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John Brown most often refers to: John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859John Brown or Johnny Brown may also refer to: Academia John Brown (educator) (1763–1842), Irish educator; third president of the University of Georgia John Carter Brown (1797–1874), American book collector and antiquarian John Macmillan Brown (1845–1935), Scottish-New Zealand academic, administrator and promoter of education for women John Nicholas Brown I (1861–1900), American book collector and antiquarian John Lott Brown (1924–2011), American university administrator and professor John H. Brown (scholar) (born 1948), American scholar of public diplomacyArts and entertainment Literature John Brown (historian) (died c. 1826 or 1829), English miscellaneous writer John Mason Brown (1900–1969), American literary critic Sir John Gilbert Newton Brown (1916–2003), English book publisher John Gregory Brown (born 1960), American novelist John Brown (American author) (born 1966), American novelist and short story writerPerforming arts John Browne (composer), (1453–c. 1500), composer John Brown (actor) (1904–1957), English radio and film actor Johnny Mack Brown (1904–1974), American film actor and college football player Johnny Brown (actor) (1937–2022), American actor and singer John Moulder-Brown (born 1953), English actor John W. Brown (set decorator) (fl. 1960s–1970s)Visual arts John Brown (artist) (1752–1787), Scottish artist John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), Scottish landscape painter John Lewis Brown (1829–1892), French battle, animal, and genre painter John George Brown (1831–1913), English-born American painter John William Brown (artist) (1842–1928), English painter and stained-glass designer John Appleton Brown (1844–1902), American painter John Arnesby Brown (1866–1955), English landscape artistBusiness and industry John Brown (1723–1808), Scottish-Danish merchant and shipowner John Brown (brewer) (1795–1890), English brewer John Brown (builder) (1809–1876), Canadian builder John Brown (coalmine owner) (1850–1930), coal baron and shipowner in New South Wales, Australia Sir John Brown (industrialist) (1816–1896), British industrialist; founder of the Atlas steelworks John Crosby Brown (1838–1909), American banker; partner in Brown Bros. & Co. John W. Brown (labor leader) (1867–1941), Canadian-born labor leader in the United States John Brown (trade unionist) (1880/81–1961), British trade union leader and local councilor John W. Brown (British trade unionist) (1886–?), British activist, general secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions John Seely Brown (born 1940), American researcher in organizational studies John W. Brown (corporate executive) (fl. 1980s–2010s), American executive; president of Stryker CorporationMilitary John Brown (British Army officer, died 1762), British Army general John Brown (British Army soldier) (1908–1965), Royal Artillery quartermaster sergeant and espionage agent John Brown of Pittsfield (1744–1780), American Revolutionary War officer John Brown (sailor) (1826–1883), American sailor and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient John Harties Brown (1834–1905), Canadian soldier who fought in the American Civil War John Brown (Medal of Honor) (1838–?), American sailor and peacetime Medal of Honor recipient John H. Brown (Medal of Honor) (1842–1898), American soldier and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient John H. Brown Jr. (1891–1963), United States Navy admiral and American football player John Nicholas Brown II (1900–1979), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Brown Jr. (Navajo code talker) (1921–2009), American Navajo code talker during World War II John M. Brown III (fl. 1960s–2000s), United States Army general John S. Brown (general) (fl. 1970s–2000s), United States Army brigadier general; Chief Historian of the United States Army Center of Military History John Marshall Brown (1838–1907), American commissioned officer during the American Civil WarPolitics and law Australia John Brown (New South Wales politician) (1821–1896), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly John Alexander Voules Brown (1852–1945), member of the South Australian House of Assembly John Brown (Queensland politician) (1881–1949), blacksmith and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly John Brown (Tasmanian politician) (1886–1974), member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly John Brown (Australian politician) (born 1931), member of the Australian House of RepresentativesCanada John Brown (Upper Canada politician) (1791–1842), Irish-born Canadian politician John Lothrop Brown (1815–1887), Canadian political figure in Nova Scotia John Brown (Richmond Hill politician) (fl. 1870s–1880s), Canadian politician John Brown (Canadian politician) (1841–1905), member of Parliament John Cameron Brown (1843–?), Canadian political figure in New Brunswick John Cunningham Brown (1844–1929), Irish-born political figure in British Columbia John Brown (Ontario MPP) (1849–1924), member of Ontario assembly and mayor of Stratford, Ontario John Robert Brown (British Columbia politician) (1862–1947), Canadian politician John Livingstone Brown (1867–1953), Canadian politician John G. Brown (1900–1958), Ontario politician John L. Brown (Ontario politician) (1921–2004), Canadian politicianUnited Kingdom John Brown (Wales MP) (died c. 1654) Sir John McLeavy Brown (1835–1926), British lawyer and diplomat John Wesley Brown (1873–1944), British MP for Middlesbrough EastUnited States Kentucky John Brown (Kentucky politician, born 1757) (1757–1837), U.S. representative and U.S. senator; member of Continental Congress from Virginia John Y. Brown (politician, born 1835) (1835–1904), Kentucky governor, U.S. representative for Kentucky John Y. Brown Sr. (1900–1985), U.S. representative for Kentucky John Y. Brown Jr. (1933–2022), Kentucky governor John Young Brown III (born 1963), Kentucky Secretary of StateOther U.S. states John Brown (Rhode Island politician) (1736–1803), U.S. representative, co-founder of Brown University John Brown (North Carolina politician) (1738–1812), pioneer and statesman John Brown (Maryland politician) (1760–1815), U.S. representative John Brown (Pennsylvania politician) (1772–1845), U.S. representative Red Brown (politician) (1786–1852), Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives John W. Brown (New York politician) (1796–1875), U.S. representative John Brown (Cherokee chief) (fl. 1830s) John S. Brown (Michigan politician) (born c. 1810), Michigan state representative John Brown (mountain man) (1817–1889), fur trapper and trader around Pueblo, Colorado from 1841 to 1849 John Henry Brown (1820–1895), Texas politician, chaired Texas articles of Secession John C. Brown (1827–1889), Confederate general, Tennessee governor John S. Brown (Maryland politician), American politician John B. Brown (1836–1898), U.S. representative for Maryland John Robert Brown (Virginia politician) (1842–1927), U.S. represe.... Discover the John Brown popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Brown books.

