(Too dazed by the end of finals, I guess.)
- Michael Newton, ed., The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (Penguin, 2010). Anthology of classic nineteenth and early twentieth-century ghost stories. (Review copy)
- David Malouf, The Great World: A Novel (Vintage, 1993). WWII prisoners of war in Thailand. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Dara Horn, All Other Nights: A Novel (Norton, 2010). Jewish Union soldier during the Civil War finds himself at odds with Southern relatives, undertakes romantic espionage. (eBay)
- Jane Smiley, Private Life (Knopf, 2010). Relationship unfolds among many hardships from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. (BOMC)
- Rick Ostrander, The Life of Prayer in a World of Science: Protestants, Prayer, and American Culture, 1870-1930 (Oxford, 2000). Prayer and changes in the postbellum USA. (eBay)
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