Angelou, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Summary: Following World War II, a black mother contemplates prostitution after unsuccessfully searching for a decent job and a reliable man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1974
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Summary: Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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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."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1970
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Literacy Volunteers of New York City 1989
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Summary: Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Summary: Angelou's poem celebrates the promise of peace in the holiday season. In this simple story, a family joins with their community--rich and poor, black and white, Muslim and Jew--to celebrate the holidays.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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Summary: Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audiobooks 1996
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Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
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Angelou, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Summary: Presents a poem celebrating the wisdom and enduring love of mothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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Summary: Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power do spirituality to move and shape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1997