This Week's Acquisitions
- [Hesba Stretton], Fern's Hollow (RTS, c. 1877). One of the prolific Stretton's earlier novels, about a working-class boy suffering through multiple deaths and social humiliations. (eBay)
- Ruth Lynn, City Sparrows and Who Cared for Them (RTS, n.d.). A "waif" tale about two abused children who discover Christianity and are eventually rescued from their plight. (eBay)
- A. L. O. E., The Claremont Tales (Gall and Inglis, n.d.). Series of short stories inspired by the Beatitudes. (eBay)
- Hellena Richardson, Everyday Doings (T. Nelson and Sons, 1895). Reprint of a prizewinning temperance tale (originally published in 1881) about the effects of the temperance movement on a small town with multiple alcoholics, both upper- and working-class. (eBay)
- Steven Heighton, Afterlands (Knopf Canada, 2005). Historical novel about the disastrous Polaris expedition. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Cormac James, The Surfacing (Bellevue, 2014). Historical novel about a disastrous attempt to find the remains of the equally disastrous Franklin expedition. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (Knopf Canada, 2004). Historical novel about the Yellowknives and their encounter with Sir John Franklin's earlier expedition in 1820. (Amazon [secondhand])
- ---, Sweeter than All the World (Random House Canada, 2001). Historical novel about the migrations of the Mennonites from Europe to North America over a period of several centuries. (eBay)