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The Temple of My Familiar
by Alice Walker
A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great... (learn more about this book)
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In Love & Trouble
Stories of Black Women
by Alice Walker
Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker’s power to depict black women—women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together by what they share in common.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South. (learn more about this book)
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"Everyday Use"
by Alice Walker
Alice Walker's early story "Everyday Use" has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we defined art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting... (learn more about this book)
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Light in a Time of Darkness
by Alice Walker
A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner—a woman who has devoted her life to befriending the earth. From the Introduction: "In fact, the happiness that imbues this kind of (impersonal) friendship,... (learn more about this book)
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Living by the Word
by Alice Walker
This latest collection of Walker's essays interspersed with journal entries is the most deeply spiritual of her works thus far. Here are her meditations on matters both planetary and personal--a powerful collection sure to please readers of her previous masterpieces. (learn more about this book)
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CliffsNotes on Walker's The Color Purple
by Gloria Rose
A beautiful, difficult, and moving story about a shy and abused Southern black woman's struggle to create an identity, a feeling of self-worth, and love. (learn more about this book)
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know
Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
by Alice Walker
This anthology represents Alice Walker’s complete earlier poetry, from the summer of 1965 when she traveled to East Africa and began the poems that would form her first collection, through her poetry of the civil rights movement and beyond. Revelatory introductions to each group of poems provide... (learn more about this book)
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
by Alice Walker
Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As... (learn more about this book)
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Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
by Alice Walker
Alice Walker uses political commentary, poetry, and hard-won wisdom to look at what it means to be a human being in violent times. (learn more about this book)
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