CURRENT EVENTS

  • Just In
    Removing the Hutterite Kerchief now back in stock [ more ]
  • March 10, 11 and 13/10
    Aqua U. presents
    Writing Your Life Introductory Level

    A workshop with Jake MacDonaldmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Illusions
    - illusionist Brian Glow and the ghostbusters of Shadows of Manitoba, plus musician Jenny Berkelmore ]
  • Friday March 12/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellers
    - featured teller Jane Enkinmore ]
  • Saturday March 13/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • Tuesday March 16/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    - featuring Joe Wapemoosemore ]
  • Wednesday March 17/10
    7pm

    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry series
    - poet Deborah Schnitzer with guests Marika Prokosh and Kristian Enrightmore ]
  • Thursday March 18/10
    7pm

    How Many Jewish Mothers?
    A Night of Jewish Humour

    - storytellers Alix Sobler, Moishe Goldenberg, Libby Simon and Nurit Drory, with the easy listening harmonica of Sam Knackermore ]
  • Friday March 19/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! 40
    - Kelly Hughes turns 40, featuring Dr. Bhatnagar, Brian Loewen, Handyman Rod Kozak and actor Kris Bratton, with music by Ben Wytinckmore ]
  • Saturday March 20/10
    7pm

    Manitoba Storytelling Guild and Cabbages and Kings Radio present
    World Storytelling Day

    - storytellers Mary Louise Chown, Jane Enkin, Justin Jaron Lewis, Ron Robinson, Rebecca Hiebert, Wayne Drury and Kay Stone, with music by Patrick Keenanmore ]
  • Wednesday March 24/10
    EAT!

    Gluten-Free Night
    - reservations recommendedmore ]
  • Friday March 26/10
    7pm
    $10
    Telling Tales Spoken Lit Series
    Whale Tales to Balaam's Ass: Bringing Out the Animal in the Old Testament

    - storytellers Anne Morton and Rebecca Hiebert, with the Mennonite Blues of Bush Wiebemore ]
  • Saturday March 27/10
    7pm

    Anthology Reading Series
    - Todd Besant, with Melissa Steele and Brenda Hasiukmore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10 - Thursday April 1/10
    10am-4pm
    $150
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    Introduction to Horror Film Criticism for Teens

    - a spring break course from Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • Tuesday March 30/10
    7-9pm
    $30
    Aqua U. presents How To Sell Yourself Without Selling Out
    - a marketing/life seminar from Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughesmore ]
  • Thursday April 1/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! April Fools
    - comedians Al Rae, Dean Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon, with music by The Eardrumsmore ]
  • Good Friday April 2/10
    CLOSED
  • Tuesday April 6/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featuring Brenda Sciberrasmore ]
  • Friday April 9/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival
    - comedians Elvira Kurt, Ron Vaudry and George Westerholm, with music by The Paperbacksmore ]
  • Saturday April 10/10
    7:30pm

    ideaExchange
    Foreign Women, The Femme Fatale and Children’s Bibles

    - Cameron McKenziemore ]
  • Tuesday April 13/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - guest speaker TBAmore ]
  • April 14,15,21 and 22/10
    6-9pm
    price TBA
    Aqua U. presents The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
    They Came From Within: The History of Canadian Horror Films

    - a workshop with Caelum Vatnsdal
  • Friday April 16/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Road to the Book Awards
    - Freep arts reporter Morley Walker, the 2010 nominees and a five-foot long snake, with music by Matt Wardmore ]
  • Tuesday May 11/10
    7pm

    Through the Window of a Train
    A Railway Anthology

    - editor Barbara Langemore ]
  • Wednesday May 19/10
    7pm

    MayWorks Festival presents
    Bread and Roses Tonight

    - poets Ron Romanowski and John Baillie, with music by Liliana Romanowski and Ferruccio Moscardamore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    Psycho Bitch

    - starring Tamara Lynn Robertmore ]
  • July 14-24/10
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
    TJ Dawe's Tired Cliches

    - starring Alex Eddingtonmore ]
  • Meet Aqua Books Film Writer-in-Residence Kier-La Janissemore ]
  • Rosanna Deerchild wins the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
    more ]

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What people are saying:

I used to come into your bookstore all the time on Princess. Now I live in Tokyo. The sad part about living in Tokyo is that I can't eat at EAT!. I just wanted to congratulate you on your great success with Aqua! It sounds as though things are going really great for you, and the business/thought-fostering centre/restaurant establishment is the thing my dreams are made of. I think that the community that you are helping to foster in Winnipeg is inspiring. If I was still living in Winnipeg, I'd probably never leave your store (provided there's a public bathroom). Anyway, Aqua Books is probably the thing about Winnipeg I miss most. I loved walking from my apartment in the Exchange to your store on the weekends to wither away the hours. It always smelled good in there. Does the Garry St. location smell equally good? I bet it does. - Lauren U., Tokyo

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 prophète, 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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