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Sophie Steps Up (Faithgirlz!/Sophie Series #No. 4)

Sophie knows how it feels to be the new girl—different and "weird." She also remembers needing a friend. When a new girl in class is assigned to Sophie's drama group, she wants to get to know her. Sophie learns to accept her new friend's culture. But how will the other Corn Flakes teach others about acceptance if they cannot seem to learn themselves?

Sophie Tracks a Thief

As the Corn Flakes and other members of the Film Club work on a school project about Cuban refugees in the 1980s, a new¬comer's prejudices hurt Maggie and challenge Sophie's ability to understand and practice Jesus' teachings.

Sophie Under Pressure (Faithgirlz!/Sophie Series)

Sophie and her friends are all part of an elite expedition. In order to save the world (and their science grades) they are called upon to build an elaborate space station in Fiona's backyard, and are soon lost in the world of telescopes and zero-gravity. Sophie, however, realizes building that space station is only a small solution to a much bigger dilemma when her friends and fellow astronauts begin to fight. Will she be able to complete her mission and save the Flakes' friendship before her whole world falls apart?

Sophie and the New Girl

Sophie’s back with more middle-school adventures! The just-formed film club has brought a new girl into the Flakes’ orbit: Phoebe is witty, fun, and an awesome actress, but then the girls discover she harbors a prejudice against one of their own. When this same girl is accused of theft, the Pops—and even some of the Flakes—are only too happy to turn against her. And when Dr. Peter suggests that Sophie has a Christian responsibility to try to understand Phoebe, Sophie’s ready to throw up her hands. But then the absolute truth dawns: God wants us to reach out to those who are lost—even if it makes us uncomfortable. Armed with insight, Sophie puts faith into action and gains a friend in the process.

Sophie and the Scoundrels

Worried that her parents are breaking up, Sophie gets lost in an imaginary world again as she and her friends transform Fiona's tree house into a space station as a school science project, despite sabotage and jealousies.

Sophie under Pressure

Worried that her parents are breaking up, Sophie gets lost in an imaginary world again as she and her friends transform Fiona's tree house into a space station as a school science project, despite sabotage and jealousies.

Sophie's Choice: A Novel (Vintage International)

This award-winning novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn &“belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces&” (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the National Book Award and a modern classic, Sophie&’s Choice centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor who is Nathan&’s lover. Their entanglement in one another&’s lives will build to a stirring revelation of agonizing secrets that will change them forever. Poetic in its execution, and epic in its emotional sweep, Sophie&’s Choice explores the good and evil of humanity through Stingo&’s burgeoning worldliness, Nathan&’s volatile personality, and Sophie&’s tragic past. Mixing elements from Styron&’s own experience with themes of the Holocaust and the history of slavery in the American South, the novel is a profound and haunting human drama, representing Styron at the pinnacle of his literary brilliance. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.

Sophie's Drama

When Sophie suddenly shifts from being the leader of her student film project to playing a minor role, she resents not being in charge until she asks Jesus for help in accepting her new position.

Sophie's Drama (Faithgirlz!/Sophie Series)

The Lead. That's always been Sophie's role when it's time to make a new film. But then the Flakes and Lucky Charms start to make plans without even asking her opinion, and Sophie has to figure out more about who she is—both in the group and in Jesus' eyes.

Sophie's Encore

Although Sophie's faith is shaken after her baby sister is born with Down Syndrome and as she tries to help a troubled girl at her school, the other Corn Flakes and Dr. Peter are there to lend their support.

Sophie's First Dance

The Corn Flakes are in a tizzy about the end-of-school dance—they might actually have to deal with the Fruit Loops (boys), and that's causing them all kinds of friction. Will the Flakes break up, or can Sophie direct a happy ending?

Sophie's First Dance

An end-of-the-year dance throws the Corn Flake Girls unwillingly into the world of boys. Sophie soon learns that she must be willing to give up anything that comes between her and God in order to remain close to him--even if she doesn't want to.

Sophie's Friendship Fiasco

When Sophie's efforts to protect her friends from a group of mean-spirited popular girls lead to misunderstandings at home and at school, she turns to Jesus for help.

