The Dollmaker S Daughters

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sisters
ISBN : 1846056306

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The Dollmaker's Daughters by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. M. Romero
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524715410

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The Dollmaker of Krakow by R. M. Romero Pdf

In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times. In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain. But together there is hope. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter—that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him. But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks.

Author : Marilyn S Land
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780595332144

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The Dollmaker by Marilyn S Land Pdf

Although born into privilege, Ayna Landau marries Karl Adler in 1924 and opens the door to a world of opportunities that propel her husband's company to the height of success in the porcelain doll industry of interwar Germany. As she basks in the glory of her triumphs, her idyllic life is interrupted by Adolph Hitler's meteoric rise to power in the 1930s as head of the Nazi Party. While the chaos the Nazis create throughout Europe culminates in World War II, Ayna and her family risk everything they have worked for to secure the safety and freedom of not only their family and friends, but strangers who seek their help, as well. Struggling to survive the depths of personal tragedy that befall her by the war's end, she abandons the Adler Doll Works and their beautiful villa to flee Germany mere days ahead of the approaching Russian army, determined to be reunited with her children in Switzerland. Ayna's perseverance and resolve to restore the Adler name to the prominence it once held becomes her final mission, in an effort to bequeath its legacy to her children, grandchildren, and all future Adlers.

Author : Harriette Arnow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439164517

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The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow Pdf

The Dollmaker was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. In unadorned and powerful prose, Harriette Arnow tells the unforgettable and heartbreaking story of the Nevels family and their quest to preserve their deep-rooted values amidst the turmoil of war and industrialization. When Gertie Nevels, a strong and self-reliant matriarch, follows her husband to Detroit from their countryside home in Kentucky, she learns she will have to fight desperately to keep her family together. A sprawling book full of vividly drawn characters and masterful scenes, The Dollmaker is a passionate tribute to a woman's love for her children and the land.

Author : Abigail Padgett
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446405361

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The Dollmaker's Daughters by Abigail Padgett Pdf

Social worker Bo Bradley takes the case of a 15-year-old nearly catatonic with fear.

Author : Abigail Padgett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1507020775

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The Dollmaker's Daughters by Abigail Padgett Pdf

Fifth in the Bo Bradley series, in this psychological thriller Bo reaches out to 15-year-old Janny Malcolm, a foster child found frozen in terror at a popular Goth hangout. An exquisite but battered doll is chained to Janny's wrist. She keeps the doll, called "Kimmy," close at all times, although she doesn't know why. Neither does she know anything about her past. But something has frightened Janny so deeply that, without help, she may retreat into herself. Permanently.Against all departmental rules, Bo befriends Janny and picks up a 13-year-old trail of child abuse, deceit and murder that may involve Child Protective Services at the highest level. When Bo learns of a grim medical facility and secretly observes a furtive funeral attended by only two people, her investigative instincts lead to a master dollmaker, a reclusive ex-cop and a hidden trail of disturbing secrets.. Even Bo's heightened psychological insight and empathy are nearly, but not quite, foiled by the complex spin surrounding a single, malignant mind."Excellent ... a Bach concerto of a read... Fascinating... outstanding blend of the comic and the eerie ... engrossing and enchanting ... It is impossible to put down."—New Brunswick Reader"This is a book I hated to put down until I reached its satisfying conclusion."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author : M. B. Goffstein
Publisher : Sunburst
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374427402

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Goldie the Dollmaker by M. B. Goffstein Pdf

Goldie, the dollmaker, created each doll with great love and sincerity, and the pleasure from this and her acquisition of a lamp whose maker was equally careful made her poverty and loneliness bearable.

