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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
Angela Lambert
Angela Lambert (1940-2007)

journalist, biographer

  • University of Oxford, Wispers School

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LOST LIFE OF EVA BRAUN
The Lost Life of Eva Braun
Unquiet souls
1939
A rather English marriage
Love among the single classes
Golden lads and girls
Jobs
Kiss and Kin
1939, the last season of peace
Animals (All Change!) (All Change!)
Party (All Change!) (All Change!)
The property of rain
No Talking After Lights
Food (All Change!) (All Change!)
No Talking After Lights
The constant mistress
Nineteen Hundred Thirty Nine
GOLDEN LADS AND GIRLS
Jobs (All Change!) (All Change!)
Un mariage très anglais
Kiss and Kin
1939 Last Season of Peace
Unquiet souls
Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan (1963-2020)

biographer, faculty member

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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James Baldwin
Black Folk Could Fly
The Fire This Time
A visitation of spirits
Walking on water
LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD
If I Had Two Wings
A time not here
Black Folk Could Fly - Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Let Dead Bury Their Dead B S/Wx12
Racing Home
Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)

essayist, journalist, autobiographer, sociologist, biographer

  • Bard College

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Memoirs of a superfluous man
Mr. Jefferson
A journey into Rabelais's France
Jefferson
Our enemy, the state
The myth of a guilty nation
The state of the union
World scouts
Francis Rabelais
The book of journeyman
Our Enemy, the State
On doing the right thing
The theory of education in the United States
Snoring as a fine art
Jefferson
The disadvantages of being educated and other essays
Thomas Jefferson
Free speech and plain language
Jefferson
On Doing the Right Thing and Other Essays
Cogitations from Albert Jay Nock
World scouts
Our enemy, the state
Journal of forgotten days, May 1934-October 1935
A journal of these days, June 1932-December 1933
Selected Letters of Albert Jay Nock
Henry George
Letters from Albert Jay Nock, 1924-1945
Francis Rabelais
The book of journeyman
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Memoirs of a superfluous man
Selected letters
Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien (born 1947)

autobiographer, rancher

  • University of South Dakota, University of Denver

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Wild Idea
The Olympic dream and spirit
Clearing Hurdles
Wild Idea
Brendan Prairie
Buffalo for the Broken Heart
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
The last supper restoration
The Struggle for Control of Education in Zambia
Tonga grammar
A Critique of Naturalistic Philosophies of Mind
Spirit of the hills
An Irish Play
The rites of autumn
L'esprit des collines
Ireland, Europe, and the world
The disappearance of Daniel Hand
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions
Equinox
Rites of Autumn
Teleology and Modernity
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions
Rites d'automne
House in Scarsdale
The voyage of the carcass
Hume on Testimony
Tonga Grammar Volume 1
Eminent Domain
Fine Meshwork
Great Plains Bison
Our Cancers
Dan o'Brien
Hume on the Self and Personal Identity
Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues
Bloomsbury Companion to Hume
Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
Cherry Sisters Revisited
Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'
Cerulean Dreams
Hume's Critique of Religion
Survivor's Notebook
Indian Agentdelete
My Very Own Picture Book
Advice to the Players
Body of an American
Newtown; Dan O'Brien
War Reporter
Bitten
Contract Surgeon
The Ocean and the Hourglass
True Story
From Scarsdale
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone
Story That Happens
Key West
Westlake
Great Plains Bison
Stolen Horses
Cerulean Dreams
Los Búfalos de Broken Heart
Govardhanram Tripathi
Govardhanram Tripathi (1855-1907)

poet, literary historian, biographer, lawyer, literary critic

  • Elphinstone College

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Govardhanrám Madhavrám Tripáthi's scrap book
Līlāvatī jīvanakalā
Sarasvaticandra
Sarasvatīcandra
Kavi Dayārāmano aksharadeha, athavā, Gūrjarabhāshānā prācīna mahākaviomānnā chellā Mahākavinā hr̥dayanā udgāronā marmabhāganuṃ śodhana
Snehamudrā, athavā, hr̥dayamāṃ mudrāṅkita thatā snehanī chāyā
The classical poets of Gujarat and their influence on society and morals
Sarasvaṭīcandra
Kshemarāja ane Sādhvī
Śrīmatī Satī-Cunī
Sarasvatichandra
Sva. sākshara Navalarāma Lakshmirāmanuṃ jīvanar̥ttānta
Govardhanarāma gadyasañcaya
Sāksharajīvana
Sarasvatīcandra
Hermann Stehr
Hermann Stehr (1864-1940)

