This Week's Acquisitions

(The local secondhand bookstore is having an "owner retiring" sale.)

• Emma Jane Worboise, Canonbury Holt (London: James Clarke & Co., n.d.).  Didactic novel by a popular evangelical novelist.  Originally published in 1872.
• James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder: A Novel (Morrow, 2006).  The life of a witchfinder's daughter in 17th-c. England and America, as narrated by, um, Newton's Principia Mathematica.
• Margaret Drabble, The Witch of Exmoor (Harcourt, 1997).  A romance novelist, her children, her movie deal, and so forth.
• Jeannette Winterson, Written on the Body (Vintage, 1994).  An affair, as related by a narrator of unknown gender.
• Mary McGarry Morris, Songs in Ordinary Time (Penguin, 1996).  A small-town family besieged by a series of private crises.
• Paul Watkins, The Story of My Disappearance (Picador, 1998).   A former spy tries to deal with life in the post-Cold War USA.
• J. C. Hallman, The Devil Is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe (Random House, 2006).  Reinvention of William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience.  (Courtesy of Mr. Hallman.)