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Anna Politkovskaya: No to Fear (They Said No)
by Dominique ConilThe deeply researched and partly imagined story of the fearless, internationally recognized journalist who was assassinated for believing that &‘words can save lives.&’ Say No to Fear, part of the They Said No series of histories, tells the story of Anna Politkovskaya&’s courageous life narrated from the perspective of her longtime mentor and friend, the dissident writer Vassily Pachoutinsev. From their first meeting when she was a young literature student writing about poet Marina Tsvetaeva to her rise as an internationally recognized journalist, through Vassily we see Anna develop from junior reporter, to covering social issues after the fall of the Soviet Union, to becoming a fearless defender of human rights. Throughout the author brings the history to life by including key conversations that might have happened between them at pivotal moments in Politkovskaya&’s life. A scathing critic of the second Chechen war, Politkovskaya published most of her political work while working at the Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper at the forefront of the fight for free expression in Russia. For their outspokenness several members of its staff were murdered, presumably silenced by Russia's Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Even after a poisoning attack and a mock execution, Politkovskaya persisted, adamant in her fight for her children's and grandchildren&’s world, critiquing the situation in Chechnya and Putin until her assassination in 2006. The narrator, Pachoutinsev, explains how her legacy lives on, inspiring those in pursuit of justice and the truth both in Russia and abroad.
Anna Richardson's Summer Body Blitz Diet: Five Rules for a Brand New You
by Anna RichardsonA brand new you is just around the corner!10 new recipes in this updated edition of Anna Richardson's BODY BLITZ. Get ready for summer!Anna Richardson was a self-confessed serial dieter. You name it, she tried the diet. And failed. Perhaps there was some weight loss to begin with but the pounds would always creep back on, and maybe a few more besides. And then something incredible happened. Anna discovered the simple secret to sustained weight loss. Using five food rules she lost two stone and kept the pounds and inches off. ANNA RICHARDSON'S BODY BLITZ DIET is Anna's easy-to-follow plan that guarantees up to 7lbs weight loss in fourteen days. This new edition of her best selling diet book includes 10 brand new summer recipes. Follow the SUMMER BODY BLITZ DIET and you'll get your confidence - and waistline - back for good.
Anna Richardson's Summer Body Blitz Diet: Five Rules for a Brand New You
by Anna RichardsonA brand new you is just around the corner!10 new recipes in this updated edition of Anna Richardson's BODY BLITZ. Get ready for summer!Anna Richardson was a self-confessed serial dieter. You name it, she tried the diet. And failed. Perhaps there was some weight loss to begin with but the pounds would always creep back on, and maybe a few more besides. And then something incredible happened. Anna discovered the simple secret to sustained weight loss. Using five food rules she lost two stone and kept the pounds and inches off. ANNA RICHARDSON'S BODY BLITZ DIET is Anna's easy-to-follow plan that guarantees up to 7lbs weight loss in fourteen days. This new edition of her best selling diet book includes 10 brand new summer recipes. Follow the SUMMER BODY BLITZ DIET and you'll get your confidence - and waistline - back for good.
Anna & Samia: The True Story of Saving a Black Rhino
by Paul MeiselFrom Geisel Honor–winning author/illustrator Paul Meisel comes Anna & Samia, the true story of a wildlife conservationist and the baby rhinoceros she adopts.When infant rhino Samia finds herself all alone in the vast Kenyan rhino sanctuary, conservationist Anna Merz knows just what to do. Little by little, she helps Samia feel warm and at home, snuggling with the black rhino in her bed, deciphering every snort and eek, and giving Samia baths to keep her clean. Each step Anna takes is meant to help Samia get closer to becoming independent. But the bond between Samia and Anna is so strong that Samia may not want to leave, even when she's ready. Can Samia learn to explore the sanctuary on her own? Here is a heartfelt true story about love, growing up, and letting go.
