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:

Hello! I’ve even heard of you over here in Oxford, England…I used to live in Winnipeg, and my friend Pamela sent me your ‘100 real reasons to love Winnipeg’. I like all these reasons, but relate particularly to your reasons 51 and 52, because I’m Scottish and definitely think you can be generous and parsimonious all in one – that’s what the whole Scottish nation is like! Thank you for your list – it has made my day, because I too love Winnipeg. - Marjory Szurko, Librarian, Oriel College, Oxford

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 2/25/08


PLEASE NOTE: Due to our upcoming move and restaurant opening (back-breaking renovations/mind-numbing details/etc.), we will only be putting fifty books on this page weekly (instead of the usual hundred or so) until after our move in March 2008. There are still lots of new books going out on the shelves, but this page doesn't build itself every week I'm afraid.

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

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A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

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Marie Antoinette - Antonia Fraser

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress - Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (Paul Howard)

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Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians 1738-1818 - Wood/Thiessen ($30, scarce in hardcover)

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The Voyageur - Grace Lee Nute ($10 at Aqua, $30 at Burton Lysecki)

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Myths of the North American Indians - Lewis Spence

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The Attack - Yasmina Khadra

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow

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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time - Douglas Adams

Also new this week

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Fiction

Red River Story, Alfred Silver (out of print)
The Time In Between, David Bergen
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston
Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
Man and Wife, Tony Parsons
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Duane's Depressed, Larry McMurtry
Dunster, John Mortimer
Hell at the Breech, Tom Franklin
Skywriting: A Novel of Cuba, Margarita Engle (out of print)
The Bitter Taste of Time, Béa Gonzalez
Local Anaesthetic, Günter Grass
Mr. Timothy, Louis Bayard
Kushiel's Scion, Jacqueline Carey
The Last Colony, John Scalzi (April 2007)
Driving Blind, Ray Bradbury
Enemy of God, Bernard Cornwell (hardcover)
Heretic: The Grail Quest, Bernard Cornwell
five new Douglas Adams hardcovers
and
15 new Giles cartoon collections

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Non-Fiction

Be Not Afraid, Jean Vanier
The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
Early Christian Worship, Oscar Cullman
The I-Ching, Wu Wei
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings, ed. Stiles/Selz
Turn It Up: Singer/Songwriters Then and Now, Bob Sarlin
Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America, Dave Barry/Stephen King
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Sterling Silver: Rants, Raves and Revelations, Silver Donald Cameron
The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java, Ernest Hillen
English Eccentrics, Edith Sitwell (The Folio Society edition, $9)
The Newgate Calendar and the New Newgate Calendar (19th c. criminal trials, Folio Society)
Bermuda's Story, Terry Tucker
Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk, Jennifer Niven
A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor, George Featherstonhaugh (Minnesota Historical Society, 2 vols., $20 at Aqua, $50 at Greenfield)
Sheheke: Mandan Indian Diplomat, Tracy Potter
and
Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri 1785-1804, ed. A.P. Nasatir (two vols.)

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"The writer began the cultivation of Ginseng in 1899 or fourteen years ago", Ginseng and other Medicinal Plants, A.R. Harding


Click here for the week of February 18/08

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