CURRENT EVENTS

  • January 31 - February 5/12
    11am-9pm

    The Big Book Sell-off
    - all books now 50% off, with thousands marked down even further [ more ]
  • Friday February 3/12
    7pm
      $10/$5 students
    Too Much Info Tour 2012
    - Tim Eliasmore ]
  • Sunday February 5/12
    7:30pm
      $10
    ShawFest presents
    pShaw!
    A Literary Roast of George Bernard Shaw
    more ]
  • Monday February 6/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Balkan Folk Tales CD Launch
    Dejan Rafajlovic Trio

    - featuring Julian Bradford and Curtis Nowosadmore ]
  • Wednesday February 8/12
    8pm
      $8/$5 students
    Beautiful Lies
    An Evening with Bean, Eagle Lake Owls, and Kate Ferris
    more ]
  • Thursday February 9/12
    7:30pm

    Winnipeg Marx Reading Groupmore ]
  • Thursday February 9/12
    8pm
      $6
    JohNNy SiZZle/Lloyd & Selleck Present
    A CKUW Fundraiser
    more ]
  • Saturday February 11/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Kristopher Ulrich Band, with guests Eli Matas and Zack Kinahanmore ]
  • Sunday February 12/12
    7pm

    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
    - poet J.R. Léveillé, with Katherena Vermette and Rosanna Deerchildmore ]
  • Wednesday February 15/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    The Sweet Alibi, with Marcel Desilets and Ben Wytinckmore ]
  • Thursday February 16/12
    7:30pm

    Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect Book Launch
    - author Marusya Bociurkiwmore ]
  • Thursday February 16/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Quincy Davis & Promise
    - with Niall Bakkestad-Legare, Paul De Gurse, Shannon Kristjanson, Landen Seesahai, Kristopher Ulrich and Luke Sellickmore ]
  • Friday February 17/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Kayla Luky, with Tailwindmore ]
  • Wednesday February 22/12
    8pm
      $8/$5 students
    Primrose, with Demetramore ]
  • Thursday February 23/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Jazz Machine V
    Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years

    - the Aaron Shorr Triomore ]
  • Friday February 24/12
    8pm
      $5
    Shasta, with guests Windmore ]
  • Thursday March 1/12
    7pm

    U of M Jazz Program Student Ensemblesmore ]
  • Saturday March 3/12
    11am-5pm

    Crafty Minions
    The Handmade and Vintage Sale
    more ]
  • March 6-10/12

    Mondo!Poetrymore ]
  • Tuesday March 6/12
    7pm

    Manitoba Independent Songwriters' Circlemore ]
  • Saturday April 21/12
    11am-3:30pm
      $75
    From the Ground Up: Planning and Writing a Publishable Story
    - award-winning writer Jake MacDonaldmore ]

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FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 5/28/07

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

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Proceed, Sergeant Lamb - Robert Graves

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Le Nom de la Rose - Umberto Eco

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Night's Child: A Detective Murdoch Mystery - Maureen Jennings

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The Hot Flash Club - Nancy Thayer

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The Hippopotamus - Stephen Fry (out of print)

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Chomsky for Beginners

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The Dilbert Principle - Scott Adams

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The Giant Treasury of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter

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Polar The Titanic Bear - Daisy Corning Stone Spedden (out of print)

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Eric Carle's Storybook (out of print, rare)

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The Nature Company Guides: Weather

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Time Life's The Enchanted World ($60 for all 21 volumes)

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Englishman's Boy, Guy Vanderhaeghe
Pilgrim, Timothy Findley
The Way Boys Sometimes Are and Other Poems, Clarise Foster (2006, local author, signed)
Bloody Jack, Dennis Cooley
The Alligator Report, W.P. Kinsella (signed)
The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt, W.P. Kinsella (signed)
The Miss Hobbema Pageant, W.P. Kinsella
The Thrill of the Grass, W.P. Kinsella
Who Do You Think You Are?, Alice Munro
Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards
The Club Dumas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Muriella Pent, Russell Smith
Indigo, Richard Wiley
Cuba Libre, Elmore Leonard
Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
Dead-Eye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Another World, Pat Barker
The Fourth Hand, John Irvingr
The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
Twilight Sleep, Edith Wharton
The Witch of Exmoor, Margaret Drabble
Homeland and Other Stories, Barbara Kingsolver
Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernières
Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life, Karel Capek
Other Fires, Short Fiction by Latin American Women, ed. Alberto Manguel
The Love Poetry of Shakespeare, ed. Roy Booth
Game Control, Lionel Shriver
The Plays of J.M. Barrie
Courage, J.M. Barrie
Les Mains Sales, Sartre
Le Mur, Sartre
Gargantua, Rabelais
La Perle, John Steinbeck
Alcools, Guillaume Apollinaire
La Chanson de Roland
Zone, pièce de Marcel Dubé
La Douleur, Marguerite Duras
Technogenesis, Syne Mitchell
Red Dwarf, Grant Naylor
Last Human, Doug Naylor
The Babylon File: The Unathorised Guide to Babylon 5, Andy Lane
and
nineteen new Nigel Tranter novels (many out of print)

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Non-Fiction

Pascal's Fire: Scientific Faith and Religious Understanding, Keith Ward
The Real Jesus, Luke Timothy Johnson
The Hidden Jesus: A New Life, Donald Spoto (out of print)
Jesus Christ and Mythology, Rudolf Bultmann
On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers, Frederich Schleiermacher
Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Existentialism, ed. Robert Solomon
The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (1170 pgs)
The Body Silent: Into the World of the Disabled, Robert Murphy
Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Infertility, Germaine Greer (out of print)
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, Christiane Northrup
The Dance of Deception, Harriet Lerner
The Making of Dr. Phil, Dembling/Gutierrez
What to Do with the Rest of Your Life, Robin Ryan
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Home From the Vinyl Cafe, Stuart McLean
Give War a Chance, P.J. O'Rourke
Warriors of Christendom: Charlemagne, El Cid, Barbarossa, Richard Lionheart, Matthews/Stewart
Living Alone, Beryl Conway Cross (1956, interior design, rare)
Memories of Margaret: My Friendship with Margaret Laurence, Don Bailey
Rodin: A Biography, Frederic Grunfeld
Fred Astaire: An Illustrated Biography, Michael Freedland
Margaret Mead: A Life, Jane Howard
Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa as told to Louise Udall
Le Petit Larousse illustré
Discours de la Méthode, Descartes
Mère Jane Slocombe: neuvième supérieure générale des soeurs grises de montréal 1819-1872, Estelle Mitchell
Company's Coming: Pasta, Jean Paré
The Complete Book of Italian Cooking, Veronica Sperling/Christine McFadden
The Asian Kitchen: The best of Chinese and Far Eastern Cooking, Lilian Wu
The James Beard Cookbook (hardcover)
The New James Beard (hardcover)
The Frugal Gourmet Whole Family Cookbook, Jeff Smith
Morrice: A Gift to the Nation: The G. Blair Lang Collection
The Art of Sharing, the Sharing of Art: Responses to Mennonite Relief in Postwar Germany, Reinhild Kauenhoven Janzen
A Historical Atlas of Canada, Kerr
and
My Neighbor, J.S. Woodworth

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

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