Sonja

Author : Richard Hoyt
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645405023

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Sonja's Run by Richard Hoyt Pdf

"Hoyt has a fresh, invigorating style that grabs the reader immediately."—The New York Times At the 1852 Christmas party hosted by Tsar Nicholas I, the plucky half-Chinese, half-Russian poet Sonja Sankova decks Peter "Colonel Cut" Koslov, who is infamous for his necklace of ears taken from serfs and Jews. In London that same night, American Jack Sandt, the Matthew Brady of Asia, conspires with Karl Marx to con the tsar into letting Sandt take daguerreotype images inside Russia. So begins this immaculately researched, wildest of romantic wild rides, an odyssey of two lovers fleeing for their lives through the vast reaches of the Russian empire. The period detail is splendid: a supper with Ivan Turgenev; a visit with the craftsmen who designed and cut gems for the Romanov tsars; a ball in a frontier town in the Urals; a glimpse of life inside the yurts of nomadic herdsmen. With Koslov and his special unit, the Wolfpack, in hot pursuit, Sonja and Jack flee Saint Petersburg, cross European Russia, and go over the Urals, there risking their lives on a turbulent mountain river. Sonja and Jack take turns telling their story, as they fall in love and marry in a Siberian chapel. In a narrow escape, Jack shoots Koslov in the ankle. A sadistic Kyrghyz nomad grabs Sonja and spirits her away. Jack and a Cossack pursue the nomad and his men across the Asian steppe, but Koslov gets to him first. Koslov takes Sonja to a fabled mountain near Lake Baikal, where he is to retrieve rubies destined for a new Romanov throne. He waits, vowing revenge for his stiff ankle. Jack rescues his wife, and with their lives and a fortune of rubies at stake—and real wolves howl­ing in a blizzard—Sonja and Jack face down Colonel Cut and the Wolfpack.

Author : Sonja Larsen
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345815286

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Red Star Tattoo by Sonja Larsen Pdf

Winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Red Star Tattoo is Sonja Larsen's unforgettable memoir of a young life spent on the move, from hardscrabble Milwaukee to dreamy Hawaii, from turbulent Montreal to free-spirited California. At the age of 16, Sonja joins a cult-like communist organization in Brooklyn--unaware of the dark nature of what awaits her. A small, skinny 8-year-old girl holding a teddy bear stands by the side of a country road with a young man she barely knows. They're hitchhiking from a commune in Quebec to one in California. It is 1973 and somehow the girl's parents think this is a good idea. Sonja Larsen's is a childhood in which family members come and go and where freedom is both a gift and a burden. Her mother, thrown out of home as a pregnant teenager by her evangelical preacher father, is drawn to the utopian ideals and radical politics of communism. Her aunt Suzie is gripped by schizophrenia, her behaviour so erratic she eventually loses custody of her daughter. And then there is her cousin Dana, shunted back and forth long-distance between her parents--Dana, whose own need to escape leads to tragedy. Looking for a sense of family, searching to belong, to have your life mean something--this is what all these girls and young women share. As a teenager, Larsen moves to Brooklyn, embedding herself with an organization known publicly as the National Labor Federation and privately as the Communist Party USA Provisional Wing. Over her three years at the organization's national headquarters, Larsen works sixteen-hour day, eager to prove herself. Noticed and encouraged by the Old Man, the organization's charismatic leader, he makes her one of his "special girls," as well as the youngest member of the organization's militia and part of its inner circle. But even as she and her comrades count down the days on the calendar until the dawning of their new American revolution, Larsen's doubts about the cause and the Old Man become increasingly difficult to ignore. Red Star Tattoo explores the seductions and dangers of extremism, and asks what it takes to survive a childhood scarred by loss, abuse and the sometimes violent struggle for belonging.

Author : Sonja Boon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771124256

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What the Oceans Remember by Sonja Boon Pdf

Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying “I’m Dutch-Canadian” to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity. It was an opportunity to answer the two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to? Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present. Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.

