This Week's Acquisitions

Jemima Luke, The Female Jesuit; Or, the Spy in the Family (M. W. Dodd, 1851). One of the nineteenth-century's weirdest anti-Catholic novels: it's an escaped nun tale that actually satirizes Protestant credulity about, well, escaped nun tales. (Still anti-Catholic, though.) Popular enough to spawn two sequels, only one of which was by Luke (who was otherwise better known as a Congregationalist hymnodist). This copy also includes Luke's sequel. (eBay)
Colson Whitehead, Zone One (Doubleday, 2011). It's the apocalypse! With added zombies! And a hero who shares a name with a famous Olympic swimmer! (I sincerely trust the hero isn't the Olympic swimmer.) (Lift Bridge)
Bernard Lightman, The Origins of Agnosticism (Johns Hopkins, 1987). Philosophical and theological underpinnings of the concept, beginning in the Victorian era. (Amazon [secondhand])