FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 03/15/10
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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Up In the Air - Walter Kirn
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Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
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After Goodlake's - Terence Young
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Mandela: The Authorized Portrait
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Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick - Ragas/Kozlowski (out of print)
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Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography - Michael Holroyd (out of print)
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The World of Trisha Romance (out of print)
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The Best of Martha Stewart Living: Decorating Details (out of print)
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Islam: Art and Architecture - ed. Markus Hattstein/Peter Delius
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Canada's Historic Sites
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Sierra Club: 100 Years of Protecting Nature - Tom Turner (out of print)
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The Worlds of Ernest Thompson Seton - ed. John Samson (out of print)
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Royal Academy Pictures (1908)
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Scottish Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil
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Royal Academy Pictures (1914)
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Also new this week
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Fiction
The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
Shandy, David Williamson
The Alchemy of Happiness, Marilyn Bowering (poetry)
Ontological Necessities, Priscila Uppal (poetry)
Last Water Song, Patrick Lane (poetry)
Matter, Meredith Quartermain (poetry)
Gifts, Rob McLennan (poetry)
Mindfield, Gregory Corso (poetry)
An Anthology, Paul Valéry (poetry)
Sense and Sensibility/Pride and Prejudice/Emma, Jane Austen (Folio Society, boxed set of 3, $40)
The Complete Works, Jane Austen (Folio Society, boxed set of 7, $75)
The Momentum of Red, Monica Kidd
Dead Girls, Nancy Lee
The Blue Afternoon, William Boyd
Astonishing the Gods, Ben Okri
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
Last Notes and Other Stories, Tamas Dobozy
De Niro's Game, Rawi Hage
Burmese Days, George Orwell
The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (hardcover)
Shame, Salman Rushdie
Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua, Marie Jakober (out of print)
Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, Irvine Welsh
The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland
Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
Flush, Carl Hiaasen
The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson
Peter Camenzind, Herman Hesse (German)
La nuit sacrée, Tahar Ben Jelloun
soleil comme un oracle, Louise Warren
Les Trois Pommes d'Or, Yvonne Lagassé (Winnipeg, 1993, out of print)
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Fury: Fictions and Films, Clive Holden (scarce)
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Non-Fiction
Dark Night of the Soul, St. John of the Cross
The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
Reflections on the Psalms, C.S. Lewis
God in the Dock, C.S. Lewis
Beyond Personality, C.S. Lewis
Miracles, C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
Creed Without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers, Laura Simmons
One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne (out of print)
The Nature and Destiny of Man: Vols 1 and 2, Reinhold Niebuhr
Essays on Biblical Interpretation: Anabaptist-Mennonite Perspectives, ed. Willard Swartley
The Doctrine of God: Church Dogmatics Vol. II Pt. 1, Karl Barth ($40)
Christian Theology: An Introduction, Alister McGrath
Josephus: The Essential Writings
Theology of the New Testament, Rudolf Bultmann
Jesus Christ and Mythology, Rudolf Bultmann
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
Shankara and Indian Philosophy, Natalia Isayeva
The Art of Happiness, The Dalai Lama
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
The Revival of Death, Tony Walter
Truth and Method, Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Pooh and the Philosophers, John Tyerman Williams
Pooh and the Millennium, John Tyerman Williams
An Insider's Guide to Sub-Modalities, Bandler/MacDonald
In the Jaws of the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression, John Bentley Mays (out of print)
The Florist's Daughter: A Memoir, Patricia Hampl
My Turquoise Years: A Memoir, M.A.C. Farrant
Maiden Voyage, Denton Welch
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence
Revolt in the Desert, T.E. Lawrence
Historians Against History, David Noble
Murder Trials, Cicero
Arete: Ancient Writers on the History and Ideals of Greek Athletics and Games, Stephen Miller
The History of the Crusades, Steven Runciman (Folio Society, boxed set of 3, $40)
The History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Thirty Years' War, Geoffrey Parker
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat, Rick Atkinson
Chronicle of the Truth Commission, Piet Meiring (South Africa, scarce)
Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking, Arthur Gish
Steadfastness of the Saints: A Journal of Peace and War in Central and North America, Daniel Berrigan (out of print)
Accounting for Genocide: Canada's Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People, Dean Neu/Richard Therrien
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, C.K. Prahalad
Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed, Joseph Heath/Andrew Potter
The Crash of 2008 and What It Means, George Soros
Body and Soul: The Story of the Body Shop, Anita Roddick (out of print)
Coach: The A.L. Williams Story, Art Williams
With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy, Jake MacDonald
Trader Vic's Bartender Guide
Free for Dinner? The Montrose Street Ladies Dinner Cookbook (Winnipeg, very scarce)
Woodstove Cookery: At Home on the Range, Jane Cooper
The Pioneer Catalogue of Country Living, Elmo/Mark Stoll
The September 11 Photo Project
Photo Design: Picture Composition for Black and White Photography, Harald Mante (scarce)
The Majesty of the Black Woman, Arthur Tcholakian (photography)
Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture (out of print)
Portraits, Barker Fairley ($40 at Burton Lysecki, $15 at Aqua)
Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Joan Murray (out of print)
Land Marks: The Art of Dorothy Knowles
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art, Janet Gaylord Moore (Newbery Honor Book)
Ninety-Nine Percent: How Success at Musical Competitive Festivals is Won, Frederic Staton (scarce)
The Show Business Nobody Knows, Earl Wilson
Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops, Ken Mandelbaum
Letters to Donald Windham 1940-1965, Tennessee Williams
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, James Knowlson
Dickens, Peter Ackroyd (out of print)
A Photographic Supplement to The Diary of Anaïs Nin
The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds, Myrick Land (out of print)
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, Lynne Truss
The Relativity of Wrong, Isaac Asimov
Michael Faraday and the Dynamo, Mabel Miller
The Weather Wizard's Cloud Book, Rubin/Duncan
Oracle Bones, Stars and Wheelbarrows: Ancient Chinese Science and Technology, Frank Ross
Batza Téna Trail to Obsidian: Archaeology at an Alaskan Obsidian Source, Donald Clark (scarce)
Architects on Architecture, Paul Heyer
The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida
Name-Dropping, John Kenneth Galbraith
Les Québécois et l'anglais: Le retour du mouton, Christian Dufour
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Une brève histoire du pétrole, Nadine Mackenzie (very scarce)
plus hundreds more every week....
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What's Gumby Reading?
"Since I took my seat upon the throne of the father who begat me, Adad has sent his rains..."
Babylon, Albert Champdor
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