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FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 03/29/10


(To hold or order any of these books [or to check on current availability], please email kelly@aquabooks.ca.)

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Rats - Robert Sullivan

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Talk Talk Talk: An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech - Jay Ingram

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Raising the Peaceable Kingdom - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (out of print)

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The Milk Chicken Bomb - Andrew Wedderburn

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7 Generations: Stone - David Robertson (new)

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Beautiful Girl Thumb - Melissa Steele (new)

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The Renaissance at War - Thomas Arnold

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History of the British Army - ed. Young/Lawford (out of print)

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The Russian Chronicles

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Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times - Morris Rossabi (out of print)

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Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places

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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster - Melissa Fay Greene (out of print)

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The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales (out of print)

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The King of Capri - Jeanette Winterson

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A Hatful of Seuss

Also new this week

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Fiction

Joe from Winnipeg: All My Best, Ian Ross (out of print)
The Complete Oscar Wilde
Poems from the Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke
Collected Poems: 1922-1938, e.e. cummings (poetry, out of print)
Slip, Sina Queyras (poetry, out of print)
Blood Sports, Eden Robinson
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
Radio Free Albemuth, Philip K. Dick
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
Joe Jones, Anne Lamott (CD audiobook)
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
Heroine, Gail Scott
Wilderness Men, Howard O'Hagan (out of print)
Children of God, W.A. Hameedi (very scarce)
The Time Quartet, Madeleine L'Engle
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
Rollback, Robert J. Sawyer
Frameshift, Robert J. Sawyer
Flashforward, Robert J. Sawyer
Shadow and Claw, Gene Wolfe
Sword and Citadel, Gene Wolfe
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald (hardcover)
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Maus I, Art Spiegelman

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Non-Fiction

The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen
Turning the Mind Into an Ally, Sakyong Mipham
Sacred Journeys: A Woman's Book of Daily Prayer, Jan Richardson
The Labyrinth: A Transforming Ritual, Jonny Baker
The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times, ed. Zaleski
In Wisdom's Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season, Jan Richardson
The Shape of Love, Masaru Emoto
Everyday, Osho
Anatomy of the Spirit, Caroline Myss
Peak of Eloquence, Nahjul Balagha
Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps, Melody Beattie
Codependent No More, Melody Beattie
Organizing from the Inside Out, Julie Morganstern
Smart Women Finish Rich, David Bach
Launching a Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Five Levels of Influence, Chris Brady/Orrin Woodward
Developing the Leader Within You, John C. Maxwell
Team, John C. Maxwell
How to Sell Anything to Anybody, Joe Girard
Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge, William Poundstone
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
No Logo, Naomi Klein
The Bush Tragedy, Jacob Weisberg
Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of An African Childhood, Elspeth Huxley
Descent to Suez: Foreign Office Diaries 1951-1956, Evelyn Shuckburgh
Swords, Ships and Sugar: History of Nevis to 1900, Vincent Hubbard
The Indian in Latin American History: Resistance, Resilience and Acculturation, ed. John Kicza
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Christopher Andrew/Vasili Mitrokhin
A History of Europe, J.M. Roberts
The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe 1801-1805, Frederick Kagan
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, Christopher Hibbert
The China Voyage: A Pacific Quest by Bamboo Raft, Tim Severin
The Black Book (The Jewish Black Book Committee, 1946)
The Canadian Jewish Mosaic, Weinfeld/Shaffir/Cotler
Lincoln, David Herbert Donald
The First Day of the Civil War, Robert Hendrickson
Antietam: Crossroads of Freedom, James McPherson
The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm 1861-1865, Stephen B. Oates
Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him, Merle Miller
The Nuremberg Trial, Ann Tusa/John Tusa
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, Taylor Branch
Unwinding the Vietnam War: From War into Peace, ed. Reese Williams
Dream Baby Dream: Images from the Blank Generation, Stephanie Chernikowski
Man Ray: Aperture Masters of Photography
Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern, David Maurer
Life with My Sister Madonna, Christopher Ciccone
Living Language: Maximum Spanish (7 Cds/2 books/dictionary)
A Canadian Writer's Reference: Fourth Edition, Diana Hacker
The Brief Canadian Handbook: Second Canadian Edition
Easy Writer: Canadian Edition, Andrea Lunsford
The Oxford Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook
Dictionary of Healthful Food Terms, Bev Bennett
Reader's Digest Magic and Medicine of Plants
Peasant's Choice, James Barber
Cooking for Two, James Barber
The Community Auditorium Cookbook (Thunder Bay, 1982, scarce)
Gluten-Free, Wheat-Free and Dairy-Free Recipes: A Cook's Bible, Grace Cheetham
1001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes, Sue Spitler
Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking, Aveline Kushi
Animal Liberation, Peter Singer
Blue Corn and Chocolate: 175 Recipes Featuring New World Products, Elisabeth Rozin
The Book of Whole Foods: Nutrition and Cuisine, Karen MacNeil
Grail Springs Holistic Detox for Body, Mind and Spirit, Madeleine Marentette
The Shiatsu Handbook, Shizuko Yamamoto
The Concise Gray's Anatomy
Animal Liberation, Peter Singer
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, Lyanda Lynn Haupt
What Is My Dog Thinking? The Essential Guide to Understanding Pet Behavior, Gwen Bailey
The Owl in Monument Canyon and Other Stories from Indian Country, H. Jackson Clark
The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants, Erich Hoyt
Weeds in Winter, Lauren Brown
The Grizzly Bear, Thomas McNamee
A Republic of Rivers: Three Centuries of Nature Writing from Alaska and the Yukon, ed. John Murray
Banff Springs: The Story of a Hotel, Bart Robinson
The Mysterious North, Pierre Berton
Canadian History for Dummies
and
The Canadian Prairies: A History, Gerald Friesen

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"Rejected cheerleaders often go on to be class presidents, yearbook editors and drama club stars."

Cheerleading!, Finberg/Filichia


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