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Author: John Klier
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1999-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780806520643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn February 12, 1994, Anna Anderson, a woman in her eighties, died in Charlottesville, Virginia. Was she the youngest daughter of the last Tsar, or a former Polish factory worker who, miraculously, had intimate knowledge of the royal family's activities?
Author: Ariel Lawhon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-10-02
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1761429639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bestselling author of The Frozen River comes an enthralling historical mystery that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson’s fifty-year battle to be recognised as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian grand duchess or the thief of another woman’s legacy? Countless others have rendered their verdict. Now it is your turn. Russia, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police herd Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia, where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. Germany, 1920: A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is pulled shivering and senseless from a canal. Refusing to explain her presence in the freezing water or even acknowledge her rescuers, Anna Anderson is taken to the hospital where an examination reveals that her body is riddled with countless horrific scars. When she finally does speak, this frightened, mysterious young woman claims to be the Russian grand duchess. As rumours begin to circulate that the youngest Romanov daughter survived the massacre, old enemies and new threats awaken. I Was Anastasia unravels the thrilling mystery around Anna Anderson in a tale that is every bit as moving and momentous as it is harrowing and twisted.
Author: Anastasia Salter
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1609382757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-readers are becoming as common as printed books and where fans are blurring the distinction between reader and author. The construction of new ways of storytelling is already underway: it is happening on the edges of the mainstream gaming industry and in the spaces between media, on the foundations set by classic games. Along these margins, convergent storytelling allows for playful reading and reading becomes a strategy of play. One of the earliest models for this new way of telling stories was the adventure game, the kind of game centered on quests in which the characters must overcome obstacles and puzzles. After they fell out of fashion in the 1990s, fans made strenuous efforts to keep them alive and to create new games in the genre. Such activities highlight both the convergence of game and story and the collapsing distinction between reader and author. Continually defying the forces of obsolescence, fans return abandoned games to a playable state and treat stories as ever-evolving narratives. Similarly, players of massive multiplayer games become co-creators of the game experience, building characters and creating social networks that recombine a reading and gaming community. The interactions between storytellers and readers, between programmers and creators, and among fans turned world-builders are essential to the development of innovative ways of telling stories. And at the same time that fan activities foster the convergence of digital gaming and storytelling, new and increasingly accessible tools and models for interactive narrative empower a broadening range of storytellers. It is precisely this interactivity among a range of users surrounding these new platforms that is radically reshaping both e-books and games and those who read and play with them.
Author: Klier
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781856851152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fate of Anastasia and that of the Russian Imperial family is stillhrouded in mystery, even after the announcement in 1993 of the discovery ofheir remains in a pit near Ekaterinburg, Eastern Russia. The many reportsut of Russia concur that two of the royal children were missing from therave, but they do not agree on their identity.;John Klier untangles thetrands of the Romanov mysteries, separating unpalatable truths from tactical,olitical lies. Fluent in Russian and an expert in Russian history, he hasravelled to Russia, the USA and Western Europe in search of the lostomanovs. He has examined secret archives in Russia, he has had exclusiveccess to the late James Blair Lovell's private archive of Romanov materialsrom Washington DC, and he has taken first-hand testimony from scientists andistorians in Russia.
Author: Vladimir Megre
Publisher: Ringing Cedars Press LLC
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780980181227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNothing you have read in Books 1 and 2 has prepared you for Book 3-The Space of Love.
Author: Joy Preble
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1402244401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat really happened to Anastasia Romanov? Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse than being dead. In modern-day Chicago, Anne doesn't know much about Russian history. She is more concerned about getting into a good college—until the dreams start. She is somewhere else. She is someone else. And she is sharing a small room with a very old woman. The vivid dreams startle her, but not until a handsome stranger offers to explain them does she realize her life is going to change forever. She is the only one who can save Anastasia. But, Anastasia is having her own dreams...
Author: John Klier
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fate of Anastasia and the Russian Imperial family is still shrouded in mystery, but with access to exclusive sources the authors attempt to separate the truth from the lies. This book includes previously unpublished photographs
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1979-10-24
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 0547345623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Author: James B. Lovell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1995-01-15
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780312111335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is one of the greatest riddles of all time: Did Anastasia, youngest daughter of the last Russian Czar, survive the massacre of the royal family in 1917? James Blair Lovell's painstaking research proves, beyond a doubt, that Anna Anderson--who claimed until her death in 1984 she was Anastasia--indeed was. "Reads like a detective novel".--Publishers Week.
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 1982-10-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0440400090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve-year-old Anastasia Krupnik is convinced that her family's move to the suburbs will be the beginning of the end. How can she possibly accept split-level houses with matching furniture, or mothers whose biggest worry is ring around collar? But her new home brings many surprises, notto mention a cute boy who lives down the street. Is it possible that surburbia has more to offer than Anastasia had expected?
