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Summary: In the third volume of her autobiography, the author recounts her passage into adulthood and the white world, and her initial experiences of marriage, motherhood, and show business.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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Summary: Maya Angelou was a writer, dancer, activist, and actress, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her body of work evokes emotions that range the full spectrum, from joy to heartbreak and from rage to hope. A phenomenal woman, she enriched the world of literature and society as a whole. This essential biography explores her life and creative output and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ANGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ANGELOU ANGSummary: Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAYAngelou, Maya.
Summary: Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audiobooks 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: Recounts Angelou's stay in Ghana, together with other Black Americans, and her discoveries and reflections concerning her ancestors, Africa, American society, and herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor," or simply singing the praises of a meal of red...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5409 ANGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5409 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: This fourth autobiographical work by Maya Angelou tells of her entry into New York's circle of black artists and writers, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and changes in her personal life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio AngelouAngelou, Maya.
Summary: "More than 200 of Dr. Angelou's most pivotal quotes organized in themed sections--from sage advice and beautiful stanzas to humorous quips and pointed observations--drawn from each of her published works and from her social media posts. Also featured are special words of wisdom she shared with her family, handpicked by her son, Guy Johnson"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 ANGGillespie, Marcia.
Summary: An observation of Maya Angelou's life as well as her myriad interests and accomplishments by longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.5409 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: The author describes her odyssey to Ghana in the 1960s, meant as a return to her African roots. Over a few years she transformed herself by learning to speak Fanti, dressing in Ghanian style and delving in politics. But after encountering racial prejudice and losing her son in a car crash, she returned to America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: In a sixth memoir, the author and poet describes her return from Africa to the U.S., her work with the civil rights movement, and the writing of her first autobiographical work, "I know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 ANGSmiley, Tavis
Summary: A notable PBS and Public Radio International host recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou, who took on the role of teacher and maternal figure to him after their initial meeting in 1986, when he was a recent college graduate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIWatson, Renée
Summary: "This unforgettable picture book introduces young readers to the life and work of Maya Angelou, whose words have uplifted and inspired generations of readers. The author of the celebrated autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya was the first Black person and first woman to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration, and her influence echoes through culture and history. She was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: In this straightforward yet prosaically beautiful work, award-winning author Maya Angelou provides heartfelt advice to the masses. While imploring her readers to work hard at living well, she offers real and applicable ways in which to make the world a better place while also cultivating fulfillment within yourself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.5409 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
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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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANGAngelou, Maya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.54 ANGSummary: This program offers the intimate testimonies of eloquent men and women as they discuss their dramatic confrontations with the force of evil-and the discovery that exploring evil leads to revelations about goodness. Among those featured in the broadcast are poet Maya Angelou, who speaks of being raped as a child; scholar Raul Hilberg, who discusses the Holocaust; philosopher Philip Hallie, who...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Madden, Chris Casson.
Summary: Presents the personal spaces of thirty-eight distinctive women, including Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, and Ali MacGraw.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.082 MADHarrison, Vashti
Summary: Features female figures of black history, including pilot Bessie Coleman, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group 2018
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Summary: Learn to sketch and stitch strong, recognizable women from all walks of life. Featuring sketching and illustration instructions, basic stitches, embroidery techniques, and projects with portraits of famous women, this book is a must-have tool for hands-on artists and crafters. The Art Makers series is designed for beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walter Foster Publishing 2021