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Diary of a Poetic Rose

By: Anastasia Isabella

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My first poetry book, Diary of a Poetic Rose is about the struggles of a shy, timid girl growing into a poetic rose. It deals with heart break, failure, guilt, friendships lost and gained, the loss of loved ones; to harnessing negativity and making a positive outlook on life. It showcases my journey through life, focusing on loving the person I have become developing my talents into poetry.. This book is my Heart and Soul and I am so thankful it has come to life... Keep Sharing the Dream and Stay Inspired.

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1257875736

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Stolen Secrets of a Poetic Rose

By: Anastasia Isabella

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Stolen Secrets of a Poetic Rose

By: Anastasia Isabella

Stolen Secrets of a Poetic Rose is about the secrets we try to hide or deny. The unspoken silence of our conscious. In essence a part two from, Diary of a Poetic Rose, this book reveals more deep and personal form of expression through poetry, photography, and graphics.

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1300013559

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9781300013556

The Other Side of Nothing

A Novel

By: Anastasia Zadeik

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The Other Side of Nothing

A Novel

By: Anastasia Zadeik

A moving exploration of family, friendship, and how far we are willing to go for the ones we love, The Other Side of Nothing is a powerful read about loss, self-determination, and second chances. 2024 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist for Popular Fiction 2024 Zibby Summer Reads Selection? The day after her eighteenth birthday, Julia Reeves checks herself into a psychiatric facility, longing to find a way out of the grief and guilt that have engulfed her since her father’s untimely death. What she finds is fellow suicide attempt survivor Sam Lorenzo, a brilliant twenty-three-year-old photographer. Sam brings beauty and light back into Julia’s life, so when he asks her to escape with him on a cross-country odyssey, she agrees. Before Julia can process what she’s done, the two young lovers are on the run. When Julia’s mother, Laura, learns Julia has disappeared and authorities will do nothing to help find her, Laura forms an uneasy alliance with the sole person who has as much to lose as she does: Sam’s mother, Arabella. Armed with only a handful of clues, the two mothers embark on a journey of their own, desperately hoping to save their children before they are lost forever.

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287

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Simon and Schuster

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1647426693

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9781647426699

To Preserve and Protect

Policing Colonial Brisbane

By: Anastasia Dukova

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To Preserve and Protect

Policing Colonial Brisbane

By: Anastasia Dukova

Early Australian policing had its roots on the streets of Dublin and London, where many of Australia's first law and order enforcers hailed from. Intrigued by this connection, historian Anastasia Dukova has researched and recreated the lives of colonial police officers and criminals in her adopted home city of Brisbane. Through exploring their personal stories, Dukova highlights how biography and history are inextricably linked and reveals the differences between metropolitan aspirations and colonial reality. To Preserve and Protect exposes political power abuse, corruption, mismanagement, professional burnout, and gendered justice, issues which continue to challenge police forces.

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702262293

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9780702262296

War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

By: Anastasia Stouraiti

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War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

By: Anastasia Stouraiti

Weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies, Anastasia Stouraiti shows how war and territorial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venetian culture and society. Using an extensive array of sources, Stouraiti tests conventional assumptions about republicanism, commercial peace and cross-cultural exchange and offers a new approach to the study of the Republic of Venice. By bringing the history of communication in dialogue with empire-building and colonial conquest in the Mediterranean, this book provides an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in wartime Venice. Stouraiti demonstrates that the Venetian-Ottoman War of the Morea (1684-1699) was mediated through a diverse range of cultural mechanisms of patrician elite domination that orchestrated the production of popular consent. Exploring the militarisation of the public sphere and the orientalist discourse associated with it, Stouraiti exposes the surprising connections between bellicose foreign policies and domestic power politics in a state celebrated as the most serene republic of merchants.

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309

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Cambridge University Press

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1108838448

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9781108838443

Winooski

By: Al Blondin,Anastasia Pratt,Winooski Historical Society

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Winooski

By: Al Blondin,Anastasia Pratt,Winooski Historical Society

Named by the Abenaki Indians, Winooski, which means "land of the wild onion," has enjoyed a long history. Ira and Ethan Allen and their uncle Remember Baker first settled in the area in 1772. Since that settlement, Winooski has hosted various mills and factories, several churches, many stores, and an active community. The Vermont Legislature approved a change of charter in 1921, and the citizens of Winooski voted in favor of incorporating the City of Winooski at their annual meeting in March 1922. The city's mills provided economic support until 1954, when the American Woolen Mill closed. Community Development Block Grants, Urban Development Action Grants, and other investments helped to revitalize Winooski throughout the 1980s, creating new job opportunities and updating the city's buildings and infrastructure. Now, as a designated Refugee Resettlement community, Winooski welcomes refugees from around the world, accommodating various languages and cultural needs. From the blockhouse constructed by the first settlers to the Winooski Block, the vibrant river city remains home to residents who have helped shape the history of Vermont.

