CURRENT EVENTS

  • Friday September 3/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Into THIN AIR I
    - writers Charlene Diehl, Ariel Gordon and Jordan Wheeler, with music by classical guitarist Skender Sefamore ]
  • Saturday September 4/10
    11am-5pm

    Garage Sale/BBQmore ]
  • Tuesday September 7/10
    7pm

    Manitoba Independent Songwriters' Circlemore ]
  • Tuesday September 7/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featured reader Mariianne Maysmore ]
  • Wednesday September 8/10
    4:30pm
      $10
    Beginners' Yoga Class
    - instructor Yarden Bourlasmore ]
  • Wednesday September 8/10
    Celiac-Friendly Night at EAT!more ]
  • Thursday September 9/10
    7pm

    Terminal Moraine Reading
    - poet Ian LeTourneau, with Sherry Coffey, Jason Booth and Jason Diazmore ]
  • Thursday September 9/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit StarBach's: The Coffee Cantata

    - starring David Klassen, Naomi Forman and Darren Martensmore ]
  • Friday September 10/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Fall Arts Preview I
    - WSO resident conductor Richard Lee, Juno winner Steve Bell and U of M Jazz Studies director Steve Kirby, with music by jazz pianist George Colliganmore ]
  • Friday September 10/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellersmore ]
  • Saturday September 11/10
    4:30pm
      $10
    Beginners' Yoga Class
    - instructor Yarden Bourlasmore ]
  • Saturday September 11/10
    5:30pm

    Humanist Association of Manitoba presents
    Kepler, Science and Religion

    - guest speaker Rhonda Martensmore ]
  • Tuesday September 14/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - speaker TBAmore ]
  • Wed Sept 15/10 - Wed Dec 1/10 7-9pm $250
    Forging the Muse with poet Chandra Mayormore ]
  • Wednesday September 15/10
    7-9pm
    $30
    Aqua U. presents How To Sell Yourself Without Selling Out
    - a marketing seminar from Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughesmore ]
  • Thursday September 16/10
    Celiac-Friendly Night at EAT!more ]
  • Friday September 17/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Into THIN AIR II
    - Writers Festival performers Ismaila Alfa, Ignatius Mabasa and Dominique Rey, with music by Naomi Guilbert and Hiroshi Koshiyama of Fubuki Daikomore ]
  • Saturday September 18/10
    7pm

    On the Same Page Read-Off
    - nominees Catherine Hunter, Jake MacDonald, Melissa Steele and Michael Van Rooymore ]
  • Tuesday September 21/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    - Aqua Books Writer-in-Residence Kerry Ryanmore ]
  • Wednesday September 22/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit One Good Marriage

    - starring Matthew TenBruggencate and Mel Marginetmore ]
  • Thursday September 23/10
    7pm

    Platform Centre presents
    Focal Point: Photography and the Social Construct
    László Moholy-Nagy and Feminism: The Origins of his Photographic Practice

    - professor Oliver Botarmore ]
  • Friday September 24/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Pop Star
    - music writer John Kendle and super-producer Chris Burke-Gaffney, with music by Arun Chaturvedimore ]
  • Friday September 24/10
    10:30pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Afterwords

    - the Aborginal Writers Collective [ more ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10am

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Writing Workshop

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    4pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    A Pint of Bitter Murder

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    7:30pm

    ideaExchange
    Facing the (sacred) Fire:
    Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    - Dr. Jon Searsmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10:30pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Afterwords

    - writer/rapper Ismaila Alfamore ]
  • Tues Sept 28/10 - Wed Nov 24/10 7-9pm $20
    Writers’ Support Group with poet Kerry Ryanmore ]
  • Wednesday September 29/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit Unequal Harvest

    - starring Kami Desilets and Brent Hirosemore ]
  • Thurs Sept 30/10 - Thurs Dec 2/10 7-9pm $225
    Through the Looking Glass
    - a YA fiction writing intensive with Anita Dahermore ]
  • Wednesday September 30/10
    7:30pm
      $20
    Frontier College presents
    An Evening with Harvey Levy
    more ]
  • Friday October 1/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Fall Arts Preview II
    - Larry Desrochers (Manitoba Opera), Columpa Bobb (MTYP), Casimiro Nhussi (NAfro Dance) and Steven Schipper (MTC), with music by Prairie Jewelmore ]
  • Wednesday October 6/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit When The Killer Mutant Lizards Attack

    - starring Brent Hirosemore ]
  • Thursday October 7/10
    7pm

    The Secret Signature of Things Launch
    - poet Eve Joseph, with Patrick Friesenmore ]
  • Saturday October 16/10
    8pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit unADULTeRATED me

    - starring Rachelle Fordycemore ]
  • Friday October 29/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Halloween
    - illusionist Brian Glow and SF writer Nick DiChario, with music by Absent Soundmore ]
  • Thursday November 4/10
    7pm

    TELL: Tales from the 204more ]
  • Friday November 26/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! 42
    - CFL legend Troy Westwood and greyhound rescuer Michaela Lamoureux, with music by Newfie rocker Elton Adamsmore ]
  • Thursday December 2/10
    7pm

    Canada's History Magazine presents Teachmeetmore ]
  • Saturday December 4/10
    11am-5pm

    Crafty Minions: The Handmade and Vintage Salemore ]
  • Jan Horner wins the 2010 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
    more ]

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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, Anaďs 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 Anaďs 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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