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Many of today's last names (including many of the most common last names) derive from the medieval tradition of appending people's trade to their given name (for a fictional example, see Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End"). So let's bring them all together here, those Smiths, Millers, Bakers, Farmers, etc.!
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (World of Beatrix Potter, #6)
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Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
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Das steinerne Herz. Historischer Roman aus dem Jahre 1954 nach Christi
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Prism
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Meridian
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The Voice in the Thunder (Harlequin Romance #1926)
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A Girl of the Limberlost
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Baedeker Spain
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More All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #3)
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An Evil Mind (Robert Hunter, #6)
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Freckles (Limberlost, #1)
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Das Buch der Katastrophen
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Journey to Fulfillment
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The Temple of My Familiar
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Mousekin's Golden House (Mousekin, #1)
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History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c. Volume 1
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A Perry Mason Casebook: The Case Of The Sulky Girl / The Case Of The Careless Kitten / The Case Of The Fiery Fingers
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Treating Health Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Het volk van Abdelkrim: actualiteit en geschiedenis van de Marokkaanse Rif
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Betty Crocker's Cooky Book
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The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
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Josh Dean (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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Seven Complete Perry Mason Novels - The Case Of: The Foot-Loose Doll / The Glamorous Ghost / The Long-Legged Models / The Lucky Loser / The Screaming Woman / The Terrified Typist / The Waylaid Wolf
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She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
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Our Language
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (World of Beatrix Potter, #4)
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The Ice King (Russian, #5)
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| 329 |
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Nennt mich nicht Ismael! (Ishmael, #1)
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3.39 avg rating — 2,883 ratings
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| 329 |
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Hippocrates Cried: The Decline of American Psychiatry
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The Queen's Book of Red Cross
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A.E.W. Mason (contributor)
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Mariner's Compass (Benni Harper, #6)
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Tam Lin
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The Plural Self: Multiplicity in Everyday Life
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John Rowan (Editor)
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Private Collection
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Three by the Sea (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3)
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| 334 |
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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Dean King (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 12,111 ratings
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| 338 |
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A Castle of Bone
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| 338 |
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
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| 338 |
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Jip en Janneke: Vijfde boek (Jip en Janneke #5)
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| 338 |
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George and Martha Tons of Fun (George and Martha, 0)
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| 338 |
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
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Debra Dean (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 18,607 ratings
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| 343 |
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Drachenmeer
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 16,298 ratings
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Jip en Janneke: Derde boek (Jip en Janneke #3)
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Space Case
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History of William the Conqueror
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Elektra: Assassin
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Venus on the Half-Shell
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Therapist in a Box: Emotional Healing (Volume 1, Tapes 1-5)
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Niet met de deuren slaan
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Dog on It (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #1)
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Spencer Quinn (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 25,442 ratings
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
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| 353 |
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The Complete Frank Miller Batman
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| 353 |
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The Summer I Became a Nerd (Nerd, #1)
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Leah Rae Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 10,398 ratings
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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Veertien uilen
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There's Something in My Attic
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The Island
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| 359 |
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The First Assassin
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| 359 |
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First Lady
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| 359 |
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Simpele zielen en nog wat
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One Last Look (Look trilogy, #3)
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Linda Lael Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 983 ratings
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Gone to Texas
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| 364 |
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Die Schattenstadt (Kiki Strike #1)
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Kirsten Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 6,329 ratings
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| 364 |
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Madam President
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| 364 |
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Tussen sawahs en bergen : het leven van de soldaat in de Tijger-brigade
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Hunting Fear (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit, #7; Fear, #1)
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Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry: The Secrets of History's Most Famous Embriodery Hidden in Plain Sight
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Pran of Albania
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| 369 |
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The Last Train Home
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Akbar
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East of Peculiar (Hannah Garvey Mystery, #1)
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The Empire of the Hittites
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
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The Clearing
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Unbreakable
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't Jagthuys
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Never Look Back (Look Trilogy, #2)
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Dr. Wright's Book of Nutritional Therapy: Real-Life Lessons in Medicine without Drugs
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A History of Violence
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| 380 |
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Kiss Me Quick
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A Paralyzing Fear: The Triumph Over Polio In America
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Kruseman's Nieuwe Detective Omnibus; Noodlottig Alibi ~ Het Raadsel van de Molen ~ Het Rembrandt Mysterie
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Short Straw Bride
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I Am England
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Die Verwandlung der Mittelmeerwelt (Fischer Weltgeschichte, #9)
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The Ancestor Game
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Women and Doctors : a physician's explosive account of women's medical treatment, and mistreatment, in America today and what you can do about it
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De zonde in het deftige dorp
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Vanishing Point (Sharon McCone, #23)
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The Shepherd of the Hills
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Byzanz (Fischer Weltgeschichte, #13)
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The Song of Achilles
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Hope Meadows: Real Life Stories of Healing and Caring from an Inspiring Community
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Zeven vertellingen
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Henry Explores the Mountains
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Within The Fetterlock
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Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
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Name All the Animals: A Memoir
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Pallieter ~ Pieter Brueghel, zo heb ik uit uw werken geroken ~ Het kindeken Jezus in Vlaanderen ~ De zeer schone uren van juffrouw Symforosa ~ Naar waar de appelsienen groeien ~ Bij de krabbekoker
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Jul 08, 2010 07:49AM
FOOTNOTE: Sartoris....."taylor" in Latin.
