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 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 11/20/06

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

Book
Reader's Digest Illustrated World Atlas (2004)

Book
Prescription for Nutritional Healing - Balch/Balch

Book
Quilting: Pieces of the Past - Better Homes and Gardens

Book
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco

Book
The Civil War: An Illustrated History
by Geoffrey Ward, with Ric Burns and Ken Burns

Book
Canoecraft: A Harrowsmith Illustrated Guide to
Fine Woodstrip Construction - Moores/Mohr

Book
The World of Robert Bateman

Also new this week

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Fiction

Rat King: The First Aurelio Zen Mystery, Michael Dibdin
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, Joseph Heller (out of print)
Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes
The Accidental, Ali Smith
Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston
The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian (hardcover)
and
three more O'Brian hardcovers

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Non-Fiction

Pray to Live, Thomas Merton: A Contemplative Critic, Henri Nouwen
In Memoriam, Henri Nouwen
The New Man, Thomas Merton
Two Types of Faith, Martin Buber
The RCMP: A Century of History, Nora and William Kelly
Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a 16th Century Miller, Carlo Ginzburg
A Question of Character: A Life of JFK, Thomas Reeves
Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in WWI, John Ellis
On Equilibrium, John Ralston Saul
Agee on Film, James Agee
Speaking of Success, Pamela Wallin
Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia
Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music And Electric Flesh, Arthur Kroker
and
lots of new photography and graphic design books

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

Book
What's Gumby Reading?
Watch out for the bends, Gumby.




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