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"Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst. She's also a loner who prefers a safe and familiar path. Until her mother disappears in the wake of a brutal murder, leaving behind a cryptic warning of threats to come. Forced out of her safe zone, Salem embarks with her best friend, Bel, on a dangerous quest that reaches back centuries into America's hidden history. Drawn into a labyrinth of messages encrypted by Emily Dickinson and hidden in the legendary...
2) Miss Emily
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Language
English
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"Eighteen-year-old Ada Concannon is the plucky new maid for the respected by eccentric Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts. Despite their difference in age and the upstairs-downstairs divide, Ada, newly arrived from Ireland, strikes up a deep friendship with thirty-six-year-old Emily Dickinson, the gifted middle child. Miss Emily is a bastion of support as Ada struggles to find her place in this new world, but Emily's passion for words begins...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Where is Wendy? Leading a labor strike against the Lost Boys, of course. A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility and sails away in a starship made of light. Alice's wicked nemesis has jaws and claws but really needs a sense of humor. In Jane Yolen's first full...
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn't even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English-professor mother will frown on. Then, just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she loses the special volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry that was given to her...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At twenty-seven, she's never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she hasn't stayed in one place for long since her family fled the potato famine a decade ago. When Maggie accepts a temporary position at the illustrious Dickinson family home in Amherst, it's only to save up enough for a ticket west to join her brothers...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be thrilled...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Funny, profound . . . a seductive book with a payoff on every page."-People
A lot of remarkable things have happened in the life of Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, beginning with the ten years he spent in prison for accidentally burning down Emily Dickinson's house and unwittingly killing two people. emerging at age twenty-eight, he creates a new life and identity as a husband and father. But when the homes of other famous...
Author
Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"January 1855. Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd lost all hope of being hired for the position. As the housekeeper politely told her they'd be in touch, Willa started toward the door of the stately home only to be called back by the soft but strong voice of...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically and enjoying a passionate, romantic relationship with her friend and sister-in-law Susan. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also sees Emily as a convenient cover for her own role in buttoned-up...
Author
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a poetry retreat, Faith's patience is tested by Emilie Smythe, an ill-mannered lecturer with an uncanny resemblance to Emily Dickinson. Emilie not only dresses like Emily Dickinson, but also owns a Newfoundland named Carlo. She claims to be Emily's great-great-granddaughter and hands papers to Faith to prove it. The next day, Faith and her friends discover Emilie's body washed ashore on a deserted beach. Now they must try to figure out if she...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
At a New England college, a professor and a student are murdered. Scholar Karen Pelletier starts an inquiry and discovers that both victims were involved in a historical research which the murderer might have wanted for himself alone.
18) My Uncle Emily
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1881 Amherst, Massachusetts, six-year-old Gilbert finds it both challenging and wonderful to spend time with his aunt, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who lives next door.
Author
Series
American novels volume 5
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante, obsession, and muse over the years as he writes to her of his friendship with the aspiring politician Abraham Lincoln, his encounter with the young newspaperman Samuel Clemens, and his crisis of conscience concerning the radical abolitionist John Brown.