Author : Larry Levis
Publisher : Plume
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0525476628
The Dollmaker's Ghost
Larry Levis
The Dollmaker S Ghost
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The Dollmaker's Ghost
Larry Levis
Author : Larry Levis
Publisher : Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : PSU:000044398101
The Dollmaker's Ghost by Larry Levis Pdf
A reissuing of The Dollmaker's Ghost, poetry by Larry Levis.
The Dollmaker
Marilyn S Land
Author : Marilyn S Land
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780595332144
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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.
The Dollmaker of Krakow
R. M. Romero
Author : R. M. Romero
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524715410
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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.
The Dollmaker
Nina Allan
Author : Nina Allan
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590519943
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Advocate and Tor.com A love story of two very real, unusual people, and a novel rich with wonders that shines a radically different light on society's marginal figures. Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's magazine. Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an institution on Bodmin Moor, and the terrible events that put her there as a child. Andrew knows what it is to be trapped; and as they knit closer together, he weaves a curious plan to rescue her. On his journey through the old towns of England he reads the fairytales of Ewa Chaplin—potent, eldritch stories which, like her lifelike dolls, pluck at the edges of reality and thread their way into his mind. When Andrew and Bramber meet at last, they will have a choice—to remain alone with their painful pasts or break free and, unlike their dolls, come to life.
The Dollmaker
Amanda Stevens
Author : Amanda Stevens
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460301579
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In Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, a terrible secret is about to be uncovered by a woman whose daughter vanished seven years ago without a trace… 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.
The Dollmaker
Morgan Shamy
Author : Morgan Shamy
Publisher : CamCat Publishing, LLC
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780744308709
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No one is safe. Not when The Dollmaker lurks in the shadows. Dawn Hildegard’s dream is to become a doctor, but for a woman in the 1920s, this is no easy task. When her best friend Rose is kidnapped by “The Dollmaker,” a crazed serial killer who creates “art” from his victim’s bodies, she drops everything to find her. With the help of a handsome new acquaintance and his mysterious brother, Dawn investigates the fascinating case: Women found dead at the scene—their limbs skillfully removed, only to later be found stitched back together, suspended in doll-like positions throughout town in a grotesque display. While following the trail of clues, Dawn can’t help her growing affection for the brothers, or her sense of unease. The Hemsworth brothers share dark secrets, and both have ties to one of the victims. With time running out, Dawn must use her wits and medical knowledge to find Rose before it’s too late. And before she becomes The Dollmaker’s next victim.
Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry (p)
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1610754050
Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry (p) by Anonim Pdf
The Dollmaker's Daughters
Dilly Court
Author : Dilly Court
Publisher : Random House
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446472637
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A powerful saga set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London from the Sunday Times bestselling author. For Ruby and Rosetta Capretti life in the slums of the East End holds little promise. Although very similar in looks they dream of very different futures. Coquettish, flamboyant Rosetta is desperate to leave the claustrophobic confines of the sewing sweatshop to follow in her wayward aunt's footsteps and work under the bright lights of the music hall. Ruby, quieter and more modest, has always longed to train as a nurse, a pipe-dream for a girl from her humble background. And then, by the side of their father's grave, they meet handsome Jonas Crowe. But little do they know how much one man will affect both their lives for ever.
Humanities
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Humanities
ISBN : MSU:31293009632732
Humanities by Anonim Pdf
The Dollmaker
Nina Allan
Author : Nina Allan
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590519936
The Dollmaker by Nina Allan Pdf
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Advocate and Tor.com A love story of two very real, unusual people, and a novel rich with wonders that shines a radically different light on society's marginal figures. Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's magazine. Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an institution on Bodmin Moor, and the terrible events that put her there as a child. Andrew knows what it is to be trapped; and as they knit closer together, he weaves a curious plan to rescue her. On his journey through the old towns of England he reads the fairytales of Ewa Chaplin—potent, eldritch stories which, like her lifelike dolls, pluck at the edges of reality and thread their way into his mind. When Andrew and Bramber meet at last, they will have a choice—to remain alone with their painful pasts or break free and, unlike their dolls, come to life.
