CURRENT EVENTS

  • Just In
    Removing the Hutterite Kerchief now back in stock [ more ]
  • March 10, 11 and 13/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Introductory Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonaldmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Illusions
    - illusionist Brian Glow and the ghostbusters of Shadows of Manitoba, plus musician Jenny Berkelmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellers
    - featured teller Jane Enkinmore ]
  • Saturday March 13/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • Tuesday March 16/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    - featuring Joe Wapemoosemore ]
  • Wednesday March 17/10
    7pm

    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry series
    - poet Deborah Schnitzer with guests Marika Prokosh and Kristian Enrightmore ]
  • Thursday March 18/10
    7pm

    How Many Jewish Mothers?
    A Night of Jewish Humour

    - storytellers Alix Sobler, Moishe Goldenberg, Libby Simon and Nurit Drory, with the easy listening harmonica of Sam Knackermore ]
  • Friday March 19/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! 40
    - Kelly Hughes turns 40, featuring Dr. Bhatnagar, Brian Loewen, Handyman Rod Kozak and actor Kris Bratton, with music by Ben Wytinckmore ]
  • Saturday March 20/10
    7pm

    Manitoba Storytelling Guild and Cabbages and Kings Radio present
    World Storytelling Day

    - storytellers Mary Louise Chown, Jane Enkin, Justin Jaron Lewis, Ron Robinson, Rebecca Hiebert, Wayne Drury and Kay Stone, with music by Patrick Keenanmore ]
  • Wednesday March 24/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • Friday March 26/10
    7pm
    $10
    Telling Tales Spoken Lit Series
    Whale Tales to Balaam's Ass: Bringing Out the Animal in the Old Testament

    - storytellers Anne Morton and Rebecca Hiebert, with the Mennonite Blues of Bush Wiebemore ]
  • Saturday March 27/10
    7pm

    Anthology Reading Series
    - Todd Besant, with Melissa Steele and Brenda Hasiukmore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10 - Thursday April 1/10
    10am-4pm
    $150
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    Introduction to Horror Film Criticism for Teens

    - a spring break course from Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10
    7-9pm
    $30
    Aqua U. presents How To Sell Yourself Without Selling Out
    - a marketing/life seminar from Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughesmore ]
  • Thursday April 1/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! April Fools
    - comedians Al Rae, Dean Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon, with music by The Eardrumsmore ]
  • Good Friday April 2/10
    CLOSED
  • Tuesday April 6/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featuring Brenda Sciberrasmore ]
  • Friday April 9/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival
    - comedians Elvira Kurt, Ron Vaudry and George Westerholm, with music by The Paperbacksmore ]
  • Saturday April 10/10
    7:30pm

    ideaExchange
    Foreign Women, The Femme Fatale and Children’s Bibles

    - Cameron McKenziemore ]
  • Tuesday April 13/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - guest speaker TBAmore ]
  • April 14,15,21 and 22/10
    6-9pm
    price TBA
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    They Came From Within: The History of Canadian Horror Films

    - a workshop with Caelum Vatnsdal
  • Friday April 16/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Road to the Book Awards
    - Freep arts reporter Morley Walker, the 2010 nominees and a five-foot long snake, with music by Matt Wardmore ]
  • Tuesday May 11/10
    7pm

    Through the Window of a Train
    A Railway Anthology

    - editor Barbara Langemore ]
  • Wednesday May 19/10
    7pm

    MayWorks Festival presents
    Bread and Roses Tonight

    - poets Ron Romanowski and John Baillie, with music by Liliana Romanowski and Ferruccio Moscardamore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    Psycho Bitch

    - starring Tamara Lynn Robertmore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    TJ Dawe's Tired Cliches

    - starring Alex Eddingtonmore ]
  • Meet Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • Rosanna Deerchild wins the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
    more ]

274 Garry St.
(Between Portage
& Graham)

Winnipeg, MB
Canada  R3C 1H3
204-943-7555

OPEN
Tues-Sat 11am-9pm
Sun-Mon Closed

EMAIL
kelly@aquabooks.ca

We accept Interac, Visa and Mastercard too

What people are saying:

I am one of your new subscribers to your online weekly updates. I find them fascinating, and entertaining. They remind me of my cultural background...Spanish...where folks could get together and loudly, sometimes irreverently, discuss differences of opinion and still go home with egos intact. It has always saddened me how "polite" we all are here in Canada, and how much we miss by not giving our real opinions for fear of offending someone. Carry on. Salud y Buena suerte! - Carmen Lopez, Winnipeg

AQUA BOOKS - BOOKS WANTED

Hi, bookstore owner Kelly Hughes here again. This list is very rough guide to authors that we often buy, but it is in no way comprehensive. If you have specific questions about the saleability of your books, please call me at 943-7555 during business hours, or email me anytime at kelly@aquabooks.ca. (NOTE: Please don't email me an Excel sheet of all of your books. I would be happy to give you a general idea of what we'll buy, but I don't have the time to go line-by-line through a list and check yes or no. It's more time-consuming for me than actually physically buying books. I'm afraid I would rather judge a book by its cover than look up every unfamiliar-sounding title or author. Thanks.) You can also visit our New Books This Week page to see some of the things that we consider very saleable. (Don't throw your books away just because they're not on either of these lists.)

A note about age and condition (not yours, the books):
We love older books, but some just don't sell. Sought-after older books include those by authors that are still popular, and good books in needed areas like architecture, art and theatre. (If you have Reader's Digest Condensed Books or encyclopedia sets, have a weenie roast.) Condition is also a factor. We almost never buy books that have an odour (musty or smoky). If you leave your books in the car or the garage in the middle of winter, it's likely that the glue will dry out and the spine will split. You will get less for frozen books. We will only buy books in poor condition if they are hard to find and desirable.

