FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 2/12/07
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy (out of print, $20)
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Medieval People - Eileen Power
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
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Wicked - Gregory Maguire
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Citizen Girl -Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
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Painted Garden Furniture Projects
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer (hardcover)
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The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser
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Growing Up Born Again
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Also new this week
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Fiction
Great Jones Street, Don DeLillo
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, jr.
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, jr.
The Journal of Mrs. Pepys, Sara George (out of print)
The Borgia Bride, Jeanne Kalogridis
Silent Words, Ruby Slipperjack
The Love of Stones, Tobias Hill
Prince Edward, Dennis McFarland
The Clerkenwell Tales, Peter Ackroyd
A Flight of Arrows, Alan Sillitoe (out of print)
Flashman on the March, George MacDonald Fraser
Dancer: A Novel of the Life of Nureyev, Colum McCann
Octopussy, Ian Fleming
The Fencepost Chronicles, W.P.Kinsella
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The General, C.S.Forester (hardcover)
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Adaptations: 35 Great Stories that have Inspired Great Films, Stephanie Harrison
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Non-Fiction
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Hidden Histories of Science, Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks et al
The Place of Jesus Christ in Modern Christianity, John Baillie
The Epistle to the Romans, Karl Barth
A Prophetic Vision for the 21st Century, Rick Joyner
King of the World: A Biography of Muhammad Ali, David Remnick
One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis, Peter Edwards
North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully, Carrie Rebora Barratt
The Massacre of Glencoe, John Buchan (out of print)
Gauguin: The Quest for Paradise
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance
Mozart: From Child Prodigy to Tragic Hero
The Royal Tour of Canada: 1939, R.B.Fleming
Butter Down the Well: Reflections of a Canadian Childhood, Robert Collins
The Wild Frontier, Pierre Berton (hardcover)
Vimy, Pierre Berton (hardcover)
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma, George MacDonald Fraser
Battle at Sea, John Keegan
The Courage of the Early Morning: The Story of Billy Bishop, William Bishop, jr. (out of print)
Miracles and Mysteries: The Halifax Explosion, Mary Ann Monnon
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me, Susanna Kaysen
plus hundreds more every week....
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