This Week's Acquisitions

(There would have been more, except that some Amazon seller decided to stick the wrong tag on a book and sent me a bizarre novel having to do with Celts and black magic instead of, you know, a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.)

• Alice Hoffman, The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Scribner, 2014).  In 1911, a young Coney Island performer meets a photographer and is precipitated into shocking events after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.  (Lift Bridge)