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Author:

Stepanek, Mattie J. T. (Mattie Joseph Thaddeus)

Title:

Reflections of a peacemaker : a portrait through heartsongs / Mattie J.T. Stepanek ; foreword by Oprah Winfrey ; introduced and edited by Jennifer Smith Stepanek.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Andrews McMeel Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvi, 222 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children's writings, American.
Muscular dystrophy--Patients--Poetry.
Poetry.

Other Authors:

Stepanek, Jennifer Smith.

Notes:

Includes index.

Summary:

Mattie J.T. Stepanek lived and died a child, but he had the spirit of a giant. Affected by a rare and fatal neuromuscular disease, Mattie lived almost fourteen years but in that time became a poet, best-selling author, peace activist, and a prominent voice for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Before his death in June 2004, his five volumes of Heartsongs poetry sold more than a million copies. This is the final collection of Heartsongs that Mattie was working on when he died. In these poems he explores disability, despair, and death but also the gifts he finds in nature, prayer, peace, and his belief in something "bigger and better than the here and now."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780740756252
0740756257

LCCN:

2005926073

Locations:

WBPB115 -- Albert City Public Library (Albert City)

CKPA482 -- Amana School-Community Library (Amana) — 811 STE

HMPB845 -- Boyden Public Library (Boyden)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

AJPE887 -- Matilda J. Gibson Memorial Library (Creston)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

NKPD993 -- Eagle Grove Memorial Library (Eagle Grove)

VPPC384 -- Kling Memorial Library (Grundy Center)

FVPB284 -- Hopkinton Public Library (Hopkinton)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

PBPC546 -- Sigourney Public Library (Sigourney)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

CJPC482 -- Williamsburg Public Library (Williamsburg)