Saturday, January 17, 2009

This Week's Acquisitions

- The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson (Riverhead, 2008). Amazon.

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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, 2008). Amazon.

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Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan University Press, 1970). Brookline Booksmith.

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Angels & Insects: Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt (Vintage, 1994). Brookline Booksmith.

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Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli; trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov (University of Chicago Press, 1998). Brookline Booksmith.

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Library World Records by Godfrey Oswald, 2d ed. (McFarland, 2008). McFarland.