Sol Sol: 249 books

“Wavin’Flag” has become an international anthem. Its powerful words of hope have crossed generations and borders, and have made K’NAAN an international star. In his first book for children, When I Get Older, Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer, and songwriter K’NAAN tells his own...

I Choose Life is the true, first person account of two Jewish youths, Sol and Goldie, who survived Nazi concentration camps and transcended despair by choosing life. The book title derives from a harrowing encounter between Sol and the Commandant in Auschwitz. The Nazi cruelly forced Sol to choose...

El gran momento de Luis Buñuel. Una de las obras maestras del cómic español del siglo XXI. En 1932 Luis Buñuel rodó en Extremadura su tercer trabajo como director, Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan, una de las películas malditas de su filmografía y documental pionero en nuestro país. Fermín...

Sol White was a star player and manager in the early years of organized black baseball. In 1907 he teamed with sports writer and team owner Walter Schlichter to publish the first and only history of the stars, teams, and great feats of the era. The writing is all White’s; Schlicter provided the...

Eurídice y Orfeo constituye un punto de inflexión en la producción dramática de Antonio de Solís (1610-1686) hacia el teatro cortesano. Su primera representación tuvo lugar en 1643, en el virreinato de Navarra y al servicio del conde de Oropesa. En 1655, cuando Solís ya ha sido nombrado dramaturgo...

« Tous passeront à côté du sacrifice de l’un, de la confiance aveugle de l’autre, tourneront le dos à cet amour dingue, car c’est de ça qu’il s’agit, cet amour inconditionnel d’un jeune homme pour une fillette qui écrivait des lettres, cet amour d’une petite fille pour le jeune...

This is the story of Sol Schwartz, the youngest of three children born to Sam and Rose Schwartz, Romanian immigrants, who migrated to America in the early part of the twentieth century. Sol, born in 1925, relates about his stressful life growing up in Brooklyn as part of a somewhat fractured family....

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in...

Ce livre est une plongée dans la vie ordinaire des Françaises au moment où le pays, sous le règne de Louis XII, bascule du Moyen Age à la Renaissance. Grâce aux milliers d'archives enregistrées par le tribunal ecclésiastique de Troyes, Jacques...

Le XXe siècle consacre le triomphe de la prostitution. Elle accompagne les pionniers d'Amérique ou d'Afrique du Sud, elle nourrit les fantasmes des bourgeois victoriens comme des ouvriers berlinois, elle fait naître le mythe de la traite des blanches avec son cortège de...

James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son,established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York...

La autobiografía del hombre que afirma ser el hijo mayor de Juan Carlos I. Albert Solà es conocido como «el monarca» en el municipio donde vive: La Bisbal del Ampurdán. Sin embargo, aunque su parecido con Juan Carlos I salta a la vista, sus orígenes están llenos de misterio e incertidumbres....

Soweto during the 1970s was riven with violence and brutality, the brunt of which was borne by the young people of that period, who took the lead in the struggle against apartheid oppression. Himself a product of the era, Sol Rachilo turned both to science and to art as he strove to depict the atmosphere...

In Jeremiah, Ohio, Adam Sol reinvents the Biblical prophet and doomsayer Jeremiah for the postmodern age, and sends him on a reeling road trip through the strip malls and back roads of the United States with an ordinary, everyman companion, Bruce. The mismatched pair are thrown together by accident,...