This Week's Acquisitions
(A couple of free books this week...)
- Yannick Murphy, Signed, Mata Hari (Little, Brown, and Company, 2007). Historical novel from Mata Hari's POV.
- Steven Millhauser, The King in the Tree: Three Novellas (Knopf, 2003). Three tales of love and lying, two of which rewrite medieval romances.
- Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2002). Second novel in Baker's expansive trilogy about New York, this one set during the Civil War.
- Pamela Thompson, Every Past Thing (Unbridled, 2007). More historical fiction set in New York, this time at the end of the nineteenth century.
- Jon Lellenberg et al., eds., Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (Penguin, 2007). Collects letters never before in print.
- Jules Michelet, Priests, Women and Families (Charles Edmonds, 1846) and The People (G. H. Smith, 1846). Two translated works bound together, one a controversial anti-Catholic text and one a rumination on national identity.
- John R. Reed, Victorian Will (Ohio, 1989). Philosophy and theology of the will.
- Irene Whelan, The Bible War in Ireland: The "Second Reformation" and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840 (Wisconsin, 2005). Revises Desmond Bowen's earlier study of the same subject.