FICTION · TIME TRAVEL
Deb Stover
Once upon a time, Deb Stover wanted to be Lois Lane, until she discovered Clark Kent is a fraud and there is no Superman. She has received dozens of awards for her cross-genre fiction. Learn more about Deb at
When the Puritans first landed in Massachusetts, they discovered a thing so curious about the Indians' feelings for property that they felt called upon to give it a name.
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Most acclaimed
The Gift
Autumn and the garden / Mrs. Sigourney -- Isabel's bridal / Emma C. Embury -- Dulcinea / Miss Leslie -- Snow / Mrs. Sigourney -- The bee-tree / Author of 'A new home' -- The broken-hearted / Mary E. Lee -- The wife's appeal / Miss C.H. Waterman -- Glimpses of heaven / Mary Ann Browne -- Nora / Mrs. Sigourney -- The recluse of the Blue Mountain / Mrs. Ellet -- The tough yarn / Seba Smith -- Lines on the death of two promising children / Mary E. Lee -- The love of tears / G.W. Patten -- Biographical studies upon contemporary singers -- Prayer on Bunker's Hill / Mrs. Sigourney -- The gipsy's chaunt / Charles West Thomson -- Eleanora / Edgar A. Poe -- A wreath of riddles / Mrs. F.S. Osgood -- Prayer for the bride at sea / G.W. Patten -- The village church / Mrs. Sigourney -- Early death / Miss M. Miles -- The people that did not take boarders / Miss Leslie -- Address to nature / Miss C.H. Waterman -- The sled / Charles West Thomson -- The French heroine / Catherine E. Beecher -- Stanzas / Park Benjamin -- To-morrow / Miss A.M.F. Buchanan -- Angel help / Charles West Thomson -- The raffle / John Frost -- 'Murder will out' / W.G. Simms -- Portia / W.J. Walter -- The doom of Moniac / G.W. Patten -- The appeal of Maria Theresa / Lucy Hooper -- Commencement day / Mary E. Lee -- Field of wheat / Miss H.F. Gould -- The cottage where we dwell / Mrs. F.S. Osgood.
Mulligan Stew
1979
Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very book we are reading) turns into a literary "stew": an uproariously funny melange of journal entries, erotic poetry, parodies of all kinds, love letters, interviews, and lists - as Hugh Kenner in Harper's wrote, "for another such virtuoso of the List you'd have to resurrect Joyce." Soon Lamont's characters (on loan from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, and Dashiell Hammett) take on lives of their own, completely sabotaging his narrative.
No Place For a Lady
Miss Bree Mallory has no time for the pampered aristocracy! She's too taken up with running the best coaching company on the roads. But an accidental meeting with an earl changes everything....Soon, beautiful Bree has established herself in Society. She hopes no one will discover that she once drove the stage coach from London to Newbury...or that she returned unchaperoned with the rakishly attractive Max Dysart, Earl of Penrith.Bree's independence is hard-won: she has no interest in marriage. But Max's kisses are powerfully--passionately--persuasive!