FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 9/3/07
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood - Ann Brashares (January 2007)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling (hardcover)
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Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs (July 2006)
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Citizen Soldiers - Stephen Ambrose
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Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
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The Wild Blue - Stephen Ambrose (plus 4 more Ambrose titles)
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Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
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The Borgias - Clemente Fusero (Italy, trans.)
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
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Sigmund Freud: His Life in Pictures and Words
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War - Gwynne Dyer
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The Dark Side of Camelot - Seymour Hersh
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The Mennonite Treasury of Recipes ($10, 1962, Steinbach)
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The Ultimate Vegetarian Cookbook - Roz Denny
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My Friend Gorilla - Atsuko Morozumi
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Also new this week
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Fiction
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, Robertson Davies ($10, hardcover, $35 at Burton Lysecki)
A Choice of Enemies, Mordecai Richler
Juliana and the Medicine Fish, Jake MacDonald
The Jade Peony, Wayson Choy
The Tattooed Map, Barbara Hodgson (kind of like Nick Bantock)
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Catch 22, Joseph Heller (hardcover)
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Where the Truth Lies, Rupert Holmes
Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
Eating Pavlova, D.M. Thomas
David Golder, Irène Némirovsky
Gone to Soldiers, Marge Piercy
The Animals' Waltz, Cary Fagan
The Topography of Love, Bernice Morgan
Gallows Wedding, Rhona Martin (signed)
Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897 ed.)
La Barcarola, Pablo Neruda (espagnol)
Volkswagen Blues, Jacques Poulin (français)
Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel, Marie-Claire Blais
Les belles-soeurs, Michel Tremblay
La machine infernale, Jean Cocteau
Salut Galarneau!, Jacques Godbout
Les dimanches sont mortels, Francine d'Amour
L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions, Gilles Archambault
The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom: The Portuguese Irregular Verbs Trilogy, Alexander McCall Smith
Death in Kenya, M.M. Kaye
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, Sebastien Japrisot (France, trans.)
Kat Scratch Fever, Karen Kijewski
Five Red Herrings, Dorothy Sayers
Shadows in Bronze, Lindsey Davis (a Falco mystery)
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
Idoru, William Gibson
Throy, Jack Vance
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
Going Solo, Roald Dahl
and
five new For Better or For Worse collections, Lynn Johnston
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Non-Fiction
Life Together, Bonhoeffer
A Widening Light: Poems of the Incarnation, Luci Shaw
God in the Dark: Through Grief and Beyond, Luci Shaw
Addicted to Mediocrity, Franky Schaeffer
For the Time Being, Annie Dillard (out of print)
Living Faith, Jimmy Carter
Three Gospels, Reynolds Price
Violence and the Sacred, René Girard
Reflections on Violence, Georges Sorel
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben
The Tragedy of Progress: Marxism, Modernity and the Aboriginal Question, Bedford/Irving
Early Political Writings, Karl Marx
Dismantling a Nation: The Transition to Corporate Rule in Canada, McBride/Shields
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (hardcover)
The Scope and Method of Political Economy, John Neville Keynes
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman, Robert Skidelsky
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
How Old Will You Be In 1984?: Expressions of Student Outrage from the High School Free Press, ed. Diane Divoky (1969, man)
A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture, ed. Charlotte Otten
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: Books 1-3 (complete), Gurdjieff ($20 set, $91 at Chapters)
The Undiscovered Self, Carl Jung
A Course in Miracles (vols. 1 and 2)
The Deeper Wound, Deepak Chopra
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, Sarah Ban Breathnach
The Healing Power of Herbs, Michael Murray
The Millionaire Next Door, Stanley/Danko
Cardinal Rules of Investing, Henry Hudek (local author)
Kids Are Worth It!, Barbara Coloroso
KidsHealth Guide for Parents: Pregnancy to Age 5
Baby Names Around the World: Over 50,000 Names, Bruce Lansky
Atkins for Life, Robert Atkins (menu plans/recipes)
Stage Properties and How To Make Them, Warren Kenton
Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre, Robertson Davies
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters, Christopher Vogler
The Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams/John Lloyd
Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum, Tyler Anbinder
Revolt in the Desert, T.E. Lawrence (hardcover)
First and Goal: The CFL and the Pursuit of Excellence, Tony Proudfoot
Fiat 128 1969-73 Autobook, Kenneth Ball
Bedding Plant Favorites, Lois Hole
Perennial Favorites, Lois Hole
The Coffin Affair, Jacques Hébert
seven volumes in The Mirror of Britain history series, Margaret Drabble, Leon Garfield, et al ($7.50 each at Aqua, $22.50 at Burton Lysecki)
and
Canada: A Year of the Land, National Film Board of Canada ($15, 1967, 15"X12", photographs from NFB archives)
plus hundreds more every week....
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What's Gumby Reading?
"Where possible exercise to music to relieve any tedium and help the rhythm along. I do so to the theme music from the film The Sting." - Halex Book of Modern Table Tennis, Denis Neale
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