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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children ta ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
The classic, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel from Alice Walker Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no better than a slave. She is s ...Show more
The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg by Alice Walker
Category: Classic Fiction
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence through a se ...Show more
The Complete Stories by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
A fantastic collection of stories - funny, touching, surprising - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author 'Stories are, after all, like a thumbprint. Unique to the soul and heart they are by creation attached'. Comprising two volumes - In Love and Trouble and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - The Comp ...Show more
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way by Alice Walker
Category: Languages and Reference
The Cushion in the Road is a collection of wide-ranging meditations on the human race's intertwined personal, spiritual and political destinies. It revisits the many themes that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and activist has addressed throughout her career: racism, Africa, solidari ...Show more
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way by Alice Walker
Category: Languages and Reference
The Cushion in the Road is a collection of wide-ranging meditations on the human race's intertwined personal, spiritual and political destinies. It revisits the many themes that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and activist has addressed throughout her career: racism, Africa, solidari ...Show more
The General's Son - Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Alice Walker (Foreword by); Miko Peled
Category: History
A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is mirrored in ...Show more
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple weaves a "glorious and iridescent" tapestry of interrelated lives in this New York Times bestseller (Library Journal). In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing ...Show more
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
From the author of The Color Purple, fiction and autobiography blend in this fabulously rich collection of short stories
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
This collection opens with a passionate account of Alice Walker's early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in racist Mississippi, giving voice to idealism, lost love and hope. Ten further stories expand on these themes.
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems) by Alice Walker
Category: Poetry
In this luminous collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker casts her eye on history, politics and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem and the Dalai Lama, she reminds readers of the urgency of this moment in history and of the human c ...Show more