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  • Primary Accounts of John Brown synopsis, comments

    Primary Accounts of John Brown

    John Brown

    John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) holds a unique place in American history, often viewed as a force for good and an evil man at the same time. Brown was a revolution...

  • The Last Frontier synopsis, comments

    The Last Frontier

    Alistair Maclean

    An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaimed master of action and su...

  • The Fifth Gospel synopsis, comments

    The Fifth Gospel

    Ian Caldwell

    The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of the international sensation The Rule of Four combines a lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope’s final wish int...

  • A Brit on the Side synopsis, comments

    A Brit on the Side

    Brenda St John Brown

    How do you tell your best friend you had the best sex of your life with her brother in short term parking? Short answer you don't. I probably should have declined my bestie's...

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    Empire of the Summer Moon

    S. C. Gwynne

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book AwardThis New York Tim...

  • The Last Second synopsis, comments

    The Last Second

    Catherine Coulter

    The New York Times bestselling Brit in the FBI series continues with this thrilling “popcorn movie in print form” (Associated Press) pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Mi...

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    HMS Ulysses

    Alistair Maclean

    The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II.Co...

  • Bound for the Promised Land synopsis, comments

    Bound for the Promised Land

    Kate Clifford Larson

    The essential, “richly researched” biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all...

  • Ice Station Zebra synopsis, comments

    Ice Station Zebra

    Alistair Maclean

    A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and som...

  • Seven Truths for a New Age synopsis, comments

    Seven Truths for a New Age

    Lawrence John Brown

    If I could speak before the UN, I’d say: 1. No one can own our Mother Earth. 2. God is present in the world and there is no evil. 3. All things are conscious and are created with r...

  • Valley of the Shadow synopsis, comments

    Valley of the Shadow

    Ralph Peters

    Winner of the 2015 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military FictionIn the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.From a daring Confederate raid that nearly sei...

  • John Brown synopsis, comments

    John Brown

    W.E.B. Du Bois & David R. Roediger

    A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important AfricanAmerican intellectuals of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and it...

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    John Brown

    Frederick Douglass

    John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United...

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    John Brown

    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Few figures are more seminal in the abolitionist movement in America than John Brown. His firebrand approach to the movement arose out of his religiously inspired and deepseated be...

  • Not a Game synopsis, comments

    Not a Game

    Kent Babb

    Shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing“A searingly honest and intimate portrait of a captivating icon.” Baxter Holmes, ESPN NBA reporterThrough extensive re...

