This Week's Acquisitions

• Norman MacLeod, The Gold Thread: And Other Stories of Young Faith (Whole Heart Ministries, 2001).  I've mentioned from time to time that 19th-c. religious fiction still has a readership; here's an example of a contemporary reprint, sent to me by the editor.  Includes fiction by MacLeod, Margaret E. Sangster, Johanna Spyri (the author of Heidi), the hymnodist Frances Ridley Havergal, and George Critchley.
• Ryan Boudinot, The Littlest Hitler: Stories (Counterpoint, 2006).  On a completely different note, some very, er, odd short stories.
• Edmund White, Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel (Ecco, 2007).  Short historical novel about the last days of Stephen Crane.
• Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2007).  Murder in the Canadian wilderness, circa the 1860s. 
• Dashiel Hammett, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories (Everyman, 2007).  Noir, anyone?
• Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name (Norton, 2007).  Historical novel about the experiences of a slave initially from West Africa.
• Patrick McCabe, Mondo Desperado (Picador, 2000).  Interlocking short stories set in a small Irish town.