FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 7/21/08
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
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Rockbound - Frank Parker Day
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The History of Art in Pictures - Gilles Plazy
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American Woman: The Story of the Guess Who - John Einarson ($50, very scarce)
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Tad Williams' Mirror World
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The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650, John Morris (out of print)
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Also new this week
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Fiction
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
Larry's Party, Carol Shields
Unless, Carol Shields
Dance Me Outside, W.P. Kinsella
Going to Cuba, Lee Gowan (out of print)
Jasmine Nights: A Quirky Bangkok Novel, S.P. Somtow (the JD Salinger of Siam [seriously, that's what the book says])
My Year in the No-Man's-Bay, Peter Handke (Austria, trans.)
Letters, John Barth
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
Prairie Fire: Spring 1994 (signed by Horner, Gunnars, Brandt, Sweatman, Birdsell)
Summers with Memere, Marie Schnerch (local author)
Burning Bridges, Nain Nomez (Chile, trans.)
Glasburyon, Mark Abley (poetry)
Complete Tales and Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
In the Heat of the Night, John Ball (out of print)
Good Work Secret Seven, Enid Blyton
The Guests of War Trilogy, Kit Pearson
And Chaos Died, Joanna Russ
The Prince of Nothing Trilogy, R. Scott Bakker
The J.R.R. Tolkien Handbook, Colin Duriez
and
fourteen new Isaac Asimov titles
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Non-Fiction
The Crosswicks Journal Trilogy, Madeleine L'Engle
Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who, Frederick Buechner
Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis, Valerie Martin
Wesley's Hymns (1876)
Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Natural Theology for Our Time, Charles Hartshorne
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Irving Layton: A Portrait, Elspeth Cameron (out of print)
Dance on the Earth: A Memoir, Margaret Laurence (out of print)
Beyond the Limits: A Woman's Triumph on Everest, Stacy Allison
Down but not Out (RCAF Survival School, 1970)
Cosmic Questions: Galactic Halos, Cold Dark Matter and the End of Time, Richard Morris
Walden, Civil Disobedience and Other Writings, Thoreau
Barbarians in the Garden City: The BC NDP in Power, Mark Milke
The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, ed. Joel Krieger
The Thomson Empire: The First Fifty Years, Susan Goldenberg
Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain
Weight Loss: The Complete Mind/Body Solution, Deepak Chopra (4 CDs)
The Four Ingredient Coookbooks , Linda Coffee/Emily Cale (three in one, out of print)
The Turning Point Cook Book (Beamsville, Ontario, 1975?, scarce)
Our Customers are Cooking (Penner Foods)
Tubby's Cookbook
Soup's On (Winnipeg Free Press cookbook)
and
Consider Me a Friend, Audrey Peterkin (local author, out of print)
plus hundreds more every week....
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