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FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 7/6/09


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

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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

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Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers

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Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland

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Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk

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Hotel of the Saints - Ursula Hegi (signed)

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Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann

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Marrying the Sea - Janice Kulyk Keefer

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The Inquisition - Michael Baigent/Richard Leigh

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The Crusades: Two Hundred Years of War, Sacred Journeys and the Quest for Loot - Henry Treece (out of print)

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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages - Richard Rubenstein

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Allah Is Not Obliged - Ahmadou Kourouma (Ivory Coast, trans.)

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Women in Zones of Conflict: Power and Resistance in Israel - Tami Amanda Jacoby

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Georgian Homes for All - John Woodforde (out of print)

Also new this week

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Fiction

Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden
Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan
Ain't No Ambulances for No Nigguhs Tonight, Stanley Crouch (poetry, very scarce, $60 online, $15 at Aqua)
Back Roads to Far Places, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poetry)
Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960, Allen Ginsberg
The Colossus and other poems, Sylvia Plath
Beautiful Losers, Leonard Cohen
The Penguin John Lennon (out of print, $25 at Burton Lysecki, $10 at Aqua)
Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins
A Peculiar Treasure, Edna Ferber
The Complete Novels, George Orwell
London Fields, Martin Amis
The Gunny Sack, M.G. Vassanji
The Romantic, Barbara Gowdy
We So Seldom Look on Love, Barbara Gowdy
Astonishing Splashes of Colour, Clare Morrall
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Clock Without Hands, Carson McCullers
The Ladies' Lending Library, Janice Kulyk Keefer
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Fay Weldon
Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska
Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, Pamela Jooste
The Earth Made of Glass, Robert Edric (out of print)
Sounds Assembling, Bertram Brooker (poetry, very scarce)
Everson at Eighty, R.G. Everson (poetry, scarce)
An H in the Heart: A Reader, bpNichol (poetry, out of print)
Irene, Dennis Cooley (poetry)
Rumours of Paradise/Rumours of War, George Amabile (poetry, signed)
You and I, Leonard Nimoy (out of print)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, Ragni/Rado
The Tragedy of Richard II, Robert Myers (play)
The Bishop's Jaegers, Thorne Smith
Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson (2008 Canada Reads selection)
The Visionary, Ursula LeGuin
Heretic, Bernard Cornwell
The Lords of the North, Bernard Cornwell
A Call to Arms, Allan Mallinson (out of print)
The Sabre's Edge, Allan Mallinson (out of print)
Company of Spears, Allan Mallinson (out of print)
nineteen new Alexander Kent titles
Lord of the Plains: The Story of Gabriel Dumont, Alfred Silver (out of print)
Silent Words, Ruby Slipperjack (out of print)
Psyche in a Dress, Francesca Lia Block
The Hanged Man, Francesca Lia Block
Tangerine, Edward Bloor
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32, Joan Blos (1980 Newbery winner)
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The Yellow Fairy Book, Andrew Lang

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Non-Fiction

The Longing for Home, Frederick Buechner
Fern-seed and Elephants, C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
The Way of Living Faith: A Spirituality of Liberation, Segundo Galilea (out of print)
The Primeval Forest, Albert Schweitzer
Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
The Qur'an, trans. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
On the Nature of Things, Lucretius
Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein, John Moffat
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, Gary Marcus
An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks
The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual, Margaret Visser
Zen in the Art of Helping, David Brandon
A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer, George Bowering
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin
Kurt Vonnegut: The Gospel from Outer Space, Clark Mayo (scarce)
Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker, ed. Scholder
The Secret History of Freemasonry, Paul Naudon
Omens, Oghams and Oracles, Richard Webster
Churchill: An Unruly Life, Norman Rose
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, Lisa See
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, Caroline Weber
What You Wear Can Change Your Life, Trinny Woodall/Susannah Constantine
Beauty: The New Basics, Rona Berg
French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
French Women for All Seasons, Mireille Guiliano
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
A History of Celibacy, Elizabeth Abbott
The Bear's Embrace: A True Story of Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack, Patricia Van Tighem
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Flying the Weather Map, Richard Collins
Flying IFR, Richard Collins
Flying Safely, Richard Collins
Meteorology for Seamen, C.R. Burgess (out of print)
Dreams of Iron and Steel: From the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal, Deborah Cadbury
O Jerusalem, Larry Collins/Dominique Lapierre
The City of Joy, Dominique Lapierre
The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations, Janet Thomas (out of print)
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, Eric Brende
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed., hardcover)
L'aventure du cinéma québécois en france, ed. Michel Larouche
Selling It: The Marketing of Canadian Feature Films, ed. Joan Irving
By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of Malcolm X, Spike Lee (including screenplay)
Musical Stages: An Autobiography, Richard Rodgers
The Noel Coward Diaries, ed. Payn/Morley
Automatic Vaudeville: Essays on Star Turns, John Lahr (out of print)
Acting: The First Six Lessons, Richard Boleslavsky
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving
The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Rudolf Arnheim
Home Show: Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibit 2003, with essays by Anne Brydon and Amy Karlinsky
Walking with Legends: The Real Story of Hockey Night in Canada, Ralph Mellanby
Paddling My Own Canoe: The Story of Algonquin Park's First Female Guide, Esther Keyser (out of print)
and
Torch on the Prairies: A Portrait of Journalism in Manitoba 1859-1988

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"Let's face it. I'll never be the man your mother was."

The Trib Comic Book (final issue of the Winnipeg Tribune, August 23, 1980)


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