This Week's Acquisitions
- Kerry Hardie, The Bird Woman (Little, Brown, 2006). In Northern Ireland, a woman discovers that she possesses strange healing powers.
- Tim O'Brien, In the Lake of the Woods (Penguin, 1995). A politician's life falls apart after his Vietnam war experience comes to light.
- Tom Dehaven, It's Superman: A Novel (Chronicle, 2005). It's, er, Superman.