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)