The Selected Levis
Larry Levis
Author : Larry Levis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822991069
The Selected Levis by Larry Levis Pdf
Edited and with an Afterword by David St. John When Larry Levis died suddenly in 1996, Philip Levine wrote that he had years earlier recognized Levis as “the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes. . . . His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives.” Each of his books was published to wide critical acclaim, and David St. John has collected together the best of his work from his first five books: Wrecking Crew (1972), Afterlife (1976), The Dollmaker’s Ghost (1981), Winter Stars (1985) and The Widening Spell of the Leaves (1991). “It is not an exaggeration to say that the death of Larry Levis in 1996—of a heart attack at 49—sent a shock wave through the ranks of American poetry. Not only was Levis a good friend to many poets (not simply of his own generation but of many poets older and younger as well), his poetry had become a kind of touchstone for many of us, a source of special inspiration and awe. With Larry Levis’ death came the sense that an American original had been lost. . . . It is not at all paradoxical that he saw both the most intimate expressions of poetry and the grandest gestures of art, of language, as constituting individual acts of courage. One can only hope that, like such courage, Larry Levis’s remarkable poems will continue to live far into our literature.”—from the Afterword, by David St. John
The Curse of the Fortune Teller
AQEEL AHMED
Author : AQEEL AHMED
Publisher : AQEEL AHMED
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781998240746
The Curse of the Fortune Teller by AQEEL AHMED Pdf
Anna, a librarian who likes to keep her life as organized as the books she reads, finds out that she is the unintended heir to a family's old doll collection that she had no idea existed. The story skillfully blends the magical with the everyday. When Anna finds out that the dolls aren't normal, what starts out as an interesting gift quickly turns into a scary story. Each and every beautifully made doll is a home for a bad spirit; they were cursed by a dollmaker whose skills had wandered into the dark arts. Now that Anna has to take on this dark family history, an amazing journey into the supernatural starts. Anna gets caught in a web of modern dangers and old mysteries as she tries to figure out where the dolls came from and what the curse is that keeps the spirits inside. Her search tells the story of a dollmaker whose desire for revenge went beyond death. He used his craft to lock up his enemies in the porcelain bodies of his dolls and send them to an endless state of limbo. When Anna learns the danger, she has inherited—that each doll's haunted face is a reminder of the curse that could make her the next victim—she goes from being excited to being worried. In order to break the cycle of revenge and free the souls that are being held captive, Anna sets out on a dangerous trip that will test her heart and strength. A local historian who knows about the town's scary stories helps her make the rite that will break the chains that hold the spirits in their earthly cages. Anna's determination is put to the ultimate test when she meets the dollmaker's ghost. To win, she needs to use everything she has learned and all of her inner strength. At the end of the story, there is a dramatic ceremony that breaks the curse, frees the spirits, and defeats the evil that was trying to kill Anna. Once the event was over, the toys lost their evil spirit and became silent witnesses to Anna's bravery and the power of forgiveness. Anna learns that her experience with the supernatural gave her a power she didn't know she had and showed her a universe full of mysteries that haven't been solved yet. As a story keeper, she leaves her library and becomes a part of a much bigger story than the one that was in there. Part 1: The Will and Testament The world outside looked like it was crying hysterically that awful, rainy afternoon, and Anna's life fell into shadows from which it would never fully come back. The letter pulled her into a heritage she hadn't planned on. The beautiful but faded handwriting was like a beacon of mystery. It was about the memory of a great-aunt, someone Anna had forgotten about and had barely thought of. Anna got something from her great-aunt that was much more valuable than you might think. Instead, it was a group of old dolls, each one a beauty from a different time with eyes and faces that were painted so carefully that they seemed to have their own souls. As Anna unloaded the collection, the air around her got thicker and seemed to pick up a power she couldn't see. These dolls were more than just old toys because they had stories inside them and maybe even pieces of someone's soul. Even though it was clear that they were perfect, there was something disturbing about it. Their glassy, reflecting eyes seemed to follow