  • Where Eagles Dare synopsis, comments

    Where Eagles Dare

    Alistair Maclean

    The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortres...

  • Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers synopsis, comments

    Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

    John Gierach

    Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of “legions...

  • Leadership 101 synopsis, comments

    Leadership 101

    John C. Maxwell

    Unleash your leadership potential with this needtoknow guide, direct from the playbooks of America's most trusted leadership expert, John C. Maxwell.No matter who you are, you can ...

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    John Brown

    Frederick Douglass

    John Brown Frederick Douglass, africanamerican social reformer, orator, writer and statesman (18181895) This ebook presents John Brown, from Frederick Douglass. A dynamic table of ...

  • MatchUp synopsis, comments

    MatchUp

    Lee Child

    This “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twentytwo internation...

  • A Plea for Captain John Brown synopsis, comments

    A Plea for Captain John Brown

    Henry David Thoreau

    It is an essay. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, a...

  • Playing for Pizza synopsis, comments

    Playing for Pizza

    John Grisham

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL, thirdstring quarterback Rick Dockery becomes a national laugh...

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    The Dark Crusader

    Alistair Maclean

    A classic tale of espionage, secret missions and exotic locations which outBonds Bond, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Eight job advertisements.Eight jobs. Eight s...

  • Midnight Rising synopsis, comments

    Midnight Rising

    Tony Horwitz

    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying ...

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    Insidious

    Catherine Coulter

    In this thrilling entry in #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter’s FBI series, FBI agents Savich and Sherlock must discover who is trying to murder Venus Rasmussen...

  • The Courage to Be Disliked synopsis, comments

    The Courage to Be Disliked

    Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

    “Marie Kondo, but for your brain.” HelloGiggles “Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend.” Marc AndreessenReading this book could change your life.The Courage to Be Dislike...

  • Without Fear or Favor synopsis, comments

    Without Fear or Favor

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    The “best fictional prosecuting attorney in literature” (Mark Lane, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Butch Karp returns in this whiteknuckled and timely thriller about a radic...

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    On Fire

    John O'Leary

    In the bestselling tradition of Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly and Nick Vujicic’s Life Without Limits comes a rousing 7step plan for living a life on fire, filled with hope and possi...

  • The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper synopsis, comments

    The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper

    John D. MacDonald & Lee Child

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hardboiled detective who lives on a houseboat....

  • Frederick Douglass synopsis, comments

    Frederick Douglass

    David W. Blight

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important AfricanAmerican of the nineteenth century: Frederick Dougla...

  • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows synopsis, comments

    The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

    John Koenig

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ The Wa...

  • Bride and Tested synopsis, comments

    Bride and Tested

    Brenda St John Brown

    Exes running a wedding business? What can go wrong?EVIEHaving inappropriate dreams about my exhusband is problematic. The fact that he's applied to be the business partner in my we...

  • The Sixth Day synopsis, comments

    The Sixth Day

    Catherine Coulter

    Special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine take on a criminal mastermind in the next captivating thriller in the New York Times bestselling A Brit in the FBI series. “Coul...

  • Four Friends synopsis, comments

    Four Friends

    William D. Cohan

    A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate, New York Times bestsellin...

  • John Brown synopsis, comments

    John Brown

    Robert Penn Warren

    Portrait of the tormented liberator by America's first poet laureate.

  • The Guns of Navarone synopsis, comments

    The Guns of Navarone

    Alistair Maclean

    The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.The guns of Navarone, huge and catastrophically accurate, embedded atop an impregnable iron fortr...

  • John Brown synopsis, comments

    John Brown

    R. W. Campbell

    Published in 1919, this promilitary tale tells the story of a new Army cadet, highlighting the challenges and rewards of attending cadet school and preparing for service in Europe ...

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    John Brown

    Raymond Lamont Brown

    A century after Queen Victoria's death, debate still rages surrounding her relationship with her gillie, John Brown. Were they ever married? What was the extraordinary hold he had ...

  • The Blind Date Diaries synopsis, comments

    The Blind Date Diaries

    Brenda St John Brown

    A standalone enemies to lovers romantic comedyDating? Lower than a bikini wax on my list of priorities.Blind dating? Let's just say I'd rather have a Brazilian and not t...

  • Justice Corrupted synopsis, comments

    Justice Corrupted

    Ted Cruz

    . . . with liberty and justice for some. The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, ...