Alice Walker

A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is mirrored in many ways the transformation his father, a much-decorated Israeli general, had undergone three...

This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple is the book that ran me down while I sat with my back to it in a field".--from Walker's new preface.

Offers a bilingual collection of nearly seventy poems that bear witness to troubled times, while also chronicling the author's life, including poems that provide a window into her world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude.

The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.

Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, this feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular.

In this, her first full-length work of autobiography, Alice Walker recounts how fame, illness, controversy and the Pulitzer Prize impacted on her life, her work and her evolution as an artist.

Last published in 1991, a novel about violence within the black community and the need to overcome domination and oppression without damaging others. From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY and TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR.

A collection of poems on such topics as the blight of racism, injustice and hunger, and the simple joys of a lover's warmth and a daughter's homecoming

From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a collection of Alice Walker's essays, memoirs, letters, poems and reflections, which offer an insight into her life and thinking.

Alice Walker sums up the premise and purpose for this year of poems in her Preface: ?I was born into a family of eight siblings. I am the youngest. Five of us have died. I share losses, health concerns, and other challenges common to the human condition, especially in these times of war, poverty, environmental devastation, and greed that is quite beyond the most creative imagination. Sometimes it all feels a bit too much to bear.?I have learned to dance.? Alice Walker is beloved for her ability to speak her own truth in ways that speak for and about countless others. Here she confronts personal and collective challenges in words that dance, sing, and heal. Readers of these remarkable poems will find comfort and camaraderie ? and get a joy-filled dancing lesson.

"A compelling account . . . and a reminder that a true peace can be built only on justice."-Desmond M. Tutu

The second novel written by the bestselling author of THE COLOUR PURPLE.

'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE.

A selection of thirty-seven articles and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer includes reviews of other noted authors, reports on Cuba, the civil rights and peace movements, and autobiographical anecdotes.

This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. ?Brief slashing poems-young and in the sun? (Muriel Rukeyser).

One of the most extensive records of the political climate on a historically black college in 1960s America, Howard Zinn's diary offers an in-depth view. It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn's dismissal from the college in 1963.

In her newest collection of wide-ranging meditations on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, Alice Walker writes that ?we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality if we are truly alive.? For the millions of her devoted fans?and for readers of Walker's bestselling 2006 book We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For in particular?here is a new ?gift of words? (Essence) that invites readers on a journey of political awakening and spiritual insight. The Cushion in the Road revisits themes the Pulitzer Prize?winning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist has addressed throughout her career: racism, Africa, solidarity with the Palestinian people, the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, Cuba, healthcare, and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi. In doing so, Walker explores her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world. Through the evocative image of the meditation cushion in the road, she finds a delicate balance between these two paths and invites her readers to do so, too. Rich with humor, wisdom, and Walker's unique eye for the telling details of human experience and the natural world, The Cushion in the Road shows Walker at the height of her literary powers, reveals the depths of her spiritual and political understandings, and will surely be an inspiration for all.

In this luminous collection of poems, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker casts her eye on history, politics and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem and the Dalai Lama, she reminds readers of the urgency of this moment in history and of the human capacity to come together and take action. Walker imbues her poetry with memorable images, as...