Author: Ann Chamberlin
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: sofia
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-12-21
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0595302785
ISBN-13: 9780595302789
Sofia caused a sensation in Turkey where it spent over six months on the bestsellers list. Real historical figures come to life in the exotic sixteenth-century Ottoman world of intrigue and opulence that Turks call The Reign of the Favored Women: An ambitious young noblewoman from Venice, captured by corsairs and sold into the Sultan’s harem, vows her future will hold more than sexual slavery. And the young man who sets out to rescue her is asked to pay a price higher than any man can afford.
Author: Sofia Quintero
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: secret, efrain
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-04-13
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0375847065
ISBN-13: 9780375847066
Ambitious high school senior Efrain Rodriguez dreams of escaping the South Bronx for an Ivy League college like Harvard or Yale. But how is his family going to afford to pay for a prestigious university when Moms has to work insane hours to put food on the table as it is? And Efrain wouldn’t dare ask that good-for-nothing father of his who has traded his family in for younger models. Left with few options, Efrain chooses to do something he never thought he would. He embarks on a double life—honor student by day, drug peddler at night—convinced that by temporarily capitulating to societyâ
Author: Sofia Moshevich
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: pianist, shostakovich, dmitri
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2004-06
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0773525815
ISBN-13: 9780773525818
Dmitri Shoshtakovich (1906-1975) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century, yet few people know that he was also an outstanding concert pianist who maintained a hectic performing schedule. In "Dmitri Shostakovich, Pianist", Sofia Moshevich offers the first detailed examination of Shoshtakovich the pianist within the context of his life and work as a composer. She traces his musical roots, piano studies, repertoire, and concert career through his correspondence with family and friends, and his own and his contemporaries’ memoirs, using material never before a
Author: Diana Lopez
Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Keywords: saints, sofia
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2002-07
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1931010072
ISBN-13: 9781931010078
Since her mother’s death twelve years earlier, thirty-year-old SofÃa Loren Sauceda has lived in the same house where she grew up. Although she must work as a waitress to make ends meet, SofÃa indulges her artistic muse by burning unique renderings of various saints onto wood. She has even managed to sell some of her work at a local flea market. However, she refuses to compromise her artistic integrity by creating more marketable work, and she has little patience for those who do. SofÃa’s resolute philosophy begins to unravel when she learns that her beloved house is to be sold a
Author: Lydia Chukovskaya
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: classics, european, petrovna, sofia
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1994-06-08
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0810111500
ISBN-13: 9780810111509
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya’s fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor’s widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor’s office, hoping against hope for good news. Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense, Sofia goes mad, a madness which manifests itself in delusions little different from the lies those around her tell every day to protect themselves.
Author: Sofia Quintero
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Keywords: one, world, cultures, novel, don, yield, divas
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0345482387
ISBN-13: 9780345482389
What starts out as a pilgrimage to a women’s conference turns into an unexpected journey toward self-awareness for four dynamic, sexy women. Jackie confronts her vulnerability as she falls for a handsome lawyer, while Hazel makes the toughest confession of her life. Lourdes stands up to her conservative mother, and Irena faces her demons. As they make their way from town to town, laughing, fighting, crying, and bonding, they learn more about one another, and themselves, than they ever bargained for–and turn plenty of heads along the way. . . .
Authors:Andy Holmes, Sofia Prantera, Ben Sansbury, Russell Wa
Publisher: Collins Design
Keywords: silas
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1856693708
ISBN-13: 9781856693707
Hip clothing brand Silas & Mariaworks with a wide range of artists and designers across media to keep the label’s identity evolving. With an irreverent approach that refuses to take itself too seriously, this creative outpouring -- brochures, catalogs, stickers, an interactive website, and the famous Silas dolls designed by James Jarvis -- has become the trademark of the brand. Set around a loose narrative, this volume includes works ranging from photography, illustration, and 3D pieces to creative writing and design -- created by a diverse pool of talent including Ben Sansbury, Liz
