Download or read book The Dollmaker written by Harriette Arnow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Dollmaker of Krakow written by R. M. Romero and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Dollmaker written by Nina Allan and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Dollmaker written by Mary Burton and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in mass market for the first time, USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton presents the heart-stopping next installment in her Forgotten Files Trilogy, where forensic pathologist Dr. Tessa McGowan and agent Dakota Sharp must work together to unravel the mysteries behind the macabre doll-like killings before Tessa becomes the next victim. Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale. Someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it's her job to aid the agent leading the case--even if that agent is her estranged husband. Twelve years ago, an unspeakable tragedy destroyed Dakota Sharp's world. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, he's devoted himself to capturing killers. His only regret is that it cost him Tessa. Now, as the Dollmaker case brings them together--and raises his suspicions that he's crossed paths with this deranged psychopath before-- they may just have their second chance. But it seems Dakota's not the only one who wants to make Tessa his own . . . She may be the Dollmaker's next target, but Tessa has no intention of winding up as another toy on his shelf. Can she and Dakota stop this ghastly killer before his next deadly playdate?
Download or read book Goldie the Dollmaker written by M. B. Goffstein and published by Sunburst. This book was released on 1985 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Doll Maker written by Richard Montanari and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invitation. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano: a delicate porcelain doll. It's a message. And a threat. With the killers at large, Detectives Byrne and Balzano have just seven more days to find the link between the murders before another innocent child is snatched from the streets.
Download or read book The Dollmaker written by Amanda Stevens and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Doll Maker s Gift written by Sashi Fridman and published by Merkos Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book The Dollmaker s Ghost written by Larry Levis and published by Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissuing of The Dollmaker's Ghost, poetry by Larry Levis.
Download or read book A Dollmaker s Art written by Louise Fecher and published by Reverie Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since making her first doll in 1989, artist Nancy Wiley has earned recognition and accolades both within and outside of the doll field. Her stylise and imaginative figures have been featured in magazines such as 'Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion', 'In Style' and 'George', as well as all the major doll-making publications. The book showcases 85 of the Nancy Wiley's dolls in full colour photos, organised by theme and presented with insightful commentaries from the artist, and includes a step-by-step photo essay that demonstrates the development of one doll from start to finish. The collection includes several pieces created for debut at the artist's one-woman show held in Iowa in 2004. The author is a long time writer and researcher in the field of contemporary artist dolls and has extensively interviewed Ms Wiley's family, friends, colleagues and critics to create an engaging biographical profile that traces the evolution of this dynamic artist.
Download or read book The Making of a Rag Doll written by Jess Brown and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designer Jess Brown is known for her irresistible, starry-eyed rag dolls. In this inspiring book, Brown shares a custom pattern and simple instructions to sew, personalize, and accessorize your own rag doll. Illustrating the story behind these dolls, the book places emphasis on natural materials, vintage fabrics, beautiful notions, and quality craftsmanship. Make the dolls for the children—of all ages—in your life to love now and cherish for decades. After making the doll, follow Brown's patterns for darling accessories such as an apron, overcoat, and knickers.
Download or read book A Thread of Truth written by Nina Allan and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection from London writer Nina Allan is rooted squarely in both the meticulously observed modern world and the traditions of British Macabre and Slipstream writing. The stories are subtle and elegantly crafted, leading readers to question their own identities and take a second look at places they thought they knew.
Download or read book The Doll Maker written by Claire Highton-Stevenson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A body turns up in a field. She's blonde and her eyes have been gouged out. DI Sophie Whitton knows it's him - The man the press has dubbed: The Doll Maker. Whitton and her team must act fast if they are to stop anyone else falling victim to The Doll Maker.With an innate need to seek the truth and find justice for the dead, DI Whitton risks losing it all, including her long-term relationship with live-in lover, Yvonne, as she strives to find a killer, and maybe even herself along the way.
Download or read book The Concrete Blonde written by Michael Connelly and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions. The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare. But the dead man's widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man-- an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature. So for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It's a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go-- the darkness of his own heart. With The Concrete Blonde, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has hit a whole new level in his career, creating a breathtaking thriller that thrusts you into a blistering courtroom battle-- and a desperate search for a sadistic killer.
Download or read book The Dollmaker s Daughters written by Abigail Padgett and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child abuse investigator Bo Bradley's latest case involves a fifteen-year-old girl paralyzed by fear and the secretive world of a famous but haunted dollmaker. By the author of Moonbird Boy. Tour.
Download or read book I Can Make Dolls Clothes written by Louise Scott-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible guide to creating and sewing doll's clothes for budding designers and crafty kids
Download or read book A D written by Josh Neufeld and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the stories of seven survivors of Hurricane Katrina who tried to evacuate, protect their possessions, and save loved ones before, during, and after the flood.
