This Week's Acquisitions

(Sort of a birthday acquisitions week.  I don't remember the name of one of the bookstores...)

• William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon (Vintage, 1997).  Woman discovers long-lost father (or so he says), finds herself adventuring with him.  (Anonymous Store)
• Rosa Chacel, Memoirs of Leticia Valle, trans. Carol Maier (Nebraska, 1994).  Translation of a Spanish novel originally published in 1945, narrated by a young girl whose relationship to an older man and his wife takes a dark turn.  (Anonymous Store)
• Sophie Gee, The Scandal of the Season (Scribner, 2008).  Historical novel based on the events that inspired Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock."  (Anonymous Store)
• Adam Braver, Mr. Lincoln's Wars (HarperCollins, 2003).  Story cycle about--what else?--Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War era.  (Anonymous Store)
• Monica Ali, Untold Story (Scribner, 2012).  Alternate universe in which Princess Diana is not dead.  (Barnes & Noble)
• Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun (Harper Perennial, 2009).  Reprint of Huxley's controversial history, originally published in 1952, of the trial of Urbain Grandier for witchcraft.  (Barnes & Noble)