CURRENT EVENTS

  • Friday September 3/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Into THIN AIR I
    - writers Charlene Diehl, Ariel Gordon and Jordan Wheeler, with music by classical guitarist Skender Sefamore ]
  • Saturday September 4/10
    11am-5pm

    Garage Sale/BBQmore ]
  • Tuesday September 7/10
    7pm

    Manitoba Independent Songwriters' Circlemore ]
  • Tuesday September 7/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featured reader Mariianne Maysmore ]
  • Wednesday September 8/10
    4:30pm
      $10
    Beginners' Yoga Class
    - instructor Yarden Bourlasmore ]
  • Wednesday September 8/10
    Celiac-Friendly Night at EAT!more ]
  • Thursday September 9/10
    7pm

    Terminal Moraine Reading
    - poet Ian LeTourneau, with Sherry Coffey, Jason Booth and Jason Diazmore ]
  • Thursday September 9/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit StarBach's: The Coffee Cantata

    - starring David Klassen, Naomi Forman and Darren Martensmore ]
  • Friday September 10/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Fall Arts Preview I
    - WSO resident conductor Richard Lee, Juno winner Steve Bell and U of M Jazz Studies director Steve Kirby, with music by jazz pianist George Colliganmore ]
  • Friday September 10/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellersmore ]
  • Saturday September 11/10
    4:30pm
      $10
    Beginners' Yoga Class
    - instructor Yarden Bourlasmore ]
  • Saturday September 11/10
    5:30pm

    Humanist Association of Manitoba presents
    Kepler, Science and Religion

    - guest speaker Rhonda Martensmore ]
  • Tuesday September 14/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - speaker TBAmore ]
  • Wed Sept 15/10 - Wed Dec 1/10 7-9pm $250
    Forging the Muse with poet Chandra Mayormore ]
  • Wednesday September 15/10
    7-9pm
    $30
    Aqua U. presents How To Sell Yourself Without Selling Out
    - a marketing seminar from Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughesmore ]
  • Thursday September 16/10
    Celiac-Friendly Night at EAT!more ]
  • Friday September 17/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Into THIN AIR II
    - Writers Festival performers Ismaila Alfa, Ignatius Mabasa and Dominique Rey, with music by Naomi Guilbert and Hiroshi Koshiyama of Fubuki Daikomore ]
  • Saturday September 18/10
    7pm

    On the Same Page Read-Off
    - nominees Catherine Hunter, Jake MacDonald, Melissa Steele and Michael Van Rooymore ]
  • Tuesday September 21/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    - Aqua Books Writer-in-Residence Kerry Ryanmore ]
  • Wednesday September 22/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit One Good Marriage

    - starring Matthew TenBruggencate and Mel Marginetmore ]
  • Thursday September 23/10
    7pm

    Platform Centre presents
    Focal Point: Photography and the Social Construct
    László Moholy-Nagy and Feminism: The Origins of his Photographic Practice

    - professor Oliver Botarmore ]
  • Friday September 24/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Pop Star
    - music writer John Kendle and super-producer Chris Burke-Gaffney, with music by Arun Chaturvedimore ]
  • Friday September 24/10
    10:30pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Afterwords

    - the Aborginal Writers Collective [ more ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10am

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Writing Workshop

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    4pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    A Pint of Bitter Murder

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    7:30pm

    ideaExchange
    Facing the (sacred) Fire:
    Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    - Dr. Jon Searsmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10:30pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Afterwords

    - writer/rapper Ismaila Alfamore ]
  • Tues Sept 28/10 - Wed Nov 24/10 7-9pm $20
    Writers’ Support Group with poet Kerry Ryanmore ]
  • Wednesday September 29/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit Unequal Harvest

