This Week's Acquisitions

• Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2006).  Historical literary-mystery featuring Edgar Allan Poe.  (What's up with the rash of Edgar Allan Poe novels?)
• Jennifer Egan, Look at Me (Nan A. Talese, 2001).  A model faces an identity crisis after an accident requires her to have drastic reconstructive surgery.
• Lectures Delivered in Exeter Hall Before the Young Men's Christian Association (James Nisbet, [1858]).  Evangelical lectures on various points of faith, science, and contemporary culture; part of an extremely popular series that featured many of the leading Evangelical preachers of the day.  The social historian Andrew Roberts' site includes a brief discussion of Exeter Hall.  For some good Catholic snark at the kind of thing one might expect to hear there, see Newman's Loss & Gain. 

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In certain instances it might be interesting to know the circumstances in which a new acquisition was made... Well, I think so!