Anna Seward: A Critical Biography
by Teresa BarnardIn her critical biography of Anna Seward (1742-1809), Teresa Barnard examines the poet's unpublished letters and manuscripts, providing a fresh perspective on Seward's life and historical milieu that restores and problematizes Seward's carefully constructed narrative of her life. Of the poet Anna Seward, it may be said with some veracity that hers was an epistolary life. What is known of Seward comes from six volumes of her letters and from juvenile letters that prefaced her books of poetry, all published posthumously. That Seward intended her correspondence to serve as her autobiography is clear, but she could not have anticipated that the letters she intended for publication would be drastically edited and censored by her literary editor, Walter Scott, and by her publisher, Archibald Constable. Stripped of their vitality and much of their significance, the published letters omit telling tales of the intricacies of the marriage market and Seward's own battles against gender inequality in the educational and workplace spheres. Seward's correspondents included Erasmus Darwin, William Hayley, Helen Maria Williams, and Robert Southey, and her letters are packed with stories and anecdotes about her friends' lives and characters, what they looked like, and how they lived. Particularly compelling is Barnard's discussion of Seward's astonishing last will and testament, a twenty-page document that summarizes her life, achievements, and self-definition as a writing woman. Barnard's biography not only challenges what is known about Seward, but provides new information about the lives and times of eighteenth-century writers.
Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century
by Claudia T. KairoffAnna Seward and her career defy easy placement into the traditional periods of British literature. Raised to emulate the great poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing in the Age of Sensibility, and publishing during the early Romantic era, Seward exemplifies the eighteenth-century transition from classical to Romantic. Claudia Thomas Kairoff’s excellent critical study offers fresh readings of Anna Seward’s most important writings and firmly establishes the poet as a pivotal figure among late-century British writers. Reading Seward’s writing alongside recent scholarship on gendered conceptions of the poetic career, patriotism, provincial culture, sensibility, and the sonnet revival, Kairoff carefully reconsiders Seward’s poetry and critical prose. Written as it was in the last decades of the eighteenth century, Seward’s work does not comfortably fit into the dominant models of Enlightenment-era verse or the tropes that characterize Romantic poetry. Rather than seeing this as an obstacle for understanding Seward’s writing within a particular literary style, Kairoff argues that this allows readers to see in Seward’s works the eighteenth-century roots of Romantic-era poetry. Arguably the most prominent woman poet of her lifetime, Seward’s writings disappeared from popular and scholarly view shortly after her death. After nearly two hundred years of critical neglect, Seward is attracting renewed attention, and with this book Kairoff makes a strong and convincing case for including Anna Seward's remarkable literary achievements among the most important of the late eighteenth century.
Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century
by Claudia T. KairoffA critical study of the prominent British poet’s work.Anna Seward and her career defy easy placement into the traditional periods of British literature. Raised to emulate the great poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing in the Age of Sensibility, and publishing during the early Romantic era, Seward exemplifies the eighteenth-century transition from classical to Romantic. Claudia Thomas Kairoff’s excellent critical study offers fresh readings of Anna Seward's most important writings and firmly establishes the poet as a pivotal figure among late-century British writers.Reading Seward’s writing alongside recent scholarship on gendered conceptions of the poetic career, patriotism, provincial culture, sensibility, and the sonnet revival, Kairoff carefully reconsiders Seward's poetry and critical prose. Written as it was in the last decades of the eighteenth century, Seward’s work does not comfortably fit into the dominant models of Enlightenment-era verse or the tropes that characterize Romantic poetry. Rather than seeing this as an obstacle for understanding Seward’s writing within a particular literary style, Kairoff argues that this allows readers to see in Seward's works the eighteenth-century roots of Romantic-era poetry.Arguably the most prominent woman poet of her lifetime, Seward’s writings disappeared from popular and scholarly view shortly after her death. After nearly two hundred years of critical neglect, Seward is attracting renewed attention, and with this book Kairoff makes a strong and convincing case for including Anna Seward’s remarkable literary achievements among the most important of the late eighteenth century.“Professor Kairoff achieves her goal of providing “fresh readings, in a richer context,” which will go a long way toward reestablishing Seward’s importance. The book is a significant contribution to literary scholarship and will be widely read, cited, and admired.” —Paula R. Feldman“This lucid, stimulating study will challenge traditional notions not only of Seward but also of the interstice of Romanticism and late-century women authors.” —Choice“Kairoff effectively demonstrates the quality of Seward’s work, and articulates some of the ways in which a reappraisal of Seward might enrich our understanding of both eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literary cultures, and our conception of the writing practices of both male and female authors.” —Years Work in English Studies
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
by Cathy EastBlack Beauty, published in 1877 and set in Victorian London, was Anna Sewell?s only novel. Yet it has remained a classic for 140 years. Now the beloved story of Black Beauty is retold for beginning readers with full-color illustrations on every page.
