FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 05/31/10

(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 Shattered Plinths, Irving Layton (poetry)
Various Miracles, Carol Shields
A Short History of Indians in Canada: Stories, Thomas King
One Good Story, That One, Thomas King
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
This Sporting Life, David Storey
The Liar, Stephen Fry
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Closing Time, Joseph Heller
Selected Stories, Ring Lardner
Collected Poems: 1957-1982, Wendell Berry (out of print)
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
A Happy Death, Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano (Chile, trans.)
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany (Australia)
Animal's People, Indra Sinha
The Peacock Throne, Sujit Saraf
The Cripple and His Talismans, Anosh Irani
Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra
Transmission, Hari Kunzru
La véritable histoire de Ah Q, Lu Xun
Sappho's Daughters, Anonymous
Happy, Ronnie Burkett (play)
Glenn, David Young (play)
The Complete Fawlty Towers, John Cleese/Connie Booth
You Suck: A Love Story, Christopher Moore
Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks, ed. Emily Pohl-Weary
Dreams of Terror and Death, H.P. Lovecraft
Tales of the Cthulu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft
Ghost Boy, Iain Lawrence
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein (CD Audiobook)
Smelly Socks, Robert Munsch
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, Simms Taback
Hunter and His Dog, Brian Wildsmith (out of print)
Cat on the Mat, Brian Wildsmith
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Bill Martin/Eric Carle
Toilet Tales, Andrea Wayne Königslöw
I'm Cat, Jan Pienkowski (out of print)
Myths and Folklore of Ireland, Jeremiah Curtin
Japanese Fairy Tales, Lafcadio Hearn
and
The Immortal Characters of the Ramayana (picture book)

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Non-Fiction

Secrets of Mary Magdalene, ed. Dan Burstein
Luther: An Introduction to His Thought, Gerhard Ebeling
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Pioneer of Modern Theology, Keith Clements (out of print)
Believing in God: A Philosophical Essay, Gareth Moore (out of print)
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, Michael Polanyi
The Tacit Dimension, Michael Polanyi
Pocket Pantheon, Alain Badiou
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Edward Wilson
The Prince and the Discourses, Niccolo Machiavelli
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand
SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, Simon Wiesenthal
Awakening to the Sacred, Lama Surya Das
Awake At Work: 35 Practical Buddhist Principles for Discovering Clarity and Balance in the Midst of Work's Chaos, Michael Carroll
A Return to Modesty: Recovering the Lost Virtue, Wendy Shalit
No Fat Chicks: How Women are Brainwashed to Hate Their Bodies, Terry Poulton
The Happiness Makeover, M.J. Ryan
The Simple Living Guide, Janet Luhrs
It's All Too Much: Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, Peter Walsh
An Age of Barns: An Illustrated Review of Classic Barn Styles and Construction, Eric Sloane
The Book of Houses, Geoffrey Hindley
English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, Herbert Cescinsky
American Foot Power and Hand Power Machinery, Kenneth Cope
Radio Fundamentals: Electrical, Royal Canadian Navy (1960)
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time, Michael Shermer
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart, Jim Dawson
The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History
A Year in the Merde, Stephen Clarke
Two Innocents in Red China, Jacques Hébert/Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda, Mahmood Mamdani
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700, Diarmaid MacCulloch
Stirling's Men: The Inside History of the SAS in WWII, Gavin Mortimer
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City, Anonymous (Marta Hillers)
The Story of French, Jean-Benoit Nadeau/Julie Barlow
Speedball Textbook for Pen and Brush Lettering
Your Novel Proposal: From Creation to Contract, Blythe Camenson/Marshall Cook
Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young
Born to Win, Woody Guthrie (out of print)
Henscratches and Flyspecks: How to Read Melodies from Songbooks in Twelve Confusing Lessons, Pete Seeger (out of print)
The Seeing Glass: A Memoir, Jacquelin Gorman
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Ruth Reichl
Complete Vegetarian, ed. Nicola Graimes
Quilting Made Easy: More Than 150 Patterns and Inspiring Ideas for Creating Beautiful Quilt Blocks, Jodie Davis (scarce)
50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars, Carol Doak
Color Magic for Quilters, Ann Seely/Joyce Stewart
A Veterinary Guide for Animal Owners, C.E. Spaulding
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, Nicholas Wade
The Fragile Species, Lewis Thomas
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi
The Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge, Zolar
The Big Red Train Ride: A Ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Eric Newby
Over 40 in Broken Hill: Unusual Encounters in the Australian Outback, Jack Hodgins
Taming the Wilds: A Handbook of Woodcraft Wisdom, Bradford Angier
Woods and Water: The Common Sense Book of Canoeing, Lee Keating (scarce)
With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy, Jake MacDonald
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country, Jake MacDonald
The Winter Years, James Gray
Booze, James Gray
Red Lights on the Prairies, James Gray
A Thousand Miles of Prairie: The Manitoba Historical Society and the History of Western Canada, ed. Jim Blanchard
and
Reflections On Our Heritage: A History of Steinbach and the R.M. Of Hanover from 1874, Abe Warkentin (out of print)

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"I can remember the insipid fitness of youth. I'm sure you can, too."

Runner's World Indoor Exercise Book, Richard Benyo/Rhonda Provost

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