This Week's Acquisitions

(Gift certificate + $10 off coupon = whee!)

• Anjana Appachana, Listening Now (Random House, 1998).   Multiple women narrate their lives in twentieth-century India.  (Episcopalian book sale)
• David Mura, Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire (Coffee House Press, 2008).  A Japanese-American historian tries to deal with the legacy of his parents' internment during WWII.  (Lift Bridge)
• Ninni Holmqvist, The Unit, trans. Marlaine Delargy (Other Press, 2009).  Dystopian novel in which people are recycled for parts.  (Lift Bridge/gift)
• Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel  (Scribner, 2007).  As it says in the title... (Lift Bridge/gift)
• Ha Jin, War Trash (Vintage, 2005).  Chinese POW during the Korean War.  (Lift Bridge/gift)
• Ruth Bottigheimer, The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present (Yale, 1996).  Bibles revised, rewritten, illustrated, and just plain censored.  (Amazon [secondhand])