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New York Times best-selling author, Stephen Mansfield, traces the fascinating and influential life of Oprah Winfrey, profiling her quest for spiritual enlightenment--a well-publicized journey featuring a caravan of experts, mystics, and gurus--all claiming to have a prescription for inner peace and personal well-being. Mansfield shows how Oprah's story fits into our larger cultural experience and reveals why her spiritual discoveries have resonated...
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English
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"After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in history), launched her own television network, became America's...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Skyhorse Publishing edition
Physical Desc
193 pages : portraits, genelogical tables ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prominent scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces Oprah's roots and shares the lessons of her ancestors. Serving as road map through public documents and online databases, this book also highlights genetic testing resources that can make it possible to know one's ethnic roots in Africa.
6) Oprah!
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
201 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Series
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of how a young Southern girl who was raised on a pig farm became one of the most influential and inspiring people in the world. We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen of Talk" wasn't always so fortunate. She suffered through a rough childhood and went on to use her personal struggles as motivation. Oprah's kindness, resilience, and determination are just some of...
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Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xiv, 234 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, the Oprah Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since its inception in 1996. Virtually everyone seems to have an opinion about this monumental institution with its revolutionary and controversial fusion of the literary, the televisual, and the commercial. This is the first in-depth look at the phenomenon that is the OBC.
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Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book takes a look at the amazing life of Oprah Winfrey, from her youth to her big break in Chicago hosting the Oprah Winfrey Show. The title is complete with photographs from Oprah's youth through today, simple text, and a timeline. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Detailed maps Glossary of key words Index Table of contents This great series continues...
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"This picture book biography focuses on critically acclaimed talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who used her struggles in childhood as motivation to become "Queen of All Media.""--
15) Oprah Winfrey
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Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
54 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Oprah Winfrey, part of the She Persisted chapter book series"--
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