CURRENT EVENTS

  • An Aqua Books Winnipeg Exclusive
    Removing the Hutterite Kerchiefmore ]
  • Tuesday February 9/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - guest speaker Coree Franciscomore ]
  • Wednesday February 10/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Valentine's
    - reservation onlymore ]
  • Thursday February 11/10
    7pm
    $12
    Clarence Two Toes CD Fundraiser
    - comedian Ryan McMahon, hosted by My Brother Wab and My Other Brother Waubmore ]
  • Friday February 12/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! DIY
    - kids' performer Al Simmons and VPW legend Natalie Pollock, with Household Hints from Handyman Rod and music by Cluster All-Starsmore ]
  • Friday February 12/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellers
    - featured tellers Kay Stone and Mary Louise Chownmore ]
  • Saturday February 13/10
    12pm

    The Deserter's Tale Launch
    - author Joshua Keymore ]
  • Saturday February 13/10
    2pm

    Pond Memories Launch
    - Kenora's Lil Anderson with Bardie the Owlmore ]
  • February 16-20/10
    Mondo!Kroetsch
    - Manitoba's only annual poetry festival celebrates the life and work of local icon Robert Kroetsch
  • Tuesday February 16/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    Mondo!Kroetsch Seed Catalogue Relay Reading

    - featuring Susie Moloney, Kerry Ryan, Rosie Chard, Leif Norman and many more [ more ]
  • Thursday February 18/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Mondo!Kroetsch
    - guests Jake MacDonald, Neil Besner and Robert Enright, with music by DJ Mama Cutsworthmore ]
  • Tuesday February 23/10
    7pm

    Poems of Manitowapow
    - poets Duncan Mercredi, Rosanna Deerchild, Katherena Vermette and Donna Beyer, hosted by David Robertson
  • Wednesday February 24/10
    7pm

    rEmiX MACHINA
    - author Jonathan Ball, with GMB Chomichuk, Patrick Short, John Toone and Colin Smithmore ]
  • Thursday February 25/10
    7pm

    Anthology Reading Series
    - Roewan Crowe, with Courtney Slobogian and Chandra Mayormore ]
  • Friday February 26/10
    7:30pm

    Magic of One presents
    Kiviuq

    - Vancouver storyteller Kira Van Deusen
  • Tuesday March 2/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featuring TBAmore ]
  • March 3, 4 and 6/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Intermediate Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonald
  • Friday March 5/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! High Life
    - High Life star Stephen Eric McIntyre, stunt coordinator Rick Skene and storyboarder Nicholas Burnsmore ]
  • March 10, 11 and 13/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Introductory Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonald
  • 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 and Nurit Drory, with the easy listening harmonica of Sam Knackermore ]
  • 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 ]
  • 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 ]
  • 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 ]
  • Tuesday May 11/10
    7pm

    Through the Window of a Train
    A Railway Anthology

    - editor Barbara Langemore ]
  • 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 ]

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FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 3/26/07

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

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Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids - Mel Hurtig

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Watchmen - Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons

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Daredevil: The Man Without Fear

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Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, Brooke Shields

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Cane River - Lalita Tademy

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On South Mountain: The Dark Secrets of the Goler Clan - David Cruise/Alison Griffiths

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The Onion: Our Dumb Century

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The Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook - Dr. Phil McGraw

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Fashion Doll Costume Party in thread crochet

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe (hardcover)
The Songs of the Kings, Barry Unsworth
The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo
An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
Paradise, Toni Morrison
Partners in Wonder, Harlan Ellison
Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled, Harlan Ellison
A Ram on the Rampage, Toller Cranston (humour/art)
The Case of the Nervous Accomplice, Erle Stanley Gardner (hardcover)
People of the Owl, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown (hardcover)
The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour, ed. Will Ferguson
Little House on the Prairie boxed set ($27, new at $80)
and
an unbelievable 27 Robert Munsch books

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Non-Fiction

The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis
The Enneagram Made Easy, Renee Baron/Elizabeth Wagele
Called to Serve: Creating and Nurturing the Effective Volunteer Board, Max de Pree
NowHere: Space, Time and Modernity, ed. Friedland/Boden
Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss and Derrida, Catherine Zuckert
Orientalism, Edward Said
The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus, ed. Henry Roberts
My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere, Susan Orlean
The Guns Trilogy, George Blackburn
Testaments of Honour: Personal Histories from Canada's War Veterans, Blake Heathcote
More Natural 'Cures' Revealed, Kevin Trudeau
Death Valley: The Facts, W.A.Chalfant
HELP: Healthy Exchanges Lifetime Plan, JoAnna Lund
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia (hardcover, 1179 pages)
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (hardcover, 1136 pages)
The Celts, Frank Delaney
The Last Will and Testament of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (reproduction)
Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind, Lyall Watson
A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason, Trials, and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion, Beverley Boissery (out of print)
Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist, Roger Lowenstein
Horndean Heritage (Winkler, Manitoba history, very rare, $20)
and
7 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cross stitch pattern books


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

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What's Gumby Reading?

"...non-traditional work offers much to women...who don't mind getting dirty..."


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