Author : Amanda Stevens
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781552549155

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The Dollmaker by Amanda Stevens Pdf

And now a new clue has surfaced...a doll that is the spitting image of Claire Doucett's missing child, right down to the tiny birthmark on the girl's left arm. A chance sighting of the eerily lifelike doll in a French Quarter collectibles shop leaves Claire shaken to her core...and more determined than ever to find out what happened to her beloved Ruby. When the doll is snatched and the store's owner turns up dead, Claire knows the only person she can turn to is ex-husband Dave Creasy, a former cop who has spent the past seven years imprisoned by his own guilt and despair. He let Claire down once when she needed him the most. Can she make him believe the doll really exists? She'll have to if they're to survive an encounter with a brutal psychopath— the dollmaker—who stole their future to feed an obsession that will never die.

Author : Sashi Fridman,Jessica Schiffman
Publisher : Merkos Publications
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Dollmakers
ISBN : 0826600409

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The Doll Maker's Gift by Sashi Fridman,Jessica Schiffman Pdf

"When Pogroms in Eastern Europe force little Nora's family to flee to America, they discover at the last moment that they haven't enough funds to pay for everyone's passage. One of them will have to stay behind. The decision is difficult, and Nora is to be left with a family friend, a kind doll maker who offers to care for her until they can earn enough money to pay for her journey. Nora's mother is beside herself, heartbroken about leaving her youngest--yet the devoted doll maker shows that good friends are priceless and that all obstacles can be overcome when there is a true desire to help another." -- Publisher

Author : Margaret Ripley Wolfe
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813189833

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Daughters Of Canaan by Margaret Ripley Wolfe Pdf

From Gone with the Wind to Designing Women, images of southern females that emerge from fiction and film tend to obscure the diversity of American women from below the Mason-Dixon line. In a work that deftly lays bare a myriad of myths and stereotypes while presenting true stories of ambition, grit, and endurance, Margaret Ripley Wolfe offers the first professional historical synthesis of southern women's experiences across the centuries. In telling their story, she considers many ordinary lives—those of Native-American, African-American, and white women from the Tidewater region and Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta to the Gulf Coastal Plain, women whose varied economic and social circumstances resist simple explanations. Wolfe examines critical eras, outstanding personalities and groups—wives, mothers, pioneers, soldiers, suffragists, politicians, and civil rights activists—and the impact of the passage of time and the pressure of historical forces on the region's females. The historical southern woman, argues Wolfe, has operated under a number of handicaps, bearing the full weight of southern history, mythology, and legend. Added to these have been the limitations of being female in a patriarchal society and the constraining images of the "southern belle" and her mentor, the "southern lady." In addition, the specter of race has haunted all southern women. Gender is a common denominator, but according to Wolfe, it does not transcend race, class, point of view, or a host of other factors. Intrigued by the imagery as well as the irony of biblical stories and southern history, Wolfe titles her work Daughters of Canaan. Canaan symbolizes promise, and for activist women in particular the South has been about promise as much as fulfillment. General readers and students of southern and women's history will be drawn to Wolfe's engrossing chronicle.

Author : Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442247970

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Operas in German by Margaret Ross Griffel Pdf

With nearly three thousand new entries, the revised edition of Operas in German: A Dictionary is the most current encyclopedic treatment of operas written specifically to a German text from the seventeenth century through 2016. Musicologist Margaret Ross Griffel details the operas’ composers, scores, librettos, first performances, and bibliographic sources. Four appendixes then list composers, librettists, authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the opera librettos, and a chronological listing of the entries in the A–Z section. The bibliography details other dictionaries and encyclopedias, performance studies, collections of plot summaries, general studies on operas, sources on locales where opera premieres took place, works on the history of operas in German, and selective volumes on individual opera composers, librettists, producers, directors, and designers. Finally, two indexes list the main characters in each opera and the names of singers, conductors, producers, composers, directors, choreographers, and arrangers. The revised edition of Operas in German provides opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers with an invaluable resource for continued study and enjoyment. As the most current encyclopedic collection of German opera from the seventeenth century through the twenty-first, Operas in German is an invaluable resource for opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers.

