FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 10/1/07
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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The American Heritage History of The Indian Wars - Utley/Washburn
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Warriors - Max Hastings
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus - Owen Gingerich
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A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
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A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
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Whale Music - Paul Quarrington
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The Healthy Food Directory - Michael Van Straten (out of print, scarce)
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The Golden Age of Advertising - the 60's (over 300 vintage ads)
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The Household Herbal: A Complete Practical Guide to Plants that Heal - Christopher Robbins (out of print)
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Lightning - Fred Stenson
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez (hardcover)
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A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon (Sept 2006)
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The Athenian Murders - José Carlos Somoza (Spain, trans.)
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Several Deceptions - Jane Stevenson
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Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates
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Also new this week
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Fiction
The Two-Headed Calf, Sandra Birdsell (out of print)
Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje (poems)
Plainsong, Nancy Huston (1993 GG winner)
The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, Karen X. Tulchinsky
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam (2006 Giller winner)
Visible Worlds, Marilyn Bowering (out of print)
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Edi Edugyan
Max and the Cats, Moacyr Scliar (the inspiration for Yann Martel's Life of Pi)
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez (hardcover)
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (hardcover)
How to be Good, Nick Hornby
Sideways, Rex Pickett
The Fig Eater, Jody Shields
Damascus Gate, Robert Stone
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Bread, Wine and Angels, Anna P. Zurzolo (local author)
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Lyubka the Cossack and other stories, Isaac Babel
Dubliners, James Joyce
The Faulkner Reader
Light in August, William Faulkner
We the Living, Ayn Rand
Greenmantle, John Buchan
This Side Jordan, Margaret Laurence
The Piano, Jane Campion (screenplay)
Frog Croaks: Haiku Tongue in Cheek, Carl Oldenburg (scarce)
Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor (audiobook on 4 cass.)
Never Go Back, Robert Goddard (June 2006)
The Years of the City, Frederik Pohl (out of print)
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
The Facetious Nights, Straparola (Italy, trans.)
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The Complete Fairy Tales, George MacDonald
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Non-Fiction
An Offering of Uncles: The Priesthood of Adam and the Shape of the World, Robert Farrar Capon (out of print)
Gilbert: The Man who was G.K. Chesterton, Michael Coren
The Man from Nazareth, Harry Emerson Fosdick
Biblical Numerology: A Basic Study of the Use of Numbers in the Bible, John Davis
Jesus Christ and Mythology, Rudolf Bultmann
The Theology of the Gospel According to Thomas, Bertil Gärtner
History of the Moravian Church, Edward Langton
Brush Up Your Bible, Michael Marcone (a study of famous expressions that come from the Bible)
The Works of Mencius, trans. James Legge
The Dialogues of Plato: Vol. 1, trans. Benjamin Jowett
For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand
No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Joshua Meyrowitz
Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food, Ingeborg Boyens (local author)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians, Pierre Clastres (France, trans. by Paul Auster, out of print)
Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, Brooke Medicine Eagle
The Healer's Manual, Ted Andrews
Yoga for Your Spiritual Muscles, Rachel Schaeffer
Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit
Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bears' Trail, Karsten Heuer
Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring, Teddy Atlas
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made, David Halberstam
A Monk Swimming, Malachy McCourt
All Said and Done, Simone de Beauvoir
Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn, Carl Rollyson
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past, Karin Evans
The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid, Carey/Chomsky
Prague Pictures, John Banville (The Writer and the City series)
Bartlett's Canada: A Pre-Confederation Journey (all the Canadian engravings of William Henry Bartlett, $12)
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains, Jon Krakauer
Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy, James Raffan
Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back, Jere Longman
The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes, ed. Max Hastings
The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare, John Keegan
Solitary in the Ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as Airman and Private Soldier, H. Montgomery Hyde
Among the Elephants, Iain/Oria Douglas-Hamilton
Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered, Paolo Matthiae
India: A Wounded Civilization, V.S. Naipaul
From the Diplomat's Kitchen, Karachi Sheraton Hotel Pakistan (scarce)
The Silver Palate Cookbook, Rosso/Lukins
Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family, Louis DeSalvo
Think Out of the Box, Mike Vance/Diane Deacon
The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics
The Virtuosi: Classical Music's Great Performers from Paganini to Pavarotti, Harold Schonberg
Apples, Walnuts and Wine: A Spiritual Map of Winnipeg, Larry Geller
In Fond Remembrance of Me, Howard Norman (a literary memoir of 1977 Churchill, MB)
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An Introduction to Manitoba Archaeology ($6, Manitoba Dept of Cultural Affairs, 1983)
plus hundreds more every week....
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What's Gumby Reading?
"A ballroom was, for this event, Transformed into a Bedouin tent. Celine's dress looked like gold enamel And dazzled every watching camel.", The Oh, Canadians Omnibus!: Hysterically Historical Rhymes, Snell/Aislin
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