Psychedelic Guide: Introduction
• Psychedelic Guide: History
• Lord, Guard and Guide the Men Who Fly
• Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
• Tom's Hardware Guide
• The Everything guide to being a pizza driver
• The Gentleman's Guide to Fighting
• The Young Man's Guide to Drinking and Dating
• Psychedelic Guide: Safety
• Psychedelic Guide: LSD
• JLA Issue Guide
• A guide to fun in South Africa
• Meat grading guide
• A Guide to American Newspaper Readership
• Psychedelic Guide: Mushrooms
• The Idiot's Guide to the Transmutation of Morals
• A guide for the first time raver
• Psychedelic Guide: DMT
• A Starfleet Officer's Field Guide to First Contact
• Psychedelic Guide: Harmala
• MIT Guide to Lockpicking
• Psychedelic Guide: Ketamine
• The Evil Henchman's Guide
• chewing gum flavor guide
• Camp stove
• the not-so-concise guide to not getting divorced
• A Brief Guide To C
• Futurama Episode Guide
• Andromeda Episode Guide
• guide to making weight
• UKQCD Burn out Prevention Guide
• The Nanny
• The Unofficial Guide to TinySex

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