This Week's Acquisitions
- Susanna Rowson, Reuben and Rachel; or, a Tale of Old Times, ed. Joseph Bartolomeo (Broadview, 2009). Historical novel, first published in 1798, about the experiences in Europe and America of Christopher Columbus' children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren... (UCI)
- Maggie O'Farrell, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Mariner, 2008). Businesswoman suddenly finds herself in charge of her great-aunt, "disappeared" into an insane asylum decades earlier. (Borders)
- Nadine Gordimer, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black (Penguin, 2008). Short-story collection. (Borders)
- A. B. Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem, trans. Hillel Halkin (Mariner, 2007). A man must bring the body of a woman killed during a terrorist attack back to her home country. (Borders)