FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 12/10/07
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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JPod - Douglas Coupland (hardcover)
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The Little Red Schoolbook - Hansen/Jensen/Roberts ($10, scarce)
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and some so Poor - David Landes
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The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society - Kathryn Harrison
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation - David Bodanis
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Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism - ed. Grosz/Probyn
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Spiritual Theology - Simon Chan
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The Works of Philo - trans. C.D. Yonge
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An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life - The Dalai Lama
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The Atlas of Medieval Man - Colin Platt ($10 at Aqua, $30 at Burton Lysecki)
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Muhammad Ali: The Birth of a Legend, Miami, 1961-1964 - Flip Schulke/Matt Schudel (out of print)
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The Horizon Concise History of Spain - Melveena McKendrick
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Tactical Genius in Battle - Simon Goodenough
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Strength Training Anatomy - Frédéric Delavier
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Life in the Castle in Medieval England - John Burke
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Also new this week
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Fiction
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Stranger, Albert Camus
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (play)
Unless, Carol Shields
What the Crow Said, Robert Kroetsch
Any Given Power, Alissa York (out of print)
Lucky Man, Victor Enns (poetry)
The Ivory Comb, Fran Howard (local author, out of print)
The Last Summer (of You and Me), Ann Brashares (June 2007)
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Murder Room, P.D. James
The Lighthouse, P.D. James
Fearless Jones, Walter Mosley
The Gift of the Magi and other short stories, O. Henry
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling (hardcover)
City of Dreams, Stephen/Ross Lawhead (out of print)
Starfarers, Poul Anderson
Destiny's Road, Larry Niven
Standing Wave, Howard Hendrix (out of print)
Camelot 30K, Robert Forward (out of print)
The Engines of God, Jack McDevitt
On a Planet Alien, Barry Malzberg (2002 trade paperback edition, out of print)
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller, jr.
The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan/Teresa Patterson
and
three new Playstation Official Strategy Guides (Onimusha: Warlords, Wild Arms 2, Vagrant Story)
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Non-Fiction
Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ, Madame Guyon
Joy Unspeakable, Martin Lloyd-Jones (out of print)
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Donald Miller
To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father, Donald Miller/John MacMurray
The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality, Ronald Rolheiser
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
The Spiritual Man, Watchman Nee
The Release of the Spirit, Watchman Nee
Visions of God: Four Medieval Mystics and their Writings, Karen Armstrong
The Holy Scriptures in Hebrew and English (Old Testament only)
The New Testament in Hebrew and English
Vincent's Word Studies of the New Testament (4 vol. set, $20 at Aqua, $60 at McNally)
The NIV/NASB Harmony of the Gospels, Thomas/Gundry
The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit, Margaret Somerville (CBC Massey Lectures)
The Analects, Confucius
Sayings and Tales of Zen Buddhism: Reflections for Every Day, William Wray
The Earth Path, Starhawk
Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, ed. Diamond/Orenstein
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, Michio Kaku
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time, Richard Feynman
General Relativity: From A to B, Robert Geroch
Hidden Histories of Science, ed. Robert Silvers (out of print)
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Richard Dawkins
Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements, P.W. Atkins
Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics, Ian Stewart
Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem, Amir Aczel
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World, Matthew Stewart
The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery, Simon Worrall (out of print)
Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World, Cleo Odzer
Colonial American Writing, ed. Roy Harvey Pearce
War, Gwynne Dyer
Canada's Glory: Battles that Forged a Nation, 1759-1953, Arthur Bishop (out of print)
1914-1918 Voices and Images of the Great War, Lyn MacDonald (out of print)
1066: The Year of the Conquest, David Howarth
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, Amy Kelly
The Birth of Europe: Colliding Continents and the Destiny of Nations, Michael Andrews (BBC Books, out of print)
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, ed. Philippe Ariès/Georges Duby
Lessons of the Masters, George Steiner
Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist, Cay Lang
On Casino Gambling: The Complete Guide to Playing and Winning, Darwin Ortiz
Eatioms: A Dictionary of Food Words, John Jacobson
Eating Better: A Basic Shelf Cookbook, Joanne Maiolo/Margeree Edwards (York, Ontario, 1989)
Friends of Hope Cookbook, Cancer Care Manitoba
The Canadiana Cookbook, Madame Jehane Benoit (hardcover)
and
all 11 volumes of Will Durant's The Story of Civilization ($100/set, out of print, newer edition, excellent shape)
plus hundreds more every week....
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What's Gumby Reading?
"There was no more constipation or nervousness, and several weeks later his ulcer had disappeared", Alfalfa: Deeper Roots for Better Health, Dr. Kurt Donsbach
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