The Heart of a Woman
10 best books like The Heart of a Woman (Maya Angelou): White Oleander, Breath, Eyes, Memory, Paradise, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Family, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, The Rapture of Canaan, Mother of Pearl
| Author | Janet Fitch |
| ISBN | 0316182540 |
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its...
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452280397 |
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0671789457 |
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 knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised)....
| Author | J. California Cooper |
| ISBN | 0385411723 |
"History. Lived, not written, is such a thing not to understand always, but to marvel over. Time is so forever that life has many instances when you can say 'Once upon a time' thousands of times in one life."
From the first line of this book, one that I read and read and read again, I was impressed....
Acclaimed Playwright, essayist and columnist Pearl Cleage breaks new ground in African American women's literature--with a debut novel that sings and crackles with life-affirming energy as it moves the reader to laughter and tears.
As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson...
| Author | Charisse Jones |
| ISBN | 0060090553 |
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or...
| Author | Bebe Moore Campbell |
| ISBN | 0345401123 |
Now, in her first novel, repercussions are felt for decades in a dozen lives after a racist beating turns to cold-blooded murder in a small 1950s Mississippi town.
Chicago-born Amrstrong Tood is fifteen, black, and unused to the ways of the segregated Deep South, when his mother sends him to...
| Author | Sheri Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0425162443 |
Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned...
| Author | Melinda Haynes |
| ISBN | 0671774670 |
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. Mother of Pearl revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew...
| Author | A. Manette Ansay |
| ISBN | 0060897848 |
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field,...
| Author | Kaye Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0375703063 |
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked...
| Author | Breena Clarke |
| ISBN | 0316899984 |
The acclaimed bestseller--a selection of Oprah's Book Club--that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.
River, Cross My Heart marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller...
| Author | Mary McGarry Morris |
| ISBN | 0140244824 |
Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen...
| Author | Sidney Poitier |
| ISBN | 0061357901 |
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Here, Sidney...
| Author | Bill Cosby |
| ISBN | 0590956175 |
[Scholastic Readers Level 3]
This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!
Little Bill and his friends LOVE the TV show Space Explorers. And so when the new Space Explorers video game comes out, they each want a copy.
But...
| Author | Sarah L. Delany |
| ISBN | 0062514865 |
"On My Own at 107" is Sarah "Sadie" Delaney's tribute to Bessie, her beloved younger sister and century-long companion, who died on September 25, 1995, at age 104. Just four years earlier, Bessie and Sadie, along with former "New York Times" reporter Amy Hill Hearth, co-wrote the bestselling "Having...
| Author | Rebecca Walker |
| ISBN | 1594489432 |
From the bestselling author whom Time magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty.
Like many women her age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical...
I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
| Author | Brian Lanker |
| ISBN | 1556709749 |
A biographical collection of portraits celebrating Black Women who shaped America, strove for their dreams, and refused to toe the line in the face of adversity and discrimination. Their faces, and their words share with us a wisdom of life thoroughly lived. Their stories give us all a glimpse of the...
