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FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 03/21/11


Due to our killer event schedule, this list is currently being updated bi-weekly. Hundreds of books are still going out throughout the week. To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.

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Mathilda Savitch - Victor Lodato

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Columbus and the Age of Discovery - Zvi Dor-Ner (out of print)

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Beavers and Other Rodents: A Portrait of the Animal World - Paul Sterry

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Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir - Bob Smith

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Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations - Otto Friedrich (out of print)

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The Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee

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Citation: In a Class by Himself - Phil Georgeff

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The Greatest Catchers of All Time - Donald Honig

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Here We Go Again - Betty White

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Home Rules - Nate Berkus (out of print)

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Color in Interior Design - John Pile ($87 at Chapters, $20 at Aqua)

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Munch - Jean Selz

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Manitoba Cooks

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Italians in Winnipeg: An Illustrated History - Stanislao Carbone (out of print)

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Road Past Altamont, Gabrielle Roy
The Case of Lena S., David Bergen
A Perfect Night to Go to China, David Gilmour
Archy and Mehitabel, Don Marquis (poetry)
Lion's Granddaughter and Other Stories, Yasmin Ladha
Save Me, Joe Louis, M.T. Kelly
Tales from Firozsha Baag, Rohinton Mistry
The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
Fierce Invalids Home from Warm Climates, Tom Robbins
The Natural Man, Ed McClanahan (out of print)
The Liar, Stephen Fry
Love, etc., Julian Barnes
Saturday, Ian McEwan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Life Is Elsewhere, Milan Kundera
Immortality, Milan Kundera
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
We Are All Made of Glue, Marina Lewycka
An Evening of Brahms, Richard Sennett (out of print)
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
Molly's Veil, Sharon Bajer (play)
Building Jerusalem, Michael Redhill (play)
Monsieur D'Eon, Mark Brownell (play)
Whylah Falls, George Elliott Clarke (play)
Yesteryear, Joanna McClelland Glass (play, out of print)
Midnight Sun, Maja Ardal (play)
Einstein's Gift, Vern Thiessen (play)
The Elmwood Visitation, Carolyn Gray (play)
Surviving Wor(l)ds, Endre Farkas (play)
Bonjour la Bonjour, Michel Tremblay (play)
Nervous People and Other Satires, Mikhail Zoshchenko (Russia, trans.)
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
The Confusion, Neal Stephenson
The Light Princess and Other Fantasy Stories, George MacDonald
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Red River Shadows, Olive Knox (historical novel, HBC)

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Non-Fiction

C.S. Lewis on Scripture, Michael Christensen
Waiting on God, Simone Weil
Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature, Robert Pasnau
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
The Path to Love, Deepak Chopra
No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, Pema Chödrön
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, Thich Nhat Hanh
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World, The Dalai Lama
Shadow and Substance: Taoist Mystical Reflections
The Discourses, Machiavelli
On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
New Critical Essays, Roland Barthes
Epistemology: Theory of Knowledge, Archie Bahm (out of print)
The Inner Eye: Social Intelligence in Evolution, Nicholas Humphrey
The Wisdom of Karl Marx
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, Noam Chomsky
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America, Dan Savage
Masochism in Modern Man, Theodore Reik
The Batterer: A Psychological Profile, Donald Dutton
The Sociopath Next Door, Martha Stout
The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge
The Autism Sourcebook, Karen Siff Exkorn
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Twyla Tharp
Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, ed. Herschel Chipp
The Drama of the Renaissance: Essays for Leicester Bradner, ed. Elmer Blistein
The Life of the Drama, Eric Bentley
Being an Actor, Simon Callow
Sound in the Theatre, Harold Burris-Meyer/Vincent Mallory
The Caliph of Bagdad: O. Henry, Robert Davis/Arthur Maurice
Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby
How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, John Updike
Apocalypse, D.H. Lawrence
Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba, trans.)
Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad, Naim Kattan
Institutional Anti-Judaism: Pope Pius VI and the Edict Concerning the Jews, Nancy Nowakowski Robinson
KL Auschwitz: Seen by the SS, Hoss/Broad/Kremer (out of print)
Russian Rebels: 1600-1800, Paul Avrich
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, Peter Hopkirk
Peasant Wars Of The Twentieth Century, Eric Wolf
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico 1500-1846, Ramon Gutiérrez
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832, Stella Tillyard
The Duchess, Amanda Foreman
Scots Kith and Kin
Perez Hilton's True Bloggywood Stories
The Yogi Book, Yogi Berra
Baseball Is a Funny Game, Joe Garagiola
Cycling for Health and Fitness, ed. Ed Pavelka
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources, Stephen Miller
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece, Mark Golden
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic, Jennifer Niven
Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter, Janet Campbell Hale
Out of Grief Singing: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss, Charlene Diehl
A View from the Ledge: An Insider's Look at the Schreyer Years, Herb Schulz (out of print)
The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers, Ben Yandell (out of print)
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, R.W. Burchfield
The Oxford Book of Carols
Leather Crafting in an Afternoon, Mickey Baskett
Of Wolves and Men, Barry Holstrun Lopez
Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World, Carolyn Merchant
Best Garden Plants for Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Patricia Hanbridge/Laura Peters
Manitoba Naturalists Society Cookbook (scarce)
and
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes, Todd Wilbur

plus hundreds more every week....

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