CURRENT EVENTS

  • Tuesday September 7/10
    7pm

    Manitoba Independent Songwriters' Circlemore ]
  • Tuesday September 7/10
    7pm

    Speaking Crow Open Mic
    - featured reader Mariianne Maysmore ]
  • Wednesday September 8/10
    4:30pm
      $10
    Beginners' Yoga Class
    - instructor Yarden Bourlasmore ]
  • Wednesday September 8/10
    Celiac-Friendly Night at EAT!more ]
  • Thursday September 9/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit StarBach's: The Coffee Cantata

    - starring David Klassen, Naomi Forman and Darren Martensmore ]
  • Friday September 10/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Fall Arts Preview I
    - WSO resident conductor Richard Lee, Juno winner Steve Bell and U of M Jazz Studies director Steve Kirby, with music by jazz pianist George Colliganmore ]
  • Friday September 10/10
    7:30pm

    Stone Soup Storytellersmore ]
  • Saturday September 11/10
    4:30pm
      $10
    Beginners' Yoga Class
    - instructor Yarden Bourlasmore ]
  • Saturday September 11/10
    5:30pm

    Humanist Association of Manitoba presents
    Kepler, Science and Religion

    - guest speaker Rhonda Martensmore ]
  • Tuesday September 14/10
    6pm

    Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner
    - speaker TBAmore ]
  • Wed Sept 15/10 - Wed Dec 1/10 7-9pm $250
    Forging the Muse with poet Chandra Mayormore ]
  • Wednesday September 15/10
    7-9pm
    $30
    Aqua U. presents How To Sell Yourself Without Selling Out
    - a marketing seminar from Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughesmore ]
  • Thursday September 16/10
    Celiac-Friendly Night at EAT!more ]
  • Friday September 17/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Into THIN AIR II
    - Writers Festival performers Ismaila Alfa, Ignatius Mabasa and Dominique Rey, with music by Naomi Guilbert and Hiroshi Koshiyama of Fubuki Daikomore ]
  • Saturday September 18/10
    7pm

    On the Same Page Read-Off
    - nominees Catherine Hunter, Jake MacDonald, Melissa Steele and Michael Van Rooymore ]
  • Tuesday September 21/10
    7pm

    Soapbox Open Mic
    - Aqua Books Writer-in-Residence Kerry Ryanmore ]
  • Wednesday September 22/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit One Good Marriage

    - starring Matthew TenBruggencate and Mel Marginetmore ]
  • Thursday September 23/10
    7pm

    Platform Centre presents
    Focal Point: Photography and the Social Construct
    László Moholy-Nagy and Feminism: The Origins of his Photographic Practice

    - professor Oliver Botarmore ]
  • Friday September 24/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Pop Star
    - music writer John Kendle and super-producer Chris Burke-Gaffney, with music by Arun Chaturvedimore ]
  • Friday September 24/10
    10:30pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    After Words

    - the Aborginal Writers Collective [ more ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10am
      $25
    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    The Writing Craft: A Writer's Toolkit

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    3pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    A Pint of Bitter Murder

    - mystery writer Giles Bluntmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    7:30pm

    ideaExchange
    Facing the (sacred) Fire:
    Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    - Dr. Jon Searsmore ]
  • Saturday September 25/10
    10:30pm

    Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents
    Afterwords

    - writer/rapper Ismaila Alfamore ]
  • Tues Sept 28/10 - Wed Nov 24/10 7-9pm $20
    Writers’ Support Group with poet Kerry Ryanmore ]
  • Wednesday September 29/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit Unequal Harvest

    - starring Kami Desilets and Brent Hirosemore ]
  • Thurs Sept 30/10 - Thurs Dec 2/10 7-9pm $225
    Through the Looking Glass
    - a YA fiction writing intensive with Anita Dahermore ]
  • Wednesday September 30/10
    7:30pm
      $20
    Frontier College presents
    An Evening with Harvey Levy
    more ]
  • Friday October 1/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Fall Arts Preview II
    - Larry Desrochers (Manitoba Opera), Columpa Bobb (MTYP), Casimiro Nhussi (NAfro Dance) and Steven Schipper (MTC), with music by Prairie Jewelmore ]
  • Wednesday October 6/10
    7:30pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit When The Killer Mutant Lizards Attack

    - starring Brent Hirosemore ]
  • Thursday October 7/10
    7pm

    The Secret Signature of Things Launch
    - poet Eve Joseph, with Patrick Friesenmore ]
  • Saturday October 16/10
    8pm
      $10
    Best of Fest
    2010 Winnipeg Fringe hit unADULTeRATED me

    - starring Rachelle Fordycemore ]
  • Friday October 29/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! Halloween
    - illusionist Brian Glow and SF writer Nick DiChario, with music by Absent Soundmore ]
  • Thursday November 4/10
    7pm

    TELL: Tales from the 204more ]
  • Friday November 26/10
    7pm

    Kelly Hughes Live! 42
    - CFL legend Troy Westwood and greyhound rescuer Michaela Lamoureux, with music by Newfie rocker Elton Adamsmore ]
  • Thursday December 2/10
    7pm

