The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Emma Leslie, Margarethe: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (Phillips & Hunt; Hitchcock & Walden, 1879).  A Reformation tale; one of Leslie's rarest novels. (Of course, in the world of Victorian popular religious fiction, "rare" doesn't equal "valuable"--which is why I picked up this copy for $6.99...)
  • Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West (Vintage, 1992).  Seeking Indian scalps in the 1850s, with considerable blood involved.
  • Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (Knopf, 2005).  Man finds cash from a botched drug deal, runs.
  • Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black: A Novel (Henry Holt, 2005).  Novel set in the milieu of contemporary spiritualism. 
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