poet, autobiographer

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Mein Leben
Der Schatten
Der Schindelmacher
Schlesien
Damian
Meister Cajetan
Die Krähen
Hermann und Hedwig Stehr im Briefwechsel mit Gerhart und Margarete Hauptmann
Zwiesprach über den Zeiten
Der heiligenhof, roman ..
Der begrabene Gott, Roman
Der Geigenmacher
Leonore Griebel
Der Mittelgarten
Das Haus zu den Wasserjungfern
Nathanael Maechler
Drei Nächte
Der Heiligenhof
Der Schindelmacher
Mythen und Mären
An der tür des jenseits
Das abendrot, novellen
Das Hermann Stehr-buch
Meister Cajetan, [and] Der Himmelschlüssel
Von mensch und Gott
Das Stundenglas
Droben Gnade, drunten Recht
Meister Cajetan, novelle
Hermann Stehr und Marie Oehlke
Das Märchen vom deutschen Herzen
Wander zur Höhe
Geschichten aus dem Mandelhause
Das Mandelhaus
Die Nachkommen
Gudnatz
Der begrabene Gott
Vom Geheimnis des Jensits im Diesseits
Der geigenmacher, eine geschichte
Vom Geheimnis des Jenseits im Diesseits
Aufleben und tod, erzählungen
Lebensbuch
Peter Brindeisener
Der Mittelgarten
Wege zu Hermann Stehr
Der Graveur
Vom Geheimnis des Jenseits im Diesseits
Der begrabene Gott
Leonore Griebel
Gesammelte Werke
Deutsches schrifttum
Geschichten aus dem Mandelhause
Meta Konegen
Das Abendrot
Der geigenmacher, eine geschichte
Die Krähen
Auf Leben und. Tod
Zweisprache über den zeiten
Damian; oder, Das grosse Schermesser
Die Nachkommen
Stuart Cloete
Stuart Cloete (1897-1976)

essayist, autobiographer, biographer

  • Royal Military College, Sandhurst

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A Victorian son
The gambler: an autobiography volume 2, 1920-1939
A Victorian son: an autobiography, 1897-1922
Rags of glory
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Spring 1953 Selections
The fiercest heart
Congo Song
How young they die
Canary pie
The fiercest heart
Yesterday Is Dead
Gazella
The company with the heart of gold, and other stories
More nights of Jean Macaque
Gazella
The African giant
Three white swans, and other stories
The turning wheels
Against these three
The African giant
The hill of doves
The Honey Bird
Storm over Africa
Turning wheels
Rags of glory
The third way
Mamba
South Africa
Watch for the dawn
South Africa; key to a continent
The mask
The Curve and the Tusk
The company with the heart of gold, and other stories
Three white swans
West with the sun
Canary pie
How young they died
The Curve And The Tusk
The hill of doves
African portraits
The honey bird, and other African stories
The silver trumpet, and other African stories
Gazella
More nights of Jean Macaque
Watch for the dawn
Three White Swans
The writing on the wall
How young they died
Christmas in Matabeleland
The curve and the tusk
Congo song
Three white swans
The soldiers' peaches & other African stories
CHETOKO - And Other African Stories
Ofanayim ʻale derekh
The thousand and one nights of Jean Macaque
The gambler
West with the sun
The honey bird, and other African stories
The mask
One thousand and one nights with Jean Macaque
The silver trumpet, and other African stories
South Africa
Thea bductors
The abductors
Land of the Eagle and Other African Stories
The soldiers' peaches, and other African stories
The abductors
Vierivat vankkurit
The looking glass, and other African stories
The third way
The young men and the old
Rags of glory
The abductors
The honey bird
The writing on the wall and other African stories
Christmas in Matabeland
Mamba
Our own stories