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02377aim a2200289 4500 001 66040796F21611E88BBBF62897128E48 003 SILO 005 20181127013003 008 170824s2017|||||||||n||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1538535599 020 $a 9781538535592 040 $d IaSh $d SILO 100 1 $a Wagman-Geller, Marlene. 245 1 $a Still I rise $h [sound recording] : $b the persistence of phenomenal women / $c Marlene Wagman-Geller ; foreword by Laurel Corona. 264 1 $a Coral Gables, Florida : $b Mango Publishing Group, $c [2017] 300 $a 6 discs (7 hrs), digital, 4 3/4 in. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 $a Hell, I'm still here -- The worst of times (1761) -- It is warm (1880) -- The stepping stone (1891) -- Steel gardenia (1895) -- "Where your treasure is..." (1903) -- The black sky (1910) -- This little light of mine (1917) -- Phenomenal woman (1928) -- Dance all night (1928) -- Can we talk? (1933) -- Under the bus (1939) -- No color (1940) -- The female David (1945) -- A miracle worker (1946) -- My mother's daughter (1952) -- My beloved world (1954) -- The force (1956) -- The boomerang (1959) -- The glass castle (1960) -- The light (1965) -- Unbroken (1967) -- Hooah! (1968) -- A butterfly (1981) -- Sin and salvation (1982) -- The best revenge (1989) -- Epilogue. 520 $a Profiles in the courage of great women, Still I Rise tells fresh, engaging, and amazing tales of perseverance and ultimate success with well-researched and riveting biographies from independent scholar and teacher, Marlene Wagman-Geller. It features an array of diverse figures from the first female African American Inaugural poet, Maya Angelou to Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Nellie Sachs to SCOTUS' own Justice Sonia Sotomayor and natural health entrepreneur and Burt's Bee's co-founder Roxanne Quimby, and sheroic Freedom rider Fannie Lou Hamer who marched and fought for civil rights and women's rights despite jailing and crippling beatings. Teller's book is brimming over with women who overcame all odds and prevailed.--from book cover. 541 $d 20180502. 650 4 $a Women $x Biography. 650 4 $a Women $x History. 650 $a Audiobook. 941 $a 1 945 $a cda 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20181127021307.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=66040796F21611E88BBBF62897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search