This Week's Acquisitions

Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers (Crown, 2011). A family moves into an old house with a mysteriously-sealed room, and...you just know that this can't possibly go well. (eBay)
Alexi Zentner, Touch (Norton, 2011). A visit to his old home leads a Canadian priest to dwell on the past--both his and his family's. (Lift Bridge)
Walter Scott, Reliquiae Trotcosienses; Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq., of Monkbarns (Edinburgh, 2004). Scott's whimsical catalog/architectural description of Abbotsford. (Columbia UP)
Christian Miscellany, and Family Visiter (1846-51). Four volumes, including #1, of this successful Methodist journal. (private seller)
Carmen M. Mangion, Contested Identities: Catholic Women Religious in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales (Manchester, 2008). Analyzes how nuns understood themselves in terms of work, gender, national origin, etc. (Amazon)