    Canada's History Magazine presents Teachmeetmore ]
  • Saturday December 4/10
    11am-5pm

    Crafty Minions: The Handmade and Vintage Salemore ]
  • Jan Horner wins the 2010 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
    more ]

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FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 12/22/08


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

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I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers - Thomas Hine

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Marketing Aesthetics: The Strategic Management of Brands, Identity, and Image - Bernd Schmitt/Alex Simonson ($17 at Aqua, $47 at Chapters)

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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History - David Hackett Fischer

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1603 - Christopher Lee

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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (out of print)

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The Year 1000: An Englishman's World - Robert Lacey/Danny Danziger

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The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey through the Great Books - Bruce Meyer

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Making Backyard Birdhouses - Sandy Cortright/Will Pokriots

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India: Belief and Ritual - Richard Waterstone

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The Sleeping Beauty - illustrated by Arthur Rackham

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Songs of the Gilded Age - ed. Margaret Bradford Boni, arr. Norman Lloyd

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Fireside Book of Favourite American Songs - ed. Margaret Bradford Boni, arr. Norman Lloyd

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The Diary of a Church Mouse - Graham Oakley (scarce)

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Picturesque Ideas on the Flight into Egypt - etchings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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How To Cook Road Kill

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Reader's Digest Laughter is the Best Medicine

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Annotated Alice, Lewis Carroll
The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico
Wobegon Boy, Garrison Keillor
Doctor Copernicus, John Banville
The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind
Underworld, Don DeLillo
Heat Treatment: The Oriental Travels of a Lascivious Hypochondriac, Justin Wintle
Belfast Confidential, Colin Bateman
Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, Bob Kaufman
The Spell of the Yukon, Robert Service
Icefields, Thomas Wharton
True Copies, Monique Larue (Quebec, trans.)
The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle, Monique Proulx (Quebec, trans.)
Dining with the Dictator, Dany Laferričre (Quebec, trans., out of print)
Van de Graaf Days, Ven Begamudré
Tiger Dreams, Almeda Glenn Miller
Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury (Lebanon, trans.)
Blood on the Moon, James Ellroy
Bay of Souls, Robert Stone
Mercy Road, Dalia Pagani
Journeys to the Heartland, William Horwood (out of print)
Seekers at the WulfRock, William Horwood (out of print)
Od Magic, Patricia McKillip
Selected Works, William Blake
and
The Riverside Shakespeare ($40)

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Non-Fiction

Intimacy, Henri Nouwen
The Anchor Bible Commentary (18 vols., out of print, $13-15 each)
Saulteux Hymnal (Oblate Fathers, St. Boniface, 1942, very scarce, $100)
The Torah
Popular History of Jewish Civilization: Germany, ed. Stuart Cohen
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Northrop Frye
Faith and Nature: Our Relationship with the Natural World Explored through Sacred Literature
Heinrich H. Ewert: Teacher, Educator and Minister of the Mennonites, Paul Schaefer (out of print)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Ray Monk ($13 at Aqua, $30 at McNally)
Crimes Against Logic, Jamie Whyte
In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism, Daniel Poliquin
The Travel Detective: How to Get the Best Service and the Best Deals, Peter Greenberg
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
Plutarch's Lives
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man, Norah Vincent
Barrelhouse Kings, Barry Callaghan
The Beothucks or Red Indians: The Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland, James Howley
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine, Tom Wolfe
The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde, Calvin Tomkins
Eugčne Atget 1857-1927, National Gallery of Canada
The Greatness Guide, Robin Sharma
Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings, Lynn Grabhorn
Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life, Larry Winget
Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, Dennis Perkins
Real Time: Preparing for the Age of the Never Satisfied Customer, Regis McKenna (out of print)
Raising Your Busines: A Canadian Woman's Guide to Entrepeneurship, Joanne Yaccato (out of print)
The Seed Handbook: The Feminine Way to Create Business, Lynne Franks (out of print)
How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Florist Business, Stephanie Beener (out of print and scarce, $20)
How to Start a Home-Based Interior Design Business, Nita Phillips
How to Start a Home-Based Event Planning Business, Jill Moran (out of print)
Flipping Houses for Dummies, Ralph Roberts
The Rise of the Project Workforce, Rudolf Melik
Skills for New Managers, Morey Stettner
How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding, Douglas Holt
The New Why Teams Don't Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right, Harvey Robbins/Michael Finley
The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth, Steven Little
Business Think, Marcum/Smith/Khalsa
The Future of Management, Gary Hamel
Hot Spots: How Boundaryless Cooperation Fuels Innovation, Lynda Gratton
The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, Thomas Homer-Dixon
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic, Steven Johnson
Small is Beautiful, E.F. Schumacher
Living Well with Arthritis, Mosher/Stein/Kraag
and
Betty Crocker's Cookbook

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"Stay away from the dates on which championship fights are televised or other significant spectaculars! Nothing is more disturbing to a prospect than to be dragged to the phone in the midst of a nine-count knockdown in a title fight!", How I Started Earning $50,000 a Year in Sales at the Age of 26, Robert Gallivan


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