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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What people are saying:

I just wanted to say what a great workshop Michael had. It was interesting, very informative, and he had great advice for everyone. Would also like to thank you and your staff for being so accomodating and so very helpful in every way. Most importantly, everyone was so friendly...it does make a difference. And of course the food was good. Thanks for the after dinner cupcakes (nice touch). - Jane Walker, writer

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 11/19/07

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

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Thermopylae: The Battle for the West - Ernle Bradford

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For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes - Terry Golway

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Napoleon Bonaparte - Alan Schom

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The Virgin Queen: The Personal History of Elizabeth I - Christopher Hibbert

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The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

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Matzohball: A New Adventure of Hebrew Secret Agent Oy-Oy-7 - Sol Weinstein

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Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads - Michael Brander (out of print)

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The Bürgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a 16th Century German Town - Steven Ozment

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Discovery Travel Adventures: Dinosaur Digs

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Caprial's Cafe Favorites - Caprial Pence (out of print)

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American Junk - Mary Randolph Carter (out of print)

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Sir Cedric - Roy Gerrard (out of print)

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The Golden Road - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1913, first edition and somewhat uncommon but has been repaired inside so just a reading copy, $8)

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The Golden Trail: The Story of the Klondike Rush - Pierre Berton

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Kate Greenaway's Book of Games

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Les Caricatures de Cayouche - Réal Bérard (1992, Les Éditions du Blé)

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Crime Stories: More of Manitoba's Most Famous True Crimes - Bill Redkop (NEW, $15, signed)

Also new this week

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Fiction

A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
So I Am Glad, A.L. Kennedy
Wild Decembers, Edna O'Brien
The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Tourists, Richard B. Wright
The Gates of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan
In Search of Snow, Luis Alberto Urrea
25th Hour, David Benioff
Accident/A Day's News, Christa Wolf (East Germany, trans.)
Cassandra, Christa Wolf (East Germany, trans.)
In Evil Hour, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the Heat of the Night, John Ball (out of print)
The Ministry of Fear, Graham Greene
Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Oliver Wendell Holmes
The O. Henry Awards: 2000 Prize Stories
Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All Story (out of print)
The Weir, Conor McPherson (play)
Red River of the North and Other Poems of Manitoba, Thomas Saunders
Quo Vadis, Henry Sienkiewicz
Ben Hur, Lew Wallace
Constantine: The Miracle of the Flaming Cross, Frank Slaughter
Heliconia Spring, Brian Aldiss (out of print)
The Enormous Egg, Oliver Butterworth
The Princess Test, Gail Carson Levine
and
Monster Cleans His House, Ellen Blance

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Non-Fiction

Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church, Philip Yancey
The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, E.J. Bicknell
C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer, Scott Burson/Jerry Walls
The Message: NT with Psalms and Proverbs, Eugene Peterson
The Contemplative Pastor, Eugene Peterson
The Social and Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain
We Have Been Friends Together/Adventures in Grace: The Memoirs of Raissa Maritain (out of print)
God and Philosophy, Étienne Gilson
The Anesthetic Society, Don DeMarco
Leviathan: I and II, Thomas Hobbes
Love in the Western World, Denis de Rougemont (France, trans.)
The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin
A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber
Mental Floss, Marilyn Gellis
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Sigmund Freud
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung
Life Preservers, Harriet Lerner
Coyote's Morning Cry: Meditations and Dreams from a Life in Nature, Sharon Butala
Women, Art, and Society, Whitney Chadwick
The Birth Symbol in Traditional Women's Art: From Eurasia and the Western Pacific, Max Allen
Trance: Patrick Traer and Janet Werner (1998 art exhibit)
Remember...Relate...Retell..., Caroline Dukes (Plug In 1996)
Aboriginal Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, Thomas Isaac
A History of Thailand, Rong Syamananda
The Four Noble Truths, Lobsang Gyatso
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki (foreword by Carl Jung)
Learn Yoga in a Weekend (Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center)
The Formula: A Personalized 40-30-30 Weight Loss Program, Gene/Joyce Daoust
I Am Not Spock, Leonard Nimoy
BraveMouth: Living with Billy Connolly, Pamela Stephenson
Rob Roy MacGregor: His Life and Times, W.H. Murray
Arabs and Israel for Beginners, Ron David
Military Incompetence: Why the American Military Doesn't Win, Richard Gabriel
Jarhead, Anthony Swofford
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer (hardcover)
Luftwaffe: A History, ed. Harold Faber
The Art of Wargaming, Peter Perla
The Complete Wargames Handbook, James Dunnigan
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, Francis Parkman
Roughing It Easy: Camping and Cooking, Dian Thomas
The Canadiana Cookbook: A Complete Heritage of Canadian Cooking, Madame Jehane Benoit
Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
Sherlock's City Map Winnipeg
Tommy Douglas Speaks
Prairie Spirit: Perspectives on the Heritage of the United Church of Canada in the West
and
Footprints in the Dust, Douglas Light ($15, a comprehensive history of Battleford, and the North-West Rebellion)

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"What kind of reader are you? Do you find yourself reading only one word at a time?", Faster Reading Self-Taught, Harry Shefter


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