CURRENT EVENTS

  • Friday September 3/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Into THIN AIR I
    - writers Charlene Diehl, Ariel Gordon and Jordan Wheeler, with music by classical guitarist Skender Sefamore ]
  • Saturday September 4/10
    11am-5pm

    Garage Sale/BBQmore ]
  • 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
    7pm

    Terminal Moraine Reading
    - poet Ian LeTourneau, with Sherry Coffey, Jason Booth and Jason Diazmore ]
  • 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
    Afterwords

    - the Aborginal Writers Collective [ more ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10am

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Writing Workshop

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    4pm

    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 ]

274 Garry St.
(Between Portage
& Graham)

Winnipeg, MB
Canada  R3C 1H3
204-943-7555

OPEN
Tues-Sat 11am-9pm
Sun-Mon Closed

EMAIL
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We accept Interac, Visa and Mastercard too

What people are saying:

And Aqua Books, on Garry St., is one of the craziest, most amusing and well-ordered second-hand bookstores I have ever frequented. Upstairs, in what had been a Chinese restaurant (the panelling and the décor and the kitchen still there) the owner, Kelly Hughes, maintains three studios for writers-in-residence, and the old dining room, complete with stage and fainting couches, is reserved for readings. Walking tours are popular (and a good idea) in the city, and readers can pick up a brochure here for Hughes' BookWalk too. - Noah Richler, Toronto Star

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 9/24/07

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

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Shake Hands with the Devil - Roméo Dallaire

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The Greedy Bastard Diary - Eric Idle

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The Lost Continent: Travels in Smalltown America - Bill Bryson

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The Book of Coffee and Tea - Schapira

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Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet - Elaine Gottschall

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Pelicans to Polar Bears: Watching Wildlife in Manitoba - Catherine Senecal

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Headhunter - Timothy Findley

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Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland

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Stanley Park - Timothy Taylor

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris

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The Russländer - Sandra Birdsell

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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins

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Six by Seuss

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Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

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If Men Could Talk...Translating the Secret Language of Men - Alon Gratch

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Griffin and Sabine - Nick Bantock

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Sabine's Notebook - Nick Bantock

Also new this week

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Fiction

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut
Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
The Master Butchers Singing Club, Louise Erdrich
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise Erdrich
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Cinnamon Gardens, Shyam Selvadurai
The Case of Lena S., David Bergen
See the Child, David Bergen
River of Stone, Rudy Wiebe
The Custodian of Paradise, Wayne Johnston
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Book of Secrets, M.G. Vassanji
A World Lost, Wendell Berry
Black Rain, Masuji Ibuse (Japan, trans.)
Schoolmaster Ni Huan-Chih, Yeh Sheng-tao (China, trans.)
Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory (English, ed. R.M. Lumiansky)
Collected Poems, W.H. Auden
A Strange Relief, Sonnet L'Abbe (poetry)
I Would Be The Sea, Dorothy Godlinski (poetry, very scarce)
Fool For Love and Other Plays, Sam Shepard
Seven Plays, Sam Shepard (includes True West)
Le jardin du prophčte, Kahlil Gibran
L'oeil de verre, Sylvie Massicotte
The Complete Novels, Charles Dickens ($30, 2400 pgs, out of print)
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Haunting, Shirley Jackson
The Hanging Valley, Peter Robinson
Tickled to Death: A Claire Malloy Mystery, Joan Hess ($5, signed)
Gossip Girl, Cecily von Ziegesar
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
Wetware, Rudy Rucker (cyberbunk classic, out of print)
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Too Hot To Handle, Matt Christopher ($5, 1965 w/dustjacket)
Rosie in New York City: Gotcha!, Carol Matas
Annilea, Ishbel Moore (signed)
and
John Christopher's Tripods Trilogy (hardcover, $5 each)

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Non-Fiction

Eclipse of God, Martin Buber ($8 at Aqua, $28 at Chapters)
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict, Esther de Waal
The Poverty of Christ and the Apostles, Hervaeus Natalis
The Bishop Pike Affair, William Stringfellow/Anthony Towne
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, ed. Jonathan Edwards
Hegel's Ethical Thought, Allen Wood
Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs
The Art of Living, Epictetus
The Importance of Living, Lin Yutang
Living with the Lama, Lobsang Rampa (man channels his cat, Mrs. Fifi Greywhiskers. Really.)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, ed. Evans-Wentz/Jung
The Essential Rumi (trans. Barks/Moyne)
Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions, Richard Smoley/Jay Kinney
Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature, Jerome Kagan (out of print)
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the 21st Century, Michael Mandelbaum
The Stuart Age, A.F. Scott (out of print)
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, John Boswell
Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community, Spencer Klaw
The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World, John Malcolm Brinnin (out of print)
Florence Nightingale, Elspeth Huxley
Personal History, Katharine Graham (Washington Post publisher)
Abuse this Word: The Art of Perverse Punning, Cosgrove/Hussar
The Fall of the Roman Umpire, Ron Luciano
Stupid White Men, Michael Moore
Straight From the Top: The Truth About Air Canada, Robert Milton
Night, Elie Wiesel
Escape from Sobibor, Richard Rashke
Kidnapped: A Diary of my 373 Days of Captivity in Columbia, Leszli Kálli
We Have Returned: The Salvation Army in Uganda 1980-1985, Dorothy Millar (local author, out of print)
Main Currents of Marxism: Vol I The Founders, Leszek Kolakowski
The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice
Teach Yourself Spanish (2 CDs and coursebook)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Reading Group
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alternative Medicine
Practical Feng Shui Solutions, Simon Brown
Star Trek Science Logs, Andre Bormanis
Painted Furniture, Jocasta Innes
The Chatelaine Cookbook, Elaine Collett (1965 ed.)
Women and Music: A History, ed. Karin Pendle
A Guide to the Symphony, ed. Robert Layton (out of print)
Music for Sight Singing, Robert Ottman
Mel Bay's Complete Book of Guitar Chords, Scales and Arpeggios
Blues Riffs for Guitar: Vol 2
Led Zeppelin III (Guitar/Vocal)
Stories from the Ice Storm, ed. Mark Abley (out of print)
Heroes in Our Midst: Top Canadian Athletes Share Personal Stories from Their Lives in Sport, ed. Mednick/Thomas
and
The Best Possible Face: L.B. Foote's Winnipeg, Doug Smith/Michael Olito ($15, out of print)

plus hundreds more every week....

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