Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: January 9, 1999 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70539-7 (0-375-70539-2)
From the canefields of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" --Choice.Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from wiley tricksters to the creation of...
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Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: June 16, 2009 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-27107-5 (0-307-27107-2)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: September 1, 1998 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-37972-3 (0-553-37972-0)
Available in paperback, Maya Angelou's most recent book Even the Stars Look Lonesome is a continuation of her celebrated Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now. In this new book, Angelou shares more vital lessons gleaned from intimate personal experiences and reveals insights into a wide variety of subjects. She tells...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: April 21, 2009 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-8030-1 (0-8129-8030-1)
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: April 21, 2009 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-8032-5 (0-8129-8032-8)
In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for...
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Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: April 21, 2009 Price: $6.99 ISBN: 978-0-345-51440-0 (0-345-51440-8)
Selected for Common Reading at Green River Community College (Auburn, WA)
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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: April 21, 2009 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-8002-8 (0-8129-8002-6)
Here is a book as joyous and painful, and 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 first memoir, published in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: October 1, 1991 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-35458-4 (0-553-35458-2)
The best selling author presents a new collection of poems. This volume of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and speaks out about history, heartbreak and love. Here are three volumes of classic Maya Angelou -- including her first poetry collection, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: May 12, 1997 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-37985-3 (0-553-37985-2)
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. Includes the full texts of...
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Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: January 1, 1996 Price: $6.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-25576-8 (0-553-25576-2)
In this moving volume of poetry, Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as she has discovered it in poems such as “Just Give a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie,” “Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well,” “Still I Rise, Shaker,” and “Why Don’t You Sing.”...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: April 21, 2009 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-8031-8 (0-8129-8031-X)
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...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: April 2, 2002 Price: $23.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-50747-2 (0-375-50747-7)
The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work...
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Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: April 1, 2003 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38203-7 (0-553-38203-9)
A Song Flung Up To Heaven is the powerful conclusion to the autobiographical journey that began more than thirty years ago with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Angelou picks up her story in 1964, when she returned from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X—only to learn...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 1, 1996 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-47780-2 (0-385-47780-5)
Six incendiary stories that reflect the rage and frustration—and the determination to survive—of America's disenfranchised inner-city youth
Concrete Candy marks the debut of an astonishing new writer -- notable both for the authenticity and immediacy of his voice and for his age: fifteen. Three years ago, Apollo, a child of the inner...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 17, 1998 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70188-7 (0-375-70188-5)
Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. To his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood, along with an...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 25, 1995 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-76178-5 (0-679-76178-0)
Noted by The New York Times as, "A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest in its throat," James Baldwin's drama takes us into a small Southern town where a white man murders a black man, then throws his body...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 6, 2011 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27596-7 (0-307-27596-5)
The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form.
James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues...
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: August 24, 2010 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-37882-8 (0-307-37882-9)
A revelation of an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form.
James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 13, 2011 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27595-0 (0-307-27595-7)
Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 1, 1992 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74472-6 (0-679-74472-X)
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Delta On Sale: June 13, 2000 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-33458-7 (0-385-33458-3)
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback On Sale: June 13, 2000 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-33457-0 (0-385-33457-5)
Baldwin’s first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic, chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: April 25, 1995 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-76179-2 (0-679-76179-9)
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women of eight short stories grasp the aforesaid truth on an elemental level, and their tales, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 10, 2006 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27593-6 (0-307-27593-0)
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Delta On Sale: June 13, 2000 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-33456-3 (0-385-33456-7)
Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to a church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It On the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni’s Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. “A work of passion... Glimpses of family...
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