This Week's Acquisitions
- Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of The Odyssey: A Novel (Starcherone, 2008). Radical (and playful) revisionist take on Homer's epic. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Michelle Cliff, Bodies of Water (Plume, 1995). Collection of short fiction. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer (Grove, 2008). Reprint of Alexie's thriller, in which a serial killer stalks through an urban landscape beset by conflicts over Native American identity. (Lift Bridge)
- Russell Banks, Outer Banks: Three Early Novels (Harper Perennial, 2008). Reprints three short novels. (Lift Bridge)
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (U of California Press, 2002). Historical biography. (Gift)
- Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 (U of California Press, 2007). Historiographical study of shifting attitudes to the trial. (Gift)