CURRENT EVENTS

  • Just In
    Removing the Hutterite Kerchief now back in stock [ more ]
  • March 10, 11 and 13/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Introductory Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonaldmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Illusions
    - illusionist Brian Glow and the ghostbusters of Shadows of Manitoba, plus musician Jenny Berkelmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellers
    - featured teller Jane Enkinmore ]
  • Saturday March 13/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • Tuesday March 16/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    - featuring Joe Wapemoosemore ]
  • 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, Libby Simon and Nurit Drory, with the easy listening harmonica of Sam Knackermore ]
  • Friday March 19/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! 40
    - Kelly Hughes turns 40, featuring Dr. Bhatnagar, Brian Loewen, Handyman Rod Kozak and actor Kris Bratton, with music by Ben Wytinckmore ]
  • 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 ]
  • Wednesday March 24/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • 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 ]
  • Saturday March 27/10
    7pm

    Anthology Reading Series
    - Todd Besant, with Melissa Steele and Brenda Hasiukmore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10 - Thursday April 1/10
    10am-4pm
    $150
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    Introduction to Horror Film Criticism for Teens

    - a spring break course from Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • 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 ]
  • Thursday April 1/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! April Fools
    - comedians Al Rae, Dean Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon, with music by The Eardrumsmore ]
  • Good Friday April 2/10
    CLOSED
  • Tuesday April 6/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featuring Brenda Sciberrasmore ]
  • Friday April 9/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival
    - comedians Elvira Kurt, Ron Vaudry and George Westerholm, with music by The Paperbacksmore ]
  • Saturday April 10/10
    7:30pm

    ideaExchange
    Foreign Women, The Femme Fatale and Children’s Bibles

    - Cameron McKenziemore ]
  • Tuesday April 13/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - guest speaker TBAmore ]
  • April 14,15,21 and 22/10
    6-9pm
    price TBA
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    They Came From Within: The History of Canadian Horror Films

    - a workshop with Caelum Vatnsdal
  • Friday April 16/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Road to the Book Awards
    - 2010 nominees Michael Nathanson and Lise Gaboury-Diallo, Freep arts reporter Morley Walker and a five-foot long snake, with music by Matt Wardmore ]
  • Friday April 23/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Road to the Book Awards
    - 2010 nominees and music TBA
  • Tuesday May 11/10
    7pm

    Through the Window of a Train
    A Railway Anthology

    - editor Barbara Langemore ]
  • Wednesday May 19/10
    7pm

    MayWorks Festival presents
    Bread and Roses Tonight

    - poets Ron Romanowski and John Baillie, with music by Liliana Romanowski and Ferruccio Moscardamore ]
  • Saturday May 22/10
    2pm

    PTE's Carol Shields Festival of New Works presents
    Short Shots

    - premieres of new ten-minute plays
  • 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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"...non-traditional work offers much to women...who don't mind getting dirty..."


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