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Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)
Forester, perhaps.
Wagner? Muller? Ferber?
(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)
Wagner? Muller? Ferber?
(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)
Meier (or in last names, any variant spelling) refers to a poulty farmer in German.Wagner => wagonner (a wagon driver). Same in German for a wagon, or rather, cart wheel maker, btw.
Müller = German for miller.
Forster = forester (forest keeper); again, virtually the same in German (Förster).
And, yes, Ferber (or actually, Färber) = German for dyer.
Anyone for French names? (Boulanger? Patissier? Boucher?)
Thanks T.-A. You learn something new every day!
Färber: can't do the umlaut thing on my keyboard... or accents...
Wiki failed me on these!
Färber: can't do the umlaut thing on my keyboard... or accents...
Wiki failed me on these!
Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ...
It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?
Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.
I know there is a way, but I cant remember the stupid code numbers...
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ..."
...so I've got the ones I use most on my Google side bar, so I just have to copy and paste. No umlaut in Italian, however!
I know there is a way, but I cant remember the stupid code numbers...
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ..."
...so I've got the ones I use most on my Google side bar, so I just have to copy and paste. No umlaut in Italian, however!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)"Well, it's kinda grim, but "assassin" is a profession in the story-within-the-story. They are higherlings, and there are several of them, the blind assassins. And, of course, there are many books about professional assassins, more's the pity. Martin Sheen plays a professional assassin in Apocalypse Now, a film I wish was a book so I could make GR questions about it.
No, but other diacritical marks (à etc.) ...
Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?"
Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?"
Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!"
One of my grad school classmates was one Alfred KLEINERKREUTZMAN......What's that about ?
Little cross man??!!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Little cross man??!!"Yes, he said his grandfather would tell the story of how the name came to be, but if Al ever told ME the story, I forgot it. I'm guessing it was the person who was "kleiner", not the cross.
Don't forget 'cooper', 'chandler', 'baker', etc. Any such list could get really unweildy really fast.
Do feel free to add books by Coopers, Chandlers, Bakers, etc. ... the more the merrier, as far as I'm concerned! :)
What's a 'James'? (As in Henry James, #10)'Bakker' is Dutch for baker, by the way. 'Boer' is Dutch for farmer and 'Brouwer' is Dutch for brewer. 'Molenaar' is miller, 'Meester' is (school) master and 'Visser' is fisherman.
'Kuyper' is the old Dutch form of 'Kuiper' - Cooper in English'Craemer' is the old Dutch form of 'Kramer' - Peddler/Pedlar in English
'Coster' is the old Dutch form of 'Koster' - Sacristan in English
'Volder' is Dutch for Fuller
'Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this)
Koenraad wrote: "''Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this).."Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)
Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton.
Hayes wrote: "(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)"The Dutch surname 'Verver'/'Verwer' also means 'dyer'.
Booklovinglady wrote: "Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)"Thanks for the translation - didn't realize it was quite that simple :-)
"Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton."
You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list. Just go to "Add Books To This List" and click on Search where it says "Add books from: My Books or a Search". Then you can look up a title, an ISBN or an author and add books from the results.
Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'.
Koenraad wrote: "Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'."Completely forgot about Felix Timmermans.... I've added an omnibus with his work. Thanks Koenraad.
Added another one too, by the way: Snijders (son of 'Snijder') = cutter
Koenraad wrote: "You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list...."I know I can ;-) but I rarely do. Except for Listopia's used for the seasonal challenges of the Netherlands & Flanders group (in which only titles of books translated into Dutch are mentioned), because if I stuck to the titles on my own shelves for these, I wouldn't have a Listopia to refer to :-)
Hayes wrote: "Wagner? Muller? Ferber...""Wagner" is German and if I remember correctly it has something or other to do with carts/wagons. So maybe someone who makes carts and wagons. I'm sorry, but it is nearly 40 years ago since I took German classes in high school :-)
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