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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

politician, comedian, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, professor, essayist, autobiographer, singer, television actor, stage actor, journalist, human rights activist

  • California Labor School

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas
Gather together in my name
Letter to my daughter
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
Gather together in my name
Poems
The heart of a woman
All God's children need traveling shoes
A song flung up to heaven
Mom & me & mom
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
Rainbow in the cloud
All God's children need travelling shoes
Conversations with Maya Angelou
Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado
All God's children need traveling shoes
Selected from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Heart of a Woman (Writers Voices)
The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou
Mom & me & mom
Life doesn't frighten me
Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelo
Elder Grace
Mom and Me and Mom. by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Omnibus
Mom and Me and Mom
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Mom and Me and Mom
Gather Together in My Name
Mom and Me and Mom
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Level 6
Mom & me & mom
Mom and Me and Mom
Letter to My Daughter
Letter to My Daughter
Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver
And Still I Rise
I Shall Not Be Moved
Now Sheba Sings the Song
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
Phenomenal Woman
Prentice Hall Literature
Celebrations
Amazing peace
Amazing peace
Conversations with Maya Angelou
Poems
His Day is Done
Kofi and his magic
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
Renʹee Marie of France
Even the stars look lonesome
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
Bearing witness
The Tragedy of Hamlet with Connections
Angelina of Italy
Quartet of Stories
Mikale of Hawaii
On the Pulse of Morning
Izak of Lapland
Where the Red Fern Grows with Connections
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
Maya Angelou
A well-tempered mind
Mother
Quartet of Poems
Kofi and His Magic
The complete poetry
Shaker, why don't you sing?
Great food, all day long
Still I rise
My painted house, my friendly chicken, and me
Singin and Swingin and Getting Merry Like Ch
Pichón
Maya Angelou Boxed Set
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou Poetry Collection
Shaker, why don't you sing?
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Promo Pack 7 2009
Amistad
The complete collected poems
Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie
Black Pearls
Amistad, A Celebration Of The Film By Steven Spielberg
Gather Together in My Name
The poetry of Maya Angelou
A brave and startling truth
Maya Angelou - The Complete Poetry
Maya Angelou omnibus
Little People, Big Dreams Series 1 & 2
Rainbow in the Cloud
Cedric Of Jamaica (Random House Pictureback Book)
Black Pearls:Poetry of Maya Angelou
On the pulse of morning
Discovering the other America
Stranger Than Fiction
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Singin' and Swingin' and Getting Merry Like Christmas
Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Ik weet waarom gekooide vogels zingen ; Dans om het bestaan ; Zingen en swingen
Amazing Peace
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die
Celebrations
Phenomenal Woman
Ik weet waarom gekooide vogels zingen
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie
Amazing Peace
Kofi and His Magic
Great Food, All Day Long
Rainbow in the Cloud
Great Food All Day Long C
Maya Angelou
Write That Book Already!
A vida não me assusta
Celebrations
The Poetry of Maya Angelou
Now Sheba sings the song
Amazing Peace : Read & Listen Edition
A brave and startling truth
Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
All God?'s Children. Dumpbin Of 36
Even Stars Look Lonesome B D/Bx24
And Still I Rise
Celebrations Book/CD Gift Set
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Bir Kadinin Yüregi
Maya Angelou Airport
Annem ve Ben
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die
Just give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diie
Mother : a cradle to hold me
Gather Together in My Name
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Now Sheba Sings the Song
Great Food, All Day Long
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die
Even Stars Look Lonesome Hb/B X21
The Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Music, deep rivers in my soul
Weekend glory
X36 Dumpbin Wouldn?'t Take Noth
Maya Angelou
Tant Que Je Serai Noire
On the Pulse of Morning
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Mother
Graduation
Rainbow in the Cloud
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Music, deep rivers in my soul
Maya Angelou 4C box set
Wouldn?'t Take Nothing Bc Only
Our grandmothers
Just Give Cool Drink Etc. C/Pack(1
La vie ne me fait pas peur
Mary Ellen Mark
Poems
Angelou on Burns
Maya Angelou?
In Their Own Voices - Volumes Three and Four
Gather Together in My Name(Dumpbi
KIzIma Mektuplar
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Mrs. Flowers
The poetry of Maya Angelou
Celebrations
Kafesteki Kusun Sarkisi
The Heart of a Woman, on the Pulse
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Gather Together in My Name
Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
I Shall Not Be Moved B Bc Only
On the Pulse of Morning
His Day Is Done
Voyage of the Amistad
Complete Collected Poems
Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merr
POESÍA COMPLETA
Benim Adımla Toplanın
Making Magic in the World
Maya Angelou
Live Life with Flair and Laughter
The Maya Angelou Autobiographies
Maya Angelou
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Peguin Readers 6
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Virago is 40
Celebrations
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Mamá y yo y mamá
Een lied aan de hemel
Maya Angelou Deluxe Set (Prem)
The poetry of Maya Angelou
De reis zou licht zijn
Maya Angelou-4 Vol. Boxed Set
Encontraos En Mi Nombre
Maya Angelou Poems Just Give Me a Cool
How Sheba sings her song
Lessons in Living
Malcolm X
Malcolm X (1925-1965)

politician, autobiographer, political activist, human rights activist, Muslim minister