Anna Shares
by Barbara BakerMeet Anna--she's exuberant and lovable, with a mind of her own. Anna's friend Justin has a play date at her house, and she finds it very hard to share. So Justin has to leave. Then Anna works out her own solution to her problem. Perfect for the attention span of toddlers, this satisfying little storybook shows just what young children are like. So be ready to share it with your favorite toddler again and again.
Anna Smith: Kerry Casey Books 1 to 4
by Anna SmithRead the entire Kerry Casey series in one value-for-money volume. Enjoy four action-packed gangland thrillers starring Glasgow's newest and toughest gang leader, Kerry Casey. Though Kerry had no plans to become the head of her family's criminal empire, tragedy strikes and she is left alone to pick up the pieces. Join Kerry in her quest to put her family on the right side of the law. She'll face countless opponents on the way, but she'll do whatever it takes to settle the score and keep those around her safe. She's had everything taken from her, including her freedom, and now someone's going to pay.Praise for the Kerry Casey Series'Gritty, hard-edged, not for the faint-hearted' Sunday Mirror'Chilling and compelling' Kimberly Chambers'Provocative, shocking and utterly harrowing' Daily Record
Anna Smith: Kerry Casey Books 1 to 4
by Anna SmithRead the entire Kerry Casey series in one value-for-money volume. Enjoy four action-packed gangland thrillers starring Glasgow's newest and toughest gang leader, Kerry Casey. Though Kerry had no plans to become the head of her family's criminal empire, tragedy strikes and she is left alone to pick up the pieces. Join Kerry in her quest to put her family on the right side of the law. She'll face countless opponents on the way, but she'll do whatever it takes to settle the score and keep those around her safe. She's had everything taken from her, including her freedom, and now someone's going to pay.Praise for the Kerry Casey Series'Gritty, hard-edged, not for the faint-hearted' Sunday Mirror'Chilling and compelling' Kimberly Chambers'Provocative, shocking and utterly harrowing' Daily Record
Anna Smith: Rosie Gilmour Books 1 to 9
by Anna SmithGet all nine books in the Rosie Gilmour series in one value-for-money volume. Investigative journalist Rosie Gilmour never walks away from a story in these gritty Glasgow-set thrillers.Investigative journalist Rosie Gilmour won't take no for an answer as she battles to find answers for those who can't fight for themselves. She is unstoppable as she peels back layers of privilege and wealth to uncover the corruption that is deeply woven into seedy underbelly of Glasgow.With enemies from local gangsters to child-traffickers, Gilmour puts herself in danger in her pursuit of justice. But if she's not careful, she'll be the one leaving in a body bag next.Praise for the Rosie Gilmour Series'Thrilling and compelling' Kimberly Chambers'Anna Smith is the real deal' Sunday Express'Provocative, shocking and utterly harrowing . . . grips like a vice' - Daily Record
Anna Smith: Rosie Gilmour Books 1 to 9
by Anna SmithGet all nine books in the Rosie Gilmour series in one value-for-money volume. Investigative journalist Rosie Gilmour never walks away from a story in these gritty Glasgow-set thrillers.Investigative journalist Rosie Gilmour won't take no for an answer as she battles to find answers for those who can't fight for themselves. She is unstoppable as she peels back layers of privilege and wealth to uncover the corruption that is deeply woven into seedy underbelly of Glasgow.With enemies from local gangsters to child-traffickers, Gilmour puts herself in danger in her pursuit of justice. But if she's not careful, she'll be the one leaving in a body bag next.Praise for the Rosie Gilmour Series'Thrilling and compelling' Kimberly Chambers'Anna Smith is the real deal' Sunday Express'Provocative, shocking and utterly harrowing . . . grips like a vice' - Daily Record
Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spirit (Choreography and Dance Studies Series #Vol. 14)
by Larry WarrenA pioneer choreographer in modern American dance, Anna Sokolow has led a bewildering, active international life. Her meticulous biographer Larry Warren once looked up Anna Sokolow in a few reference books and found that she was born in three different years and that her parents were from Poland except when they were in Russia, and found many other inaccuracies. Drawing on material from nearly 100 interviews, Larry Warren has created a fascinating account and assessment of the life and work of Anna Sokolow, whose nomadic career was divided between New York, Mexico, and Israel. Setting her work on more than 70 dance companies, Anna Sokolow not only pioneered the development of a personal approach to movement, which has become part of the language of contemporary dance, but also created such masterpieces as Rooms, dealing with loneliness and alienation, and Dreams, which concerns the inner torment of victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
Anna Strong And The Revolutionary War Culper Spy Ring (Spy On History)
by Enigma Alberti Laura TerryIn a story of intrigue and danger, Anna Strong and the Revolutionary War Culper Spy Ring explores a little-known part of an important chapter of American history—and offers readers a mystery of their own to solve! It’s a true story of the American Revolution: Meet the secret Culper Ring, a network of American spies fighting against the army of British redcoats. Meet historical figures like George Washington and the soon-to-be-infamous Benedict Arnold. And meet Anna Strong, an unsung heroine who found ingenious ways to communicate top-secret messages to her fellow spies, helping to free the American colonies from British rule. It’s a mystery to solve: There are clues embedded in the book’s text and illustrations. Spycraft materials, including a cipher wheel, come in an envelope at the beginning of the book. Use them to decode Anna’s hidden message and discover the secret mission she undertook for the Culper Ring!
