FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 10/20/08
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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Cherry - Chandra Mayor ($14, new)
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Heresies: The Complete Poems of Anne Wilkinson - 1924-1961
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All the Pretty Girls - Chandra Mayor ($17, new)
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The World of Simon Raven
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The Spirit of the Game: Exceptional Photographs from the Hockey Hall of Fame
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Heaven and Hell - Mara Faustino
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror - Stephen Kinzer
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Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age - Bruce Lawrence
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The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran - Robin Wright
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The House Book
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The Forgetting Room - Nick Bantock (out of print)
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The Garden Book
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The Little House on the Prairie boxed set ($40, 2008 ed.)
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Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books - ed. Andrew Tuer
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Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever
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Also new this week
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Fiction
Fear Not, Maurice Mierau ($15, Maurice is reading here on Oct 23/08)
A Boy of Good Breeding, Miriam Toews
A Discovery of Strangers, Rudy Wiebe
Who Has Seen the Wind, W.O. Mitchell ($10, signed)
Radio and Other Miracles, Terrance Cox
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Wild Geese, Lara Harte (out of print)
The Miniaturist, Kunal Basu (out of print)
The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
Oxygen, Andrew Miller
Desolation, Yasmina Reza
House on Fire, Charles Foran
Bleeding London, Geoff Nicholson (out of print)
Last Chance to Renew, Scott Randall
The Fire Thief, Stephen Guppy
The Drum King, Richelle Kosar
The Tao of Laurenson, R.F. Darion
The Hindmost, Barry Kennedy (out of print)
The Collected Stories, Reynolds Price
The Prick of Noon, Peter DeVries
Mrs. Wallop, Peter DeVries
As Time Goes By: A Story of Casablanca, Michael Walsh
The Castle, Franz Kafka
Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell (September 2008)
Kinderseele, Herman Hesse
A Sackful of Plautdietsch: A Collection of Mennonite Low German Stories and Poems, Reimer et al
The Soul Thief, Cecelia Holland (out of print)
8 new Stephen Lawhead books
6 new Jack Whyte books
18 new Conan titles
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
When Clay Sings, Byrd Baylor
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Myths and Legends of Japan, F. Hadland Davis
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Non-Fiction
The Alphabet of Grace, Frederick Buechner
Now and Then, Frederick Buechner
The Sacred Journey, Frederick Buechner
In the Name of Jesus, Henri Nouwen
Thoughts in Solitude, Thomas Merton
The Complete Works, Francis Schaeffer (5 vols., hardcover, $60)
Reflecting the Divine Image: Christian Ethics in a Wesleyan Perspective, Ray Dunning
Demons, Lies and Shadows: A Plea for a Return to Text and Reason, Pierre Gilbert (new, $17, Gilbert will be lecturing at Aqua on Nov. 1/08)
The Peaceable Kingdom, Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus: The Man Who Lives, Malcolm Muggeridge
Either/Or: Vol. 1, Kierkegaard
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (1960 Oxford ed.)
Language and Responsibility, Noam Chomsky
An Introduction to Old Norse, E.V. Gordon ($20 at Aqua, $93 at Chapters)
The Book of the Dead, ed. E.A. Wallis Budge
Celtic Love, Caitlín Matthews
The Celtic Book of Days: A Celebration of Celtic Wisdom, Caitlín Matthews
Stonehenge: The Dragon Path and the Goddess, Romy Wyeth (signed)
Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery, Don Richard Riso
Time Shifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life, Stephan Rechtschaffen
Forgiveness, Gerald Jampolsky
Jean's Way, Derek Humphry
The Man in Black, Johnny Cash
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties, Marion Meade
Anaďs Nin: A Biography, Deirdre Bair
Marie-Anna Roy: Une voix solitaire, Paul Genuist (very scarce)
The Loss of El Dorado, V.S. Naipaul
The Taj Mahal is a Hindu Palace, P.N. Oak
China, Jan Wong
Red China Blues, Jan Wong
Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, ed. Crozier/Lane
The Black Veil: A Memoir with Digressions, Rick Moody
No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home, Chris Offutt
Running for the Hills: A Family Story, Horatio Clare
The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story, Jack Todd
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist, Richard Rhodes
The Code: The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliating in the NHL, Ross Bernstein
The Ultimate Bad Boys: Hockey's Greatest Fighters, Stan Fischler (out of print)
Thunder and Lightning, Phil Esposito
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet, Freeman Dyson
Becoming a Consultant: How to Start and Run a Profitable Consultant Business, Susan Nash
The Mavericks: Lessons from the West's Winning Entrepeneurs, Paul Grescoe
Shutting Down the National Dream: A.V. Roe and the Tragedy of the Avro Arrow, Greig Stewart
Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker, Denis Smith
The Trail of the Iroquois Indians, G. Elmore Reaman
Forty Years a Chief, George Barker
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, Rudy Wiebe
University of Alberta Home Gardening Course ($50, very scarce)
Complete Course in Oil Painting, Olle Nordmark
Step-by-Step Pottery and Ceramics: A Creative Guide, Lorette Espi
Colour: Making and Using Dyes and Pigments, Delamare/Guineau
The Artist's Quest for Inspiration, Peggy Hadden
Reflexology and Acupressure, Janet Wright
The Everything Reflexology Book, Valerie Voner
Gray's Anatomy: The Illustrated Running Press Edition
Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health Care System, Michael Rachlis
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The Black Elixir, G. Victor Toews (very scarce)
plus hundreds more every week....
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What's Gumby Reading?
"Cycles are phenomena of modern industrial capitalism.",
The Unstable Economy: Booms and Recessions in the U.S. since 1945, a Marxist Approach, Victor Perlo (1973)
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