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 ]

274 Garry St.
(Between Portage
& Graham)

Winnipeg, MB
Canada  R3C 1H3
204-943-7555

OPEN
Tues-Sat 11am-9pm
Sun-Mon Closed

EMAIL
kelly@aquabooks.ca

We accept Interac, Visa and Mastercard too

What people are saying:

I can't say enough about how much I love this store and restaurant. They have a great selection in a beautiful building with such an open and organic environment. Oh and the food at EAT Bistro is amazingly good. Thanks Kelly for all your work in the community. - Mellaina, Winnipeg

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 12/4/06

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

Book
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss

Book
C.S.Lewis and Narnia for Dummies

Book
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade - James Reston, jr.

Book
In Great Waters:
The Epic Story of the Battle of the Atlantic
- Spencer Dunmore

Book
When Elephants Weep:
The Emotional Lives of Animals
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Book
A Delusion of Satan:
The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
- Frances Hill

Book
The Canterbury Tales:
An Illustrated Edition - Chaucer

Book
Alphabets and Ornaments:
Royalty-free images with CD

Book
Facts Every Parent Should Know About Marijuana

Also new this week

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Fiction

Sir Thomas Malory's Tales of King Arthur, ed. Michael Senior (hardcover, out of print)
City of God, E.L.Doctorow
A Severed Wasp, Madeleine L'Engle
The Golden Key and Other Stories, George MacDonald
Under a Dead Star, Sigurdur Magnusson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Creation, Katherine Govier
Buffalo Soldiers, Robert O'Connor
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, Doris Lessing
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Doris Lessing
Ladysmith, Giles Foden
The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse
A Wodehouse Bestiary, P.G. Wodehouse
Red Meat Cures Cancer, Starbuck O'Dwyer
and
twenty new Clive Cussler titles

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Non-Fiction

The Sign of Jonas, The Journals of Thomas Merton
Lenten Lands: My Childhood with C.S. Lewis, Douglas Gresham
The New Man, Thomas Merton
Reaching Out, Henri Nouwen
Edifying Discourses, Kierkegaard
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, trans. Sir Richard Burton (hardcover)
Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean War, David Bercuson
Intelligence in War:
Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda, John Keegan
John Prebble's Scotland
and
Postage Stamps and Christianity, Barbara Mueller

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

Book
What's Gumby Reading?
"Is Gumby a happy go lucky guy? Or another tortured comic like Michael Richards?




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