This Week's Acquisitions

Julie Catherine Beckwith Hart, St. Ursula's Convent: Or, the Nun of Canada, ed. Douglas G. Lochhead (Carleton, 1991). Reprint of the first novel by an author born in Canada, featuring lots of Exciting! Action! amidst Canadian landscapes. More about Hart here. (eBay)
James Malcolm Rymer, The Black Monk; Or, the Secret of the Grey Turret, intro. Curt Herr (Valancourt, 2014). Horrifying evils! Dank castles! Weird monks! And, since it's Rymer, it goes on forever (although not as forever as Varney the Vampire). Initially serialized in 1844. (Amazon)
Lewis DeSoto, A Blade of Grass (P.S., 2003). A white farmer's widow and a Black servant try to care for a farm against the background of violent unrest in 70s South Africa. (free book)
Lynda Mugglestone, Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Yale, 2005). How the OED was composed, edited, revised, etc., especially given its purported "comprehensiveness." (free book)