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020			_a978-0-7407-5625-2
082			_22005 _aDC 811.5422 _bSt3r
100			_921327 _aStepanek, Mattie J. T.
245			_aReflections of a peacemaker : _ba portrait through heartsongs / _cMattie J.T. Stepanek ; foreword by Oprah Winfrey ; introduced and edited by Jennifer Smith Stepanek
250			_a1st ed
260			_aKansas City, Mo. : _bAndrews McMeel Pub., _cc2005.
300			_axvi, 222 pages : _bcolor illustrations ; _c24 cm
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_aMosaic Heartsongs 1 -- Early Heartsongs 31 -- Festive Heartsongs 59 -- Stormy Heartsongs 83 -- Playful Heartsongs 109 -- Sacred Heartsongs 131 -- Tao de Heartsongs 155 -- Final Heartsongs 183 -- Epilogue: Eyes 207
520			_aMattie 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
650		0	_921328 _aChildren's writings, American
650		0	_921329 _aMuscular dystrophy -- Patients -- Poetry
700			_921330 _aStepanek, Jennifer Smith
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