This Week's Acquisitions
- Joseph Hocking, The Scarlet Woman (James Bowden, 1899). Anti-Catholic romance by the ultra-popular and prolific late-Victorian Methodist novelist (brother of fellow novelists Silas and Salome Hocking). (eBay)
- Patrick Senecal, 5150, rue des Ormes (Alire, 2001). A man imprisoned by the horrifying Beaulieu family records his tale. (Amazon [secondhand]
- Kanae Minato, Confessions, trans. Stephen Snyder (Mulholland, 2014). In an act of vengeance, a schoolteacher sets off a terrifying chain of events. (Lift Bridge)
- L. N. R. [Ellen Ranyard], The Missing Link; Or. Bible-Women in the Homes of the London Poor (Carter & Bros., 1865). US reprint of this collection of essays on evangelical home visiting. More about Ranyard and "Bible women" here. (eBay)