    - starring Kami Desilets and Brent Hirosemore ]
  • Thurs Sept 30/10 - Thurs Dec 2/10 7-9pm $225
    Through the Looking Glass
    - a YA fiction writing intensive with Anita Dahermore ]
  • Wednesday September 30/10
    7:30pm
      $20
    Frontier College presents
    An Evening with Harvey Levy
    more ]
  • Friday October 1/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Fall Arts Preview II
    - Larry Desrochers (Manitoba Opera), Columpa Bobb (MTYP), Casimiro Nhussi (NAfro Dance) and Steven Schipper (MTC), with music by Prairie Jewelmore ]
  • Wednesday October 6/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit When The Killer Mutant Lizards Attack

    - starring Brent Hirosemore ]
  • Thursday October 7/10
    7pm

    The Secret Signature of Things Launch
    - poet Eve Joseph, with Patrick Friesenmore ]
  • Saturday October 16/10
    8pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit unADULTeRATED me

    - starring Rachelle Fordycemore ]
  • Friday October 29/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Halloween
    - illusionist Brian Glow and SF writer Nick DiChario, with music by Absent Soundmore ]
  • Thursday November 4/10
    7pm

    TELL: Tales from the 204more ]
  • Friday November 26/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! 42
    - CFL legend Troy Westwood and greyhound rescuer Michaela Lamoureux, with music by Newfie rocker Elton Adamsmore ]
  • Thursday December 2/10
    7pm

    Canada's History Magazine presents Teachmeetmore ]
  • Saturday December 4/10
    11am-5pm

    Crafty Minions: The Handmade and Vintage Salemore ]
  • Jan Horner wins the 2010 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
    more ]

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FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 2/5/07

(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)

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Contes de Perrault

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Island: The Collected Stories - Alistair MacLeod (hardcover)

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A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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Y: The Descent of Men - Steve Jones

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Bark, Skin and Cedar: Exploring the Canoe in Canadian Experience - James Raffan

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Voyageurs - Margaret Elphinstone

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The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

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Mongo: Adventures in Trash - Ted Botha

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Good Housekeeping's Fruit and Vegetable Cookery

Also new this week

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Fiction

A Treasury of Damon Runyon (inc. Guys and Dolls stories, hardcover, $10)
The Collected Stories, Dylan Thomas
Akhenaten, Naguib Mahfouz
The Darling, Russell Banks
Lucrezia Borgia, Maria Bellonci
The Sabre's Edge: Matthew Hervey and the Light Dragoons, Allan Mallinson
The Little Prince, St. Exupery
Little Bear's Visit, Minarik/Sendak
Tourists, Richard Wright
Shadows in Bronze, Lindsey Davis
Venus in Copper, Lindsey Davis (out of print)
Elric Saga: Vols 1,2,5, Michael Moorcock (out of print)
Hearts, Hands and Voices, Ian McDonald (out of print)
The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Big Planet, Jack Vance
Bill the Galactic Hero, Harry Harrison
Surfing Samurai Robots, Mel Gilden
and
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig

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Non-Fiction

The Destiny of Man, Nicolas Berdyaev (Orthodox Christian Existentialist)
The Qur'an
The Essence of Sufism
Walden/Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
The Praise of Folly, Erasmus
Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, Charles Higham
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet, Nicholas Crane
Intimate Voices from the First World War, Palmer/Wallis
Step-by-Step Watercolour, Ian Sidaway
Home, Witold Rybczynski
Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck, Andrea Curtis
World Architecture: An Illustrated History
Blue Ribbon Cook Book (1920?)
Randy Bachman: Takin' Care of Business, Einarson/Bachman
A Social History of Canada, George Woodcock (hardcover)
I Fought Riel, Maj. Charles Boulton (hardcover)
Indian Doctor: Nature's method of curing and preventing disease according to the Indians
How to Trap and Snare: A Complete Manual for the Sportsman, Game Preserver, Gamekeeper, and Amateur
Grass Roots, Heather Robertson (Manitoba history)
The Klingon Dictionary
Living Language Advanced French: 20 Lessons on four 60-minute cassettes, plus 368-page coursebook ($20)
and
A Practical Course in Turkish

plus hundreds more every week.... TOP OF PAGE

Book
What's Gumby Reading?
Calculators: Now in convenient new book form!




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