Authors: Alice Walker

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

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Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of...
Category: Contemporary
By The Light Of My Father’s Smile

By The Light Of My Father’s Smile

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All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak. I hate to be the one to tell you about the heartbreak you will experience after you die… A family goes to the remote sierras of Mexico...
Category: African American
Meridian

Meridian

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The second novel written by Alice Walker, preceding The Color Purple is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the American South in the 1960s it follows Meridian...
Category: Historical
Once
Once
by Alice Walker

Once

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This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah...
Category: African American
Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy

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Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's...
Category: Action and Adventure
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