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Autobiografía Malcolm X
The end of white world supremacy
Malcolm A to X
Malcolm X
Words of Ages
Speeches
Malcolm X
Habla Malcolm X
By any means necessary
Nous, les Nègres
Malcolm X Habla a la Juventud
Two speeches by Malcolm X
Afro-American History
The speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard
Malcolm X speaks
February 1965
Two speeches
By any means necessary
Autobiography of Malcolm X (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Two speeches
Le pouvoir noir
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Autobiography of Malcom X (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Malcolm X's By Any Means Necessary
Malcolm X
Biraz Aksiyon; Rahat Durmayacagiz
Autobiografia di Malcolm X
Kardeslige Inaniyorum
Con Ogni Mezzo Necessario. Discorsi e Interviste
Malcolm X speaks out
By Any Means Necessary: Speeches, Interviews and a Letter
Malcolm X Speaks
The diary of Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964
The Ballot or the Bullet
Malcolm X, Derniers Discours
Der schwarze Tribun
Prophetic Voice of Malcolm X
Le Vote Ou Le Fusil. Suivi de Nous Formons Un Seul Et Mme Pays
Malcolm X
The speeches of Malcolm X
Quotations of Malcolm X
Auto Malcolm X Disc Gde
EL VOTO O LA BALA
Köklerimiz
Malcolm X Story
Two speeches by Malcolm X.
By any means necessary
The greatest speeches of all time
Mahpekhah hi kemo śerefah ba-yaʻar
Two speeches
Malcolm X Speeches
Malcolm X
Malcolm X talks to young people
[al-Nuṣūṣ al-muḥarramah wa-nuṣūṣ ukhraʹ]
Ballots or bullets
John Lennon
John Lennon (1940-1980)

record producer, actor, guitarist, film producer, poet, composer, film actor, pianist, singer, painter, film director, public figure, peace activist, political activist, recording artist

  • Liverpool College of Art, Calderstones School

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Lennon remembers
John Lennon in his own words
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon
The Beatles anthology
The Lennon tapes
Last interview
Lennon on Lennon
Imagine John Yoko
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Yellow submarine
Skywriting by word of mouth, and other writings, including The ballad of John and Yoko
All We Are Saying
The John Lennon Letters
John Lennon - Imagine
John Lennon - Imagine
The Lennon companion
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon - Guitar Collection
The Lennon play
Tourism Statistics
Peace at Last
In his own write; & A spaniard in the works
Hospitality management
Great Songs of Lennon and Mccartney
158. The John Lennon Collection
Search for liberation
The John Lennon conversations
Skywriting by Word of Mouth
The Lennon play: In his own write
A Spaniard in the works
John Lennon - Greatest Hits
50 by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Ai
The writings of John Lennon
The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
The John Lennon Collection
Lennon - The Solo Years
John Lennon in his own write
EKM #248 - John Lennon - Imagine
Real love
In His Own Write
Amor verdadero
Power To The People The Hits
The Penguin John Lennon
The lyrics of John Lennon
Society and health in Guyana
Imagine
In his own write ; and A Spaniard in the works
The Great Songs of John Lennon
Cal 96 Artwork
Bag one
Strawberry Fields Forever
Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes
John Ono Lennon
Lennon and Mccartney, Together Alone
Songs of John Lennon
A Hard Day's Night
The lyrics of Lennon & McCartney
En flagrant délire
Sometime in New York City
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles Lyrics
Por Su Propio Cuento Un Espaolito En Obras
John Lennon Piano Solos
Una Mala Faena
Last Lennon Tapes
Double fantasy
John Lennon
Golden Beatles
Lennon & McCartney
Best of the Beatles Greatest Hits
Beatles Anthology
Shaved Fish
The Beatles, 1962-1966
Hey Jude
Imagine
Muntliga röksignaler och andra stycken, däribland Balladen om John och Yoko
Les Beatles, Yoko Ono et moi
Beatlemania
Lennon and Mccartney
Le yoga des Beatles
Jon renon 120 no kotoba
Penny Lane
Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Oh! Darling
Imagine =
"Gimme some truth"
Lennon and McCartney
Zwei Jungfrauen oder wahnsinnig in Da nemark
Real love
Homenaje a John Lennon
Yellow Submarine
Beatles Piano Solos
Imagine
Plastic Ono Band
Heini Gruffudd
Heini Gruffudd (born 1946)

