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.