FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 9/1/08

(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 Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (CD audiobook)
Hellstrom's Hive, Frank Herbert (CD audiobook)
Halo: Contact Harvest, Joseph Staten (CD audiobook)
Justice League of America: Exterminators, Christopher Golden (CD audiobook)
52: Part 2, Greg Cox (CD audiobook)
The Host, Stephenie Meyer (CD audiobook, May 2008, unabridged)
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (CD audiobook)
Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk (CD audiobook)
Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone (CD audiobook)
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry (signed)
This All Happened, Michael Winter
Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, Kate Taylor
Bear, Marian Engel
The Influence of a Book, Philippe-Aubert de Gaspé, jr. (Canada's first novel)
A Feast of Longing, Sarah Klassen
Memoirs of an Almost Expedition, Barbara Schott
Love and Freindship, Jane Austen
Spotted Hemlock, Gladys Mitchell (out of print)
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
The Years with Laura Díaz, Carlos Fuentes
Azul: El salmo de la pluma cantos de vida y esperanza otros poemas, Rubén Darío
Doña Bárbara, Rómulo Gallegos
La Vorágine, José Eustasio Rivera
Popol Wuj: Antiguas historias de los indios Quiches de Guatemala
Three Works by William Morris
Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, Stanislaw Lem
The Baroque Cycle: Vols. 1-3, Neal Stephenson
Mort, Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, Terry Pratchett
The Dead and the Gone, Susan Beth Pfeffer (CD audiobook, June 2008)
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfirend of a Sex God, Louise Rennison
Rory's Wildcat, Robert Collins
two dozen new Enid Blyton titles
and
eighty five new Archie Digests

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Non-Fiction

Theology of the New Testament: Volume II, Rudolf Bultmann
Soul of Christ: Meditations on the Anima Christi, John Collins, SJ
While Rivers Run or Finegan's Prayer Book, Robert Lumley (The Algoma Prayer Book Society, scarce, $10)
RSV Harper Study Bible
Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede
The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images, John Dominic Crossan (out of print)
Tanakh: A New Translation of The Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text (English)
What Must Be Known About Islam, Muhammad bin 'Ali Al-Arfaj
The Way of Zen, Alan Watts
Dear God: Children's Letters to God, David Heller
The Spiral Dance, Starhawk
Fertility, Goddesses, Groundhog Bellies and The Coca-Cola Company: The Origins of Modern Holidays, Gabriella Kalapos
The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China, Jane Hunter
At War with Asia: Essays on Indochina, Noam Chomsky
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx
The Possible and the Actual, François Jacob
The Revolt of the Masses, Ortega y Gasset
Pure War, Paul Virilio/Sylvere Lotringer
Witness: The Making of Schindler's List, Franciszek Palowksi (out of print)
A Brief History of the Celts, Peter Berresford Ellis
World Famous Cults and Fanatics, Colin Wilson
Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century, Mike Dash
Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
The Practice of Management, Peter Drucker
The Il Fornaio Pasta Book, Maurizio Mazzon (out of print)
Giant Book of Diabetic Cooking, Cadwell et al
International Bartender's Guide
The VJ Handbook: A Survival Guide to the Multi-Skilled Newsroom, Neil Everton (CBC Training and Development, out of print, scarce)
John Peel: A Biography, Mick Wall
...When We Talk About Raymond Carver, ed. Sam Halpert
The Life of Poetry, Muriel Rukeyser
The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading, Geoffrey O'Brien
Nothing's Sacred, Lewis Black
Me of Little Faith, Lewis Black (CD audiobook, June 2008)
Le nouveau Bescherelle
Sexualités occidentales, Ariès/Béjin
Simple Arabic: A Comprehensive Course, Yousif Haddad/Jack Ingle
The Country Life Book of English Furniture, Edward Joy
101 Best Plants for the Prairies, Liesbeth Leatherbarrow/Lesley Reynolds
Edible Wild Plants, Lee Allen Peterson
Curious by Nature: One Woman's Exploration of the Natural World, Candace Savage
Transformation in Canada's Deep South: The Creation of Sustainable, Regional Culture Through Environmental, Social, and Personal Restoration, Jane Buchan
Skills for Simple Living: Advice, Ideas, Recipes and Reflections, ed. Betty Tillotson
The Weather Makers: How We are Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth, Tim Flannery
Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die, Steve Davey
On the Trail of Marco Polo: Along the Silk Road by Bicycle, Brady Fotheringham
West of the Thirties: Discoveries Among the Navajo and Hopi, Edward T. Hall
Before We Were the Land's: Yarrow, British Columbia: Mennonite Promise, ed. Leonard Neufeldt
Village of Unsettled Yearnings: Yarrow, British Columbia: Mennonite Promise, ed. Leonard Neufeldt
The Agricultural Economy of Manitoba Hutterite Colonies, John Ryan
New Moon at Batoche: Reflections on the Urban Prairie, George Melnyk
and
Out of the Flames: Fires and Fire Fighting on the Canadian Prairies, Faye Reineberg Holt

plus hundreds more every week....

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