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 9/10/07

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

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Instant Raw Sensations - Frédéric Patenaude

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Flip Books for Cooks: Vegetarian - ed. Martha Day

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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book (1950)

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The Last Light of the Sun - Guy Gavriel Kay (hardcover)

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The Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier's Story - James Davis

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Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser

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C.S. Lewis and his World - David Barratt

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The Birds Our Teachers - John Stott

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How Should We Then Live? - Francis Schaeffer

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Deus Irae - Philip K Dick ($9 at Aqua, $18 at Chapters)

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Eye in the Sky - Philip K Dick ($9 at Aqua, $18 at Chapters)

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Galactic Pot-Healer - Philip K Dick ($8.50 at Aqua, $17 at Chapters)

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The Way of the Sacred - Francis Huxley (out of print, $10 at Aqua, $25 at Burton Lysecki)

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Illustrated Guide to Dreams - Valerie Francis

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Politically Correct Parables - Robert Martin Walker

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Watercolours - HRH The Prince of Wales

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Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm - Town/Silcox ($20 at Aqua, $100 at Burton Lysecki)

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe
Swann, Carol Shields
A Map of Glass, Jane Urquhart
Away, Jane Urquhart
No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Sam and Angie, Margaret Sweatman
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov
Selected Writings, Marquis de Sade ($10, hardcover)
Childood, Boyhood, and Youth, Tolstoy
Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith
Collected Stories, V.S. Pritchett
Splash One Tiger, R.J. Childerhose (1961, local author)
Songs of a Sourdough, Robert Service
Collected Poems, E.J. Pratt
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode, Harold Brodkey
The Good Body, Bill Gaston
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Predator, Patricia Cornwell (October 2006)
The Hard Way, Lee Child (April 2007)
Under Orders, Dick Francis (July 2007)
The Murdered House, Pierre Magnan (France, trans.)
N is for Noose, Sue Grafton
Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen
Mister Roberts, Thomas Heggen
The Hundred and One Dalmations, Dodie Smith
A Small Town is a World, David Kossoff (the Rabbi Mark stories)
The Animals of Farthing Wood, Colin Dann
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Book 3 Cyborg, William Wu (out of print)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea/Robert Anton Wilson
Software, Rudy Rucker (cyberpunk classic, winner 1983 Philip K Dick Award)
What Might Have Been: Alternate Heroes, ed. Benford/Greenberg
and
The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy, ed. Mike Ashley

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Non-Fiction

Hidden Art, Edith Schaeffer
Heaven, Dwight L Moody
Fear and Trembling, Sřren Kierkegaard
Existence and Faith, Rudolf Bultmann
Ministry at Moody, Andrew Murray (sermons)
Between Man and Man, Martin Buber
The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church, Rousas John Rushdoony
Homo Viator: Introduction to a Metaphysic of Hope, Gabriel Marcel
Pilgrim's Way: A Liberal Christian's Response to Current Trends in Fundamentalism, Colin Clay (publ. Saskatoon, signed)
Stoicism and its Influence, Robert Wenley
Lao-Tzu "My words are very easy to understand.": Lectures on the Tao Teh Ching , Man-jan Cheng
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac, David Amram
The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Great Prints and Printmakers, Herman Wechsler ($20, mylar cover)
Pillars of the Almighty: A Celebration of Cathedrals, Ken Follett/F-Stop Fitzgerald (photographs)
Two Guys, Four Corners, Fred/Don Imus (photography)
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, Sidney Poitier
Marilyn, Norman Mailer ($10 at Aqua, $25 at Greenfield)
Blur 3862 Days: The Official History, Stuart Maconie (out of print)
The River War: The Sudan 1898, Winston Churchill
Elizabeth I: A Study in Power and Intellect, Paul Johnson
On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel, Tony Cohan
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest, Gregg Olsen
Everest: The West Ridge, Thomas Hornbein (abridged ed.)
The Complete Walker III: The Hiker's Bible, Colin Fletcher
Runners and Walkers: A 19th Century Sports Chronicle, John Cumming
Boats: An Anthology, ed. David Seybold
Sailing Alone Around the World, Captain Joshua Slocum
Dark Wind: A Survivor's Tale of Love and Loss, Gordon Chaplin (sailing, out of print)
From Hook to Table: How to Clean and Cook Fish, Vic Dunaway
Herbs and Herb Gardens of Britain: A Comprehensive Guide, The Herb Society/Elizabeth and Reginald Peplow
Herb Gardening: The American Garden Guide
Aromatherapy: A Practical Guide to Essential Oils and Aromassage, Jan Balkam
The New and Complete Encyclopedia of Cooking, Madame Jehane Benoit (1152 pgs, very scarce, $30 at Aqua, $100 and up online)
Kate Aitken's Cook Book
The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet, Nicholas Perricone
BBC's The Victorian Kitchen, Jennifer Davies (out of print)
The Rituals of Dinner, Margaret Visser
The Great Canadian Literary Cookbook (includes Sandra Birdsell's Zwieback recipe)
That Old Black Magic, Arthur Black (signed)
Images of Canada: A Nation in Postage Stamps, Gordon Donaldson
1902 Edition of the Sears, Roebuck Catalogue (1969 reproduction)
Blackwork Embroidery, Elisabeth Geddes
and
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, George Carlin

plus hundreds more every week....

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