CURRENT EVENTS

  • January 31 - February 5/12
    11am-9pm

    The Big Book Sell-off
    - all books now 50% off, with thousands marked down even further [ more ]
  • Friday February 3/12
    7pm
      $10/$5 students
    Too Much Info Tour 2012
    - Tim Eliasmore ]
  • Sunday February 5/12
    7:30pm
      $10
    ShawFest presents
    pShaw!
    A Literary Roast of George Bernard Shaw
    more ]
  • Monday February 6/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Balkan Folk Tales CD Launch
    Dejan Rafajlovic Trio

    - featuring Julian Bradford and Curtis Nowosadmore ]
  • Wednesday February 8/12
    8pm
      $8/$5 students
    Beautiful Lies
    An Evening with Bean, Eagle Lake Owls, and Kate Ferris
    more ]
  • Thursday February 9/12
    7:30pm

    Winnipeg Marx Reading Groupmore ]
  • Thursday February 9/12
    8pm
      $6
    JohNNy SiZZle/Lloyd & Selleck Present
    A CKUW Fundraiser
    more ]
  • Saturday February 11/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Kristopher Ulrich Band, with guests Eli Matas and Zack Kinahanmore ]
  • Sunday February 12/12
    7pm

    Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series
    - poet J.R. Léveillé, with Katherena Vermette and Rosanna Deerchildmore ]
  • Wednesday February 15/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    The Sweet Alibi, with Marcel Desilets and Ben Wytinckmore ]
  • Thursday February 16/12
    7:30pm

    Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect Book Launch
    - author Marusya Bociurkiwmore ]
  • Thursday February 16/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Quincy Davis & Promise
    - with Niall Bakkestad-Legare, Paul De Gurse, Shannon Kristjanson, Landen Seesahai, Kristopher Ulrich and Luke Sellickmore ]
  • Friday February 17/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Kayla Luky, with Tailwindmore ]
  • Wednesday February 22/12
    8pm
      $8/$5 students
    Primrose, with Demetramore ]
  • Thursday February 23/12
    8pm
      $10/$5 students
    Jazz Machine V
    Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years

    - the Aaron Shorr Triomore ]
  • Friday February 24/12
    8pm
      $5
    Shasta, with guests Windmore ]
  • Thursday March 1/12
    7pm

    U of M Jazz Program Student Ensemblesmore ]
  • Saturday March 3/12
    11am-5pm

    Crafty Minions
    The Handmade and Vintage Sale
    more ]
  • March 6-10/12

    Mondo!Poetrymore ]
  • Tuesday March 6/12
    7pm

    Manitoba Independent Songwriters' Circlemore ]
  • Saturday April 21/12
    11am-3:30pm
      $75
    From the Ground Up: Planning and Writing a Publishable Story
    - award-winning writer Jake MacDonaldmore ]

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Winnipeg, MB
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I always love reading your newsletters Kelly, but this is the best. Shame on the city and thanks to you Kelly for helping out your faithful customers. By the way you do have the best bookstore and eatery in the country bar none. This from a shameless book addict. - Rea, Winnipeg

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 11/13/06

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

Book
Dragon's Fire - Anne McCaffrey ($13)
(Hardcover - Released July/06)

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The Blood Knight - Greg Keyes ($12)
(Harcover - Released July/06)

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A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War
Heather Robertson

Book
A Field Guide to Germs - Wayne Biddle

Book
The Onion: Ad Nauseam

Book
My Adventures as an Illustrator - Norman Rockwell

Book
The Royal Family Pop-Up Book

Also new this week

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Fiction

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
How to Read an Unwritten Language, Philip Graham (out of print)
Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
Billy Liar on the Moon, Keith Waterhouse
Coming Soon, John Barth
Catcher in the Rye, J.D.Salinger
The Notorious Dr. August, Christopher Bram
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
A Christmas to Remember, Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer ($9)
  (Hardcover - Released Sept/06)
The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
and
The Race, Carol Matas

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Non-Fiction

Hierschau: An Example of Russian Mennonite Life - Helmut Huebert (rare)
Great Military Blunders, Geoffrey Regan
The Success and Failure of Picasso, John Berger
How To Survive And Prosper As An Artist, Caroll Michels
Technical Detours: The Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered, Oliver Botar
Demos and Trittys: Epigraphical and Topographical Studies in the Organization of Attica - John Traill (signed, rare)
Trudeau and Our Times Vol.2, The Heroic Delusion, Clarkson/McCall (out of print)
Cowboys and Indians: The Shooting of J.J.Harper, Gordon Sinclair, jr.(signed)
Wars of the Irish Kings, McCullogh
The Destruction of Knossos: The Rise and Fall of Minoan Crete, H.E.L.Mellersh
Throb: The Photography of Andy Summers
Impotence and Frigidity, Donald Hastings, M.D.
Midwifery and Herbs, Willa Shaffer
Whales: A Celebration
and
Hochbaum's To Ride the Wind (leatherbound)

plus hundreds more every week.... TOP OF PAGE

Book
What's Gumby Reading?
Finally, he's found a book his own size. Jimi Hendrix look out.




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