Dickinson: 555 books

“All right, class,” Miss Andrews said, closing her arithmetic for the last time this year. “You’ve all done very well. Have a pleasant summer, and I’ll see you all back here in September.” There was a sound like subdued thunder as two dozen pairs of bare feet scampered down the aisle of...

It was almost midnight on a Friday, but the last few students hadn’t left the Simpson College library yet. Chad Tucker, bored out of his mind, sat perched on the high stool behind the check-out desk, waiting for the clock’s hands to seep upward so he could go through the building and kick out...

“Twisted Amaretto, please…” This time, the voice ordering sounded impatient and annoyed. Julien was flustered as it was working the main bar alone tonight, and it didn’t help that it was game night. It was loud, crowded and the college kids were unbearably rowdy. He had been working...

Jennifer was getting ready for the night with Jim. They had been planning this for a few months and to her surprise she was getting very excited for the evening. They had been together for 8 years and about a year ago their sex life that was normally very active had changed to a hum drum situation....

She smelled like vanilla. Standing at the other side of the room, he watched her walk through the door and his pulse quickened. She moved with a feline grace through the crowd. He could picture her as a tigress, moving stealthily through tall grasses to her prey. The party raged on around him, people...

Whilst Amy was enjoying her complimentary wine, she settled her back towards the seat. She has just boarded the aircraft in Los Angeles on her way to meet her online lover. During the moment she sat, relaxing images of what Steve would have had about her appeared in her mind. That was the moment she darted into the fantasy of her heart.

Off in the distance, the cries of some exotic evening bird warned its neighbours of a dangerous intruder into its territory. It might have been another bird, or a big cat, or a monkey; the tropical preserves of northern Kenya were still a wild place, being kept that way by well-equipped park rangers...

This was perhaps the most foolish thing she’d ever done—but that didn’t mean she was going to turn back. Amelia Lancaster took a deep breath and glanced up and down the quiet street. It was dusk, and she was wearing a dark cloak and a bonnet with a deep brim; it was unlikely that any of her...

There he was. I stood there stunned and perplexed. I couldn’t fathom a more handsome man. I felt a tingling inside of me, and down below. I saw him jogging by, his hair, his luscious pecks glistening with sweat in the sunlight as he ran with his dog, which I found to be extremely sexy – a man...

Queens of Mean is an immediate call to action—to stop the bullying and emotional cruelty of girls toward each other in our schools and communities. The book personifies each emotional strategy as a “queen of mean,” identifying the need to empower girls toward more productive uses of emotion....

In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn to post-industrialization, the book expands...

Dal giorno in cui i suoi versi furono scoperti, rilegati in piccoli fascicoli riposti in un cassetto, il genio poetico di Emily Dickinson risplende nella sua inclassificabile e sorprendente intensità. Nata ad Amherst nel 1830, nel cuore dell’America puritana, trascorse quasi tutta la sua vita nella...

Amanda stretched her body out beneath the Cancun sun. So far, her impromptu vacation had been worth every dime. She’d spent leisurely hours on the beach and garnered a nice tan to return to Nebraska with. A frown crossed her face. Nebraska. She had to go back. It wasn’t her favorite thought. As...

"The great Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin spans 39 volumes and, over the course of the century, further compilations of his private diaries and letters have appeared: but the most important epistolary relationship of his later years, shared with his Scottish cousin Joan (Agnew Ruskin)...