her around the room, telling her things she had forgotten. Anna felt more and more uncomfortable as she looked at them; she thought the dolls were hiding something scarier than just being lifeless things. In the middle of the night, the house was filled with soft, confusing noises instead of the peaceful silence that was like her life alone. Soft steps, the sway of silken gowns, and the soft, almost undetectable whisper of voices arguing about their newfound freedom and whether or not there was a living person among them. Anna started having nightmares about black shapes moving just out of sight. The dreams were just as mysterious as the place from which the shapes seemed to appear. As she turned around, the dolls' faces changed a little, making it look like they weren't just painted China, but real people with bad intentions. When she woke up, she thought someone was watching her. It was a strange gift from a long-lost cousin that turned out to be a curse. Anna realized that the dolls were more than just memories from the past; they were part of a dark heritage. They were connected to a base, evil power that was now looking at her. It became very clear to me that these dolls were the key to a door that I should never have opened. They led to a world of ghosts and shadows that wanted to be touched by humans. Slowly but surely, the line between the real world and the dreams became less clear. She was caught in a web of fear, with the whispers and watchful eyes of her genetic curse weaving every thread. Being alone in her life, which used to make her feel better, had become a jail she couldn't seem to get out of. The dolls, which looked so much like real people, were defenders of a dangerous past. They were a sobering reminder of what it costs to be curious and the weight of a family history that was heavier than it seemed at first. Anna had been seeking information and had come across a truth that was scarier than any story. It was about death, spirits trapped on earth, and the thin line that separates the living from the dead. Her peaceful life had turned into a nightmare from which she couldn't wake up, a story of terror and sadness that had been passed down to her. Chapter 2: A Compilation of Mysteries Anna felt very scared as soon as she walked into the old house. It was almost like the air itself was warning her in a language no one had heard before. The rooms were musty and covered in spider webs, and they were full of silent guardians waiting for her. Each doll, which was a mirror of the artist's dark desire, had a delicate beauty that hid a dark truth. Their eyes had a bright shine that made me think of a soul trapped inside, and the way they were painted made their faces look almost divine, with unsettlingly calm expressions. With their soft faces and white skin, these dolls didn't look like they were just toys; they were more like vessels that had an unsettlingly human quality to them. Anna felt like she was being watched as she walked through the house. The dolls' eyes were following her every move with a fierce focus. Here in this dark, quiet place, she told herself it was all in her head. One deep part of her, though, screamed, "This is real!" The air around her felt electric, like a storm was building between what she could see and what she couldn't see. The dolls had power here; their very presence was a challenge to the living, with threats and secrets that were only said out loud.
Snared
Jennifer Estep
Author : Jennifer Estep
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501142277
Snared by Jennifer Estep Pdf
The sixteenth book in the New York Times bestselling Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series that RT Book Reviews calls, “An extraordinary series…[containing] one of the most intriguing heroines in the genre.” If you don’t know Gin “the Spider” Blanco, you don’t know dangerous female heroines. Irony 101—The Spider herself snared in someone else’s web… Another week, another few clues trickling in about the Circle, the mysterious group that supposedly runs the city’s underworld. Gathering intel on my hidden enemies is a painstaking process, but a more immediate mystery has popped up on my radar: a missing girl. My search for the girl begins on the mean streets of Ashland, but with all the killers and crooks in this city, I’m not holding out much hope that she’s still alive. A series of clues leads me down an increasingly dark, dangerous path, and I realize that the missing girl is really just the first thread in this web of evil. As an assassin, I’m used to facing down the worst of the worst, but nothing prepares me for this new, terrifying enemy—one who strikes from the shadows and is determined to make me the next victim.
Children's Books and Their Creators
Anita Silvey
Author : Anita Silvey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0395653800
Children's Books and Their Creators by Anita Silvey Pdf
Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.
