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Angelou, Maya.Angelou, Maya.
Summary: Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ANGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ANGELOU ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: The celebrated author shares the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, relating the events that prompted her mother to send young Angela to Arkansas to live with her grandmother and the complicated fallout that shaped their family life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ANGELOU ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: For the first time, Maya Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence - a presence absent during much of Angelou's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: Following World War II, a black mother contemplates prostitution after unsuccessfully searching for a decent job and a reliable man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1974