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Walker, AliceWalker, Alice
Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALWalker, Alice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WALWalker, Alice
Summary: Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: "For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, ALICE WALWalker, Alice
Summary: "Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALWalker, Alice
Summary: "Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated picture book featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, is a powerful celebration of humanity. The poem addresses a young boy getting his first passport, taking the boy--andthe reader--on a journey through a series of countries around the globe where 'sweet people' can be found"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tra Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALWalker, Alice
Summary: Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: There is a road At the bottom Of my Foot Walking me. In a beautifully poetic and gently provocative text, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker invites readers young and old to see the world -- and our place in it -- through new eyes. Glowing colors and radiant images accompany this joyous celebration of the connections and interconnections between self, Nature, and creativity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WALWalker, Alice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 WALWalker, Alice
Summary: A novel on two black sisters whose father forbids teen sex and when one engages in it gives her a hiding. The novel explores "the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much-prized and necessary original self." By the author of The Color Purple.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, ALICE WALWalker, Alice
Summary: Walker brings a woman's wisdom to bear on love, life's unavoidable tragedies, blacks' struggle for equality and justice, and a world committing eco-suicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WALWalker, Alice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 WALWalker, Alice
Summary: A well-published, numerous-times-divorced woman leaves her lover to embark on a personal journey that begins on the Colorado River and traverses through her past and into her future, while her lover begins his own parallel voyage. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize--winning author weaves a "glorious and iridescent" (Library Journal) tapestry of interrelated lives in this new edition of the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Color Purple. In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WALWalker, Alice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 WALWalker, Alice
Summary: The acclaimed author of The Color Purple presents a provocative story of a young tribal African woman who lives most of her adult life in America. Tashi submits toher people's custom of genital mutilation. Severely traumatize d by the experience, she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying to regain the ability to recognize her own reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: "The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage - a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Alice
Contents: Nineteen fifty-five -- How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy -- Elethia -- The lover -- Petunias - - Coming apart -- Fame -- The abortion -- Porn -- Advancing luna--and Ida B. Wells -- Laurel -- A letter of the times, or, Should this sado-masochism be saved? -- A sudden trip home in the spring -- Source.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: A series of conversations between writer Alice Walker and other literary and cultural figures, including Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, Pema Chodron, and Claudia Tate; arranged chronologically from 1973 through 2009.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 WALSummary: What were Alice Walker's motivations in writing "Everyday Use"? In this program, the author discusses her short story with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White. Over the course of the interview, Walker talks about the autobiographical aspects of the story, the significance of quilting to African-American women, the perception of class differences, and the important life lessons she wished...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Maggie sees the old family quilt-an heirloom already promised to her-as something with practical utility as well as tradition. Her educated, social activist sister wants to hang it on the wall as folk art. With whom will their mother side? A study in class differences and the reclamation of Black history, Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" is beautifully realized in this dramatization.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ColorSummary: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024