Saturday, February 20, 2010

This Week's Acquisitions

Here's what arrived this week, including some brand-new or forthcoming titles that I'm super-excited about:

- McSweeney's Issue 8; edited by Paul Maliszewski (McSweeney's, 2002). Harvard Bookstore.

- The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd (Anchor, 2005). Raven.

- Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Plume, 2008). Harvard Bookstore.

- Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis (Hill and Wang, 2007). Harvard Bookstore.

- The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo; translated by Clara Bargellini; edited and annotated by Anthony Welch (University of California Press, 2007). Raven.

- Anthill: A Novel by E. O. Wilson (W.W. Norton, 2010). Publisher.

- The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery by Eric Hinderaker (Harvard University Press, 2010). Amazon.


- A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel (Yale University Press, 2010). Publisher.

- Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon by Michael O'Brien (FSG, 2010). Publisher.