This Week's Acquisitions

• Thomas Maltman, The Night Birds (Soho, 2007).  Historical novel about the conflicts between settlers and the Dakota Sioux in the Civil War era.
• Jonathan Coe, The House of Sleep (Vintage, 1999).  Four kids with sleep disorders head to a clinic; repercussions follow.
• Pat Barker, Life Class: A Novel (Doubleday, 2008).  Art and war in the WWI era.
• Helen Hooven Santmyer, The Fierce Dispute (Ohio, 1999).  Reprint of Santmyer's 1920s Gothic novel.
• Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford, 2003).  Analysis of memory and subjectivity in nineteenth-century British fiction.