FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 1/19/09
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
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Easy Green Living - Renée Loux
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Lillian Too's Irresistible Feng Shui Magic (out of print)
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Ecoholic - Adria Vasil
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Poste restante: cartes poétiques du Sénégal - Lise Gaboury-Diallo
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Subliminales - Lise Gaboury-Diallo
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Transitions - Lise Gaboury-Diallo
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The Illustrated Surgeon General's Report on Cigarette Smoking - Alfred Gescheidt (out of print)
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences - Kitty Burns Florey
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Drawing Heat - Jim Freedman (Canadian pro wrestling, 1988, scarce, $50)
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Miller's Collecting Modern Books - Catherine Porter (out of print)
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American Junk - Mary Carter (no, this isn't about GM)
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A Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present
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The Collected Blurtings of Baxter - Glen Baxter (out of print)
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The New Song Fest - Dick/Beth Best (Intercollegiate Outing Club Association, out of print)
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Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall - George Speaight
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Also new this week
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Fiction
Some Great Thing, Lawrence Hill
City Treaty: A Long Poem, Marvin Francis
Whylah Falls, George Elliott Clarke (narrative poem)
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, Audre Lorde
Poems: 1972-1982, Denise Levertov
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam/Bird Parliament, Farrid ud-Din Attar
Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative, Herbert Mason
Poems, Baudelaire
Poems, William Blake
Poems, Christina Rossetti
Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen
The Piano Man's Daughter, Timothy Findley
Raymond and Hannah, Stephen Marche
No Other Life, Brian Moore (out of print)
The Polished Hoe, Austin Clarke
Salt Fish Girl, Larissa Lai
When Fox is a Thousand, Larissa Lai
The Desert Lake, Linda Leith
Up in Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger (hardcover)
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Call of the Toad, Günter Grass (out of print)
Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal (Czech, trans.)
Freedom Song, Amit Chaudhuri
Bend Sinister, Nabokov
The Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway
A House Divided, Pearl Buck
Sons, Pearl Buck
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
Ida, Gertrude Stein
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
The Shack, William Young
Stretching Hide, Dale Lakevold/Darrell Racine (play)
Street Wheat, Mansel Robinson (play)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour/Professional Foul, Tom Stoppard (plays)
Corporate Vibes/Face to Face, David Williamson (plays)
Marion Bridge, Daniel MacIvor (play)
Largo Desolato, Vaclav Havel/Tom Stoppard (play)
A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett
Admiral Hornblower, C.S. Forester
The Young Hornblower, C.S. Forester
and
ten new Patrick O'Brian titles
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Non-Fiction
The Complete C.S. Lewis (only seven of his books, actually)
The Soul's Religion, Thomas Moore
Seeking Spiritual Direction, Thomas Dubay, S.M.
Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition, Brian Mahan
Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness, Eugene Peterson
Good Fences: The Boundaries of Hospitality, Caroline Westerhoff
Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and other Christians in Disguise, Robert Inchausti
An Introduction to the New Testament, Raymond Brown
Catholicism For Dummies, John Trigilio
Seasons of the Sun: Celebrations from the World's Folk Religions, Patricia Telesco
Interfaith: Innerlight, Rui-su Ulrich (Shinshu Buddhism)
The Essentials of Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki
The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura
Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History, William Ryan/Walter Pitman
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson, David Grossman
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
The Function of the Orgasm, Wilhelm Reich (out of print)
On Thermonuclear War, Herman Kahn
The Politics of Nonviolent Action: Part One, Power and Struggle, Gene Sharp
To Be Two, Luce Irigaray (out of print)
The Question Concerning Technology and other Essays, Martin Heidegger
Philosophical Arabesques, Nikolai Bukharin ($15 at Aqua, $66 at Chapters)
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, Robert Heilbroner
God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
The Miracle of Health: Simple Solutions, Extraordinary Results, Uche Odiatu (November 2008)
What's Your Expiry Date?: Embrace your Mortality and Live with Vitality, Patrick Mathieu (out of print)
Higher than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela, Fatima Meer
The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life Journey of an Emigrant Sikh, Tara Singh Bains/Hugh Johnston
Orientalism, Edward Said
The Cross and the Crescent: The Earliest Encounters between Christians and Muslims, Richard Fletcher
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, Svetlana Alexievich
Going by the Moon and the Stars: Stories of Two Russian Mennonite Women, Pamela Klassen
Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940, Shari Benstock
The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock, John Harris
Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s, Andrew Collins
Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada's Indifference, Warren Goulding
Looking at Totem Poles, Hilary Stewart
The Sun Dance Religion: Power for the Powerless, Joseph Jorgensen
Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education, Gregory Cajete (scarce)
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, John Neihardt
A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit, Oscar Kawagley (out of print)
Wisdom of the Elders: Native and Scientific Ways of Knowing about Nature, Peter Knudtson/David Suzuki
Red Earth White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact, Vine Deloria (out of print)
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, David Quammen
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species, Steve Jones (out of print)
Other Origins: The Search for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory, Ciochon/Olsen/James (out of print)
The Ape that Spoke: Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind, John McCrone (out of print)
The Making of Mankind, Richard Leakey (out of print)
The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Mankind, Richard Leakey
Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography, Mary Leakey (out of print)
The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois, Pat Shipman (out of print)
Frozen Future: The Arctic, the Antarctic and the Survival of the Planet, Daniel Snowman
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, Armand Marie Leroi
The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), Constance Lewallen (out of print)
We Watch the Waves: Unravelling the Mystery of a Father's Death, Susan Riley (local author)
Red Lights on the Prairies, James Gray (hardcover)
Ghost Stories of Manitoba, Barbara Smith
and
School Days: Manitobans Tell Their Personal Stories of School They Attended Here and Around the World (out of print)
plus hundreds more every week....
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