FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 06/21/10

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

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Fiction

The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, E.J. Pratt (poetry, signed)
Out of Place, Eli Mandel (poetry, signed)
The Ability to Forget, Norman Levine
Stripmalling, Jon Paul Fiorentino
Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk
The Fairy Gunmother, Daniel Pennac (France, trans.)
Working on Sunday: A Geoffry Chadwick Novel, Edward Phillips
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
Kalimantaan, C.S. Godshalk
Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Orchestra of the Lost Steps, Shelley Leedahl
Arrival of the Snake-Woman, Olive Senior
Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
The Swan, Gudbergur Bergsson (Iceland, trans.)
The Lion of Venice, Mark Frutkin
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
Double Vision, Pat Barker
The Last of the Savages, Jay McInerney
Second Glance, Jodi Picoult
Summerland, Michael Chabon
Under Emily's Sky, Ann Alma
The Boy in the Burning House, Tim Wynne-Jones
Holes, Louis Sachar
The Buccaneers, Iain Lawrence
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
The Darkest Road, Guy Gavriel Kay (hardcover
The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay (hardcover, signed)
End of an Era, Robert J. Sawyer
Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917, Rowan Atkinson
and
Goose Girl, Joe/Matrine McLellan

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Non-Fiction

Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, Mel White
Resurrection, Rowan Williams
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, Eamon Duffy
How Jesus Became Christian, Barrie Wilson
Positions, Jacques Derrida (out of print)
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be, Paul Arden
Being-in-Dreaming: An Initiation into the Sorcerer's World, Florinda Donner
Making ADD Work: On-the-Job Strategies, Blythe Grossberg
Rommel? Gunner Who?, Spike Milligan
Go to School, You're a Little Black Boy: A Memoir, Lincoln Alexander
Fred Taylor: Brother in the Shadows, John Virtue
Joey: The Life and Political Times of Joey Smallwood, Harold Horwood
Robert Laird Borden: 1854-1914, Robert Craig Brown
Mao Zedong: Man, Not God, Quan Yanchi
Comrade Chiang Ch'ing, Roxanne Witke
My Life, Bill Clinton
Acts of Love: A Memoir, Pat Krause
Lost: A Memoir, Cathy Ostlere
Tomaž Humar, Bernadette McDonald
Fatal Tide: When the Race of a Lifetime Goes Wrong, David Leach
Full Time: A Soccer Story, Alan Twigg (out of print)
The Meaning of Puck: How Hockey Explains Modern Canada, Bruce Dowbiggin
Heroes, Paul Johnson
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect, Daphne Bramham
In the World but Not of It: One Family's Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America, Brett Grainger
Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State, Tarek Fatah
No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity, Patricia Marchak
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, William Poundstone
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games, László Polgár
Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8): A Memoir of Love, Exile and Crosswords, Sandy Balfour
A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel
Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary, Elisabeth Murray
The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles, Dorothy Eagle/Hilary Carnell
Notes on an Endangered Species and Others, Mordecai Richler (out of print)
Critical Passions: Selected Essays, Jean Franco
Pathologies: A Life in Essays, Susan Olding
FPG (Frederick Philip Grove): The European Years, Douglas O. Spettigue
The Invented Eye: Masterpieces of Photography 1839-1914, Edward Lucie-Smith
The Pressing of Flesh: A Photo-Based Investigation of the Male Nude (Floating Gallery, 1993, very scarce)
John Lyman: 1886-1967 (scarce)
Learning to Talk, Tim Zuck (art)
The Royal Canadian Academy of Art: Prairie Regional Exhibition (WAG, 1997)
Carved from the Land: The Eskimo Museum Collection, Lorraine Brandson (Churchill, 1994, scarce)
Contemporary Indian Art at Rideau Hall (scarce)
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature, Daniel Levitin
Here's Looking at Us: A Personal History of Television in Canada, Sandy Stewart
The Sound and the Fury: An Anecdotal History of Canadian Broadcasting, Warner Troyer
A Pictorial History of Radio, Irving Settel
Yoga for Wimps: Poses for the Flexibly Impaired, Miriam Austin
Cat Sun Signs, Vivian Buchan
Cooking for Cats, Elisabeth Meyer
College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends, Megan/Jill Carle
The Gift of Thanks, Margaret Visser
Consuming Passions: A Food Obessed Life, Michael Lee West
Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School, Denise Roig
Carnivore Chic: From Pasture to Plate, a Search for the Perfect Meat, Susan Bourette
Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera, Where Every Month Is Enchanted, Annie Hawes
The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild: The Forgotten Father of the Flower Garden, Michael Leapman (out of print)
Sprout for the Love of Everybody, Viktoras Kulvinskas (scarce)
Day Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America, Chris Wood
Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World, Andrew Weaver
The Complete Outdoorsman's Handbook: A Guide to Outdoor Living and Wilderness Survival, Jerome Knap (out of print)
Otherwise, Farley Mowat
Endgame 1758: Louisbourg's Last Decade, A.J.B. Johnston
An Unstoppable Force: The Scottish Exodus to Canada, Lucille Campey
The Courage of the Early Morning: The Story of Billy Bishop, William Arthur Bishop
Simon Fraser: In Search Of Modern British Columbia, Stephen Hume
and
Emily Carr, Lewis DeSoto

plus hundreds more every week....

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The Beanie Baby Handbook, Les/Sue Fox

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