FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 2/16/09
(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)
The Seven Crystal Balls
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The Red Sea Sharks
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Tintin in Tibet
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The Jewish Kitchen: Recipes And Stories From Around The World - Clarissa Hyman
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The Healthy Jewish Cookbook - Michael van Straten (out of print)
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Healthy Helpings: 800 Fast and Fabulous Recipes for the Kosher (or Not) Cook - Norene Gilletz
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Chambers Dictionary of World History
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The Celtic Realms: The History and the Culture of the Celtic Peoples from Pre-history to the Norman Invasion - Dillon/Chadwick (out of print)
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Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power - Bloom/Blair (out of print)
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The Way of Tea: The Sublime Art of Oriental Tea Drinking - Master Lam Kam Chuen
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The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest: 150 Recipes for Freezing, Canning, Drying and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables - Carol Costenbader
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A Kitchen Handbook: Japanese Cooking - Emi Kazuko (out of print)
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Media Unlimited: How The Torrent Of Images And Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives - Todd Gitlin
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The Universal Phrase Book: A Picture Dictionary for International Travellers - Mark Franklin (out of print)
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A Dowry of Owls - Larry McKeever
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Also new this week
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Fiction
Alibi, Robert Kroetsch (out of print)
Parasites of Heaven, Leonard Cohen (scarce, $15 at Aqua, $50 at Burton Lysecki)
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Michael Ondaatje
The Collected Stories, Paul Theroux
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
De Niro's Game, Rawi Hage
The Losers' Club, Richard Perez
The Better to See You, Alfonso Quijada Urķas (El Salvador, trans.)
Whatever, Michel Houellebecq (France, trans.)
The Rose that Grew from Concrete, Tupac Shakur
The Glass Book, Tim Lander (poetry)
On the Ground, Robert Flanagan (poetry)
The Photographer of Wolves, John O'Neill (poetry)
The Man with the Dancing Monkey, Barbara Mulcahy (poetry, out of print)
No Country for White Men, Gordon Turner (poetry, out of print)
Running Out the Clock, Raymond Souster (poetry, scarce)
Calling Texas, Bert Almon (poetry, scarce)
Sayings for the Invisible: Haiku 1977-1987, Rod Willmot
The Sorcerer with Deadly Nightshade Eyes, Michael Bullock (poetry, scarce)
Voyages, T.D. MacLulich (poetry)
In the Beginning was the Word, David Andrus (poetry, very scarce, $20 at Aqua, $125 online)
Lacuna, Laura McLauchlan (poetry, scarce)
Blue Mind's Flower, Janet Read (poetry, scarce)
The Long Road Home, Eric Trethewey (poetry, very scarce)
What Kind of Love Did You Have in Mind?, Eric Folsom (poetry)
Witness, Linda Rogers (poetry, out of print, signed)
Selected Poems, Patricia Keeney
Harm's Way, Maureen Hynes (poetry)
Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry, ed. Quan/Wong-Chu
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Harry Potter et la Coupe de Feu, J.K. Rowling
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Non-Fiction
Biblical Hebrew: Step by Step, Menahem Mansoor (vols 1 and 2)
All of the Women of the Bible, Edith Deen
Everyone in the Bible, William Barker
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Northrop Frye
Toward a New World, Dominique de Villepin
Polemics and Prophecies: 1967-1970, I.F. Stone
Visions: How Science will Revolutionize the 21st Century, Michio Kaku
The Birth of Time: How We Measured the Age of the Universe, John Gribbin (out of print)
A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation, Itzhak Bentov
Practical Guide to Astral Projection, Denning/Phillips
ETs and the Explorer Race, Robert Shapiro
The Elements of the Grail Tradition, John Matthews
Bridging Science and Spirit: Common Elements in David Bohm's Physics, the Perennial Philosophy and Seth, Norman Friedman
The Oracle of Change: How to Consult the I Ching, Alfred Douglas
Turning the Mind into an Ally, Sakyong Mipham
Confessions of a Street Addict, James Cramer
Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders, Curtis Faith
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, Alan Greenspan
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics, William Bonner/Lila Rajiva
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation, Richard Bookstaber
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt/Stephen Dubner
No Logo, Naomi Klein
The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, Sasha Issenberg
A Working Stiff's Manifesto, Iain Levison
Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live, Jay Mohr
Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation, Chris Turner
I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert
America (the Book), Jon Stewart
Desperate Networks, Bill Carter
How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, Francis Wheen
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
Hell's Angels, Hunter S. Thompson
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Tucker Max
Beastie Boys Companion, John Rocco
Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality, Brad Warner
Natural Soapmaking, Marie Browning
Herbs: A Guide to Cooking, Gardening and Healing with Wild and Cultivated Plants, Adele Dawson
Chinese System of Foods for Health and Healing, Henry Lu (out of print)
Let's Cook Japanese Food!: Everyday Recipes for Home Cooking, Amy Kaneko
A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen, Jack Bishop
Vegetarian Pizza, James McNair
La Bella Cucina: How to Cook, Eat, and Live Like an Italian, Viana La Place (out of print)
The Escoffier Cook Book
The Modern Stage and Other Worlds, Austin Quigley
"Max Gordon Presents": The Star-Studded Story of His Life on Broadway, Max Gordon/Lewis Funke
Throne of Gold: The Lives of the Aga Khans, Anne Edwards
Crusade in Europe, Dwight Eisenhower
Destination Dunkirk: The Story of Gort's Army, Gregory Blaxland (scarce)
Canada's Army: Waging War And Keeping the Peace, J.L. Granatstein
Tapestry Of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War, Sandra Gwyn
True Canadian War Stories from Legion Magazine
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Manitoba, William Preston (out of print)
Founding Horses: The Working Horses and their People in Canada's Past, Andrew Fraser (out of print)
Living on the Land: Change among the Inuit of Baffin Island, John Matthiasson (out of print)
Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition, Owen Beattie/John Geiger
British Columbia: A History, Margaret Ormsby (out of print)
My Times: Living with History 1947-1995, Pierre Berton (out of print)
The Centennial History of Manitoba, James Jackson (Manitoba Historical Society, 1970)
Navigating a New World: Canada's Global Future, Lloyd Axworthy
and
Dancing Backwards: A Social History Of Women In Canadian Politics, Sharon Carstairs/Tim Higgins (Aqua Books Writer-in-Residence)
plus hundreds more every week....
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What's Gumby Reading?
The foreword to this book is by Celine Dion. Buy it just to find out how the clenched-fist-double-heart-thump is expressed in words. 'I love 'dis book!'
Sixtyfive Roses, Heather Summerhayes Cariou
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