CURRENT EVENTS

  • 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
    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
    After Words

    - the Aborginal Writers Collective [ more ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10am
      $25
    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    The Writing Craft: A Writer's Toolkit

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    3pm

    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 6/18/07

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

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Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures

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A Cook's Tour of Italy - Joe Famularo

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Blue Ribbon Cook Book 18th ed.

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Casablanca: Script and Legend - Howard Koch

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script - Charlie Kaufman

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The Matrix: The Shooting Script - Larry/Andy Wachowski

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Speaking of Empire and Resistance - Tariq Ali/David Barsamian

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In the New Country - David Foster

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Pigs: A Troughful of Treasures - Sarah Bowman/Lucinda Vardey (out of print)

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High Druid of Shannara: Straken - Terry Brooks ($15, 5 CDs)

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Grave Secrets - Kathy Reichs ($10, unabridged, 6 cassettes, 10 hours)

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Star Wars: Outbound Flight - Timothy Zahn ($15, 5 CDs)

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America (The Audiobook) - Jon Stewart ($14, 3 CDs)

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Star Wars Dark Nest 1: The Joiner King - Troy Denning ($15, 4 CDs)

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, M.G. Vassanji (2003 Giller Winner)
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
Waxwings, Jonathan Raban
The Spirit Cabinet, Paul Quarrington
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age, Kenzaburo Oe
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Esi Edugyan
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Blur, Michelle Berry
Independence Day, Richard Ford
We So Seldom Look On Love, Barbara Gowdy
The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
The Human Stain, Philip Roth
Charlotte: The Final Journey of Jane Eyre, D.M. Thomas
Lafcadio's Adventures, André Gide
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
The Blood of the Lamb, Peter De Vries
The Clowns of God, Morris West
Prochain Episode, Hubert Aquin (English, hardcover)
The Antiphonary, Hubert Aquin
Directions for an Opened Body, Kenneth J. Harvey
All Hallows' Eve, Charles Williams
The Ball and the Cross, G.K. Chesterton
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond, G.K. Chesterton
Moby Dick, Herman Melville (hardcover)
The Complete Works, Oscar Wilde
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Evelyn Waugh
When Harry Met Sally..., Nora Ephron (screenplay)
Chinatown/The Last Detail, Robert Towne (screenplays)
Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)
Thelma and Louise/Something to Talk About, Callie Khouri (screenplays)
Erin Brockovich, Susannah Grant (screenplay)
The Genius of the Scandinavian Theatre (seven plays)
The Cat Who Sniffed Glue, Lilian Jackson Braun
The Stone Within: A Chung Kuo novel, David Wingrove (out of print)
All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson
Ilium, Dan Simmons
Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light, Tanya Huff (out of print)
Destination: Universe!, A.E. van Vogt (local author)
The Road to Oz, L. Frank Baum (1909 facsimile edition, hardcover)
Spring Break at Pokeweed Public School, John Bianchi (out of print)
Caldicott Place, Noel Streatfield (out of print)
Flambards, K.M. Peyton
The Edge of the Cloud, K.M. Peyton
Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik/Maurice Sendak
and
Ebeneezer Sneezer, Fred Penner ($10, very rare, signed)

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Non-Fiction

The Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land: God Man and Nature in C.S. Lewis's Narnia Tales - Kathryn Lindskoog (debunker of Walter Hooper)
The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey
The Mass, Josef A. Jungmann, SJ
Sunlit Byways, Patience Strong
Can God Be Trusted?, John G. Stackhouse, jr (local author)
A Quaker Book of Wisdom, Robert Lawrence Smith
The Unheard Cry for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
The Unaborted Socrates, Peter Kreeft
Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning, Richard Bandler/John Grinder (out of print)
Power/Knowledge, Michel Foucault
Existentialism and Human Emotions, Jean-Paul Sartre
The Future of Capitalism, Lester C. Thurow
Alternative Budgets: Budgeting as if People Mattered, John Loxley (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba)
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait/Adrian Wooldridge
The Road Ahead, Bill Gates
Education for Human Development: Understanding Montessori, Mario Montessori, jr
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, Randy Shilts
The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut
A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Candy Freak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Steve Almond
Dear Sad Goat: A Roundup of Truly Canadian Tales and Letters, Bill Richardson
Me Funny, Drew Hayden Taylor (signed)
The Truman Show: The Shooting Script, Andrew Niccol
Sinéad: Her Life and Music, Jimmy Guterma
Sarah McLachlan: Building a Mystery, Judith Fitzgerald
Reba: My Story, Reba McIntyre
The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt, Flinders Petrie
Hypnotism: A History, Derek Forrest
Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau
Techniques in Home Winemaking, Daniel Pambianchi
Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, G. Geoffrey Smith, MBE
A New Geometry, A.W. Siddons/K.S. Snell ($10, extremely rare)
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, J.E. Gordon
The Devil is Clever: A Memoir of My Romanian Mother, Kenneth Radu
Night-Duty Social Worker, E.H. Duncan (1979, pen-name of Winnipeg Children's Aid Society worker)
and
The Life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Isabel Skelton ($20, very rare bio of the only assassinated MP in Canadian history, selling for $100 online)

plus hundreds more every week....

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