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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Bantam: May 1983

Seller ID: 453764

ISBN: 0553279378

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the "New York Times" bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--that touched her life.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bantam: May 1983

Seller ID: 462719

ISBN: 0553279378

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Gather Together in My Name

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bantam: February 1985

Seller ID: 472667

ISBN: 0553260669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In "Gather Together in My Name" Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life.
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Even the Stars Look Lonesome

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House: August 1997

Seller ID: 473929

ISBN: 0375500316

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The renowned author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman imparts compelling wisdom learned during a remarkable lifetime in Even the Stars Look Lonesome--a glorious continuation of Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now.
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Heart of a Woman

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $4.00

Publisher: April 2015

Seller ID: 477305

ISBN: 0553380095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 408464

ISBN: 081298031X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself and her son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriage to a white man before landing a gig singing in one of the most popular nightclubs on the San Francisco coast. From there, she is called to New York to join the cast of Porgy and Bess. Maya soon finds herself on a joyous and dramatic adventure, touring abroad through Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt with spirited cast ...
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 418636

ISBN: 081298031X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

By: Angelou, Maya

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Publisher: Bantam: October 1994

Seller ID: 428391

ISBN: 0553569074

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic.

This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's latest unforgettable work offers a gem of truth on every page.

Maya Angelou speaks out . . .

On Faith: "I'm taken aba...
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Letter to My Daughter

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $7.50

Publisher: March 2014

Seller ID: 434514

ISBN: 0812980034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at th...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Angelou, Maya

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Publisher: Ballantine Books: April 2009

Seller ID: 441760

ISBN: 0345514408

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother's side in St. L...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: April 2009

Seller ID: 456678

ISBN: 0345514408

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 453330

ISBN: 0812980026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters.

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient gr...
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Heart of a Woman

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $2.50

Publisher: October 2015

Seller ID: 459176

ISBN: 0553246895

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, "The Heart of a Woman," her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew.
Her compassion and commitment lead her to respond to the fiery times by becoming the northern coordinator of Martin Luther King's history-making quest. A tempestuous, earthy woman...
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Letter to My Daughter

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $7.50

Publisher: March 2014

Seller ID: 474505

ISBN: 0812980034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

Phoning Home: Essays

By: Appel, Jacob M.

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 337075

ISBN: 161117371X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays featuring the author's quirky family, his Jewish heritage, and his New York City upbringing. Jacob M. Appel's recollections and insights, informed and filtered by his advanced degrees in medicine, law, and ethics, not only inspire nostalgic feelings but also offer insight into contemporary medical and ethical issues.

At times sardonic and at others self-deprecating, Appel lays bare the most private aspects of his emotional life. "We'd just visited my grandaunt in Miami Beach, the last time we would ever see her....
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Antonin Artaud anthology,

By: Artaud, Antonin

Price: $7.00

Publisher: City Light Books: January 1965

Seller ID: 480265

ISBN: B0006BSTEM

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Artaud Anthology

By: Artaud, Antonin

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 469857

ISBN: 0872860000

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom.

To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval con...
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Best American Essays (Sixth College Edition)

By: Atwan, Robert

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 400273

ISBN: 1439083878

Binding: Trade Paperback

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THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, Sixth College Edition, presents highly regarded contemporary authors at their best. The essays are thematically arranged and selected from the popular trade series of the same name. They also cover common rhetorical modes, including narration and argumentation, providing instructors optimal flexibility with respect to course approach. In the introduction, Robert Atwan offers an overview of various types of essays to prepare students for the readings that follow. To further prepare students, -Essayists on the Essay- offers insightful commentaries about the genre from m...
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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $7.00

Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 217874

ISBN: 0887848109

Binding: Unknown

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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 382411

ISBN: 0307741761

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The author of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake engagingly explores her lifelong relationship to science fiction, both as a reader and as a writer.

At a time when the borders between literary genres are increasingly porous, Margaret Atwood maps the richly fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, slipstream, utopias and dystopias, and fantasy, and muses on their roots in the age-old human impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination with this branch of literature, from her days as a child inventing a race of flyin...
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Category: Essays/Writer Bios