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Angelou, Maya.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.
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: 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: 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 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: 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 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 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.
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: 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