FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 04/19/10

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

Also new this week

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Fiction

Strike! The Musical, Danny Schur/Rick Chafe (play)
Dressing Up the Carnival, Carol Shields
Kilter: 55 Fictions, John Gould
Late Nights on Air, Elizabeth Hay
The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson
Ironweed, William Kennedy
The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon
Laughable Loves, Milan Kundera
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel García Márquez
The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes (Mexico, trans.)
A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
The Silent Cry, Kenzaburo Oe (Japan, trans.)
A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe (Japan, trans.)
Despair, Vladimir Nabokov
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
The Immoralist, André Gide
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom (Holland, trans.)
The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
Cargo of Orchids, Susan Musgrave
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
Yesterday's Weather, Anne Enright
Beyond Lies the Wub, Philip K. Dick
The Minority Report, Philip K. Dick
Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick
Valis, Philip K. Dick
The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick
The Crack in Space, Philip K. Dick
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
Speed/Kentucky Ham, William S. Burroughs
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Underworld, Don DeLillo
Swim, Marianne Apostolides
Booty: Hurricane Jane and Typhoon Mary, Jill Hartman/Brea Burton (poetry)
Harmonics, Jesse Patrick Ferguson (poetry)
What Happened, Tom Walmsley (poetry)
I Cut My Finger, Stuart Ross (poetry)
All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts, Pasha Malla (poetry)
Teethmarks, Sina Queyras (poetry)
This Way Out, Carmine Starnino (poetry)
Voice of Ice/Voix de Glace, Alta Ifland (dual language, scarce)
The Poets' Corner, ed. John Lithgow
Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
Tatsea, Armin Wiebe
I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay, Harlan Ellison/Isaac Asimov
Zebediah the Hillbilly Zombie Redneck Bites the Dust, Scott Mills (out of print)
The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, Mario Acevedo
A Small and Remarkable Life, Nick DiChario
The Commons, Matthew Hughes
Sailing Time's Ocean, Terence Green
Rogue Harvest, Danita Maslan
Birthstones, Phyllis Gotlieb
and
Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson

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Non-Fiction

Either/Or: Vols I and II, Søren Kierkegaard
Training in Christianity, Søren Kierkegaard
Jesus Christ for Today's World, Jürgen Moltmann
The Christology of the New Testament, Oscar Cullman
Barth and Schleiermacher: Beyond the Impasse?, ed. Duke/Streetman (scarce)
An Unknown God, Jonathan Robinson
Stigmata: A Medieval Phenomenon in a Modern Age, Ted Harrison
Rumi: The Path of Love (cards/book)
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man, A.H. Almaas
The Phenomenology of Mind, G.W.F. Hegel
Derrida for Beginners, Jim Powell
Less Than One: Selected Essays, Joseph Brodsky
Open Letters: 1965-1990, Vaclav Havel (out of print)
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Rebecca West, Victoria Glendinning
The Chicago Manual of Style
A Likely Story: The Writing Life, Robert Kroetsch
The Lovely Treachery of Words, Robert Kroetsch
Labyrinths of Voice: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Shirley Neuman/Robert Wilson
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
Roomanitarian, Henry Rollins (signed)
Under the Sign of Saturn, Susan Sontag
The Future Dictionary of America (McSweeney's)
Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe
Thurber's Dogs, James Thurber
The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century, Scott Adams
How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies, Daniel Wilson
Where's My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived, Daniel Wilson
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
The Darwin Reader
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande
How to Be a Business Superhero, Sean Wise
Delicate, Mary Sojourner
Tales from the Medicine Trail: The Health Secrets of Shamans, Herbalists, Mystics and Yogis, Chris Kilham
You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as if Ecology Mattered, Eric Davidson
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, Paco Underhill
Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy, Benjamin Barber
Victims of Iraqi Chemical Weapons: 1980-1984
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands, Gavan Davis
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture, James Billington
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History, Solomon Volkov
Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes 1910-1930
Kreisler: A Biography, Louis Lochner (out of print)
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer, Gene Lees
Shakey: Neil Young's Biography, Jimmy McDonough
Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Curle/Snyder
PhotoFile: Surrealist Photography
PhotoFile: Man Ray
Fred Bear's World of Archery (out of print)
and
10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 20 Experts, ed. Marjorie Dietz

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"The uses of concrete on the farm are today as varied as the duties of the farmer himself."

Concrete on the Farm (Canada Cement Company)

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