Sophie's Friendship Fiasco (Faithgirlz!/Sophie Series)

Sophie’s learning about medieval codes of honor in seventh grade honors class—and in life. Sophie’s shaved her head to empathize with a gravely ill friend, but negative assumptions and cruel teasing have her trying to deflect the attention with humor—and wisecracking always seems to land her in trouble! In the meantime, Sophie takes action to prevent another of the Pops’ mean schemes—but to do so, she lies about her friends and loses them as a result. When she finally understands the true intention of a code of honor, Sophie learns another absolute truth: God expects us to be completely honest—especially with ourselves. But if we fail, He forgives us. When Sophie comes clean, her best friends come around. She thwarts the Pops and gains the respect of her teachers, too.

Sophie's Heart

Befriending the quiet visitor who slips into her Bible study group, Janet discovers that Sophie has fled her native Czechoslovakia and is in need of work---and companionship. Janet thinks of her brother Alec, the father of three, who recently lost his wife in a car accident. Could Sophie's loving heart be what Alec needs?

Sophie's Irish Showdown

Sophie's Secret

Unprofessional behavior?Sophie's calm, cool professional façade hid many secrets. For a start, Sophie had an incurably romantic nature. So when she was offered a post as Marc Washington's PA she jumped at the chance to return to Venice...a place for lovers, a place for dreams.Yet Marc Washington hardly seemed the sort of man who would tolerate Sophie's romantic heart-or her past, should he ever remember the part he'd played in it!

Sophie's Secret

Sophie and her friends launch an “archaeological expedition” and make a disturbing discovery. Sophie keeps digging to uncover a shocking family secret. In light of this new revelation, will she ever be able to trust her parents again?

Sophie's Secret

Sophie and her friends launch an "archaeological expedition" and make a disturbing discovery. Sophie keeps digging to uncover a shocking family secret. In light of this new revelation, will she ever be able to trust her parents again?

Sophie's Stormy Summer

Is this the end of childhood? When a serious illness strikes one of the Flakes, the others can't daydream their way out of the shocking news. Instead they rally 'round and find that friends—and faith—show the way to a new adventure called growing up.

Sophie's Stormy Summer

Fiona's family is spending a week at Virginia Beach with all the Corn Flakes and Fiona's new French nanny when it's discovered that Kitty has leukemia. Sophie wants to shave her head in solidarity with Kitty, and soon learns that she must do what God calls her to do, no matter how hard.

Sophie's World

In the first fiction book of the Faithgirlz! series, bestselling author Rue introduces Sophie LeCroix, a creative soul who's destined to become a great film director someday. When her overactive imagination immerses her in the American Revolution after a school field trip, Sophie quickly learns a real-life lesson.

Sophie's World (Faithgirlz!/Sophie Series)

When future film director Sophie LaCroix visits Williamsburg, Virginia, her imagination sends her straight into the eighteenth century. An unlikely heroine, Sophie’s forced to use her new-found war tactics to foil a heinous plot and save a friend from impending humiliation by the popular girls.

Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought,Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined. Translated from the Norwegian in 1994, the book was republished with a brief reading guide in 2007. Excellent reading with unexpected plot twists that keep the reader engaged, but demanding re-reads to then spend more time with the philosophy content. The philosophers and their "answers" are presented in a lay person's language with many current-day examples.

Sorcerer's Apprentice

Sorcerer's Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace's first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda's rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed "the Godfather of the New Age." The possibility that Castaneda's experiences may have been fabricated did little to compromise his legend.As the daughter of best-selling novelist Irving Wallace, Amy was rarely shy around famous people. When her father insisted she meet Castaneda, she at first demurred. Little did she know that a delightful first meeting would begin a 20-year friendship, followed by her descent into the dramatic and deeply troubled affair chronicled in this book. Sorcerer's Apprentice unblinkingly reveals the inner workings of the "Cult of Carlos," run by a charismatic authoritarian in his sixties who controlled his young female followers through emotional abuse, mind games, bizarre rituals, dubious teachings, and sexual excess. Wallace's story is both specific and universal, a captivating cautionary tale about the dangers of giving up one's power to a tyrant-and about surviving assaults on body and spirit.