This Week's Acquisitions

(All hail the remainders shelves!)

• Michele Roberts, Impossible Saints (Harcourt, 1997).  Roberts' exploration of the saint's life in a novel composed of multiple narratives, united by the fictional life of St. Josephine.  (UCI Bookstore)
• Bruce Olds, Bucking the Tiger (Picador, 2002).  Historical novel about Doc Holliday.  (UCI Bookstore)
• Paulina Kewes, ed., The Uses of History in Early Modern England (Huntington Library, 2006).  Collection, initially published in two issues of HLQ, devoted to the cultural, political, and religious functions of early modern historiography.  (Huntington Library)