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    Words from the Heart
    Words from the Heart
    Words from the Heart
    Audiobook1 hour

    Words from the Heart

    Written by Alice Walker

    Narrated by Justine Willis Toms and Michael Toms

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    About this audiobook

    Bold and gifted as a speaker, poet and writer, Alice Walker offers colorful words of wisdom to a world in need of them. She urges us to question the assumptions and forces that guide our personal decisions, and reminds us of the power and necessity of dreams, visions and storytelling to keep our perspective.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Dimensions Foundation
    Release dateApr 27, 1992
    ISBN9780781308571
    Words from the Heart
    Author

    Alice Walker

    Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, five children’s books, and several volumes of essays and poetry. She has received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award, and has been honored with the O. Henry Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and received the Lennon Ono Peace Award. Her work has been published in forty languages worldwide.

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