This Week's Acquisitions

Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure (Del Rey, 2007). Medieval Jews, swords, fighting, trekking, etc.
Angelique Richardson, ed., Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women 1890-1914 (Penguin, 2006). Anthology of "New Woman" stories.
Dennis Walder, Dickens and Religion (Routledge, 2007). Reprint of Walder's 1981 monograph on Dickens' "liberal Protestant belief."