Benji's Doll

Benji's Doll
Author: Luis Amavisca
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9788418133404

Benji wants a doll more than anything in the world. When he finally gets one, he can ́t wait to take it to the park to show his friends... An up-lifting story which reminds us that there are no toys for boys or toys for girls - there are just toys. By the authors of I Love My Colorful Nails, Alicia Acosta and Luis Amavisca.

The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls

The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls
Author: Debbie Behan Garrett
Publisher: Debbie Behan Garrett
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780875886534

Collectors will delight in acquiring the first and only Black dolls book that is completely published in Full Color! Author Debbie Garrett has written an extensive book of reference on vintage, modern, fashion and artist Black dolls. Featured in this book are Black dolls made from cloth, bisque, celluloid, composition, rubber, wood, and hard plastic. Fashion dolls, modern artist dolls and other doll categories are covered. This long overdue, insightful book includes a price guide and tips.

Mrs Weber's Omnibus

Mrs Weber's Omnibus
Author: Posy Simmonds
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1448129419

In May 1977 Posy Simmonds, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the Guardian. It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical comments about contemporary life. The strip soon focused on three 1950s school friends in their later middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as 'Posy', ran until the late 1980s. Collected here for the first time are the complete strips. Although celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian readers in the 1980s and their constant struggle to remain true to the ideals of the 1960s, they are in fact remarkably undated. They show one of Britain's favourite cartoonists, celebrated for Literary Life and Tamara Drewe, maturing into genius.

Last Call

Last Call
Author: Sophie Sinclair
Publisher: Sophie Sinclair
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2023-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1735953946

TJ Ryan has always wanted a big family. Watching all of his friends have families of their own, he’s caught the baby bug. He just needs to convince his husband, Connor, it’s a brilliant idea. Armed with portfolios from different surrogates and a reality tv show to follow their journey, TJ tries to persuade Connor that they need a baby ASAP, but Connor isn’t so sure they shouldn’t explore other options like adoption or being foster parents. Connor Ryan loves his husband and wants to do whatever he can to make him happy, but to what extent? Connor is busy co-owning The Social Hour with his best friend, Cam, and they’re about to launch a new location. Now is not the time to add chaos to their lives. But chaos is TJ’s middle name. When TJ’s world begins to crumble, Connor has to decide to put a stop to all the madness, or pick up the pieces and try to glue TJ back together. Last Call is the fourth book in the Coffee Girl series. It’s a multi-POV, closed-door, supporting novel with returning characters. If you have not read the Coffee Girl series, the author suggests reading the first three for returning characters and references to the other books in the series.

Nitty Gritty

Nitty Gritty
Author: Ben Burns
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1996
Genre: African American periodicals
ISBN: 9781617034442

When Ships Salute

When Ships Salute
Author: Susan K. Flach
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2022-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1669857468

Of one thing Ella Hurley is certain: There is no one she dislikes more than BJ Marek from back in the day...except maybe herself. The startup of World War ll brought squadrons of soldiers flooding the northern border town of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in-order-to protect the Locks. With war came certain hardships. But adversity had already been known to the Hurley family long before the onset of widespread battle. To drown out reminders of the past, Ella Hurley focuses on her work as a nurse at War Memorial Hospital. But when a soldier arrives in town and falls under her care after sustaining injuries during the devastation of Pearl Harbor, the past gets dug up. And tangled up. While Ella finds herself crossing lines that weren’t meant to be stepped over caregiver to patient. The patient...who is not really what he seems.

Doll

Doll
Author: Maria Teresa Hart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501380877

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessed-by our aspirations. They're commonly used as a tool to teach mothering to young girls, but more often they are avatars of the idealized feminine self. (The word "doll" even acts as shorthand for a desirable woman.) They instruct girls what to strive for in society, reinforcing dominant patriarchal, heteronormative, white views around class, bodies, history, and celebrity, in insidious ways. Girls' dolls occupy the opposite space of boys' action figures, which represent masculinity, authority, warfare, and conflict. By analyzing dolls from 17th century Japanese Hinamatsuri festivals, to the '80s American Girl Dolls, and even to today's bitmoji, “Doll” reveals how the objects society encourages us to play with as girls shape the women we become. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Benji, The No One, The Loser, The Rejected, The Revenge Artist

Benji, The No One, The Loser, The Rejected, The Revenge Artist
Author: Kimberly J Fuller
Publisher: Bare Bones Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0985756144

Despite a father with a particular sexual addiction, a mother who wears more borrowed personalities than a clown at a carnival, and the aggravating testosterone-filled tormentors at school, Benji has honed a way to vent his anger. Now that things are going according to plan, and he’s on the verge of assuring his sister stays out of harm’s way, the mysterious Contessa shows up to turn his world of darkness into days of light. Suddenly, Benji finds himself rethinking his scheming ways. All except one last revenge plan…

Unclaimed Baggage

Unclaimed Baggage
Author: Jen Doll
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374306079

*A New York Times Staff Pick* *An NPR Best Book of 2018* *A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2018* In Jen Doll's young adult debut novel, Unclaimed Baggage, Doris—a lone liberal in a conservative small town—has mostly kept to herself since the terrible waterslide incident a few years ago. Nell had to leave behind her best friends, perfect life, and too-good-to-be-true boyfriend in Chicago to move to Alabama. Grant was the star quarterback and epitome of "Mr. Popular" whose drinking problem has all but destroyed his life. What do these three have in common? A summer job working in a store called Unclaimed Baggage cataloging and selling other people's lost luggage. Together they find that through friendship, they can unpack some of their own emotional baggage and move on into the future.

Loss

Loss
Author: Ronald Franklin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 129112330X

A horrendous tragedy in his family changed Toby Nelson's life rather abruptly. Now, twelve years later, the boy has become a young man, chased through the galaxy by a mad scientist who is desperately looking for something from Toby's parents' shrouded past - something valuable enough to kill for. Follow Toby Nelson and his alien friend Benji through this space adventure, on their journey to unravel a mystery that, maybe, should have better stayed secret.