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Maya Angelou
Letter to My Daughter
by Random House (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-23)

For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, ...

Dr. Seuss
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Dr.Seuss Board Books)
by Picture Lions (Board book)

J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
by Listening Library (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 2000-07-08)

John C. Kirkland
Love Letters of Great Men
by CreateSpace (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-05-12)

When words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoléon, who wrote to his beloved Joséphine, 'I awake consumed with thoughts of you...' Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, 'Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved...' Dozens of intimate letters, coupled with over a score of period illustrations. Plus fascinating biographies, and insights into the couples' relationships-how they got there, the obstacles they faced, and what happened next. Poet warriors, from the first through the twentieth century, including: Ovid, Sir Walter Raleigh, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Shelley, Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Pierre Curie, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, Admiral Peary, Woodrow Wilson, and ...

Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-10-28)

Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that “you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.” The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling “picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,” and she once begged him, “Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I’ve been re-reading Emerson) for several days.” Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell’s death in 1977. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of ...

Dr. Seuss
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss)
by Random House Books for Young Readers (Library Binding) (Release Date: 1990-02-10)

C. S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters
by Audio Literature (Audio Cassette)

Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
by Laurier Books Ltd. /AES (Paperback)

Fox in Socks (Dr Seuss Green Back Books)
by Picture Lions (Paperback)

William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
by Caedmon (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 1995-11-28)

"Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more!"Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries.

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