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Arcadia Publishing

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143965459X

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9781439654590

Read and Write Sports

Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8

By: Anastasia Suen

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Read and Write Sports

Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8

By: Anastasia Suen

This book allows students to bring the energy of their everyday lives into the classroom via sports-based readers theatre and writing activities. Team sports like football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer. Individual athletic pursuits, such as skating, gymnastics, track, BMX, and skateboarding. These are the activities that hold a powerful and universal appeal for kids. Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3–8 makes students forget they're learning by delivering the action and emotion of their favorite pursuits as they participate in readers theatre activities and writing exercises such as composing an action-reaction poem for each sport. These activities allow students to draw from their personal experience and bring their extracurricular activities into the classroom by writing a narrative scene for different sports throughout the school year. Each chapter provides "filled-out" examples to model the pre-writing process, making it easy for students to see how others think before they write.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598846329

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9781598846324

The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos

By: Anastasia Psoni

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The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos

By: Anastasia Psoni

Modernism, as a powerful movement, saw the literary and artistic traditions, as well as pure science, starting to evolve radically, creating a crisis, even chaos, in culture and society. Within this chaos, myth offered an ordered picture of that world employing symbolic and poetic images. Both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos embraced myth and symbols because they liberate imagination and raise human consciousness, bringing together humans and the cosmos. Being opposed to the rigidity of scientific materialism that inhibits spiritual development, the two poets were waiting for a new age and a new religion, expecting that they, themselves, would inspire their community and usher in the change. In their longing for a new age, archaeology was a magnetic field for Yeats and Sikelianos, as it was for many writers and thinkers. After Sir Arthur Evans’s discovery of the Minoan Civilization where women appeared so peacefully prominent, the dream of re-creating a gynocentric mythology was no longer a fantasy. In Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the feminine figure appears in various forms and, like in a drama, it plays different roles. Significantly, a gynocentric mythology permeates the work of the two poets and this mythology is of pivotal importance in their poetry, their poetics and even in their life as the intensity of their creative desire brought to them female personalities to inspire and guide them. Indeed, in Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the image of the feminine holds a place within a historical context taking the reader into a larger social, political and religious space.

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480

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527523802

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9781527523807

The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies

Featuring the 100 Greatest Gangster Films of All Time

By: George Anastasia,Glen Macnow

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The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies

Featuring the 100 Greatest Gangster Films of All Time

By: George Anastasia,Glen Macnow

The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian "families" in America to similarly sinister groups in Europe, Japan, and beyond, the cinema has never shied away from portraying the evil exploits of these brutal outfits. In this highly entertaining and informative book, two accomplished and apropos authors put the genre in perspective like no other author or documentarian has done before. The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies provides extensive reviews of the Top 100 gangster films of all time, including sidebars like "Reality Check," "Hit and Miss," "I Know That Guy," "Body Count," and other fun and informative features. Also included are over a dozen stand-alone chapters such as Sleeper "Hits," "Fugazi" Flops, Guilty Pleasures, Lost Treasures, Q&A Interviews with top actors and directors (including Chazz Palinteri, Michael Madsen, Joe Mantagna, and more), plus over 50 compelling photographs. Foreword by Joe Pistone, the FBI agent and mob infiltrator who wrote the bestselling book and acclaimed movie, Donnie Brasco.

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Running Press Adult

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0762443707

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9780762443703

Grand Dishes

Recipes and stories from grandmothers of the world

By: Iska Lupton,Anastasia Miari

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Grand Dishes

Recipes and stories from grandmothers of the world

By: Iska Lupton,Anastasia Miari

This is not a book about what it’s like to be old. It’s about what it’s like to have lived. There is no food quite like a grandmother’s time-perfected dish. Inspired by their own grandmothers – and the love they shared through the food they served – Anastasia Miari and Iska Lupton embarked on a mission: from Corfu to Cuba, Moscow to New Orleans, and many more in between, they set out to capture cooking methods, regional recipes and timeless wisdom from grandmothers around the world. The result is Grand Dishes, a journey across four years of cooking with the world’s grandmothers, a preservation not just of recipes but of the stories – told through the dishes – that have seasoned these grandmothers’ lives. Featured alongside are contributions from celebrated chefs and food writers, each with their own grandmother’s recipe to share. Rich with the insight that age brings, elegant portraits, diverse recipes, and techniques unique to a region, a grandmother and her family, this is a book to pass down through generations.

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1800180012

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9781800180017

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises

By: Anastasia Salter,Mel Stanfill

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A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises

By: Anastasia Salter,Mel Stanfill

Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making—the “fanboy auteur.” Figures like Joss Whedon are both one of “us” and one of “them.” This is a strategy of marketing and branding—it is a claim from the auteur himself or industry PR machines that the presence of an auteur who is also a fan means the product is worth consuming. Such claims that fan credentials guarantee quality are often contested, with fans and critics alike rejecting various auteur figures as the true leader of their respective franchises. That split, between assertions of fan and auteur status and acceptance (or not) of that status, is key to unravelling the fan auteur. In A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises, authors Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill examine this phenomenon through a series of case studies featuring fanboys. The volume discusses both popular fanboys, such as J. J. Abrams, Kevin Smith, and Joss Whedon, as well as fangirls like J. K. Rowling, E L James, and Patty Jenkins, and dissects how the fanboy-fangirl auteur dichotomy is constructed and defended by popular media and fans in online spaces, and how this discourse has played in maintaining the exclusionary status quo of geek culture. This book is particularly timely given current discourse, including such incidents as the controversy surrounding Joss Whedon’s so-called feminism, the publication of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and contestation over authorial voices in the DC cinematic universe, as well as broader conversations about toxic masculinity and sexual harassment in Hollywood.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496830482

