Audiobooks by Alice Walker

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart Audiobook

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)—reads the English-language editions of the poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Alice Walker shares a timely volume of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she's urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans.

Alice Walker (Author), Alice Walker (Narrator)

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The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus,

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker is known worldwide for her moving literary fiction. In her memoir The Chicken Chronicles, Walker imparts insightful life lessons and wisdom inspired by her experiences with raising chickens. Through the years, her relationship with the creatures strengthened her connection to the natural world-and became a great source of inspiration.

Alice Walker (Author), Alice Walker (Narrator)

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The Color Purple

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.

Alice Walker (Author), Alice Walker (Narrator)

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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart: A Novel

The Pulitzer Prize -winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her ?nest achievements: the story of a womans spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love. Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love. Told with the accessible style and deep feeling that are its authors hallmarks, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is Alice Walkers most surprising achievement. From the Hardcover edition.

Alice Walker (Author), Alfre Woodard (Narrator)

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Activism With Heart And Soul: A Dialogue With Alice Walker, Part 1 Of 2

Part one of two. Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics—poetry and writing, Mexico and The South, family and relationship, Buddhism and spiritual teachers, power and greed, politics and social change, death and transformations, and much more—Walker addresses these challenging times and how to live in balance.

Alice Walker (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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Activism With Heart And Soul: A Dialogue With Alice Walker, Part 2 Of 2

Part two of two. Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics—poetry and writing, Mexico and The South, family and relationship, Buddhism and spiritual teachers, power and greed, politics and social change, death and transformations, and much more—Walker addresses these challenging times and how to live in balance.

Alice Walker (Author), Michael Toms (Narrator)

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Power of Nonviolence, The: Compassion In Action (Part 1)

In part one of 'Peacemaking: The Power of Non-Violence', Nobel Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Stephen Levine, Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn, Bernadine Dohrn and others explore peacemaking as it applies to the individual and the family. We look at the implications of self-inflicted violence and the means by which negative attitudes and habits can effectively be transformed to bring about peace at all levels of society.

Alice Walker, Daniel Goleman, His Holiness The Dalai Lama (Author), Jeff Wessman (Narrator)

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Bringing Spirit Into the World

Something was lost, says Alice Walker, when we took to heart traditional religious stories in which God is separate from nature. And something precious is regained when we honor our intrinsic sense of awe and worship toward nature, and our deep desire for connection with both nature and our human community. Walker calls for more humane motivation in international as well as personal action.

Alice Walker (Author), Justine Willis Toms, Michael Toms (Narrator)

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Words from the Heart

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.

Alice Walker (Author), Justine Willis Toms, Michael Toms (Narrator)

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Looking Deeply

This is a thought-provoking interview with a frank and powerful thinker and writer. Alice Walker reminds us of the importance of invisible forces and connections between worlds that science has not yet acknowledged. She tells how her own life is informed by a host of “ancestors” and characters from her own writing, and how this provides her with strength and a broad perspective on world history and current situations

Alice Walker (Author), Justine Willis Toms, Michael Toms (Narrator)

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