Kafka and the Doll

Author: Larissa Theule
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 059311633X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Based on a true story about Franz Kafka Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to the girl for weeks. The legend of Kafka and the doll has captivated imaginations for decades as it reveals the playful and compassionate side of a man known for his dark and brooding tales. Kafka and the Doll is a testament to living life to the fullest and to the life-changing power of storytelling.

The Doll

Author: Nhung N. Tran-Davies
Publisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 1772602299
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.

The Doll Book

Author: Estelle Ansley Worrell
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Includes patterns for dolls and costumes of 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Uncertain Glory

Author: Joan Sales
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465

Book Description
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF 2017 A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war. Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo—a beautiful widow with a shadowy past—puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís’s son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city’s morale, she leaves to spend the winter with Lluís’s brigade on a quiet section of the line. But even on “dead” fronts the guns do not stay silent for long. Trini’s decision will put her family’s fate in the hands of Juli Soleràs, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself. Joan Sales, a combatant in the Spanish Civil War, distilled his experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth, and crushed illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of Dostoyevsky and Stendhal, Uncertain Glory is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as Homage to Catalonia and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

The Doll Collection

Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765376806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
"Seventeen brand-new tales of dolls"--Jacket.

The Doll People

Author: Ann M. M. Martin
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786803613
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
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.

The Deadly Doll

Author: Janine Burke
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598898583
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
When Claudine's family receives in the mail a beautiful old French doll that has been in the family for generations, no one anticipates its malevolent intentions.

The Doll Funeral

Author: Kate Hamer
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612196667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
“[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan . . . an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free.” — The Guardian On Ruby’s thirteenth birthday, a wish she didn’t even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren’t her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend—the imaginary Shadow Boy—Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and while they offer the closest Ruby’s ever had to a family, Ruby begins to suspect that they might need her even more than she needs them. And it’s not always clear what’s real and what’s not—or who’s trying to help her and who might be a threat. Told from shifting timelines, and the alternating perspectives of teenage Ruby; her mother, Anna; and even the Shadow Boy, The Doll Funeral is a dazzling follow-up to Kate Hamer’s breakout debut, The Girl in the Red Coat, and a gripping, exquisitely mysterious novel about the connections that remain after a family has been broken apart.

Doll

Author: Rex Sparger
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553250954
Category : Dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description

Doll Bones

Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416963987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl. Illustrations.