In Alice Walker's second story collection, women stand their ground in the midst of crisis   This collection builds on Alice Walker's earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others-sometimes by those closest to them. But even as the female protagonists face exploitation,...

Discover Colors Level A Reader: PURPLE Beginning readers identify things that are the color purple in this very simple 12-page reader. Sample Text: The flag is purple. This book is the first step for beginning readers in the Discover Colors series and can be paired with the Level B text, I SEE PURPLE.

This all-new, super-sized collection contains top tunes from such recent Broadway hits as The Addams Family, Avenue Q, Billy Elliot, The Color Purple, Grey Gardens, In the Heights, Legally Blonde, The Light in the Piazza, The Little Mermaid, Mamma Mia!, Memphis, 9 to 5, Spamalot, Spring Awakening, Urinetown, Wicked and more! A must for musical fans.

Grapes, plums, jams...some tasty things are the color purple. Readers of this bright volume will discover this fun fact as well as see varying shades of color in common objects from their lives as they turn each page. Recognizable items and comprehensible text make this book a valuable tool for improving reading comprehension and reviewing color concepts.

From author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual. For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple....

Viewers have seen that heroes don't always have to be gods or queens or the social elite. Dirt poor in Georgia in the 1930s, Celie, the heroine from Alice Walker's The Color Purple, is at the bottom of the social totem pole, yet she exhibits remarkable heroism in the way she overcomes the forces pressing against her.

Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.

Alice Walker's The Color Purple was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and is considered one of the most influential works of modern African American fiction. Readers discover the lasting impact of this novel and Walker's other works as they explore this captivating guide to the life of a literary giant. Historical and biographical context is presented through informative main text, engaging sidebars, and design elements that include timelines and primary...

Menno Meyjes (The Color Purple) brings us a film based upon the New York Times, Best Selling Novel by Herman Koch. Serge knows something, otherwise he would not have made reservations in this fancy restaurant. Babette knows something too, otherwise she wouldn't be crying. Hopefully they won't tell Claire, because she doesn't know anything. And Paul...Paul knows everything. They all avoid the subject they actually should be talking about, their children....

The color purple is: the blending of red and blue. Hot and cold. Two energies creating balance and harmony. The sublime and royal color of the crown. A vertex. A window. An opening. A sunset is: where the sun kisses the earth. Where the day and night meet, and the two dance. A moment of unity and understanding. A transition. A nexus. An arrival. Reflecting on various topics like love and relationships, childhood, pain and sorrow, personal growth,...