Author : Jo Sonja
Publisher : All American Crafts Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1936708124

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Jo Sonja A Life in Folk Art by Jo Sonja Pdf

Jo Sonja: A Life in Folk Art, presented by the National Museum of Decorative Painting, presents a collection of over 180 color images of Sonja's iconic work including a CD ROM with instructions and patterns for 10 never before published projects. Jo Sonja's artistic career has encompassed over 45 years of painting, teaching, and designing. Her first book was published in 1974 and she has since published 66 instructional books, filmed instructional videos and DVD's, produced the Artist's Journal quarterly magazine, and much more.

Author : Suzanne Hillier
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927366578

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Sonja & Carl by Suzanne Hillier Pdf

Sonja Danychuk, a serious and introverted student, takes pride in her intellect and academic achievements—essential skills when growing up in a dirt-poor family that struggles to survive in a small town. When her father is cut down by a fatal heart attack, Sonja must find a way to pay for college while also supporting her financially strained mother. She agrees to tutor Carl Helbig, her high school’s hockey star and NHL hopeful, despite her strong aversion to his jock-like persona and what she perceives to be his intellectual inferiority. Carl graduates and embarks on a wildly successful career in the NHL, but he soon finds himself in the brain trauma unit after sustaining concussions on the ice. He and Sonja are once again drawn together, eventually hurtling towards a tragedy that neither of them can outmaneuver. Skating swiftly between tender and tense, Sonja & Carl is a surprising and heartrending love story that exposes the dark side of professional hockey.

Author : Sonja Wimmer
Publisher : Cuento de Luz
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788415503453

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The Word Collector by Sonja Wimmer Pdf

Winner at the 2011 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards A poetic tale about the magic of words and the power of positive words, which invites to enjoy this wonderful story in a fun, original way. Guided Reading Level: P, Lexile Level: 720L

Author : Sonja Lyubomirsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101202807

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The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky Pdf

Learn how to achieve the happiness you deserve "A guide to sustaining your newfound contentment." —Psychology Today "Lyubomirsky's central point is clear: a significant portion of what is called happiness . . . is up for grabs. Taking some pages out of the positive psychology playbook, she coaches readers on how to snag it." —The New York Review of Books You see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and easy-to-follow workbook, incorporating happiness strategies, excercises in new ways of thinking, and quizzes for understanding our individuality, all in an effort to help us realize our innate potential for joy and ways to sustain it in our lives. Drawing upon years of pioneering research with thousands of men and women, The How of Happiness is both a powerful contribution to the field of positive psychology and a gift to people who have sought to take their happiness into their own hands.

Author : Julian Guthrie
Publisher : Currency
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780525573920

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Alpha Girls by Julian Guthrie Pdf

An unforgettable story of four women who, through grit and ingenuity, became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build some of the foremost companies of our time. In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes readers behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry that transforms economies and shapes how we live. We follow the lives and careers of four women who were largely written out of history - until now. Magdalena Yesil, who arrived in America from Turkey with $43 to her name, would go on to receive her electrical engineering degree from Stanford, found some of the first companies to commercialize internet access, and help Marc Benioff build Salesforce. Mary Jane Elmore went from the corn fields of Indiana to Stanford and on to the storied venture capital firm IVP - where she was one of the first women in the U.S. to make partner - only to be pulled back from the glass ceiling by expectations at home. Theresia Gouw, an overachieving first-generation Asian American from a working-class town, dominated the foosball tables at Brown (she would later reluctantly let Sergey Brin win to help Accel Partners court Google), before she helped land and build companies including Facebook, Trulia, Imperva, and ForeScout. Sonja Hoel, a Southerner who became the first woman investing partner at white-glove Menlo Ventures, invested in McAfee, Hotmail, Acme Packet, and F5 Networks. As her star was still rising at Menlo, a personal crisis would turn her into an activist overnight, inspiring her to found an all-women's investment group and a national nonprofit for girls. These women, juggling work and family, shaped the tech landscape we know today while overcoming unequal pay, actual punches, betrayals, and the sexist attitudes prevalent in Silicon Valley and in male-dominated industries everywhere. Despite the setbacks, they would rise again to rewrite the rules for an industry they love. In Alpha Girls, Guthrie reveals their untold stories.

