This Week's Acquisitions

Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters (Harcourt, 2002). Post-husband, a woman slowly begins to explore life.
Maeve Brennan, The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin (Houghton Mifflin, 1997). Anthology of the late Brennan's short fiction.
William Gaddis, JR (Penguin, 1993). A youthful capitalist amasses his own amazing empire.
---, The Recognitions (Penguin, 1993). Adventures of an art forger.
Polly Koch, Invisible Borders: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 1991). The sexual (and otherwise) adventures and misadventures of a young woman and her friends.
Richard Russo, Empire Falls (Vintage, 2005). Pulitzer-winning exploration of life in small-town Maine.
Peter J. Thuesen, In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible (Oxford, 2002). Late-19th to 20th-c. debates.
Kenneth D. Brown, A Social History of the Nonconformist Ministry in England and Wales 1800-1930 (Oxford, 1988). Lifestyle, social class, mobility, etc.
John Gibson Cazenove, On certain characteristics of holy scripture: With special reference to an essay on the interpretation of scripture contained in "Essays and reviews" (Mozley, 1861). Mostly a critique of Benjamin Jowett's contribution to Essays and Reviews.