The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture (Viking, 2008).  Centenarian resident of a mental hospital tries to put life together.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Toni Morrison, A Mercy (Knopf, 2008).  Historical novel set in the seveteenth century.  A man accepts a young slave as payment.  (BOMC)
  • The Christian World, and Family Visitor II (1868).  Bound volume of a Congregationalist periodical, edited by the novelist Emma Jane Worboise.  (eBay)
  • Gauri Viswanathan, Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton, 1998).  Analyzes conversion narratives and fictions in a transnational context.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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