I Was Anastasia

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enthralling feat of historical suspense that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's fifty-year battle to be recognized 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…

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2 authors picked I Was Anastasia as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ken Czech

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The author does a masterful job of intertwining the lives of Princess Anastasia of Russia and Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the murdered princess.

What makes this so interesting is her description of Anastasia's life from the demise of the Romanov family in 1917 to her death in 1918 while describing Anna's life from 1970 backward to the circumstances leading to her impersonation.

Even though I am familiar with Anastasia's life and cruel death, I thought this was a unique approach, and it kept me going until the very last page.

From Ken's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

Ken Czech

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The tragedy and mystery surrounding the murders of Tsar Nicholas and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks has been well documented. Author Lawhon goes a step further through the eyes of Anastasia, the tsar's youngest daughter who was thought to have survived. But it is also the story of Anna Anderson, fished out of a canal in Berlin, and later claiming to be the lost Anastasia. This book is a splendid blend of stories of two young women caught in perilous times. The massacre of the Romanovs in the Ipatiev House is told in chilling detail, yet the…

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Follow Me to Africa

By Penny Haw,

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Historical fiction inspired by the story of Mary Leakey, who carved her own path to become one of the world's most distinguished paleoanthropologists.

It's 1983 and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Here, seventy-year-old Mary Leakey enlists Grace to sort and pack her fifty years of work and memories.

Their interaction reminds Mary how she pursued her ambitions of becoming an archeologist in the 1930s by sneaking into lectures and working on excavations. When well-known paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey…

Follow Me to Africa

By Penny Haw,

What is this book about?

Historical fiction inspired by the story of Mary Leakey, who carved her own path to become one of the world's most distinguished paleoanthropologists.

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