FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 08/23/10

(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 White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
The Makioka Sisters, Junichiro Tanizaki (Japan, trans.)
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino (Italy, trans.)
The Centaur in the Garden, Moacyr Scliar (Brazil, trans.)
Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti (German, trans.)
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories, Paul Bowles
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Visions of Cody, Jack Kerouac (out of print)
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
Ash Wednesday, Ethan Hawke
Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott
The Bishop's Man, Linden MacIntyre
Strawberry Fields, Marine Lewycka
The Saffron Kitchen, Yasmin Crowther
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows
The Household Guide to Dying, Debra Adelaide
Plain Truth, Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls, Jodi Picoult
The Pact, Jodi Picoult
Mercy, Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Sizzling Sixteen, Janet Evanovich (June 2010)
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Cocktails at the Mausoleum, Susan Musgrave (poetry, out of print)
Selected Poems, e.e. cummings
Selected Poems, Ezra Pound
The Translations of Ezra Pound
The Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russia, trans., out of print)
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, Kenneth Rexroth
Porch, Jeffrey Sweet (play, out of print)
Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesselring (play)
The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman (play)
The Blood Knot, Athol Fugard (play)
Dirty Linen/New-Found-Land, Tom Stoppard (plays)
Jumpers, Tom Stoppard (play)
Farewel, Ian Ross (play)
First Wives Club: Coast Salish Style, Lee Maracle (new copies)
Tatsea, Armin Wiebe
Happenstance, Carol Shields
Under the Wings of Africa, John Weier
and
Isilwane: Tales and Fables of Africa, Credo Mutwa

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Non-Fiction

The Language of the New Testament, Eugene Van Ness Goetchius (out of print)
Hermeneutical Inquiry: The Interpretation of Texts, David Klemm
An Evolutionary Approach to Jesus of Nazareth, Juan Luis Segundo
The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Becoming Human, Jean Vanier
Peacework, Henri Nouwen
Disputed Questions, Thomas Merton
The Church of 80% Sincerity, David Roche
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, John O'Donohue
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi
Start Where You Are, Pema Chödrön
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, Suzette Haden Elgin
The Myth of Sanity: Tales of Multiple Personality in Everyday Life, Martha Stout
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Ideas and Opinions, Albert Einstein
Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences, Paul Ricoeur
Figuring the Sacred, Paul Ricoeur
Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking, Otto Pöggeler
What Is Morphology?, Aronoff/Fudeman
Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein
The Warrior's Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience, Michael Ignatieff
Blood and Longing: Journeys Into the New Nationalism, Michael Ignatieff
Above the Law: The Crooks, the Politicians, the Mounties, and Rod Stamler, Paul Palango
A Wayward Angel: The Full Story of the Hells Angels, George Wethern
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Eiger Dreams, Jon Krakauer
Hitching Rides with Buddha: A Journey Across Japan, Will Ferguson
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, Isabel Fonseca
The Pessimist's Guide to History, Stuart/Doris Flexner
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars, Kevin Sites
Endgame Srebrenica: Europe's Worst Massacre Since WWII, David Rohde
Dark Ages in America: The Final Phase of Empire, Morris Berman
Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History, Gordon Prange (out of print)
Ghost Soldiers: WWII's Greatest Rescue Mission, Hampton Sides
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944-45, Max Hastings
The Shame and the Glory: Dieppe, Terence Robertson (out of print)
Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War, Robert Edgerton
The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force, Douglas Porch
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, Richard Rodriguez
Maria, Maria Von Trapp
Audition: A Memoir, Barbara Walters
How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years, Kaye Ballard
Piaf, Simone Berteaut
The Unlikely Pioneer: Building Opera from the Pacific Through the Prairies, David Watmough (out of print, inscribed by Irving Guttman to Richard Hurst)
World Folk Songs, Marais/Miranda
Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period, Michelle Mercer
The Life, Times and Work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, K.E. Sullivan (out of print)
The Life and Works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Nathaniel Harris (out of print)
On Writer's Block: A New Approach to Creativity, Victoria Nelson
May on Motors, James May
Winning Is Not Enough, Jackie Stewart
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Right to Water, Maude Barlow
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, Marq de Villiers
Doing Business with Native People Makes Sense, Calvin Heln (very scarce)
Salt of the Earth: The Story of the Homesteaders in Western Canada, Heather Robertson (out of print)
Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships, Peter Johnson (BC history)
The Ordinary Genius: A Life of Arnold Platt, Ken Hoeppner
The Urban Saint: The Harry Lehotsky Story, Paul Boge
and
Without Fear or Favour: A Free-Wheeling Account of Life on the Thin Blue Line, Jack Tinsley (Winnipeg history)

plus hundreds more every week....

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