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Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, (Scholastic)
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief biography of Oprah Winfrey, the famous TV personality, and includes information on how she grew up in poverty but later discovered her talent as a reporter and talk show host.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Called the Queen of All Media for her thirty-year career, she has been a television-show host, a movie star, a magazine publisher, and an inspiration to millions. Yet her life was not as glamorous as it appears today.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"On January 1, 2008, a 35-year-old average woman embarked on a year-long journey with Oprah as her guide. Robyn Okrant decided to follow every piece of advice offered in Oprah's show, magazine, and website. Living Oprah is the account of what it's like to 'live Oprah'"--Provided by the publisher.
10) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[1999], c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the performer and talk show host, discussing her childhood of neglect and her rise to the top of the entertainment world.
11) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a speech at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, Oprah Winfrey famously promised young women that "a new day is on the horizon." That sense of determination has helped Winfrey rise to the top of the worlds of entertainment and business, and it's also helped her overcome a painful past to serve as a voice of hope and a force for change. Through detailed text featuring sidebars and eye-catching quote boxes filled with Winfrey's own words, readers discover...
12) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of talk show host Oprah Winfrey, her early years, life in Baltimore and Chicago, the evolution of her television show, and her charity work.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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...
14) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Series
Publisher
Weekly Reader Early Learning Library
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Tells the life story of Oprah Winfrey, describing her difficult youth, her rise to stardom in journalism and television, her acting career, and her humanitarian work.
Publisher
Crystal Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A look at this respected figure, from her broken past to becoming one of the world's most powerful celebrities. Includes interviews with former employers, talk show hosts, and friends on her personal life, relationships, the Angel Network, and more.
17) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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.""--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
20) Oprah
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of Oprah Winfrey, focusing on her confidence, empathy, motivation, and generosity.