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What people are saying: I used to come into your bookstore all the time on Princess. Now I live in Tokyo. The sad part about living in Tokyo is that I can't eat at EAT!. I just wanted to congratulate you on your great success with Aqua! It sounds as though things are going really great for you, and the business/thought-fostering centre/restaurant establishment is the thing my dreams are made of. I think that the community that you are helping to foster in Winnipeg is inspiring. If I was still living in Winnipeg, I'd probably never leave your store (provided there's a public bathroom). Anyway, Aqua Books is probably the thing about Winnipeg I miss most. I loved walking from my apartment in the Exchange to your store on the weekends to wither away the hours. It always smelled good in there. Does the Garry St. location smell equally good? I bet it does. - Lauren U., Tokyo
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John Einarson is a widely-respected rock music historian and writer. He is the author of thirteen biographies on subjects including Neil Young, Randy Bachman, the Guess Who, John Kay/Steppenwolf, and Buffalo Springfield. His critically-acclaimed book Mr. Tambourine Man was acknowledged among the best books of 2005 by both Uncut and Record Collector in the UK and nominated for a 2006 ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. His most recent book Hot Burritos: The True Story Of The Flying Burrito Brothers was again shortlisted by Uncut as among the ten best music books of 2008. He has written for television and radio, hosting his own CBC radio series and contributing to television specials on Canadian music history. A Winnipeg resident and retired teacher, John continues to organize a popular annual rock 'n' roll revue at St. John's-Ravenscourt school involving over one hundred students. He is currently writing a biography of enigmatic '60s cult figure Arthur Lee of the band Love, whose Forever Changes ranks among the top albums of all time.
Taller on radio, the former host of the Weekend Morning Show on CBC, Ron Robinson was a founding partner of McNally Robinson Booksellers. His years as the buyer for Eaton's Book department gave him the material for his one man show, The Spirit of Timothy Eaton. He has created and appeared in two other one man shows as Robert Service and Rudyard Kipling at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. When not mimicking old dead guys, he can be heard on CKUW FM 95.9, hosting Pages, radio for readers, Thursdays 5 - 5:30.
Karen Toole was first employed in the United Church at the age of 18 in All People’s Missions, and her last full time pastoral position in the United Church was at Augustine United. She received her B.A. from the U of W., and her M.Div from the Atlantic School of Theology.
From there she went on to a counseling and consulting partnership, with Esther Klassen, which they named Soul Seasons.
For nine years she offered a CBC Radio conversation with Ron Robinson called Spiritually Speaking, and her other media role has been to be a faith page columnist in Winnipeg Free Press for fifteen years. Throughout this time she has also offered courses at U of W. in 55 plus, Faculty of Theology, with Creative Retirement and Age and Opportunity.
Currently she is still involved with the United Church as week-end supply at West Hawk Lake, which she has been temporarily doing for thirteen years. Recently she has just accepted the position of Provincial Spiritual Care Coordinator for Manitoba Health.
She’s a reader, a writer, an advocate, who has had a life long passion for the understanding and affirmation of spiritual seeking as pathway to the embracing and celebrating of diversity. 
Award-winning young adult writer 
Veteran journalist Lesley Hughes is a former host of CBC Radio One's Information Radio. She is also a book reviewer and columnist, and may soon be a candidate in
the upcoming federal election.