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This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--that touched her life.
11) The yellow house
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"Sarah M. Broom's memoir The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina."--Worldcat.org.
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A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the power of perseverance from Jesmyn Ward.
For Tulane University's 2018 commencement, Jesmyn Ward delivered a stirring speech about the value of hard work and the importance of respect for oneself and others. Speaking about the challenges she and her family overcame, Ward inspired everyone in the audience with her meditation on tenacity in the face of hardship....
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2017]
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xv, 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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"A memoir of Wayne Flynt's friendship with Harper Lee, centered on a collection of letters between Harper Lee, her sisters, ... Wayne Flynt, and his wife"--
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Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou. Tavis Smiley and Maya Angelou met in 1986, when he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often of art, politics, history, music, religion, and race. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley beautifully recounts a friendship filled with conversation that began when he, a recent college...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2022]
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xxxi, 143 pages ; 22 cm
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A unique memoir explores what it feels like to grow up as Black girl in the South navigating a complex interplay of race, class, and gender while trying to find a singular voice as a writer.
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Cinema Libre Studio
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[2018]
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1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Details the biography of Lou Andreas-Salomé, a noted author, philosopher, and psychoanalyst, whose life and career intertwined with such prominent intellectual figures of the 20th century as Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud.
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