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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030747772X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307833275
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.

I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

Author : Mildred R. Mickle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou written by Mildred R. Mickle and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the individual author's entire body of work and on his/her single works of literature.

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307833240
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities.

Caged Bird

Author : Dave Racer
Publisher : Alethos Press
ISBN 13 : 9780970250902
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Caged Bird written by Dave Racer and published by Alethos Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 17, 1983, Brian Fletcher spotted an overturned Peugeot station wagon laying in the Cottonwood River, near the Rocky Ford Bridge. He saw the dead body of Sandra Bird floating face-down in shallow water in front of the car. A single car accident on a deserted road? Or a murder? On November 4, 1983, Marty Anderson lay dead in a ditch alongside Kansas Highway 177, just east of Junction City. He had three bullet holes in his head. His wife Lorna and his four little girls witnessed the execution-style murder. A random robbery? Or a cold-blooded, premeditated murder? Rev. Thomas P. Bird served as Pastor of Faith Lutheran Church in Emporia, Kansas. Bird knew Lorna Anderson as the church secretary, a friend and a battered woman. Sixty men knew Lorna in a different way. Did the promiscuous woman and the church pastor conspire to rid themselves of their spouses and live together? CBS saw this true story as the perfect plot for a soap-opera-like movie, Murder Ordained. The infamous story of Tom Bird and Lorna Anderson aired internationally, but they got it wrong. So did two out of three juries. Thomas P. Bird entered Lansing Correctional Facility on August 30, 1984. He serves a life sentence as a result of the wrongful conviction of a Lyon County, Kansas, jury for the murder of Sandra Stringer Bird. Book jacket.

Pog

Author : Padraig Kenny
Publisher : Chicken House
ISBN 13 : 1912626012
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Pog written by Padraig Kenny and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of a kind. Utterly fantastic.' Eoin Colfer on Tin David and Penny's strange new home is surrounded by forest. It's the childhood home of their mother, who's recently died. But other creatures live here ... magical creatures, like tiny, hairy Pog. He's one of the First Folk, protecting the boundary between the worlds. As the children explore, they discover monsters slipping through from the place on the other side of the cellar door. Meanwhile, David is drawn into the woods by something darker, which insists there's a way he can bring his mother back ...

And Still I Rise

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030780206X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book And Still I Rise written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. Thus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M.F.K. Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”

Lying Awake

Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077753
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lying Awake written by Mark Salzman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.

Mrs. Flowers

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556280092
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Flowers written by Maya Angelou and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through her friendship with Mrs. Flowers, a cultured and gentle Black woman, Marguerite develops self-esteem and an appreciation for great literature.

Troublemakers

Author : Carla Shalaby
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972379
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Troublemakers written by Carla Shalaby and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical educator's paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young "problem children" In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children—Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus—Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem. From Zora's proud individuality to Marcus's open willfulness, from Sean's struggle with authority to Lucas's tenacious imagination, comes profound insight—for educators and parents alike—into how schools engender, exclude, and then try to erase trouble, right along with the young people accused of making it. And although the harsh disciplining of adolescent behavior has been called out as part of a school-to-prison pipeline, the children we meet in these pages demonstrate how a child's path to excessive punishment and exclusion in fact begins at a much younger age. Shalaby's empathetic, discerning, and elegant prose gives us a deeply textured look at what noncompliance signals about the environments we require students to adapt to in our schools. Both urgent and timely, this paradigm-shifting book challenges our typical expectations for young children and with principled affection reveals how these demands—despite good intentions—work to undermine the pursuit of a free and just society.

Maya Angelou's I Know why the Caged Bird Sings

Author : Joanne M. Braxton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195116070
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Maya Angelou's I Know why the Caged Bird Sings written by Joanne M. Braxton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the "mainstream" status of the renaissance in black women's writing. This casebook presents a variety of critical approaches to this classic autobiography, along with an exclusive interview with Angelou conducted specially for this volume and a unique drawing of her childhood surroundings in Stamps, Arkansas, drawn by Angelou herself.

