FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 12/31/07
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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Culture Jam - Kalle Lasn
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Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
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Rumspringa: To Be or Not To Be Amish - Tom Shachtman
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The Princess Bride - William Goldman
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The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
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Self - Yann Martel
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One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
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The Portable Henry Rollins
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy - Harry Shapiro/Caesar Glebbeek
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A Night Without Armor - Jewel
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The Celtic Realms - Myles Dillon/Nora Chadwick (out of print)
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A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians - Thomas Courchene
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Canada: An Illustrated History - Derek Hayes
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Also new this week
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Fiction
The Flounder, Günter Grass
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
The Ruins of California, Martha Sherrill
Buxton Spice, Oonya Kempadoo
The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
The Fire-Dwellers, Margaret Laurence (hardcover)
Queen of Diamonds, Catherine Hunter
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Michael Ondaatje
That Little Something, Charles Simic (poetry, uncorrected proof, hardcover release date April 1/08)
Rental Van, Clint Burnham (poetry, 2007)
BirchSplitBark, Diane Guichon (poetry, 2007)
A Few Words Will Do, Lionel Kearns (poetry, 2007)
My Mother Agrees with the Dead, Susan Stenson (poetry, 2007)
The Tablecloth Trick, Rick Crilly (poetry, 2007)
The Iron Shoes, Elizabeth Greene (poetry, 2007)
The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sharon McCartney (poetry, 2007)
Songs for the Dancing Chicken, Emily Schultz (poetry, 2007)
The Great Buffalo Republic, Ron Romanowski (poetry, 2007)
Red Bird, Ian Roy (poetry, 2007)
Soft Geography, Gillian Wigmore (poetry, 2007)
Aide-Mémoire, Ruth Roach Pierson (poetry, 2007)
All Things Said and Done, Marita Dachsel (poetry, 2007)
The Work of Days, Sarah Lang (poetry, 2007)
Mother Time, Joanne Arnott (poetry, 2007)
Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry/Anarchy/Abstraction, Stephen Collis (2007)
Kingdom, Phylum, Adam Dickinson (poetry)
Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists, a. rawlings (poetry)
Passport, Angela Hibbs (poetry)
Drawing Down a Daughter, Claire Harris (poetry)
She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, M. Nourbese Philip (poetry)
Verses, Ani DiFranco (October 2007)
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, a play by Tomson Highway
The Member of the Wedding, a play by Carson McCullers
Mon Bel Oranger, José Mauro de Vasconcelos
The Marquise of O and other stories, Heinrich von Kleist
six new The Cat Who mysteries, Lilian Jackson Braun
Web of Evil, J.A. Jance (December 2007)
Bite Club: A West Hollywood Vampire Novel, Hal Bodner
Firewing, Kenneth Oppel
Pandora's Star, Peter F. Hamilton
Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds
Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds
Exultant, Stephen Baxter
Brightness Reef, David Brin
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The Birthday of the World and other stories, Ursula Le Guin (out of print)
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Non-Fiction
Radiance: A Spiritual Memoir, Evelyn Underhill
The Spiritual Autobiography of Charles de Foucauld, ed. Jean-François Six (out of print)
The Essential Jesus, John Dominic Crossan
The Healing Gifts of the Spirit, Agnes Sanford
The Law and the Gospel in Luther: A Study of Martin Luther's Confessional Writings, Thomas McDonough (scarce)
The Compendium Explained, Rev. Henry Beets (1915)
Annotations Upon Popular Hymns, Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
Jesus, the Son of Man, Kahlil Gibran
The Tao of Emerson, ed. Richard Grossman (November 2007)
Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment, John Horgan
The Human Blueprint: The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Our Genetic Script, Robert Shapiro (out of print)
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality, John Gribbin
Oxford Guide to the Mind, ed. Geoffrey Underwood (out of print)
The Power of Intention, Wayne Dyer
The Perfection of the Morning, Sharon Butala
Stepping Lightly: Simplicity for People and the Planet, Mark Burch (out of print, scarce)
Feminism is for Everybody, Bell Hooks
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army, Sarah Emma Edmonds
all three volumes of The Army of the Potomac, Bruce Catton ($15 set, Pulitzer winner)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network, Warren Kinsella (out of print)
Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Michael Azerrad
The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir, Dave Van Ronk
The Basketball Diaries: Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets, Jim Carroll
The Brothers Shubert: A Half-Century of Show Business, Jerry Stagg (Broadway history)
Actors on Acting, ed. Cole/Chinoy
Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, Nick Redfern
House of Spirits and Whispers: The True Story of a Haunted House, Annie Wilder
Dogs, Houses, Gardens, Food and other addictions, Sondra Gotlieb
Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Market, State, and the Revolutions in Central America, Carlos Vilas
Come Back to Afghanistan, Said Hyder Akbar
The Great Divide: A Walk through America along the Continental Divide, Stephen Pern (out of print)
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New York (current edition)
Let's Go Travel Guide: South Africa
Let's Go Travel Guide: Israel and the Palestinian Territories
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The Jewish Holiday Cook Book, Leah Leonard
plus hundreds more every week....
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