The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead, 2007).  Dominican adolescent tries to write fantasy novels while his family deals with the fallout from a curse.  (QPB)
  • C. L. Trivier, How I Came Out from Rome. An Autobiography (RTS, [1874]).  Translation from the French of an ex-priest's conversion narrative.  (eBay)
  • The Local Preachers Magazine, and Mutual Aid Association Reporter (1851-52).  Volumes I and II of a Methodist magazine. (eBay)
  • Marilyn Cohen and Nancy J. Curtin, eds., Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999).  Essay collection devoted to gender, religion, politics, culture, etc. in Ireland from the nineteenth century to the present.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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