FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 07/19/10

(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

Blasphemer's Wheel, Patrick Friesen (poetry)
Bluebottle, Patrick Friesen (poetry, out of print)
Unearthly Horses, Patrick Friesen (poetry, out of print)
The Lost Highway, David Adams Richards
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Feminists Go Swimming, Michael Collins
The Ministry of Special Cases, Nathan Englander
Fima, Amos Oz
The Accidental, Ali Smith
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino (Italy, trans.)
Betrayal, Marquis de Sade
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings, Marquis de Sade
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Strange News from Another Star, Hermann Hesse
Speed/Kentucky Ham, William S. Burroughs jr.
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs jr.
Women, Charles Bukowski
The Abortion, Richard Brautigan
The Hawkline Monster, Richard Brautigan
The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
Cathedral, Raymond Carver
Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick
Lies, Inc., Philip K. Dick
The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen
In the Woods, Tana French
The Ice Princess, Camilla Läckberg (Sweden, trans.)
The Quincunx, Charles Palliser
The Sea of Monsters: Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Two, Rick Riordan
Knapp's Last Tape and other Dramatic Pieces, Samuel Beckett
and
Three One-Act Plays, Woody Allen

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Non-Fiction

Becoming Human, Jean Vanier
The Dwelling of the Light: Praying with Icons of Christ, Rowan Williams
The God We Never Knew, Marcus Borg
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, N.T. Wright
The Last Word, N.T. Wright
For All the Saints?, N.T. Wright
Evil and the Justice of God, N.T. Wright
Satan and the Problem of Evil, Gregory Boyd
God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict, Gregory Boyd
God's Soldiers: A History of the Jesuits, Jonathan Wright
Persecution in the Early Church, Herbert Workman
The Soul of Christianity, Huston Smith
The Child's Perception of Time, Jean Piaget
The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales, Sheldon Cashdan
War and the Iliad, Simone Weil/Rachel Bespaloff
Answered Prayers, Truman Capote
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, Alan Bullock
The Spanish Civil War, Hugh Thomas
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron, Forgotten Heroes of World War II, Lynne Olson/Stanley Cloud
Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy, Terry Copp
To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in WWII, Hermann Knell
After Liberalism, Immanuel Wallerstein
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, John Ralston Saul
V.I. Lenin: Collected Works (eighteen volumes, not complete)
The Anglo-American Threat to America: Memoirs of the National Liberation War, Enver Hoxha
On Violence, Hannah Arendt
The Anatomy of Power, John Kenneth Galbraith
Quantum Jump: A Survival Guide for the New Renaissance, W.R. Clement
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Mathematics
Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, Felix Klein
Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries, John Gribbin
The End of Physics: The Myth of a Unified Theory, David Lindley
Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System (Vol. Three), Robert Burnham
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition, Bill Bryson
American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Studs Terkel
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II, Studs Terkel
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession, Studs Terkel
Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century By Those Who've Lived It, Studs Terkel
April 1865: The Month That Saved America, Jay Winik
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, James Fallows
Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art, Mary Anne Staniszewski
The Natural Way to Draw, Nicolaides
Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet, Elaine Gottschall
Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms, Nicolette Hahn Niman
Homegrown: Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table, Nischan/Goodbody
The Frugal Gourmet's Culinary Handbook, Jeff Smith/Craig Wollan
Great Recipes of the Great Cooks, Arlene Feltman Sailhac
The New York Bartender's Guide to Cocktails and Mixed Drinks, Stuart Walton
A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, Anthony Bourdain
On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World, Jason Burke
Patagonia: Moon Handbook, Wayne Bernhardson
King of the World: Muhammad Ali, David Remnick
Lazarus and the Hurricane, Sam Chaiton/Terry Swinton
Bob Dylan: Positively Main Street, Toby Thompson
Those Wonderful Years: Unforgettable Songs from 1920-1940, ed. Dick Stern
All What Jazz: A Record Diary, Philip Larkin
The Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book: Bb Edition
Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye!, Cynthia Heimel
Stuff White People Like, Christian Lander
Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops, Neil Steinberg
Streeters, Rick Mercer
Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey, Morey Holzman/Joseph Nieforth
Our World's a Stage: The Summers Family Story, Robert James Williamson (Hamilton, Ontario history)
The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America, Peterson/Brown
Gift of Wings: An Aerial Celebration of Canada, Carl Hiebert (aerial photography)
Small Animal Surgical Nursing, Diane Tracy
The Peterson Field Guide to the Moths of Eastern North America, Charles Covell
Wildflowers of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Region, Karen Johnson
A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic, E.C. Pielou
The Mountain Knows No Expert: George Evanoff, Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero, Mike Nash
Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company, James Raffan
and
Manitoba By Bicycle: A 1200 Kilometre Bicycle Adventure, Steve Langston

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"Oh, there's lots and lots I fergits, the songs I've known so well, I fergits them. There was lots of good songs about murders aboard ships, and all this kind of things."

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