Author : Randall E. Auxier,Phil Seng
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812697827

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The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy by Randall E. Auxier,Phil Seng Pdf

From the bedtime story by L. Frank Baum to the classic 1939 film, no story has captured the imaginations of generations of children — and adults — like The Wizard of Oz. The story of Dorothy’s journey through Oz, the colorful characters, places, songs, and dialogue have permeated popular culture around the world. The contributors to this volume take a very close look at The Wizard of Oz and ask the tough questions about this wonderful tale. They wonder if someone can possess a virtue without knowing it, and if the realm of Oz was really the dream or if Kansas was the dream. Why does water melt the Wicked Witch of the West and why does Toto seem to know what the other characters can’t seem to figure out? The articles included tackle these compelling questions and more, encouraging readers to have discussions of their own.

Author : Harriette Simpson Arnow
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609173340

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The Weedkiller's Daughter by Harriette Simpson Arnow Pdf

As compelling as it is turbulent, The Weedkiller’s Daughter captures a family at the center of the rapidly changing society of midcentury Detroit. Fifteen-year-old Susie greets this new era with a sense of curiosity, while her father rages against it, approaching anything and everything foreign, unconventional, or unfortunate as he does the weeds he perpetually removes from his garden. As Susie seeks escape from her parents’ increasingly restrictive world of order and monotony, she ventures deeper and deeper into a dangerously new territory. The Weedkiller’s Daughter is a gripping psychological exploration of a generation on the brink of indelible—and irreversible—transformation.

Author : Bonnie A. Helms
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0825118999

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100 More Great Books by Bonnie A. Helms Pdf

A companion title to 150 Great Books, this acclaimed sequel reviews classic and contemporary works. Each title contains a plot summary, three evaluation tools (a 20-question quiz, 5 short-answer questions, and a chellenge essay question), answers and suggested responses, glossary of literary terms, and bibliographical entries. The 100 titles are grouped in seven categories: Adventure and Survival (such as Run Silent, Run Deep, Lord of the Flies, and A Walk Across America) The Maturing Self (such as The Stranger, Carrie, and Homecoming) History in Fiction (such as The Sun Also Rises, Gone with the Wind, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural (such as The Last Unicorn, The Other, and The Martian Chronicles) Social Issues and Moral Challenge (such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, All the President's Men, and Skindeep) Success and Achievement (such as The Bell Jar, A Man Called Peter, and Up the Down Staircase) Reflections of the Family (such as Roots, Cold Sassy Tree, and Giants in the Earth) Note: The original literary works are not included.

Author : Christine Trent
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758256331

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The Queen's Dollmaker by Christine Trent Pdf

On the brink of revolution, with a tide of hate turned against the decadent royal court, France is in turmoil--as is the life of one young woman forced to leave her beloved Paris. After a fire destroys her home and family, Claudette Laurent is struggling to survive in London. But one precious gift remains: her talent for creating exquisite dolls that Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France herself, cherishes. When the Queen requests a meeting, Claudette seizes the opportunity to promote her business, and to return home. . . Amid the violence and unrest, Claudette befriends the Queen, who bears no resemblance to the figurehead rapidly becoming the scapegoat of the Revolution. But when Claudette herself is lured into a web of deadly political intrigue, it becomes clear that friendship with France's most despised woman has grim consequences. Now, overshadowed by the specter of Madame Guillotine, the Queen's dollmaker will face the ultimate test. Infused with the passion and excitement of a country--and an unforgettable heroine--on the threshold of radical change, this captivating novel propels readers into a beguiling world of opulence, adventure, and danger, from the rough streets of eighteenth-century London to France's lavish Palace of Versailles. "Winningly original. . .glittering with atmospheric detail!" --Leslie Carroll, author of Royal Affairs "Unique, imaginative. . .replete with delightful details and astounding characters, both real and imagined." --Donna Russo Morin, author of The Courtier's Secret