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Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight - Andrew Chaikin (Smithsonian Institution, out of print)
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In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae - Linda Granfield
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Bears on Broadway: A Love Affair in Concrete - Tim Higgins (out of print)
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Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings - Margaret Hryniuk/Frank Korvemaker (out of print)
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Also new this week
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Fiction
Grimus, Salman Rushdie
Life Is Elsewhere, Milan Kundera (Czech, trans.)
The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre
The House of Scorta, Laurent Gaudé (France, trans.)
Songs of the Humpback Whale, Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Vishnu Dreams, Ven Begamudré
Niceman Cometh, David Carpenter
Twenty Miles, Cara Hedley
Euphoria, Connie Gault
A Fine Grammar of Bones, Méira Cook (poetry)
Unearthly Horses, Patrick Friesen (poetry)
Soul to Touch, Anne Campbell (poetry)
The Best of Betjeman, ed. John Guest (poetry)
Collected Poems: 1928-1985, Stephen Spender
Collected Poems, Philip Larkin
Suburbia, Eric Bogosian (play)
The Best of Philip K. Dick
Fear/Typewriter in the Sky, L. Ron Hubbard
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1955
Melancholy Elephants, Spider Robinson (out of print)
The Best of Robert Heinlein: 1939-1942
The Best of Robert Heinlein: 1947-1959
Last and First Men/Last Men in London, Olaf Stapledon
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, Harlan Ellison (out of print)
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison (scarce)
The Best of Beaumont, Charles Beaumont (horror)
The Shadow over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft
The Shuttered Room, H.P. Lovecraft
The Rivals of Frankenstein: A Gallery of Monsters, ed. Michel Parry
Skull-Face, Robert E. Howard
The Book of Robert E. Howard: Volume 1
The Howard Collector: By and about Robert E. Howard, ed. Glenn Lord
Griffin and Sabine, Nick Bantock
Sabine's Notebook, Nick Bantock
The Golden Mean, Nick Bantock
Au Bonheur des Dames, Emile Zola
six National Geographic Pop-Up Books (Dinosaurs, Whales, Monkeys, Pandas, etc.)
18 new Hardy Boys books, Franklin Dixon
This Business with Elijah, Sheldon Oberman (out of print)
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A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (cassette, performed by CBC's Shelagh Rogers, Bill Richardson, etc.)
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Non-Fiction
God and the Ways of Knowing, Jean Danielou
Christianity and Existentialism, J.M. Spier
The Byzantine Patriarchate: 451-1204, George Every (scarce)
The Lord Protector: Religion and Politics in the Life of Oliver Cromwell, Robert Paul (scarce)
What We Say Goes: U.S. Power in a Changing World, Noam Chomsky
Venceremos!: The Speeches and Writings of Che Guevara
Court of Memory, James McConkey
Jung, Gods and Modern Man, Antonio Moreno
Jung and the Native American Moon Cycles, Michael Owen
The Power of Intention, Wayne Dyer
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Some People Say that God is No Laughing Matter: An Artist's Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path, Julia Cameron
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
A Place between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh, Harry Thurston
Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness, Trevor Herriot
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo, Biruté Galdikas
Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals, Barbara Noske
The Complete Encyclopedia of Vegetables and Vegetarian Cooking, Roz Denny/Christine Ingram (out of print)
How to Cut Kids' Hair, Nancy Hughes Clark
Take a Firm Stand: The Young Woman's Guide to Self-Defence, Vicky Grosser
The Worst-Case Scenario Book of Survival Questions, Piven/Borgenicht
The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste, Jane/Michael Stern
Index of Forbidden Books, Henry Spencer Ashbee
America: The Book, Jon Stewart
Cracker Ingenuity: Tips from the Trailer Park, Elliott/Lowry
The First 20 Years of Monty Python, Kim "Howard" Johnson (out of print)
The Virgin Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock (out of print)
Home: A Short History of an Idea, Witold Rybczynski
Elegant and Easy Rooms: 250 Trade Secrets for Decorating Your Home, Dylan Landis
Adventures of a Chemist Collector, Alfred Bader
Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings, ed. Hall/Seemann
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology (out of print)
The National Trust Book of English Architecture, J.M. Richards
The Use of Models: 19th Century Church Architecture in Québec
Le design au Québec, Marc Choko
The Art Spirit, Robert Henri
Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life, Chan Hon Goh/Cary Fagan
The Living World of Dance, Jack/Linda Vartoogian
Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion, Mickey Hart/Jay Stevens (out of print)
The Darkroom Handbook, Michael Langford
Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, Sergei Eisenstein
Hitchock: The Definitive Study, Francois Truffaut
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Donald Spoto
Shakespeare, Anthony Burgess
Creating a Role, Constantin Stanislavski
An Actor Prepares, Constantin Stanislavski
Acting Power, Robert Cohen ($104 at Chapters, $15 at Aqua)
Duologues for All Accents and Ages, Eamonn Jones/Jean Marlow
The Lusitania, Colin Simpson
The Goebbels Diaries
Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919, Desmond Morton/J.L. Granatstein (out of print)
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army, Christie Blatchford
The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Columbia, Nicholas Coghlan
The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Story, Denise Chong
Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez
Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages, Jacob Katz
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century, Hugh Kennedy
Grits: An Intimate Portrait of the Liberal Party, Christina McCall-Newman
The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory, and Murder, Sharon Butala
The Education of Mr. Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood, David Zieroth (out of print)
I Married the Klondike, Laura Beatrice Berton
A Child's Garden of Rocks, Doug Evans
Tales from a Town with a Funny Name, Doug Evans (Flin Flon)
91 Interesting Places in Manitoba, Frank Anderson
Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion, Bob Beal/Rod Macleod (out of print, $35 at Burton Lysecki, $15 at Aqua)
and
Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother, Maggie Siggins
plus hundreds more every week....
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