Anna Sui
by Steven Meisel Jack White Anna Sui Andrew BoltonAnna Sui's trendsetting rock-and-roll looks have made her one of this decade's top five fashion icons (Time). Here, in the first book to cover the entire scope of Sui's twenty-year career, fans get rare access to the designer's creative process. This richly visual retrospective celebrates her influence, from her first show that snared the support of supermodels Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Kate Moss to the role she's played in making the babydoll dress one of fashion's most iconic silhouettes. With more than 400 photographs from legendary photographers, this exquisite tomewith a shimmering foil-stamped coveris essential for all fashionistas.
Anna Sunday
by Sally M. KeehnAnna, disguised as a boy and accompanied by her younger brother Jed, leaves their Pennsylvania home and makes the difficult journey to join their wounded father in Winchester. Virginia, where they find themselves in danger from Confederate troops.
Anna the Arctic Fox Fairy: The Baby Animal Rescue Fairies Book 7 (Rainbow Magic #7)
by Daisy MeadowsGet ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker are helping out at the Wild Woods Nature Reserve. They're having a great time meeting cute animals and making friends with the Animal Rescue Fairies. But when Jack Frost decides he wants baby animals for his own personal zoo, he steals the fairies' magical key rings. Can the girls help the fairies get their key rings back before the baby animals are trapped inside the Ice Lord's zoo for ever? 'These stories are magic; they turn children into readers!' ReadingZone.com Read all seven fairy adventures in the Baby Animal Rescue Fairies set! Mae the Panda Fairy; Kitty the Tiger Fairy; Mara the Meerkat Fairy; Savannah the Zebra Fairy; Kimberley the Koala Fairy; Rosie the Honey Bear Fairy; Anna the Arctic Fox Fairy. If you like Rainbow Magic, check out Daisy Meadows' other series: Magic Animal Friends and Unicorn Magic!
Anna, the Voice of the Magdalenes: A Sequel to Anna, Grandmother of Jesus
by Claire HeartsongIn this channelled sequel to the international bestseller Anna, Grandmother of Jesus, we journey with Anna, the Holy Family and 18 other Magdalene–Essenes as they travel to France and Britain after Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection.This book gives a completely new perspective on the gnostic Mount Carmel Essene mystery school, in which Jesus and Mary Magdalene took initiations, as well as on the Holy Family and the Magdalene Order. Through Claire Heartsong, Anna tells not only the story of Jesus, but also the story of the women who surrounded him throughout his life. The book reveals the deeper mysteries they have safeguarded for aeons of time, including aspects of Jesus’s personal life not recorded in history – his relationships and, most radically, his offspring.In this one-of-a-kind story, Claire shares the information she received from Anna on the ‘Seeding of Light’ – the dispersion of Anna, Mother Mary and Jesus’s enlightened descendants whose ‘bloodline’ acts as a living catalyst for the awakening of the Christ–Magdalene potential today. Not only does this book give a new view of the Christ drama 2,000 years ago but, more importantly, it offers the potential to lift the suppressed Divine Feminine voice in our time.
Anna to the Infinite Power
by Mildred AmesAnna is one of many clones of a scientific project and must consult a computer before doing anything. It turns out that Rowan, Anna's brother, does not like the fact that Anna is not human and ends up helping her. With time, Anna seems to be becoming human.
