CURRENT EVENTS

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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 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 3/12/07

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


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Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe - Anthony Arthur

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Scepticism Inc. - Bo Fowler

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Where Do We Go From Here? - Doris Dorrie (novel, trans. from German)

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The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman - Bruce Robinson

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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole - Dr. Jerri Nielsen

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Skin - Roald Dahl

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The Secret Life of Dust - Hannah Holmes

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The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality - Elaine Dewar

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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy - Lewis Lapham

Also new this week

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Fiction

To the Hermitage, Malcolm Bradbury
After Dark, My Sweet, Jim Thompson
Extravagance, Gary Krist
Wooden Fish Songs, Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Requests and Dedications, Elise Levine
That Hideous Strength, C.S.Lewis
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Asylum, Patrick McGrath
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby, jr. (plus three other novels)
Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon (hardcover)
The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston
Journey to Cubeville: A Dilbert Book, Scott Adams
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Wayfarer Redemption, Sara Douglass
Worlds, Joe Haldeman (new copy)
Next of Kin, Eric Frank Russell (new copy)
and
Star Trek: Double Helix (six-novel omnibus, new copy)

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Non-Fiction

Heaven and Hell, Swedenborg
The Devils of Loudon, Aldous Huxley ($12, rare)
The Awakening of Intelligence, Krishnamurti ($6, out of print)
Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook, Ruth Berolzheimer
Armies and Societies in Europe: 1494-1789, André Corvisier
20 Years of Rolling Stone: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been (out of print)
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed, Patricia Cornwell
Hunting our Medium Size Game, Clyde Ormond
For the Birds, Margaret Atwood (kids' book on the environment, out of print)
The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles, Peter Brown/Steven Gaines
Gordon Sinclair (Sr.): A Life, Scott Young
Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic, Jonathan Margolis
Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family, Patricia Volk
The Dishonorable Dr. Cook: Debunking the Notorious Mount McKinley Hoax, Bradford Washburn/Peter Cherici
Little by Little: A Writer's Education, Jean Little
100 Best Films of the Century, Barry Norman (out of print)
And...Howe!, Gordie Howe (out of print)
When Hell Freezes Over: Should I Bring My Skates?, Toller Cranston
Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, Gerald Nicosia
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World, Ken Alder
Dancing with the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa, Kelly James
and
A Manual of Classic Dancing, Sergei Marinoff (1922, leather)


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

Book
What's Gumby Reading?

"He looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle"


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