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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What people are saying:

Many audience members told us that they had never visited the store before, and were so impressed with the space (performance, eating and books) that they promised to return again after the festival. - Perry Grosshans, GM, Winnipeg International Writers Festival

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 4/9/07

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

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The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka/Peter Kuper (graphic novel)

Book
The Religion - Tim Willocks (UK edition, not yet released in Canada)

Book
Sagkeeng - George Lalor (out of print)

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An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror - David Frum/Richard Perle

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Crazy Busy - Edward Hallowell, MD

Book
A History of Russia - Riasanovsky/Steinberg

Book
Home-Based Business for Dummies

Book
The Fairy Ring: Tales from Fifteen Lands - Wiggins/Smith

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (hardcover)

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Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle - Sharon Mazer

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He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys - Greg Behrendt

Also new this week

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Fiction

Precious Bane, Mary Webb
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho
Dead-eye Dick, Vonnegut
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, Vonnegut
Headlong, Michael Frayne
The Ruby in Her Navel, Barry Unsworth
The Religion, Mikhail Bulgakov
I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
To Walk the Line, David Quammen
The Egoist, George Meredith (Modern Library hardcover)
Catch 22, Joseph Heller (hardcover)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha, Lloyd Alexander (out of print)
and
The Five Nations, Rudyard Kipling ($8, leather, $25 at Burton Lysecki)

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Non-Fiction

On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence, Tolstoy (out of print)
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, Tolstoy
The God We Never Knew, Marcus J. Borg
Dancing on the Edge:Faith in a Post-Christian Age, Richard Holloway
To Hell with Culture, Herbert Read
Taming the Tiger: The Struggle to Control Technology, Witold Rybczynski (out of print)
The Hidden Dimension, Edward T. Hall
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, David Macaulay
A Viet Cong Memoir, Truong Nhu Tang
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity, Stringer/McKie (out of print)
Korea: The Untold Story of the War, Joseph Goulden (out of print)
Gold, Glory and the Gospel, Louis B. Wright
Great Jews in Sports, Robert Slater
Richard the Lionheart, John Gillingham
From Merciless Invaders: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Alexander McKee
Curious Naturalists, Niko Tinbergen
Can We Live 150 Years?, Mikhail Tombak
Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cookbook
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
The Rise and Fall of Athens, Plutarch
Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba, Edward ffolkes (reprint of 1883 ed.)
and
A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill (4 hardcover vols, $6 ea.)


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