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 ]

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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)

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

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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

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A History of Russia - Riasanovsky/Steinberg

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Home-Based Business for Dummies

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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.)


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

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