The Heart Of A Woman

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748122362
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Heart Of A Woman written by Maya Angelou and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. The fourth volume of her enthralling autobiography finds Maya Angelou immersed in the world of black writers and artists in Harlem, working in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

Women and the Men

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780688079475
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Men written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Harlem rooftops to the drumbeats of the Congo, the poems in The Women and the Men display in full measure the gifts that have made Nikki Giovanni one of the most important, appealing, and broad-reaching American poets: her warmth, her conciseness, her passion, and her wit. First appearing between 1970 and 1975, the poems in this gemlike volume reflect the drastic change that took place--in both the consciousness of the nation and in the sould of the poet. From "Ego Tripping" to "Poem for Flora" and "Africa," The Women and the Men is replete with the greatest hits of Nikki Giovanni's incredible oeuvre. With reverence to the ordinary and in search of the extraordinary, Nikki Giovanni, above all, displays here her caring for the people, things, and places she has observed and touched and captured. As a witness to three generations, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively and poetically recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self. When her poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960's, she immediately became a celebrated and controversial poet of the era. Written in one of the most commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic lanscape at the end of the twentieth century, Nikki Giovanni's poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which she is beloved and revered.

A Novel Death

Author : Judi Culbertson
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
ISBN 13 : 9780803476639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book A Novel Death written by Judi Culbertson and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other used booksellers, Delhi Laine, proprietor of Secondhand Prose, dreams of making the Great Find if not a Shakespearean Folio, then at least a fragment of an Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allan Poe manuscript. But after receiving a very rare and valuable children's book into her collection, she finds out such treasures can come at a terrible cost the suspicious death of one colleague and another left for dead days later. Her investigation into the true owner of the book reveals that those around her are not what they seem, as she is drawn into a world of deception, backroom dealings, and forgery. Despite the dangers, Delhi is determined to protect the treasure while coping with avaricious booksellers, her estranged famous-poet husband, and whoever is behind the attack who now has her in their sights.

The Caged Bird Finally Sings

Author : Robyne Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Caged Bird Finally Sings written by Robyne Henry and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quickest way to silence a singing bird is to cage it--take away its freedom and control it. Confinement not only hinders their emotional responses, but it also affects their mental health and their relationships. Captivity leaves no room for joy nor freedom.Being in a cage for over two decades, Robyne Henry struggled with trauma from abusive relationships, sexual assault, and her faith in God to heal an incurable STD. Freedom always cost you something, and for Robyne Henry, it was her voice. To retaliate, she sung for every caged bird to hear the sweet song of freedom until their rusted bars collapsed. This book offers you a front row seat to Robyne's journey to freedom. Her pain is one that many are familiar with, but none will tell. So, gather around and hear why The Caged Bird Finally Sings.

Mary, Called Magdalene

Author : Margaret George
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447204751
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Mary, Called Magdalene written by Margaret George and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famously described as the 'Apostle to the Apostles', after her discovery of Jesus' resurrection, Mary has sparked curiosity, controversy and veneration since her name first appeared in the Gospel of Mark. But who was Mary Magdalene? Was she a prostitute, a goddess, a feminist icon, a church leader or all of these things? Using testaments, letters and narrative Margaret George brings to life one of the most mysterious and controversial characters in the bible, creating an epic that is both immediate and moving. 'Margaret George proves herself to be the very best when it comes to historical fiction. Her new novel is a gripping and moving story' Barbara Taylor Bradford

Breaking Ice

Author : Terry McMillan
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140116977
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Ice written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by the critically acclaimed Terry McMillan, the award-winning author of five previous novels and recipient of the Essence Award for Excellence in Literature, this is a striking collection of works from contemporary African-American authors, both established and emerging. This is the first original anthology of African-American writing in over a decade. Featuring works by over fifty African-American writers and a preface by John Edgar Wideman, this amazing anthology showcases some of our best contemporary writers, including: Terry McMillan, Clarence Major, Wanda Coleman, Ntozake Shange, John A. Wiliams, Barbara Summers, Ishmael Reed, and Al Young.