FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 7/16/07
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture - Marvin Harris
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Boy Meets Girl - Meg Cabot
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Don't You Want Me? - India Knight
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In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
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The Singer Trilogy - Calvin Miller
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Sam and Angie - Margaret Sweatman
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The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
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(I have no idea what this is, but it appeals to my sense of aesthetics)
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Gig: Americans Talk about their Jobs - Bowe/Streeter
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Giants - David Larkin ($10 at Aqua, $25 at Burton Lysecki)
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Gnomes - Poortvliet/Huygen
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Faeries - Brian Froud/Alan Lee
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The Russian Experiment in Art 1863-1922 - Camilla Gray (out of print)
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Tracks and Traces of Prairie Places - George Lalor (local author, out of print)
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The Child Celebrated in Illustration
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Also new this week
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Fiction
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Time In Between, David Bergen
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Various Miracles, Carol Shields
Like the Red Panda, Andrea Seigel
In This Mountain, Jan Karon
Mercy, Jodi Picoult
Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult
Lipstick Jungle, Candace Bushnell
Art Objects, Jeanette Winterson
Magic Eight Ball, Marion Douglas
The Greenies, Myra Paperny
The Cowards, Josef Skvorecky
The Engineer of Human Souls, Josef Skvorecky
The Statement, Brian Moore
Ararat, D.M. Thomas
The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis, Humberto Costantini (out of print)
Over to you, Kadambari, Alka Saraogi (winner Sahitya Akademi Award)
Four Mothers, Shifra Horn
The Fly-Truffler, Gustaf Sobin
Tropic of Cancer/Black Spring/The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Shadow-Line, Joseph Conrad
Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
Black Dog, Stephen Booth
Tietam Brown, Mick Foley
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems by Wanda Phipps
The Wirless Room, Shane Rhodes (poetry)
Molloy, Samuel Beckett (français)
Et si c'était vrai, Marc Levy
En dînant Chez Quentin, Maeve Binchy
Il n'y a pas de hasards, Robert Hopcke
Ces enfants de ma vie, Gabrielle Roy
Eulalie la Tour: Acadie 1755, Alfed Silver
Poesias, Margarito Ledesma ($15, very rare, espagnol)
Dreamland: Fairy Tales 1, Nadia Ondricek (local author, out of print)
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Climates of Our Birth, Stuart James Whitley (local author, $15, signed, out of print)
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Non-Fiction
The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis
Fear and Trembling/The Sickness Unto Death, Søren Kierkegaard
The State in the New Testament, Oscar Cullman ($10, out of print)
The Signature of Jesus, Brennan Manning
One Woman's Journey: A Portrait of Pauline Vanier (Jean's mummy), Deborah/George Cowley ($6, signed by authors)
Oshkimasina'ikan: The New Testament in Northern Ojibwe/Saulteaux ($15)
Early Christian Creeds, J.N.D. Kelly ($15 at Aqua, $50 at Chapters)
Studies in Tertullian and Augustine, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
The Social Sources of Denominationalism, H. Richard Niebuhr
The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
Grow Younger, Live Longer, Deepak Chopra
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
The Phenomenology of Mind, G.W.F. Hegel
Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse
Money on the Line: Workers' Capital in Canada (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng
Smith's General Urology ($10, 14th ed.)
Williams Obstetrics ($30, 20th ed., current ed. is 22nd - $180 at Chapters)
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary ($20, 28th ed.)
Newton's Madness, Harold Klawans
Toscanini's Fumble And Other Tales of Clinical Neurology, Harold Klawans
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
Bach and the Dance of God, Wilfrid Mellers ($15, out of print, selling for $70 and up online)
Playtime Piano Method, Edith Williams ($6, rare, Waterloo Music Company)
The Child-Voice in Singing, F.E. Howard (1923)
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor, David Mamet
In Love with Norma Loquendi: More from the Language Maven about His Passion for Common Speech, William Safire
Saint-Exupéry: A Biography, Stacy Schiff
The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, Suzannah Lessard
Woodstock: The Oral History, Joel Makower
Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean
War Movies: Journeys to Viet Nam, Wayne Karlin
Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana Trail, Robert Sabbag
Marching Powder, Rusty Young
One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth without Ruining It, Bradford Angier
The Salt Book: Lobstering, sea moss pudding, stone walls, rum running, maple syrup, snowshoes and other Yankee doings, ed. Pamela Wood (a New England version of the Foxfire books)
Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Region, National Audubon Society
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places, David Quammen
Escape: In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada, Roy MacGregor
John Buchan: By His Wife and Friends
Pilgrim's Way: The Autobiography of Lord Tweedsmuir, John Buchan
Bread Making Made Easy, Robin Hood Multi Foods
Confessions of a Jailbird: The Anti-Racism Comic Book, Bob Haverluck (local author)
and
fifty hardbound issues of Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts (1961-1975, hardbound, $1 each)
plus hundreds more every week....
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What's Gumby Reading?
"Planned Parenthood's global plan of action is based on: Free S*x, Eugenics and Birth Control." - Deadly Conception: International Planned Parenthood's Assault on Your Children, Your Family and Your Nation's Sovereignty
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