Anna Was Here
by Jane KurtzTen-year-old Anna Nickel is moving from Colorado to Kansas, and she is not happy about leaving her friends behind This is a moving, often humorous coming-of-age story about family, faith, Gods love, and the meaning of home, perfect for fans of Katherine Paterson and The Penderwicks. Ten-year-old Anna Nickels worst nightmare has come true. Her father has decided to move the family back to Cottondale, Kansas--where he grew up--in order to become the minister of the church there. New friends, new school, a new community, and a family of strangers await, and whats even worse, its all smack-dab in the middle of Tornado Alley. Anna has always prided herself on being prepared (she keeps a notebook on how to cope with disasters, from hurricanes to shark bites), but shell be tested in Cottondale This beautifully written novel introduces a family who takes Gods teachings to heart while finding many occasions to laugh along the way, and an irrepressible and wholesome ten-year-old who, with a little help from Midnight H. (her cat), takes control of her destiny.
Anna Weamys: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 7 (The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Three #Vol. 7)
by Marea MitchellThe title page of the 1651 continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, which is made available in facsimile in this volume, designates its author as 'Mris A. W.' It is now the convention to attribute the volume to Anna Weamys. Little is known about the author; the only other information about her is suggested by the substantial number of commendatory verses which precede the text. Though details about her and the specific motivations for continuing Sidney's work remain tantalisingly absent, Anna Weamys's text is important for understanding the reception of Sidney by women readers, as well as the development of prose fiction as it evolved towards the novel. Its female heroines illustrate a real concern with how women might navigate the straits of female behaviour in a judgmental and partisan society. The Introductory Note to this volume provides some analysis of how gender, class, and historical and cultural values affect what Weamys chose to pick up from Sidney's work and what seems to be of lesser interest to her. For example, in the three stories from Sidney's Arcadia on which she focuses, Weamys brings an awareness of the difficulties of women's position to bear on narrative in a way which prefigures the novel.
Anna, Where Are You?: 3,218 Nights Of Reading With My Father
by Patricia WentworthThere is nothing more deadly than a friend betrayed.There is no doubt in Thomasina Elliott's mind that her oldest schoolfriend is a creature of habit. So when, after three years of regular correspondence, Anna's letters suddenly stop, Thomasina becomes concerned. And even more so when it transpires that her friend has disappeared without trace, in extremely odd circumstances. Fortunately, however, the indomitable Miss Silver is on hand to investigate.
Anna, Where Are You?: 3,218 Nights Of Reading With My Father (Miss Silver Series)
by Patricia WentworthThere is nothing more deadly than a friend betrayed.There is no doubt in Thomasina Elliott's mind that her oldest schoolfriend is a creature of habit. So when, after three years of regular correspondence, Anna's letters suddenly stop, Thomasina becomes concerned. And even more so when it transpires that her friend has disappeared without trace, in extremely odd circumstances. Fortunately, however, the indomitable Miss Silver is on hand to investigate.
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (Haney Foundation Series)
by Tara NummedalIn 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers' stone—and would serve a critical role in preparing for the Last Days. Boldly envisioning herself as a Protestant Virgin Mary, Anna proposed that the lion's blood, paired with her own body, could even generate life, repopulating and redeeming the corrupt world in its final moments.In Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood, Tara Nummedal reconstructs the extraordinary career and historical afterlife of alchemist, courtier, and prophet Anna Zieglerin. She situates Anna's story within the wider frameworks of Reformation Germany's religious, political, and military battles; the rising influence of alchemy; the role of apocalyptic eschatology; and the position of women within these contexts. Together with her husband, the jester Heinrich Schombach, and their companion and fellow alchemist Philipp Sommering, Anna promised her patrons at the court of Wolfenbüttel spiritual salvation and material profit. But her compelling vision brought with it another, darker possibility: rather than granting her patrons wealth or redemption, Anna's alchemical gifts might instead lead to war, disgrace, and destruction. By 1575, three years after Anna's arrival at court, her enemies had succeeded in turning her from holy alchemist into poisoner and sorceress, culminating in Anna's arrest, torture, and public execution.In her own life, Anna was a master of self-fashioning; in the centuries since her death, her story has been continually refashioned, making her a fitting emblem for each new age. Interweaving the history of science, gender, religion, and politics, Nummedal recounts how one resourceful woman's alchemical schemes touched some of the most consequential matters in Reformation Germany.