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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
Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe (born 1966)

journalist

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Shanghai grand
Shanghai Grand
Bottomfeeder
The Devil's Picnic
The end of elsewhere
Sacré blues
Straphanger
Sacre Blues
Lao tao fan jian zou tian ya
Hai xian de mei wei wan ge
Jean-Luc Coatalem
Jean-Luc Coatalem (born 1959)

editing staff, journalist, traveler

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Je suis dans les mers du Sud
Petite Papouasie
Suite indochinoise
Nouilles froides à Pyongyang
Capitaine
Lisières d'un bassin
In Search of Gauguin
Le fils du fakir
Le dernier roi d'Angkor
Zone tropicale
Affaires indigènes
Pingrang leng mian
Concession 126
Le gouverneur d'Antipodia
La consolation des voyages
La part du fils
Il faut se quitter déjà
Fortune de mer
Villa Zaouche
Fièvre jaune
Tout est factice
Mardi à Puerto-Azucar
Mission au Paraguay
Hermann Graml
Hermann Graml (1928-2019)

historian of Modern Age, opinion journalist, historian

  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Tübingen

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Biographisches Lexikon zur Weimarer Republik (German Edition)
Bernhard von Bülow und die deutsche Aussenpolitik
Widerstand im Dritten Reich
Europas Weg in den Krieg
Reichskristallnacht
Antisemitism in the Third Reich
Vorurteil und Rassenhass
Die Stalin-Note vom 10. März 1952
Zwischen Stresemann und Hitler: die Aussenpolitik der Pr asidialkabinette Br uning, Papen und Schleicher
Hitler und England
Europa
Sommer 1939
Aspekte deutscher Aussenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert: Aufsätze Hans Rothfels z. Gedächtnis (German Edition)
Europa zwischen den Kriegen
Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus
Die Märznote von 1952
Die Alliierten und die Teilung Deutschlands
Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Rambouillet, 15. November 1975. Die Globalisierung der Wirtschaft.
Die Revolutionäre Illusion
Bernhard Von Bülow und Die Deutsche Außenpolitik
Oktober - Dezember 1944
Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina (1971-2019)

journalist

  • University of East Anglia, University of Transkei

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One day I will write about this place
Discovering home
Kwani?
Kwani? 02
Beyond the River Yei
Kwani? 1 (Kwani?)
How to write about Africa
How to write about Africa
Muhammad Farid
Muhammad Farid (1868-1919)

politician, journalist

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The memoirs and diaries of Muhammad Farid, an Egyptian nationalist leader (1868-1919)
Awrāq Muḥammad Farīd
Tārīkh al-Dawlah al-ʻAlīyah al-ʻUthmānīyah
Mudhakkirāt Muḥammad Farīd
Kitāb al-Bahjah al-Tawfīqīyah fī tārīkh muʾassis al-ʻāʾilah al-khidīwīyah
Mely Kiyak
Mely Kiyak (born 1976)

opinion journalist, columnist, journalist, essayist, playwright

  • German Institute for Literature

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Zweiheimisch
10 für Deutschland
Briefe an die Nation
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)

poet, journalist

  • Yale University, The Albany Academy

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The lives of Danielle Steel
A book of Americans
Trailblazer
Twenty-Five Short Stories
Stephen Vincent Benét
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
A Subtreasury of American Humor
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
Prentice Hall Literature--Florida--Language and Literacy
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
The United States in Literature
The Rinehart Book of Short Stories
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
John Brown's body
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Prentice Hall Literature -- Grade Ten
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
The United States in Literature
The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II
Western star
Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét on writing
The devil and Daniel Webster
Spanish bayonet
John Brown's Body
Tomorrow's children
Classic American Short Stories. I
Heavens and Earth: A Book of Poems
America
John Brown's body
The devil and Daniel Webster
The ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1871
Young Adventure: A Book of Poems
The last circle
John Brown's body
Ballads and poems, 1915-1930
John Brown's body
Burning city
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 8
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The devil and Daniel Webster and other writings
The Beginning of Wisdom
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The devil & Daniel Webster
The beginning of wisdom
America
Jean Huguenot
By the waters of Babylon
Johnny Pye & the fool-killer
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Young People's Pride
Young People's Pride
John Brown's body
John Brown's body
James Shore's daughter
A Book of Americans
Young People's Pride (A Novel)
John Brown's body
Selected letters
Young adventure
Johnny Pye and the fool-killer
Young Adventure a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benet
John Brown's body
Selected Letters
A summons to the free
A summons to the free
Western star
Selected poetry and prose
Variaciones sobre un tema de Durero
Burning city
Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benet
Thirteen o'clock
Twenty-five short stories by Stephen Vincent Benét
America
Power and the land
John Brown's body
John Brown's body
John Brown's body
Tiger joy
Western star
We stand united
The last circle
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet Vol. II
Young adventure
Spanish bayonet
John Brown's body: a poem
Twenty-five short stories
America
Burning city, new poems
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet Vol I
Burning city
America
The Political and Military History of the Campaign of Waterloo
Nightmare at noon
The last circle
John Brown's body
Tales before midnight
John Brown's body
James Shore's daughter
[A prayer]
Heavens and earth
The magic of poetry and the poet's art
Selected works of Stephen Vincent Benét . Volumn two prose
Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Telo Dzhona Brauna
Zero hour
Historia sucinta de los Estados Unidos
Za zubom k Poli︠u︡ Reviru
Prayer
The ballad of the Duke's mercy
John Brown's body
The devil and Daniel Webster
Listen to the people
My favorite fiction character
The ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1880
Five men and Pompey
Poesʹias escogidas
We stand united
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet Vol I: Poetry
Selected poetry and prose
John Brown's body
The barefoot saint
Benét=dictions from St. Nicholas
From the earth to the moon
Johnny Pye & the Fool-killer
Thirteen o'clock, stories of several worlds
They burned the books
Tales before midnight
James Shore's daughter
Zero hour
Amerika no rekishi
John Brown's body
Twenty-five short stories by Stephen Vincent Benet
The ballad of William Sycamore 1790-1880
The poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét
[Five sketches from the uncompleted torso of a novel]
Prose quartos
A child is born
Our flag
King David
Tuesday, November 5th, 1940
[Western star
John Brown's Body
The devil and Daniel Webster
Jacob and the Indians
The drug-shop, or Endymion in Edmonstoun
The bishop's beggar
Benét=dictions from St. Nicholas, 2.