Books written by Alice Walker
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel
In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love.
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The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
In this dazzling new collection, Alice Walker offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists.
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A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings
In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life.
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Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
The title of this collection comes from a Native American shaman who, reflecting on the terrible problems brought by white colonizers, nearly forgave them all because with the settlers came horses to the North American Plains.
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Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
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Why War Is Never a Good Idea
Though War is Old It has not Become wise. Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem.
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple gives us her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best...
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Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns.
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The Color Purple
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author.
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The Color Purple: A Novel
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.
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Alice Walker Banned
Introduction by Patricia Holt Throughout her distinguished career, Alice Walker's work has been at the center of controversies around language, censorship, truth and art. Alice Walker Banned explores...
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By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel
Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their magical stories, Walker brilliantly explores the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much prized and necessary original self--and how ...
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
Possessing the Secret of Joy is the 3rd book in the Color Purple Collection, which also includes The Color Purple and The Temple of My Familiar.
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The Color Purple, Alice Walker: Notes
Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches ...
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
This collection of poems reflects on world events. Alice Walker writes about love, friendship, racism, war and nationhood. Written with humour and compassion, these poems offer hope as we live through the new millennium.
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The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
Offers a fascinating view of the way public and private challenges mesh.
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In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
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 ...
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The Complete Stories
Unique to the soul and heart they are by creation attached' Comprising two volumes - In Love and Trouble and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - The Complete Stories is a rich smorgasbord of tales that showcase three decades of the author's ...
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: Stories
"These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce.
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The Complete Stories
A fantastic collection of stories - funny, touching, surprising - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author