The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • H. O. Ward, The Martyr of Kolin: A Story of the Bohemian Persecution (Partridge, [1899]).  A first-person "chronicle," detailing the sufferings of a Hussite family in the sixteenth century.

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (Knopf, 2005). An alternative-universe dystopia, told from the point of a view of a woman cloned for organ harvesting.

  • T. Coraghessan Boyle, Drop City (Penguin, 2004). Trials and travails of 70s counterculture.

  • Paula Byrne, Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson (Random House, 2005). Life of the poet, actress, and high-profile mistress.
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