CURRENT EVENTS

  • January 31 - February 5/12
    11am-9pm

    The Big Book Sell-off
    - all books now 50% off, with thousands marked down even further [ more ]
  • Friday February 3/12
    7pm
      $10/$5 students
    Too Much Info Tour 2012
    - Tim Eliasmore ]
  • Sunday February 5/12
    7:30pm
      $10
    ShawFest presents
    pShaw!
    A Literary Roast of George Bernard Shaw
    more ]
  • Monday February 6/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Balkan Folk Tales CD Launch
    Dejan Rafajlovic Trio

    - featuring Julian Bradford and Curtis Nowosadmore ]
  • Wednesday February 8/12
    8pm
      $8/$5 students
    Beautiful Lies
    An Evening with Bean, Eagle Lake Owls, and Kate Ferris
    more ]
  • Thursday February 9/12
    7:30pm

    Winnipeg Marx Reading Groupmore ]
  • Thursday February 9/12
    8pm
      $6
    JohNNy SiZZle/Lloyd & Selleck Present
    A CKUW Fundraiser
    more ]
  • Saturday February 11/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Kristopher Ulrich Band, with guests Eli Matas and Zack Kinahanmore ]
  • Sunday February 12/12
    7pm

    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
    - poet J.R. Léveillé, with Katherena Vermette and Rosanna Deerchildmore ]
  • Wednesday February 15/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    The Sweet Alibi, with Marcel Desilets and Ben Wytinckmore ]
  • Thursday February 16/12
    7:30pm

    Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect Book Launch
    - author Marusya Bociurkiwmore ]
  • Thursday February 16/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Quincy Davis & Promise
    - with Niall Bakkestad-Legare, Paul De Gurse, Shannon Kristjanson, Landen Seesahai, Kristopher Ulrich and Luke Sellickmore ]
  • Friday February 17/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Kayla Luky, with Tailwindmore ]
  • Wednesday February 22/12
    8pm
      $8/$5 students
    Primrose, with Demetramore ]
  • Thursday February 23/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Jazz Machine V
    Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years

    - the Aaron Shorr Triomore ]
  • Friday February 24/12
    8pm
      $5
    Shasta, with guests Windmore ]
  • Thursday March 1/12
    7pm

    U of M Jazz Program Student Ensemblesmore ]
  • Saturday March 3/12
    11am-5pm

    Crafty Minions
    The Handmade and Vintage Sale
    more ]
  • March 6-10/12

    Mondo!Poetrymore ]
  • Tuesday March 6/12
    7pm

    Manitoba Independent Songwriters' Circlemore ]
  • Saturday April 21/12
    11am-3:30pm
      $75
    From the Ground Up: Planning and Writing a Publishable Story
    - award-winning writer Jake MacDonaldmore ]

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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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