FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 8/13/07

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

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston
The Words of My Roaring, Robert Kroetsch
Such a Long Journey, Rohinton Mistry
The Names, Don DeLillo
Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I/II, Henry Miller
Iron in the Soul, Jean-Paul Sartre (France, trans.)
Crabwalk, Günter Grass (Germany, trans.)
Passion, I.U. Tarchetti (Italy, trans.)
A Woman Named Solitude, André Schwarz-Bart (France, trans.)
When the Mountain Fell, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (Switzerland, trans., out of print)
Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
Bounty Hunters/40 Lashes Less 1/Gunsights, Elmore Leonard
Revenance, Terence Blacker (out of print)
Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
Sea Glass, Anita Shreve
All He Ever Wanted, Anita Shreve
The Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier
Main Brides, Gail Scott (Canada)
Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
A/Long Prairie Lines: An Anthology of Long Prairie Poems, ed. Daniel Lenoski
Great Stories from the Prairies, ed. Birk Sproxton
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
The Penguin Book of Jewish Short Stories, ed. Emanuel Litvinoff
The Wascana Poetry Anthology, ed. Richard Harvey
In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages, Ariel Dorfman (Chile, English/Spanish)
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1795), Elizabeth Hamilton (ed. by U of M professor Pamela Perkins)
Nightwood (1937), Djuna Barnes
Letters from Wingfield Farm, Dan Needles
Time Flies and other Short Plays, David Ives
The Complete Works, William Shakespeare
Black Water 1 and 2: Tales of the Fantastic, ed. Alberto Manguel
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer, ed. Jesse Byock (Iceland, trans.)
The Poetic Edda, ed. Lee Hollander (Iceland, trans.)
Empyrion, Stephen Lawhead
The Stoneholding, Mark James
Darkover Landfall, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Bane of the Black Sword, Michael Moorcock (Elric 5)
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Fractal Paisleys, Paul Di Filippo (SciFi)
and
Muktu: The Backward Muskox, Heather Kellerhals-Stewart/Karen Muntean ($6, library stamped but scarce)

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Non-Fiction

The Histories, Herodotus
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer (1959)
John Wesley's Theology Today, Colin Williams
The Teaching of Calvin for Today, Harold Whitney
The Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer
Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement, Archbishop Rowan Williams
The American Country Hymn Book, ed. J.Aaron Brown
Lent with Pilgrim's Progress: Readings Selected by Frank Colquhoun
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, Thomas Cahill (author of How the Irish Saved Civilization)
Myth, Sacred History, and Philosophy: The Pre-Christian Religious Heritage of the West, Cornelius Loew
Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson ($9, 1911 ed.)
Divine Love and Wisdom, Swedenborg
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, Bryan Sykes
The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America, Brian Fagan
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, Tim Flannery
Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory - How New Science is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners, Tom Koppel
Mythistory and Other Essays, William McNeill
Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life, Joe Schwarcz
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Anne Fadiman
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, Umberto Eco
My Gorgeous Life, Dame Edna Everage
The Most of George Burns (omnibus)
Gracie: A Love Story, George Burns
Lost in America: A Journey with My Father, Sherwin Nuland
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now, Maya Angelou
The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou
Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living, ed. Richard Whelan
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
Bus 9 to Paradise, Leo Buscaglia (out of print)
Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess, Danny Sugerman
The Stanislavski Method, Stanislavski/Moore
Modern and Post-Modern Mime, Thomas Leabhart (out of print)
Menntun, Ást og Sorg, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (Rekyavik, 1997)
La Musique au Québec: 1600-1875, Willy Amtmann
Histoire du Québec Contemporain: De la Confédération à la crise, Linteau/Durocher/Robert
An Arwystli Notebook: Part 1, C.E. Vaughan Owen (Welsh history, $9, very rare outside of UK)
Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Grose (out of print)
The Origins of the Korean War, Peter Lowe
Carrier Operations in WWII: Vol I The Royal Navy, David Brown
Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in WWII, Barry Broadfoot (out of print)
The Green Guide to Winnipeg, Lindor Reynolds
and
Directions: A Guide to Libraries in Manitoba, ed. Donna Strike

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

A Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorization: A High-Order Concept for Addressing the Plight of Societally Devalued People, and for Structuring Human Services, Wolf Wolfensberger

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