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class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 303 304 305</div> 306<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 307<h4><span style="font-size:14pt;">Fiction</span></h4> 308</div> 309</div> 310 311 312</div> 313<div class='content-wrap'> 314<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 315<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 316 317 318</div> 319<div class='content work clearfix'> 320<h3><a href="/billy_mckenzie__a_story_of_love.htm">Billy McKenzie, A Story of Love</a></h3> 321<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Â Â </span></p> 322<p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em>Â "</em>MacKinnon's prose - elegant, dryly witty, and thick with archival texture - is agile enough to move between worlds without embalming the past... MacKinnon delivers both a conventional romance and a moving meditation on how stories outlast the bodies they once described." Kirkus Reviews</span></p> 323<p class="from_wysiwyg">Â </p></div> 324</div> 325</div> 326 327</div> 328<div class='content-wrap'> 329<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 330<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 331 332 333</div> 334<div class='content work clearfix'> 335<h3><a href="/the_contractor_114889.htm">The Contractor</a></h3> 336<div class='work-description'>Â 337<p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Â Â "A truly compelling contemporary spy thriller."Â Booklist</span></p> 338<p class="from_wysiwyg">Â </p></div> 339</div> 340</div> 341 342</div> 343<div class='content-wrap'> 344<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 345<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 346 347 348</div> 349<div class='content work clearfix'> 350<h3><a href="/morning_spy__evening_spy_114892.htm">Morning Spy, Evening Spy</a></h3> 351<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Â </span></p> 352<p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Â Â "[A] richly drawn, splendidly written novel of character....If you're a thriller reader, snatch this one up. It's the best of the year, by far." St. Louis Post-Dispat
352ch</span></p> 353<p class="from_wysiwyg"> </p></div> 354</div> 355</div> 356 357</div> 358<div class='content-wrap'> 359<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 360<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 361 362 363</div> 364<div class='content work clearfix'> 365<h3><a href="/finding_hoseyn_114848.htm">Finding Hoseyn</a></h3> 366<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg"> </p> 367<p class="from_wysiwyg"><span style="font-size:14pt;">  "... moves with an unusually sure hand. It helps that the author, an American journalist who has worked in Iran, is writing about something of which he has had personal experience. Mr. MacKinnon clearly has a decent acquaintance with the spy novels of John le Carre and has even looked back to such masterpieces as Eric Ambler's 'Coffin for Dimitrios.' But he remains very much his own man and has written a most satisfactory thriller." New York Times</span></p></div> 368</div> 369</div> 370 371</div> 372<div class='content-wrap'> 373<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 374<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 375 376 377</div> 378<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 379<h4><br><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:black;">Linguistics</span></span></h4> 380</div> 381</div> 382 383 384</div> 385<div class='content-wrap'> 386<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 387<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 388 389 390</div> 391<div class='content work clearfix'> 392<h3><a href="/dezf_l__and____tar__116244.htm">DezfÅ«lÄ« and ŠūštarÄ«</a></h3> 393</div> 394</div> 395 396</div> 397<div class='content-wrap'> 398<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 399<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 400 401 402</div> 403<div class='content work clearfix'> 404<h3><a href="/lori_dialects_115149.htm">Lori Dialects</a></h3> 405</div> 406</div> 407 408</div> 409<div class='content-wrap'> 410<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 411<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 412 413 414</div> 415<div class='content work clearfix'> 416<h3><a href="/gi_ni_115151.htm">GiÅni</a></h3> 417</div> 418</div> 419 420</div> 421<div class='content-wrap'> 422<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 423<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 424 425 426</div> 427<div class='content work clearfix'> 428<h3><a href="/the_dialects_of_khuzestan_125001.htm">The Dialects of Khuzestan</a></h3> 429</div> 430</div> 431 432</div> 433<div class='content-wrap'> 434<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 435<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 436 437 438</div> 439<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 440<h4><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="color:black;">History of Cryptology</span></span></h4> 441</div> 442</div> 443 444 445</div> 446<div class='content-wrap'> 447<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 448<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 449 450 451</div> 452<div class='content work clearfix'> 453<h3><a href="/bletchley_park_diary__by_william_f__friedman_115134.htm">Bletchley Park Diary, by William F. Friedman</a></h3> 454</div> 455</div> 456 457</div> 458<div class='content-wrap'> 459<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 460<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 461 462 463</div> 464<div class='content work clearfix'> 465<h3><a href="/william_friedman_s_bletchley_park_diary___a_new_source_for_the_history_of_anglo_a_118400.htm">William Friedmanâs Bletchley Park Diary: A New Source for the History of Anglo-American Intelligence Cooperation </a></h3> 466</div> 467</div> 468 469</div> 470<div class='content-wrap'> 471<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 472<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 473 474 475</div> 476<div class='content work clearfix'> 477<h3><a href="/report_on___e_operations_of_the_gc__amp__cs__at__bletchley_park__by_william_f__fr_130407.htm">Report On E Operations of the GC & CS At Bletchley Park, by William F. Friedman</a></h3> 478</div> 479</div> 480 481</div> 482<div class='content-wrap'> 483<div class='content-container-wrapper edit'> 484<div class='move-buttons-wrapper'> 485 486 487</div> 488<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 489<div class='text-wrapper'> 490<p><br><br><br><br></p> 491</div> 492</div> 493</div> 494 495 496</div> 497</div> 498</div> 499 500 501</div> 502</section> 503<aside class='column column-sidebar-02 column-last'> 504<div class='column-sidebar-02__content-wrap'> 505<div class='sb_region small_secondary_before_global'> 506<div class='region-contents'> 507</div> 508</div> 509 510<div class='sb_region small_secondary_global'> 511<div class='region-contents'> 512<div class='content-wrap'> 513<div class='content-container-wrapper'> 514<div class='content selected-works clearfix'> 515<div class='global_content_header_wrapper'> 516<div class='global_content_inner_wrapper'> 517<h3 class='MediumHeader here'><b>Books and Articles</b></h3> 518</div> 519</div> 520<!-- / Handled as per https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/125911081/comments/171467607
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