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(Between Portage
& Graham)

Winnipeg, MB
Canada  R3C 1H3
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What people are saying:

Many audience members told us that they had never visited the store before, and were so impressed with the space (performance, eating and books) that they promised to return again after the festival. - Perry Grosshans, GM, Winnipeg International Writers Festival

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 04/04/11


Due to our killer event schedule, this list is currently being updated bi-weekly. Hundreds of books are still going out throughout the week. To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.

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The Canadian Hockey Atlas - Stephen Cole (out of print)

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Handloading for Hunters - Don Zutz (out of print)

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Chasing Safiya - Ken McGoogan (out of print)

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Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads - Gary Greenberg/Jeannie Hayden

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100 Things You Don't Need a Man For! - Alison Jenkins

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Stewardess! Come Fly with Me - Elissa Stein

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La Dolce Vegan! - Sarah Kramer

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How It All Vegan! - Tanya Barnard/Sarah Kramer

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The Garden of Vegan - Tanya Barnard/Sarah Kramer

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When the Wind Blows - Raymond Briggs

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Cool Dead People - Jane O'Boyle

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Gentleman Jim - Raymond Briggs

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The Last Quest of Gilgamesh - Ludmila Zeman

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Elfwyn's Saga - David Wisniewski

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Girl with the Botticelli Face, W.D. Valgardson
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
Somewhere Else, Jan Guenther Braun
Ana Historic, Daphne Marlatt
Rhapsodomancy, Kevin McPherson Eckhoff (poetry)
Whylah Falls, George Elliott Clarke (poetry)
Finding Ft. George, Rob Budde (poetry)
The First Four Books of Poems, W.S. Merwin
Whispers of the Beloved, Rumi
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Little Birds, Anaïs Nin
Book of Dreams, Jack Kerouac
The Western Lands, William S. Burroughs
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
Cotton Comes to Harlem, Chester Himes
The Pilgrimage, Paulo Coelho
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
I, Mona Lisa, Jeanne Kalogridis
The Raid and Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy
The Pride of the Regiment, or Cashiered for His Country: An Operetta, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley (play, 1932, very scarce)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen/Seth Grahame-Smith
Batman: Knightfall, Dennis O'Neil
The Sagas of Icelanders
Favourite Summer Stories from Front Porch Al, Alan Maitland (out of print)
The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott
AD&D Player's Handbook
AD&D: The Complete Druid's Handbook
and
AD&D: The Complete Paladin's Handbook

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Non-Fiction

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation, F.E. Peters
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Word and the Law and the People of God, F.E. Peters
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
The Power of Failure, Charles Manz
Principle-Centred Leadership, Stephen Covey
4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, Barbara Ann Kipfer
Audition: A Memoir, Barbara Walters
Running with Scissors: A Memoir, Augusten Burroughs
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, Augusten Burroughs
The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler, Michael Posner
A Prison Diary, Jeffrey Archer
Queen Victoria's Highland Journals, ed. David Duff
The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes, Frances Welch
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Garrett Mattingly
Remember Me: The RAF's No. 110 (Hyderbad) Squadron, Sara Mosher
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War, Michael Sallah/Mitch Weiss
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw, Mark Bowden
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, David Grann
Biker: Inside the Notorious World of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, Jerry Langton
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, R. Dwayne Betts
Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Greg Mortenson
Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil Postman
The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford
Payback, Margaret Atwood
Roots of Revolution, Franco Venturi
Them: Adventures with Extremists, Jon Ronson
Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism, Paul Wells
I, Sh*thead: A Life in Punk, Joey Keithley
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam
The Island of Canada: How Three Oceans Shaped Our Nation, Victor Suthren
Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future, Lloyd Axworthy
How to Defeat Your Own Clone and Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution, Kyle Kurpinski/Terry Johnson
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World, Don Tapscott
Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin, ed. David Church
The Glenn Gould Reader, ed. Tim Page (out of print)
The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters, Slavoj Žižek
Écrits: A Selection, Jacques Lacan
The Use and Abuse of Art, Jacques Barzan
Theory of the Avant-Garde, Peter Bürger
Modern Architecture Since 1900, William Curtis
Ontario Association of Architects: A Centennial History, Geoffrey Simmins
Chinese Jade: Stone for the Emperors, Till/Swart
Pioneer of Modern Art, Marian Dale Scott (out of print)
The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century, Marsha Meskimmon
Point and Shoot: Performance and Photography, Nemiroff
George Steeves: Photographs
Thirteen Essays on Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photography: A Handbook of History, Materials, and Processes, Charles Swedlund
Fox River Diaries/Souvenirs de Fox River, Suzanne Gauthier (out of print)
Wild Theatre: The History of One Yellow Rabbit, Martin Morrow
Fell's Guide to Advanced Magic, Walter Gibson
Crazywater: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery, Brian Maracle
Center of the World: Native American Spirituality, Plains Cree Pipe Keeper Don Rutledge
Tommy McGinty's Northern Tutchone Story of Crow: A First Nations Elder Recounts the Creation of the World, Dominique Legros (out of print)
Hooray for Yiddish! A Book About English, Leo Rosten
The Art of Fine Cigars, John-Manuel Andriote
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford, Richard Reeves
Leonardo da Vinci: The First Scientist, Michael White
General Chemistry, Linus Pauling
Amethyst Deposits of Ontario
Rose Gardening on the Prairies, George Shewchuk
Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton
Wilderness Survival (Province of BC, 1978, out of print)
The Prairie World, David Costello
What's Wrong? A Guide to the Signs of Sickness in Horses
and
The PDQ Vegetarian Cookbook, Donna Klein

plus hundreds more every week....

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Book
What's Gumby Reading?

Tomboy Janie's Adventures with Peek

...a frank exploration of...something...


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