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Brilliance Audio on compact discSummary: 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAYAngelou, Maya
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANGELOU, MAYA 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 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
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5409 ANGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5409 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.5409 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.54 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