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Gather Together in My Name
From the nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright award-winning author Tracy Price-Thompson comes a heartbreaking story of loyalty and love that goes beyond the ultimate sacrifice. Coming of age in the heart of crime-ridden Brooklyn, Shyne Blackwood is one in a set of triplets born into poverty and great tragedy. While his brothers are raised to seek a life of promise, Shyne's path veers early on. A street-seasoned hustler, he becomes known as a liar, a thief, and ultimately, a killer. Personifying many...
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Gather Together in My Name, Maya Angelou
April 09, 2009: Maya Angelou reveals her teenage experiences as a young mother in search of who she is as an individual. She goes from place to place in search of belonging. Maya's journey is intriguing because it's not all rainbows, it's real and tells of real world obstacles. Maya was a spunky, Independant, and courageous girl and her stories will pull you in. Maya writes with so much personality that I really got involved in her story as if I was apart of her life.
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"Gather Together in My Name" continues Maya Angelou's personal story, begun so unforgettably in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place in the world for herself and her child. She goes from job to job-and from man to man. She tries to return home-back to Stamps, Arkansas-but discovers that she...
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Gather Together in My Name
In Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life.
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Nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright award-winning author Price-Thompson offers a heartbreaking story of loyalty and love that goes beyond the ultimate sacrifice.
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Part of the five-volume autobiography of Maya Angelou. She is a young mother in California, unemployed, isolated, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs. She turns to prostitution and the world of narcotics. By the author of "The Heart of a Woman" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
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In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves.
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Nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright award-winning author Price-Thompson offers a heartbreaking story of loyalty and love that goes beyond the ultimate sacrifice. PAPERBACK
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Third printing. Second volume in Angelou's autobiography. 214 pp. Near fine in a good dust jacket (tear to upper edge of dj, sunning to spinej) .ISBN # 0-394-486927
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This second volume in Maya Angelou's autobiography opens in the 1930s, when she is the teenage mother of a 2-month-old son....
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We found 56 used copies, 5 new copies, and 2 collectible copies of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9780394486925)
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Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But the next few years are difficult ones as she tries to find a place in the world for herself and her child. She goes from job to job–and from man to man. She tries to return home–back to Stamps, Arkansas–but discovers that she is...
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In "Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life.
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