Remember when anything was possible and life was an amazing adventure? What begins as a childish tale is cut short when an old man loses this best friend. Professor Crastinator is a carefree, world-renowned inventor, but without his little dog, Ooyay, he is nothing. Nine year old Lucy Lucey feels responsible for the dog's disappearance. Together, the old man and young girl embark on a journey unlike anything that has ever been seen before. Anywhere. Sometimes we can be too busy to appreciate the most important, simple pleasures. Sometimes we need to make an effort to retrieve what is gone. Sometimes, in that effort, we rediscover far more than we ever knew we had lost. Ooyay. Once you discover, you will be changed.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. This Modern Library edition contains I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven. When I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published to widespread acclaim in 1969, Maya Angelou garnered the attention of an international audience with the triumphs and tragedies of her childhood in the American South. This soul-baring memoir launched a six-book epic spanning the sweep of the author’s incredible life. Now, for the first time, all six celebrated and bestselling autobiographies are available in this handsome one-volume edition. Dedicated fans and newcomers alike can follow the continually absorbing chronicle of Angelou’s life: her formative childhood in Stamps, Arkansas; the birth of her son, Guy, at the end of World War II; her adventures traveling abroad with the famed cast of Porgy and Bess; her experience living in a black expatriate “colony” in Ghana; her intense involvement with the civil rights movement, including her association with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X; and, finally, the beginning of her writing career. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou traces the best and worst of the American experience in an achingly personal way. Angelou has chronicled her remarkable journey and inspired people of every generation and nationality to embrace life with commitment and passion.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
This collection of fiction and poetry, memoirs and autobiography, history and journalism illuminates the African American experience in St. Louis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Meat Cake reissues 1, 2, and 4 Welcome to my victorian dark fantasy fractured fairytale world, where everyone is dressed to the nines, even if they are complete freaky weirdos. Victorians thought it was fun to shock themselves with the new invention, ELECTRICITY! Flying moths! Two headed siamese cats attack siamese twins, and are still able to put money in the bank! Comix that read one way to see the first part of the story, then turn the page over to read the rest. A girl named Richard Dirt (BTW it was a close call that I didn't use this name instead of Dame Darcy as my pen name, what a different world it would be for me now) goin' to the petstore to buy a giant headless breaded scampi selfish shellfish as a pet, and having to train it with a bra during batting practice. Eating lots of cake! A fake preganancy and near death experience! Effluvia the mermaid driving in a car and getting a job at the freak show with Strega Pez the witch that speaks only through pez. Fillies! Ghosts! Invisible avator girl! The days of the week as a poem! Pussy lickin on the bus by a warewolf! Double yolked egg magic! A snail possessed by a parasite! Stained Glass baby made with real baby bones!Did Jesus appear in a pancake or is it Abraham Lincoln?Wax Wolf hides in a snowman to grab girls tits! Spontaneous generation and existence forgets things.Principles of magnetism!Learn CPR! Will O' the Wisp Octopus!
'The best climbing book I've ever read.' Lito Tejada Flores High Ed Drummond is one of the great characters of the British climbing scene. An inspired climber and writer, he made first ascents across the UK and wrote some of the most unusual articles in the mountaineering world. In doing so, he won two Keats prizes, a National Poetry prize and created some of the country's most prized routes. A climbing book like no other, A Dream of White Horses mixes climbing tales with an intense personal story. The first ascent of the Long Hope Route on St John's Head and a solo ascent of El Capitan's Nose sit alongside Drummond's eventful childhood and a string of failed relationships that took him to the edge of despair. Political and social concerns appear as Drummond scales Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in an anti-apartheid protest and the Statue of Liberty in support of civil-rights activists. Told through essays, poems and stories, it is at times exciting, frequently surreal and often deeply personal. First published in 1987, A Dream of White Horses received a mixed reception, reflecting the author's notoriety as a climber. Disregarded by the more conservative publishing and mountaineering establishments, it received rave reviews in the climbing press. Love it or hate it, the book is an undeniably fascinating read. 'The most challenging, disturbing and provocative piece of climbing literature I've ever read ... the consistent brilliance is astounding.' Stuart Pregnall, Climbing magazine
