FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 11/16/09

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

Also new this week

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Fiction

Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
Beastly Tales, Vikram Seth
Summer of My Amazing Luck, Miriam Toews
The Moonlit Cage, Linda Holeman
Alligator, Lisa Moore
The Romantic, Barbara Gowdy
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Strange Pilgrims, Gabriel García Márquez
Brida, Paulo Coelho
My Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Clandestine, James Ellroy
Brown's Requiem, James Ellroy
La Brava, Elmore Leonard
When the Women Come Out to Dance, Elmore Leonard
Mr. Paradise, Elmore Leonard
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
Push, Sapphire (now filmed as Precious)
Cherry, Chandra Mayor
Short Talks, Anne Carson (poetry)
Tales for an Unknown City: Stories from One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, ed. Dan Yashinsky
Un long voyage, Marie Jack
Bleu sur blanc, Margueurite Anderson
Je vivrai, je m'appelle Michelle, Geneviève Crépeau (scarce)
Passion puissance 2, Annie Molin Vasseur
Haiku sans frontières: Une anthologie mondiale, ed. André Duhaime (out of print)
La poésie contemporaine de langue francaise depuis 1945, ed. Serge Brindeau
Poèmes choisis: 1965-1990, Jacques Brault
Catégoriques: un deux et trois, Normand de Bellefeuille
Voyages au pays des maléfices, Tatiana Arcand
Les galaxies nos voisines, Jean Chicoine
Lettres à Marie, Daniel Mathieu
L'Aurore boréale, Pierre Bourgeade
Exprès (Envois 2), Michel Butor
Vandal Love ou Perdus en Amérique, D.Y. Béchard
Le Train de Nulle Part, Michel Thaler
L'eau de vie (Uisge beatha), Daniel Marchildon
Les poésies mexicaines, ed. Lambert
Third Party Eyes/Los ojos del tercero, Laurel Jacobson
and
El viejo y el mar, Ernest Hemingway

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Non-Fiction

Would You Believe?, Tom Harpur
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, Alain Badiou
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, Slavoj Zizek
The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama
The Gift of Death/Literature in Secret, Jacques Derrida
Who Will Cry When You Die?, Robin Sharma
Codependent No More, Melody Beattie
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
The Art of War, Sun-tzu (Ralph Sawyer trans.)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Sci-Phi: Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger, Mark Rowlands
Dylan's Visions of Sin, Christopher Ricks (Bob Dylan bio)
Charlotte Cushman: A Lecture (1889), Lawrence Barrett
How To Write a Children's Book and Get It Published, Barbara Seuling
The Romance of Libraries, ed. Madeleine Lefebvre
Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999, ed. Grunwald/Adler
Iris Murdoch and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire, John Bayley
Elegy for Iris, John Bayley
The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him, Denis Brian
The World is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Patrick French
Ernest S. Lumsden: 1883-1948 (Burnaby Art Gallery, very scarce)
Wood for Life: By Design (Kelowna Art Gallery, very scarce)
Lilian Broca: Mirrors and Reflections, (Frye Art Museum)
Inkling to Ink: Susan Gransby (Visual Arts Burnaby)
Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, Adrienne Martini
Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived, Laurence Shames/Peter Barton
What to Do When the Doctor Says It's Early-Stage Alzheimer's, Feinberg/Yu
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, Noam Chomsky
The Culture of Terrorism, Noam Chomsky
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, David Halberstam
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham
The Great Shark Hunt: Gonzo Papers Vol.1, Hunter S. Thompson
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters, Greg Palast
Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz (2001 Nobel winner)
Global Trade: Past Mistakes, Future Choices, Greg Buckman
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Amy Chua
Dinosaur Hunters: 150 Years of Extraordinary Discoveries, David Spalding
The Dinosaur Project: The Story of the Greatest Dinosaur Expedition Ever Mounted, Wayne Grady
One Life: An Autobiography, Richard E. Leakey
The Climb Up To Hell, Jack Olsen
Breaking the Surface, Greg Louganis
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life, Richard Ben Cramer
Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero, Leigh Montville
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, Jane Leavy
Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream, Peter Richmond
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe, Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Royal Palaces of Britain, Jane Struthers
The Military Experience in the Age of Reason, Christopher Duffy
Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War, Gerald Linderman
Mr. Kipling's Army: All the Queen's Men, Byron Farwell
The Crucible of War 1939-1945: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force Volume III, Greenhous et al ($60 new, $30 at Aqua)
Les Francais dans l'Ouest canadien, Donatien Frémont (third edition)
Lettres des tranchées: trois frères manitobains, soldats de l'armée francaise durant la Première Guerre mondiale (out of print)
Le Cercle Moliere: Cinquantieme Anniversaire (cracked spine)
Laurent Desjardins: Un sportif en politique, Bernard Bocquel (out of print)
Marius Benoist(1896-1985) et la culture au Manitoba francais, Francois Gallays
Breaking Ground: Three Generations of Mennonite Women in the Canadian West, Josephine Friesen
and
Pages from the Past, Vince Leah

plus hundreds more every week....

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Ukrainian Easter Eggs and How We Make Them, the Luciow Sisters

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