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21) The invitation
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"Chronicles Taulbert's transformative experience of a supper invit ation to a former plantation house in Allendale, South Carolina, where the successful adult confronts his childhood memories and wrestles with the legacies of slavery and segregation that demand to be acknowledged in his present circumstances"--Amazon.com.
23) Buck: a memoir
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"Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachersoutlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. It's a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem...
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When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of Zora Neale Hurston's books were out of print. Today her groundbreaking works, suffused with the culture and traditions of African-Americans and the poetry of black speech, have won her recognition as one of the most significant African-American writers. This volume, with its companion, Novels & Stories brings together for the first time all of Hurston's best writings in one authoritative set....
28) Maya Angelou
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Discusses the life and work of the well-known writer, entertainer, and political activist, Maya Angelou.
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An unusual and irresistible look at Maya Angelou's life as well as her myriad interests and accomplishments by the people who know her best--her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler. Features over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters.
32) Hoop roots
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The author recalls his experiences playing basketball with whites and African Americans in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, describing how African Americans slowly but surely changed the nature of the sport.
33) Maya Angelou
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Contains essays that provide thematic and structural analyses of some of African-American author Maya Angelou's best-known poems, features a selection of critical extracts, and includes brief biographical information.
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In the early eighties, the peaceful, reclusive life of poet and writer Alice Walker was interrupted by the appearance of three extraordinary gifts: a widely praised best-selling novel (The Color Purple), the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Steven Spielberg to make her novel into a film that would become a major international event. This last gift, which Walker identifies as "the knock at the door," led her into the labyrinth of a never-before-experienced...
38) Can you imagine?
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The author of the Newbery Honor Book, "The Dark Thirty," describes her life, how she became a writer, how her family helps with her writing, and how she gets her ideas.
39) Alice Walker
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Presents a biography of twentieth-century American author Alice Walker, features literary criticism of her work, and includes a chronology of her life, and a bibliography of her writings