Author : Gail Simone,Devin Grayson,Nancy A. Collins,Meljean Brook,Leah Moore,Tamora Pierce,Marjorie Liu,Kelly Sue DeConnick,Nicola Scott,Rhianna Pratchett,Mercedes Lackey,Blair Butler
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1606905252

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Legends of Red Sonja by Gail Simone,Devin Grayson,Nancy A. Collins,Meljean Brook,Leah Moore,Tamora Pierce,Marjorie Liu,Kelly Sue DeConnick,Nicola Scott,Rhianna Pratchett,Mercedes Lackey,Blair Butler Pdf

In this unique collection, ongoing Red Sonja series writer Gail Simone hand-picked eleven of the fiercest, most talented, and most popular female writers from the worlds of comics, prose, games, and television, to help her tell the greatest legends in the She-Devil's long history! A group of savage mercenaries hired to hunt and kill Sonja come across campfire tales of her at every turn... and Sonja does not like to be hunted. Tamora Pierce, Mercedes Lackey, Marjorie M. Liu, Nancy A. Collins, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Rhianna Pratchett, and many more tell fascinating bits of Sonja's legend, with a wrap-around tale by Simone herself, and art by the likes of Phil Noto, Jim Calafiore, Jack Jadson, and others. Collects Legends of Red Sonja issues #1-5, the script to issue #1, concept art by Jack Jadson, and more!

Author : Mirka Andolfo
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Red Sonja (Vol. 6) #1 by Mirka Andolfo Pdf

MOTHER, PART ONE. Industry icon MIRKA ANDOLFO presents an all-new vision for the She-Devil With A Sword, in a thrilling new ongoing series! Our story begins in a village on fire, set by members of the dreaded Three-Eyed Shezem. When Red Sonja arrives, the only survivor of the flame is a lively child with curious white tattoos. The child will become Sonja’s travel companion, on a journey from hardened ice to imposing forests, where dangerous secrets wait to be revealed… Begin a trailblazing adventure with MIRKA ANDOLFO (Unnatural, Mercy) and incredible artist GIUSEPPE CAFARO (Suicide Squad)! Neapolitan artist and writer, Mirka Andolfo is one of the most complete and eclectic Italian creators in the international field. Her Mercy series was published almost simultaneously in Italy (November 2019, Panini Comics), France (January 2020, Éditions Glénat) and United States (March 2020, Image Comics). Her ControNatura (Panini Comics) is one of the most successful Italian series of the last few years. Published in the USA by Image Comics under the title Unnatural, it’s a best-selling hit with several reprints already. Andolfo has been collaborating with DC Comics since 2015, having lent her pencils to such titles as Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Bombshells, Teen Titans, Green Arrow, R.W.B.Y. and Hex Wives. Also as an artist, she’s drawn comics for Dynamite and Aspen, as well as some short stories for Vertigo and DC’s Young Animal, and she’s working on covers for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Valiant, BOOM! Studios, Aspen, Zenescope.

Author : James Lord Bowes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Pottery
ISBN : NWU:35556034749499

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Japanese Pottery by James Lord Bowes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071537710

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The Journal of Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Education
ISBN : PRNC:32101042855179

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Journal of Education and School World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sonja Ahlers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1772620629

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Swan Song by Sonja Ahlers Pdf

The final chapter oin a body of cut-and-paste work that is difficult to categorize but has sometimes been referred to as graphic poetry. Culled from decades of hunting and gathering in the underground, Ahlers has filled many binders to overflowing. Swan Song revisits the black and white photocopier esthetic of her genre-bending and influential book Temper, Temper and its sequel Fatal Distraction, finally completing this groundbreaking trilogy. Part art book, part zine collection, part diary, part graphic novel, but all Sonja Ahlers, we finally have closure from an artist who continues to push the boundaries of what a book can be.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015035477341

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Asia by Anonim Pdf