The OK Doll

The OK Doll

Author: Peter Greenaway

Publisher: Dis Voir Editions

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782914563703

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Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka's love for Alma Mahler was so great that he had a life-sized model of her made. The OK Doll, by Peter Greenaway (born 1942), is the script for an unrealized film about the doll that Kokoschka lived with for three years.


Kafka and the Doll

Kafka and the Doll

Author: Larissa Theule

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 059311633X

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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.


Deal with It, Doll!

Deal with It, Doll!

Author: Horstman O'Brien Christine

Publisher: The Unapologetic Voice House

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1955090238

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We could not have imagined with our clever ‘2020 vision’ slogans at the start of the new year that we would get a collective punch to the gut come spring. You may be going along We could not have imagined with our clever ‘2020 vision’ slogans at the start of the new year that we would get a collective punch to the gut come spring. You may be going along swimmingly in life and out of nowhere face your own crisis. You may have already had more challenges than seem fair for one person to endure. Whether you are still trying to process the pandemic or dealing with a crisis of your own creation, Deal with It, Doll! Coaching Yourself Through Crisis will leave you feeling less alone and so much stronger. Our collective health crisis inspired this book, but it’s built for the most common curveballs. The stuff many of us face personally and professionally in any given year. The changes most of us will deal with in our lifetimes. Parenting. Careers. Finances. Handling failures and fractures and managing our relationships. Health problems. All of it. Through each new phase in life, we have the opportunity to grow through change. When the literal and figurative masks come off, who are you, Doll? Who do you want to be and how are you going to make the most of your life, especially when things aren’t going your way? Your struggles, your shifts, your changes, and your challenges are creating the next version of your life in ways that may not yet make sense. Do not despair. Life is ever-changing and full of twists and turns.


My Crochet Doll

My Crochet Doll

Author: Isabelle Kessedjian

Publisher: David and Charles

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1446364445

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Make adorable crochet dolls with over fifty unique patterns for clothes and accessories. With a range of clothing and accessory patterns, dress up your doll for home and abroad, from basic underwear and shoes to dresses, dungarees, sweaters, coats, and hats. As well as wardrobe essentials, you can create accessories to match each outfit, including a teddy for bedtime, a bucket for the beach, cakes for the kitchen, and even a penguin for the North Pole! There’s a range of dressing-up costumes, with an adorable bear suit and a fun superhero mask and cape. The cute mini suitcase pattern is the perfect for storing all of your dolls belongings and it doubles up as a bed too! Be aware that crochet terms in the United States are different from those in the U.K. This can be confusing as the same terms are used to refer to different stitches under each system. All crochet patterns in this book are written in U.K. and European terms. U.S. crocheters must take care that they work the correct stitches. One way to tell which system is being used in other patterns is that the American system starts with a single crochet, which the U.K. system doesn't have; so patterns with “sc” in them can be identified as American patterns.


That's Debatable

That's Debatable

Author: Jen Doll

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0374306052

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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 Doll Collection

The Doll Collection

Author: Ellen Datlow

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0765376806

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


Brown Beauty

Brown Beauty

Author: Laila Haidarali

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1479838373

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Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a complicated discourse emerged surrounding considerations of appearance of African American women and expressions of race, class, and status. Brown Beauty considers how the media created a beauty ideal for these women, emphasizing different representations and expressions of brown skin. Haidarali contends that the idea of brown as a “respectable shade” was carefully constructed through print and visual media in the interwar era. Throughout this period, brownness of skin came to be idealized as the real, representational, and respectable complexion of African American middle class women. Shades of brown became channels that facilitated discussions of race, class, and gender in a way that would develop lasting cultural effects for an ever-modernizing world. Building on an impressive range of visual and media sources—from newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters to commercial advertising—Haidarali locates a complex, and sometimes contradictory, set of cultural values at the core of representations of women, envisioned as “brown-skin.” She explores how brownness affected socially-mobile New Negro women in the urban environment during the interwar years, showing how the majority of messages on brownness were directed at an aspirant middle-class. By tracing brown’s changing meanings across this period, and showing how a visual language of brown grew into a dynamic racial shorthand used to denote modern African American womanhood, Brown Beauty demonstrates the myriad values and judgments, compromises and contradictions involved in the social evaluation of women. This book is an eye-opening account of the intense dynamics between racial identity and the influence mass media has on what, and who we consider beautiful.


The Doll Funeral

The Doll Funeral

Author: Kate Hamer

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1612196667

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“[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.


Beautiful Babies 2: Advanced Techniques in Reborn Doll Making

Beautiful Babies 2: Advanced Techniques in Reborn Doll Making

Author: Michele Barrow-Blisle

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1430304316

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Now that you know the basics in the art of Reborn Doll Making, apply some extra special artist's secrets to really bring your baby doll to life! Learn advanced paint and detailing techniques, as well as how to work with silicone vinyl and soft vinyl doll molds! If you're ready for a challenge and to push your creativity even further, then you simply must have this book!


The Girl with the torn Teddy Bear

The Girl with the torn Teddy Bear

Author: Ankur Kumar

Publisher: Ankur Kumar

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13:

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This is the story of a troubled man who is not ready to leave his memories of past love. Already, abandoned by others, he is just performing his duties as a Professor in a college. However, his life takes an unpredictable turn and completely changes his life, reminding him what it felt like to laugh, to live and how much he have missed all these years. He struggles as he is finding it hard to leave his sad life behind him.