academic, activist

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Persecution The Story Of The Welsh Author Kate Bossegriffiths And Her Family In Germany And Wales During The Second World War
Haven from Hitler, a - a Young Woman's Escape from Nazi Germany to Wales
Beginner's Welsh
Welsh is fun-tastic!
Get by in Welsh
Real Wales
Cymraeg da
Achub Cymru
Welsh-English/English-Welsh dictionary & phrasebook
Welsh is fun!
Gweld yr haul
It's Welsh
Hog dy Fwyell
Street Welsh Phrasebook
Welcome to Welsh
Welsh talk
Cornish Is Fun!
Enwau Cymraeg I Blant / Welsh Names for Children
Cyfle I Siarad
Learn Welsh - Phrasebook and Basic Grammar
Get by in Welsh
The Welsh learner's dictionary
Enwau Cymraeg i blant =
Dechrau cyfieithu
Cerddi Fan Hyn
Camu Ymlaen
Welcome to Welsh
Welsh Names for Children \ Enway Cymraeg i Blant
Welsh Names for Children
Beginner's Welsh
Yn annwyl i mi
CD Welcome to Welsh
Hands-Free Welsh
Talk Welsh
Yr Erlid - Hanes Kate Bosse-Griffiths a'i Theulu Yn Yr Almaen a Chymru Adeg Yr Ail Ryfel Byd
Welsh Personal Names
Golwg Ar Drawsieithu
Yr erlid
Live Welsh - Learn Real, Spoken Welsh!
Gail Levin
Gail Levin (born 1948)

art historian, photographer, curator, academic, essayist, women's rights activist, historian, art theorist, artist, exhibition curator

  • Tufts University, Rutgers University

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Edward Hopper
Becoming Judy Chicago
Lee Krasner
Hopper's places
Synchromism and American color abstraction, 1910-1925
The Poetry of Solitude
Marsden Hartley in Bavaria
Ethics and the visual arts
Silent places
Twentieth-Century American Painting
Alex Katz, process and development
Theresa Bernstein A Century In Art
Aaron Copland's America
The Watercolors of Edward Hopper
The Paintings of Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper. Ein intimes Porträt
Marsden Hartley
Wassily Kandinsky and the American avant-garde, 1912-1950
Die gemalte Wirklichkeit. Edward Hopper und sein Amerika
Edward Hopper as illustrator
Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
Edeward Hopper as Illustrator
EDWARD HOPPER CROWN ART LIB (Crown Art Library)
Edward Hopper, prints and illustrations
Learning Through Songs
Symphonics R Us
Edward Hopper at Kennedy Galleries
Angel Mateo
Chaim Leib Weinberg
Chaim Leib Weinberg (1860-1939)

activist, cigar maker

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Fertsiḳ yor in ḳamf far sotsialer bafrayung
Zygmunt Miłkowski
Zygmunt Miłkowski (1824-1915)

opinion journalist, politician, journalist, activist

  • Richelieu Lyceum, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

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Od kolebki przez życie
O byt
O byt
Od kolebki przez z̊ycie
Dachijszczyzna
Rotułowicze
Pamiętniki starającego się
Uskoki
Za króla Olbrachta
Opowiadanie z wędrówki po koloniach polskich w Ameryce Północnej
Wspomnienia o J.I. Kraszewskim
Listy do Henryka Bukowskiego z lat 1889-1900
Wspomnienia o J.I. Kraszewskim
Niezaradni
Wasyl Hołub
Pamiętniki starającego się
Pamie̜tniki staraja̜cego sie̜
Uskoki
Hryhor Serdeczny
Skarb Narodowy Polski : nieco o Lidze Narodowej
Wybor dzieł T. T. Jeża
Szandor Kowacz
Dyplomacja szlachecka
W zaraniu
Narzeczona Harambaszy
Szander Kowacz
Narzeczona harambaszy
Za gwiazdą przewodnią
Nad rzekami Babilonu
Lusadimin
Ci i Tamci
Drugie Boże przykazanie
Ofiary
Historya o pra-pra-pra ... wnuku i o pra-pra-pra ... dziadku
Jaskółki
Burzliwe dzieje T.T. Jeża
Eliška Krásnohorská
Eliška Krásnohorská (1847-1926)

women's rights activist, librettist, poet, literary critic, translator, editor, teacher, editing staff, critic

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Co přinesla léta
Z mého mládí
Šumavský Robinson
Eliska Krasnohorska - Bedrrich Smetana
Bajky velkých
Z našich Luhů
Kocour v botách a jiné pohádky
Pohádky naší babičky
Jiřinky
Svéhlavička ženuškou
Pěvec volnosti
Ze vzpomínek
Svéhlavička
Z máje žití
Obraz novějšího básnictví českého
Svéhlavička nevěstou
Svéhlavička nevěstou
Zvěsti a báje
Čertova stěna
Ze vzpomínek
Vlašťovičky