FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 10/19/09

(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

Swann, Carol Shields
The Box Garden, Carol Shields
See the Child, David Bergen
The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
Fish Bones, Gillian Sze (poetry)
The Joining of Dingo Radish, Rob Harasymchuk
The Bat Had Blue Eyes, Betsy Warland (poetry)
, said the Shotgun to the Head, Saul Williams (poetry)
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks
Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
While England Sleeps, David Leavitt
Family Man, Calvin Trillin
Ravelstein, Saul Bellow
The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez (Columbia, trans.)
The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
Heroine, Gail Scott
Mad Shadows, Marie-Claire Blais
The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange, Marie-Claire Blais
Hath Not a Jew, A.M. Klein (poetry)
Poems 1985, Joan McIntyre (very scarce)
From the Pen of Joy, Sheila (poetry, very scarce)
Mythography of J., Jason Theodor (poetry, very scarce)
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, John McCrae
Best Tales of the Yukon, Robert W. Service
Chicken Inspector No. 23, S.J. Perelman
The Thurber Carnival, James Thurber
The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Here, There Be Dragons, James Owen
Fire Star, Chris D'Lacey
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (boxed set, softcover)
The Fionavar Tapestry, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Knight, Gene Wolfe
The Wizard, Gene Wolfe
99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale, David Wellington
American Beauty, Alan Ball (screenplay)
Cherry Docs, David Gow (play)
Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre, ed. Stanley Richards (plays)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (boxed set, three hardcovers, $30)
and
Through the Looking Glass/Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (boxed set, two hardcovers, Folio Society ed., $25)

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Non-Fiction

Glimpses of Grace, Madeleine L'Engle
Awareness, Anthony de Mello
To Change the World: Christology and Cultural Criticism, Rosemary Radford Ruether
The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic Biblical Christ, Martin Kähler (out of print)
A Quest for the Post-Historical Jesus, William Hamilton
Land of the Spirit? The Australian Religious Experience, Muriel Porter
Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool, Lauren Artress
In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah, Judith Antonelli
A Short History of the Jewish People, Raymond Scheindlin
Havah: The Sory of Eve, Ann Johnson (very scarce)
Sophia: Aspects of the Divine Feminine, Susanne Schaup
The Storyteller's Goddess: Tales of the Goddess and Her Wisdom from Around the World, Carolyn McVickar Edwards
Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Myth and Reality of the Triple Goddess, D.J. Conway
The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women, Marion Woodman
The Book of Understanding, Osho
What We Ache For: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui, Gill Hale
Ikat: An Introduction, Diane Ritch/Yoshiko Wada (Japanese Ikat/Warp/Weft/Figure)
The Art of Chinese Calligraphy, Jean Long
Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space, Carola Giedion-Welcker
African and Oceanic Art, Margaret Trowell/Hans Nevermann
Pre-Columbian Art and Later Indian Tribal Arts, Ferdinand Anton/Frederick Dockstader
Maori Carving Illustrated
Maori Origins and Migrations, M.P.K. Sorenson
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de Las Casas
Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public, Helen Thomas
Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy, Lauro Martines
Rome: Its People, Life and Customs, Ugo Enrico Paoli (out of print)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
A History of Knowledge: The Pivotal Events, People, and Achievements of World History, Charles Van Doren
Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella: Curiouser and Curiouser Adventures in History, Michael Olmert
Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World, David King
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest, Mark Plotkin
The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, Michael Behe
Wisdom of the Elders, Peter Knudtson/David Suzuki
A Green History of the World, Clive Ponting
Trout and Salmon of the World, Silvio Calabi
The Swinging Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Jane Goodall
Journal of My Life, Jacques-Louis Ménétra
The Puppet Show of Memory, Maurice Baring
In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets, Robert Budde
Dance on the Earth: A Memoir, Margaret Laurence (out of print)
Marilyn, Hitler and Me: The Memoirs of Milton Schulman
Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance, Deborah Jowitt
Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Miss Turner? Talking to the Stars, Richard Ouzounian (out of print)
Canada on Stage: 1982-1986 (scarce)
Pocket Manual Series: Guitar Picture Chords
Blues for Dummies, Lonnie Brooks
Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader
The Middle-Earth Quiz Book, Suzanne Buchholz
The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth: An A-Z Guide, Robert Foster
Myth and Middle-Earth: The Legends Behind Tolkien, Leslie Ellen Jones
Le nouveau petit Robert
A Canadian Writer's Reference, Diana Hacker
Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss
Sleep Thieves: An Eye-opening Exploration Into the Science and Mysteries of Sleep, Stanley Coren
A Little Rebellion, Bridget Moran
The Chilcotin War, Mel Rothenburger (out of print)
Men and Women of the Tundra, Father Jean-Marie Mouchet (very scarce)
Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts, ed. Murray/Rice
Breaking the Rules, Awasis Agency of Northern Manitoba (scarce)
In Her Own Voice: Childbirth Stories from Mennonite Women, ed. Katherine Martens/Heidi Harms (out of print)
and
Winnipeg: An Illustrated History, Alan Artibise

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"While parking lots are not the best parts of the road habitat, the occasional presence of one of a commonly flattened urban animal provides a unique opportunity for the relatively safe, close-up examination of specimens when they do occur."

Flattened Fauna: A Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads, Streets, and Highways, Roger Knutson

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