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The conjuring: The Conjuring tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. The nun: A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate...

A rhyming ode to toy balls, from baseballs to tennis balls, and to the children who love them.

A fancy china doll hopes to find a home.

Several years after the tragic death of his daughter, a toymaker who creates dolls and his wife welcome a nursing nun and a group of girls into their home, trying to turn their house into a cozy orphanage. However, the new tenants will become the target of Annabelle, a doll possessed by a demonic being.

Beatrice Alexander's family ran a doll hospital in their home in New York's Lower East Side, where she grew to love fixing and making dolls. Beatrice dreamed of becoming an artist, but her family couldn't afford to send her to sculpting school. She never stopped dreaming, and when World War I broke out, she came up with the idea to make dolls modeled after nurses to support the war effort and help keep children happy -- but they needed to be unbreakable...

Since saving the Toy Academy, misfit toy Grumbolt is now in training as an action toy, but he is still not considered a "main hero type," so he is assigned as a sidekick to Rex Everything, the academy bully, which displeases both of them--but when a toy named Tempest Boomcloud, driven to desperation by twenty years in a display case with other discontinued toys, breaks out and steals Rex's van, Grumbolt and Rex will have to work together to understand...

A child, a doll, and an adult go for a walk on the beach one late afternoon of a cold winter day, before heading home to dinner and a bedtime story.

Johnny Gruelle's "Raggedy Ann Stories" introduced the world to one of the most beloved of all children's characters, Raggedy Ann. Gruelle, born in Illinois in 1880, and was a children's author, political cartoonist, and illustrator. He had an artistic upbringing and was taught to draw by his father, the famed Hoosier painter Richard Gruelle. As an adult, Gruelle was inspired to create his most famous character, Raggedy Ann, by his daughter Marcella...

When Katie's best friend moves away and she accepts an invitation from the new girl in town, she is unsettled by the girl's strange obsession with her dolls.

Это книга посвящена истории знаменитой куклы Барби, которая была выпущена более 60 лет назад и до сих пор остается одной из самых популярных игрушек мира. Ее создание, изменение образа в течение многих лет, "семья", многочисленные аксессуары, коллекционные...