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Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
Category: Biography Memoir
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. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: it's part guidebook, part memoir, part poetry - and pure delight ...Show more
Letter to My Daughter ??? by ANGELOU Maya
Category: Biography & Memoir
For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. 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. ...Show more
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
Category: Picture Books
iShadows on the wallNoises down the hallLife doesn't frighten me at all" Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem celebrates the courage within each of us, young and old. From the scary thought of panthers in the park to the unsettling scene of a new classroom, fearsome images are summoned and dispelled by th ...Show more
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Sara Jane Boyers
Category: Picture Books
Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn't frighten me at all Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem celebrates the courage within each of us, young and old. From the scary thought of panthers in the park to the unsettling scene of a new classroom, fearsome images are summoned and dispelled by ...Show more
Maya Angelou : The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
Category: Poetry
Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer s remarkable life. Every poetic phrase, every poignant ver ...Show more
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
Category: Poetry
From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of Morning and His Day ...Show more
Maya Angelou: the Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
Category: Poetry
From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of Morning and His Day ...Show more
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
Category: Biography
'In the first decade of the twentiety century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to one of our mos ...Show more
Mom and Me and Mom #6 by Maya Angelou
Category: Biography
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A moving memoir about the legendary author's relationship with her own mother. Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary aut ...Show more
Mom and Me and Mom (#7) by Maya Angelou
Category: Fiction
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.'So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to Maya Angelou, b ...Show more
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me by Dr Maya Angelou
Category: Poetry
Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry collect ...Show more
Penguin Readers - Level 6: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Texts
Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Today Maya Angelou is one of the world's most respected writers and poets. In the 1930s and 1940s she was a poor Black girl growing up in the segregated American South. She suffered prejudice and cruelty from people she trusted as well as at the hand ...Show more