William's Doll
Title | William's Doll PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Zolotow |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1985-05-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0064430677 |
More than anything, William wants a doll. "Don't be a creep," says his brother. "Sissy, sissy," chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William's wish, and makes it easy for others to understand, too.
That's Debatable
Title | That's Debatable PDF eBook |
Author | Jen Doll |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2022-08-30 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0374306052 |
That's Debatable is a witty, smart, and feminist romantic comedy, author Jen Doll explores what it means to set boundaries while breaking down barriers. Millicent Chalmers isn’t here to make friends. She’s here to win, and she’s on track to set a record if—no, when—she wins the state debate tournament for the fourth year in a row. Calm, cool, and always in control, Millie doesn’t care what anyone else thinks of her, least of all the sexist bullies bent on destroying her reputation. Taggart Strong couldn’t care less about winning debate, much to the consternation of his teammates, school and parents. In fact, he might even enjoy losing, as long as the side he believes in wins. But when a tournament takes a scary turn, Millie and Tag find themselves unexpectedly working together. Maybe Millie can teach Tag a thing or two about using his head, and Tag can teach Millie a little bit about following her heart.
The Ultimate Doll Book
Title | The Ultimate Doll Book PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Georgina Goodfellow |
Publisher | MetroBooks (NY) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001-10 |
Genre | Dolls |
ISBN | 9781586632342 |
A collection of more than 400 dolls spanning two centuries. Each doll shown in original clothes or period costumes. Advice on care and collecting.
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
Title | The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Nathan |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2013-05-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466845309 |
A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book-and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together a glamorous life. Blond, beautiful Wright had begun her career as an actress and model and then turned to fashion photography before stumbling upon her role as bestselling author. But there was a dark side to the story: a brother lost in childhood, ill-fated marriage plans, a complicated, controlling mother. Edith Stevenson Wright, herself a successful portrait painter, played such a dominant role in her daughter's life that Dare was never able to find her way into the adult world. Only through her work could she speak for herself: in her books she created the happy family she'd always yearned for, while her self-portraits betrayed an unresolved tension between sexuality and innocence, a desire to belong and painful isolation. Illustrated with stunning photographs, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll tells the unforgettable story of a woman who, imprisoned by her childhood, sought to set herself free through art.
The Doll People
Title | The Doll People PDF eBook |
Author | Ann M. M. Martin |
Publisher | Hyperion |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780786803613 |
Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in.
Doll's Eyes
Title | Doll's Eyes PDF eBook |
Author | Bari Wood |
Publisher | Avon Books |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1994-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780380720972 |
"Wood's usual Lady Luckless is poor little rich girl Eve Klein, whose millions can't buy her relief from her other inheritance: the clairvoyant powers that have recently frightened off her husband, Sam. Hoping to confront him, Eve drives from her Connecticut estate to Sam's new house in Raven Lake, New York, where she's instantly felled by a vision of a woman mutilated and dying - the handiwork of local sociopath Adam Fuller, M.D., whose eyes ("empty ... dead ... glassy. Like a doll's eyes"') give away his utter inability to feel for others, the product of a buried childhood trauma: Fuller kills in the barren hope of feeling pity for his victims. Eve's call to the cops snares homicide legend Dave Latovsky, who takes her to see psychiatrist Terrence Bunner, who happens to have Fuller as a patient. When, at a party, Bunner lets on to Fuller that Eve - whom he won't identify - saw the killer in her vision, the mad M.D. tracks a gory path to the psychic, torturing and shooting Bunner, then a local newsman and his wife, to get Eve's name and address. Meanwhile, at Bunner's funeral, Latovsky notes Fuller's Ken-doll eyes and fingers him for the killer but can't nab him before Fuller snatches Eve, hauling her to his childhood home. There, Eve flashes on the child abuse that turned Fuller into a maniac ... A lurid, loose-jointed tale whose frantic action and emotionalism nearly obscure the familiarity (Koontz, King, etc.) of Wood's themes."--Kirkus
Doll Baby
Title | Doll Baby PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Bunting |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780395930946 |
A fifteen-year-old girl who is pregnant decides she wants to keep her baby, not realizing how much harder it will be than caring for her beloved Daisy Doll.