This Week's Acquisitions

(Several area independent bookshops were hosting a promotional tour this month, so of course...)

• Ismay Thorn [pseud. Edith Caroline Pollock], Jim (Darton, 1893). One of Thorn's many school stories for boys; this one has a Band of Hope prize label.  (Stomping Ground)
• Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (HarperCollins, 2001).  A woman who has spent her life as a Catholic priest on an Ojibwe reservation fears the results of an inquiry into the life of a local saint. (The Dog-Eared Book)
• Paul West, O.K.: The Corral, the Earps, and Doc Holliday (Scribner, 2000).  Yet another take on the mythos of what happened at the O.K. Corral.  (...and I've blanked on which store I bought this at, sorry)
• Frederick Busch, The Mutual Friend: In Which Mr. Dickens has the Honor to be Variously Portrayed (Harper & Row, 1978).  A somewhat controversial historical novel about...I'm pretty sure you can guess from the title.  (Village Bookmarket)
• Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist (HarperPerennial, 2016).  Reprint of Coplin's 2012 novel.  In the late nineteenth century, the eponymous orchardist finds two girls stealing from him and eventually adopts them, with unforeseen results.  (Lift Bridge)
• Frederic Prokosch, A Tale for Midnight (Popular Library, 1956).  Somewhat revisionist historical novel about Beatrice Cenci.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Kim Newman, Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters (Titan, 2017).  An interquel of sorts, set at the end of the nineteenth century, in which Genevieve Dieudonne and other vampire refugees try to find a safe haven in Japan.  (Amazon)
• Stephen Colclough, Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).  Examines the history of reading from the early modern era to the nineteenth century, examining such topics as libraries, the "mass audience," shifting modes of reading, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Patrick R. O'Malley, Liffey and Lethe: Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland (Oxford, 2017).  Charts strategies for narrating history history during the nineteenth century, the first optimistic and the second anxious.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Catholic Progress, vol. 5 (1876).  Another volume of this Young Men's Catholic Association periodical, with (alas) a partial serialized novel.  (eBay)
• Ian Hesketh, Victorian Jesus: J. R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity (Toronto, 2017).  Ecce Homo and its historical/theological reception, with emphasis on the ongoing attempt to keep Seeley's name out of public view.  (Amazon)