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
    - Freep arts reporter Morley Walker, the 2010 nominees and a five-foot long snake, with music by Matt Wardmore ]
  • 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 ]
  • 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 ]

274 Garry St.
(Between Portage
& Graham)

Winnipeg, MB
Canada  R3C 1H3
204-943-7555

OPEN
Tues-Sat 11am-9pm
Sun-Mon Closed

EMAIL
kelly@aquabooks.ca

We accept Interac, Visa and Mastercard too

What people are saying:

I can't say enough about how much I love this store and restaurant. They have a great selection in a beautiful building with such an open and organic environment. Oh and the food at EAT Bistro is amazingly good. Thanks Kelly for all your work in the community. - Mellaina, Winnipeg

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 4/2/07

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

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Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

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Mad Love - André Breton

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St. Mary at Main - Patrick Friesen

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Blonde Like Me: The Roots of the Blonde Myth in Our Culture - Natalia Ilyin

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Dynamic Yoga - Kia Meaux

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The Joy that Cracked the Mountain - Patrick O'Connell

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The V*gina Monologues - Eve Ensler

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The Darwin Awards II

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The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook

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The Winnipeg Explorer's Guide (new, multiple copies, now only $10)

Also new this week

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Fiction

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch, Henry Miller
Quiet Days in Clichy, Henry Miller
Claire de terre, André Breton (fr)
No Exit and three other plays, Jean-Paul Sartre
Les Mains Sales, Jean-Paul Sartre (fr)
Justine, Marquis de Sade
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Lolita, Nabokov
Love Among the Artists, Bernard Shaw (out of print)
A Spy in the House of Love, Anaïs Nin
Paris Peasant, Louis Aragon
Blanche ou l'oubli, Louis Aragon (fr)
Sixteen Jesuses, Daniel David Moses (poetry)
Variations on the Birth of Jacob, Mick Burrs (poetry)
The Sorcerer: The Fort at River's Bend, Jack Whyte
and/et
Gide, Radiguet, Sartre, Zola, Rimbaud, etc. en français

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Non-Fiction

Finding God: When You Don't Believe in God, Jack Erdmann
Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
Anti-Semite and Jew, Jean-Paul Sartre
The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
A Simple Path, Mother Theresa (audiobook, cass.)
Do They Hear You When You Cry, Fauziya Kassindja
The Power of a Praying Wife, Stormie Omartian
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, Jonathan Shay
By-Line, Ernest Hemingway
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin
A Primer of Libertarian Education, Joel Spring
Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama, Stanton B.Garner
The Early Chirico, James Thrall Soby (art)
The Great Reversal: The Privatization of China 1978-1989, William Hinton
History of Rome, Michael Grant (hardcover)
Art Treasures of the Vatican Library, Leonard von Matt (oversize, $25)
The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes
and
Sex Lives of Animals Without Backbones, Haig Najarian


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

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