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9781496830487

Oriana: A Novel

A Novel of Oriana Fallaci

By: Anastasia Rubis

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Oriana: A Novel

A Novel of Oriana Fallaci

By: Anastasia Rubis

When a Hollywood producer comes to Oriana at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her gutsy career rise as a journalist, her tragic love, and her greatest regret. Oriana Fallaci was born a rebel. She fought beside her father at age fourteen in Italy’s Resistance against the Nazis and overcame poverty, the lack of a university education, and relentless sexism in the newsroom. By 1973 when she moved to New York, Oriana Fallaci was hailed by Newsweek as the greatest interviewer of her day. She became famous for her courageous and hard-hitting interviews with Kissinger, Arafat, Meir, Khomeini and other world leaders—not to mention the most prominent celebrities and artists of her day. That same year, 1973, she did what no journalist is supposed to do: she fell in love with one of her subjects, Alexander Panagoulis, the Greek poet and hero. She was 44, he was 34; they lived in different countries. It didn’t matter. Oriana had finally found what she longed for: a full life. But can a woman ever have it all, or does life always exact a price? Oriana is the first novel about the glamorous and fearless Italian journalist whom Christiane Amanpour has called her role model for asking tough questions—and who holds a place beside Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters when naming world-class interviewers. This biographical novel tells the story of one of the first women to break through the glass ceiling of journalism, a woman who wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power and who revolutionized her field, all while trying to balance her career with love and happiness. For readers who loved Hidden Figures and stories about women who succeed as women in realms traditionally reserved for men.

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Delphinium Books

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1504094972

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9781504094979

Of Manners and Murder

A Dear Miss Hermione Mystery

By: Anastasia Hastings

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Of Manners and Murder

A Dear Miss Hermione Mystery

By: Anastasia Hastings

Of Manners and Murder is the first in the delightful new Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings. "Evokes the shocking revelations of Wilkie Collins, the social acuity of Jane Austen and the comic melodrama of Oscar Wilde."—Wall Street Journal 1885: London, England. When Violet's Aunt Adelia decides to abscond with her newest paramour, she leaves behind her role as the most popular Agony Aunt in London, "Miss Hermione," in Violet's hands. And of course, the first letter Violet receives is full, not of prissy pondering, but of portent. Ivy Armstrong is in need of help and fears for her life. But when Violet visits the village where the letters were posted, she finds that Ivy is already dead. She'll quickly discover that when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, both marauding husbands and murder are par for the course.

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Minotaur Books

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1250848571

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9781250848574

Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria

By: Anistatia R. Miller,Anastasia M. Miller,Jared M. Brown

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Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria

By: Anistatia R. Miller,Anastasia M. Miller,Jared M. Brown

Travelers discover why Vancouver and Victoria are the two most popular destinations in Canada in this guide which features expanded coverage of spectacular excursions in British Columbia, as well as information on dining, shopping, and night life.

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MacMillan Publishing Company

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0028620526

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9780028620527

Washington, D. C. '98

The Complete Guide with Monuments, Museums, Arlington, Annapolis and Best Bets F Or Kids

By: Anastasia R. Mills

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The Complete Guide with Monuments, Museums, Arlington, Annapolis and Best Bets F Or Kids

By: Anastasia R. Mills

Don Cupitt here sharply juxtaposes the traditional Apostles' creed of western Christianity and the emergent creed of modern radical theology. Side by side, they look amazingly different, and Cupitt carefully explains what is happening, and why. The main change, he argues, is that the old creed situated the believer within a huge narrative cosmology, the central myth of a great religion-based civilization, whereas the new creed merely defines the bare outlines of a modern spirituality. The new religion emerges as being scarcely creedal at all; it is the practice of 'solar living'. People no longer 'look up': instead, they are content simply to claim their own lives, to find their own way of living them, and to live life to its fullest. Just ordinary life itself is now the religious object - which shows the 'post-protestant' character of the new outlook."--BOOK JACKET.

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284

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Fodor's

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0679035451

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9780679035459

Book's by Anastasia Isabella

Diary of a Poetic Rose

Diary of a Poetic Rose

Stolen Secrets of a Poetic Rose

Stolen Secrets of a Poetic Rose

The Other Side of Nothing

The Other Side of Nothing

To Preserve and Protect

To Preserve and Protect

War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

Winooski

Winooski

Read and Write Sports

Read and Write Sports

The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos

The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos

The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies

The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies

Grand Dishes

Grand Dishes

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

Oriana: A Novel

Oriana: A Novel

Of Manners and Murder

Of Manners and Murder

Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria

Frommer's Vancouver and Victoria

Washington, D. C. '98

Washington, D. C. '98

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