Also, the best way to transport more than a few books is in smallish boxes - up to about banana box size. We won't look at books that are in garbage bags, suitcases, hockey bags, or the box that your 27" TV came in. The books get damaged in transit, and such containers make it very difficult to efficiently sort through the books. Please make sure the boxes you use aren't full of leaves, dirt or beef blood either. Common sense? Not really. We've seen it all here more than enough. It's gross. If you have more than two or three boxes of books, you may want to email or phone ahead of time to let us know when you're coming. Ten boxes can take an hour to go through, if the store's not busy. That being said, things change over here from moment to moment, and we can't guarantee we'll be able to look at your books while you wait. Please see the Selling Your Books page for buying times and more on our buying policy.

WANTED AUTHORS

Fiction/Literature
Faith/Philosophy
History/Travel
Foreign Language
Psychology
Pop Culture
Humour/Cartoons
SciFi/Fantasy
Children's
Mystery
Theatre
Other

Fiction/Literature  back to list index
Martin Amis
Margaret Atwood Fiction
Jane Austen
Hillaire Belloc
Maeve Binchy
William Blake
Richard Brautigan
William S. Burroughs
AS Byatt
Albert Camus
Truman Capote
Paulo Coelho
Leonard Cohen
ee cummings
Robertson Davies
Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Umberto Eco
TS Eliot
James Ellroy
Wm. Faulkner
Timothy Findley
C.S. Forester
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ernest Hemingway
Herman Hesse
Victor Hugo
Aldous Huxley
John Irving
Thomas King
Barbara Kingsolver
Elmore Leonard Fiction
Henry Miller
Toni Morrison
Iris Murdoch
V.S. Naipaul
Patrick O'Brien
Sheldon Oberman
Michael Ondaatje
Oprah's Book Club
George Orwell
Chuck Palahniuk
Jodi Picoult
Mordecai Richler
Salman Rushdie
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
JD Salinger
Vikram Seth
Carol Shields
Miriam Toews
Leo Tolstoy
Kurt Vonnegut
Irvine Welsh
PG Wodehouse
Virginia Woolf
Emile Zola

Faith/Philosophy  back to list index
Anglican Book Of Common Prayer
John Baillie Pew
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Frederick Buechner
John Bunyan
George Buttrick
GK Chesterton
Dante
Richard Foster
Os Guinness
Madame Guyon
Hannah Hurnard
Paul Johnson
Rick Joyner
Thomas Kelly
Søren Kierkegaard Mennonite Women of Lancaster County
Frank Laubach
William Law
Brother Lawrence
CS Lewis
Kathryn Lindskoog
Martin Lloyd-Jones
Max Lucado
George MacDonald
Martin Marty
Thomas Merton
Calvin Miller
Malcolm Muggeridge
Watchman Nee
Henri Nouwen
Elizabeth O'Connor
Blaise Pascal
M. Scott Peck
Samuel Rutherford
Dorothy Sayers
Francis Schaeffer
Edith Schaeffer
Luci Shaw
Ron Sider
Charles Spurgeon
Douglas Steere
Wm. Stringfellow
Evelyn Underhill
Jean Vanier
Walter Wangerin
Simone Weil
Dallas Willard
Charles Williams

Plus any of the early Christian saints, mystics or church fathers (ie. Augustine, Erasmus, Origen, Julian of Norwich, etc.)

History/Travel  back to list index
Ancient & Medieval History
Atlases (newer)
Bill Bryson
Churchill's Histories
Durant's Story of Civilization
Grey Owl
Manitoba History
Travel Guides (newer)
Travel Stories

Foreign Language  back to list index
Dictionaries
French novels (newer)
Spanish

Psychology  back to list index
Freud
Jung

Pop Culture  back to list index
Chuck Klosterman
Michael Moore
Eric Schlosser
Jon Stewart

Humour/Cartoons  back to list index
Archie
Calvin & Hobbes
Dilbert
Far Side
Stuart McLean

SciFi/Fantasy  back to list index
Doug Adams
Lloyd AlexanderThese books may not be here when you come in, but there are more books coming in all the time
Isaac Asimov
J.G. Ballard
Ray Bradbury
Terry Brooks
Arthur C Clarke
Philip K Dick
ER Eddison
Diana Gabaldon
Neil Gaiman
Robert Heinlein
Frank Herbert
Robert Howard
Robert Jordan
Madeleine L’Engle
Stephen Lawhead
Ursula Leguin
HP Lovecraft
Anne McCaffrey
A Merritt
Mervyn Peake
JRR Tolkien
Jack Vance
TH White
Jack Whyte
John Wyndham

Children's  back to list index
Asterix
L Frank Baum
BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)
Lewis Carroll
Susan Cooper
Roald Dahl
Dr. Seuss
Gordon Korman
Lemony Snicket
AA Milne
Robert Munsch
Nancy Drew (hardcover)
Newbery Award Books
Beatrix Potter
Mordecai Richler
JK Rowling
Maurice Sendak
Shel Silverstein
Tintin
Traditional Folk Tales
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mystery  back to list index
Earl Derr Biggers (Charlie Chan)Bond, James Bond
Dan Brown
Agatha Christie
Patricia Cornwell
Lindsey Davis
Ian Fleming
Dashiell Hammett
Anne Perry
Ellis Peters
Ian Rankin
Alexander McCall Smith
RH van Gulik (Judge Dee)

Theatre  back to list index
Samuel Beckett
Bertold Brecht
Mime/Puppetry
Tom Stoppard

Other  back to list index
Audio Books (CD especially)
Nick Bantock
Chess
Graphic Design Magazines (but not computer-related)
Magic

This list is constantly being updated and is never complete. If you're not sure about your books, call us during store hours, or email us at kelly@aquabooks.ca.

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