FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 06/14/10

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

Also new this week

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Fiction

Sitting Opposite My Brother, David Bergen
Beautiful Girl Thumb, Melissa Steele
A Celibate Season, Carol Shields/Blanche Howard
Catch as Catch, Robert Budde (poetry)
Knucklehead and Other Stories, Mark Giles
The Spirit Cabinet, Paul Quarrington
The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon
Directions for an Opened Body, Kenneth J. Harvey
Book of Mercy, Leonard Cohen (out of print)
microserfs, Douglas Coupland
The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs
The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
Palpasa Café, Narayan Wagle (Nepal, trans.)
The Song of Kahunsha, Anosh Irani
The Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
A Venetian Affair, Andrea di Robilant
The Diagnosis, Alan Lightman
Yellow Dog, Martin Amis
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, Iris Murdoch
The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Rosshalde, Hermann Hesse
Magister Ludi, Hermann Hesse
Narziss and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse
Demian, Hermann Hesse
Peter Camenzind, Hermann Hesse
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Short Novels of Dostoevsky
The Illustrated Old Possum: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot
A Bang and Two Echoes, Alan Mowbray (play, very scarce)
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (play)
Privates on Parade, Peter Nichols (play, out of print)
The Aberhart Summer, Conni Massing (play)
In the Boom Boom Room, David Rabe (play)
The American Night: Volume 2, Jim Morrison
Vic and Sade: The Best Radio Plays of Paul Rhymer, ed. Mary Frances Rhymer (out of print)
Three Films of Woody Allen: Zelig/Broadway Danny Rose/The Purple Rose of Cairo (screenplays, out of print)
Seven Japanese Tales, Junichiro Tanizaki
A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey and Other Burmese Folktales, Maung Htin Aung/Helen Trager
The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind, Terence Green (out of print)
La Vallée des Crotales: Une Aventure de Bob Morane, Vernes/Forton
Les 12 Travaux d'Asterix, Goscinny/Uderzo
and
thirty new Manga books

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Non-Fiction

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Annie Dillard
Pseudonymity and Canon, David Meade (very scarce)
The New Testament as Canon, Brevard Childs (out of print)
Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
The Radical Reformation, George H. Williams ($89 at Chapters, $20 at Aqua)
Jewish Theology, Louis Jacobs
Heidegger and "The Jews", Jean-Francois Lyotard (out of print)
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, Bernard Lewis
The Word and the World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language, Bimal Krishna Matilal (very scarce)
A History of France, André Maurois
My Dear Mrs Jones: The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Margaret Charlotte Jones, 1851-1852
The Road from Coorain: Growing Up Australian, Jill Ker Conway
Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, Nuala O'Faolain
1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir, Anne Roiphe
The Book of Letters, Paul/Audrey Grescoe
Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame, ed. Victoria Brooks
On Writing, Stephen King
See Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit, Sarah Mlynowski/Farrin Jacobs
Will Write for Shoes: How to Write a Chick Lit Novel, Cathy Yardley (out of print)
City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver
On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures, Abbot Suger
The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic Versus Classical Art, Kenneth Clark
A Concise History of Opera, Leslie Orrey
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, Claude Debussy
The Pianist: One Man's Survival in Warsaw, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould, Kevin Bazzana
A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its Restoration, Ronald Haver
Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Coyne Sanders/Tom Gilbert
Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-six Years in the Theatre, Hal Prince (out of print)
Rewrites: A Memoir, Neil Simon
Who's Who in the Theatre (1936)
On Performing, David Craig (out of print)
Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Its Christian Premises, Roy Battenhouse
Writing in Restaurants, David Mamet
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, Scott Cunningham
The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, Monica Sjoo/Barbara Mor
Invoke the Goddess, Kala Trobe
Principia Discordia, Malaclypse the Younger (out of print)
The Art of Dreaming, Carlos Castaneda
Bad Dogs Have More Fun, John Grogan
How to Speak Dog, Stanley Coren
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
A Wing in the Door: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk, Peri Phillips McQuay
Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World, Michael Rose
Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others, Martin Rees
Introduction to Simple Continued Fractions, Stanton/Williams (Winnipeg, 1977, very scarce)
Inventing the Future: Reflections on Science, Technology and Nature, David Suzuki
The Hydrogen Economy: The Next Great Economic Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin
Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues, Frank Ryan
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
Saving the Self: Consumerism, Freedom and You, Cristian Lacatus
Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print, ed. David Wallis
No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays, Ellen Willis
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, Susan Douglas
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Elizabeth Gilbert
Ma Gastronomie, Fernand Point
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, Carol Adams
Equal Shares: Oodi Weavers and the Co-Operative Experience, Dennis Lewycky/Keitseope Nthomang
A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, ed. Franca Iacovetta
A History of the Canadian Peoples, J.M. Bumsted
Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada, Ken Dryden/Roy MacGregor
Monographs in Education: Hutterian Education (University of Manitoba, 1984, very scarce)
Marie-Anne Lagimodière: The Story of Louis Riel's Grandmother, Irene Gordon
and
Clearing in the West, Nellie McClung

plus hundreds more every week....

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Captain Nice, William Johnston

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