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274 Garry St.
(Between Portage
& Graham)

Winnipeg, MB
Canada  R3C 1H3
204-943-7555

OPEN
Tues-Sat 11am-9pm
Sun-Mon Closed

EMAIL
kelly@aquabooks.ca

We accept Interac, Visa and Mastercard too

What people are saying:

Your place is my venue of choice when the question is, “where should we go?” and here is why: 1) It is not pretentious, stuck-up, snobby, or takes itself seriously in any way; 2) Maintains a balanced sense of arts and culture in Winnipeg, without going down the path described in (1) that most places have; 3) Food is reasonably priced. And considering the quality, is downright cheap; 4) I can eat there (gluten-free options), and peanut allergy people can relax and eat there too, as can those avoiding dairy, like vegans; it truly is amazing how accessible your menu is.; 5) Open late; 6) On several good bus routes, and if not taking a bus, the parking options are reasonable. I could go on, but I’m sensing your ego might just explode. You and Candace have done an amazing job. Your place is EXACTLY the kind of place that Winnipeg needed. - Helen Konrad, Wolseley

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 8/17/09


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

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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters - Lellenberg/Stashower/Foley

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Propagating - Andrew Mikolajski (out of print)

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The Parrot's Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity - Eugene Linden (out of print)

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The Marmite Cookbook - Paul Hartley

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The Fine Art of Garnishing - Jerry Crowley (out of print)

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How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes on America's Chefs - Mark Bittman

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Sita's Kitchen: A Testimony of Faith and Inquiry - Ramchandra Gandhi (out of print)

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Acque d'autunno - Ciuangzè (Italian translation of Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi)

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Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism and the Colonial Context - Tejaswini Niranjana (out of print)

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Aluminum by Design - Sarah Nichols (out of print)

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Famous Diamonds - Ian Balfour (out of print)

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Silhouettes: How to Make and Use Them - Jack Kramer

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Outhouses of the East - Sherman Hines/Ray Guy (out of print)

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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip - George Saunders/Lane Smith

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Zippo: An American Legend, A Collector's Companion - Avi Baer

Also new this week

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Fiction

Covering Rough Ground, Kate Braid (poetry, out of print)
The Joy that Cracked the Mountain, Patrick O'Connell (poetry)
The Russlander, Sandra Birdsell
Road to the Stilt House, David Adams Richards
The Woman Who Loved Airports, Marusya Bociurkiw
Hunger, Elise Blackwell
Riding Lessons, Sara Gruen
Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria, English)
One Day of Life, Manlio Argueta (El Salvador, trans.)
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino (Italy, trans.)
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, Ivan Klíma (Czech, trans.)
The Queen of the South, Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Spain, trans.)
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Paulo Coelho
A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
The Message to the Planet, Iris Murdoch
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves, Rod Serling
Psycho, Robert Bloch
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Book (screenplay)
Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick (screenplay, plus original story)
Tunnels of Time: A Moose Jaw Adventure, Mary Harelkin Bishop
Tunnels of Treachery: A Moose Jaw Adventure, Mary Harelkin Bishop
Tunnels of Tyranny: A Moose Jaw Adventure, Mary Harelkin Bishop
Wringer, Jerry Spinelli (Newbery winner)
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis (Newbery winner)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis (Newbery winner)
Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata (Newbery winner)
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech (Newbery winner)
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (Newbery winner)
Our Only May Amelia, Jennifer Holm (Newbery winner)
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (Newbery winner)
Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe, Bette Greene (Newbery winner)
Missing May, Cynthia Rylant (Newbery winner)
The Christmas Birthday Story, Margaret Laurence (illus. by Helen Lucas, out of print)
The Cat in the Hat: Beginner Book Dictionary in French
Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-a-Zoo, Mercer Mayer (very scarce, $20)
The Travels of Babar, Jean de Brunhoff
The Trees Stand Shining: Poetry of the North American Indians, ed. Hettie Jones
Best-loved Folktales of the World, ed. Joanna Cole
The Real Mother Goose
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (illus. by Charles Robinson)
The Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin
The Watership Down Film Picture Book
and
The Empire Strikes Back: The Marvel Comics Version

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Non-Fiction

Selected Writings, Thomas Aquinas
The Religion of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wilder Foote (out of print)
What Is a Family?, Edith Schaeffer
The Irrational Season, Madeleine L'Engle
The Essence of Sufism, John Baldock
The Way of the Sufi, Idries Shah
Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection, Harold Bloom
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life, Stephen Jay Gould
Mind and Nature, Gregory Bateson (out of print)
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche
The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity - A Vision of the Future, Hamish McRae
Conversations of Socrates, Xenophon
Living a Good Life: Advice on Virtue, Love, and Action from the Ancient Greek Masters, ed. Thomas Cleary
Trials from Classical Athens, Christopher Carey ($56 at Chapters, $15 at Aqua)
The Age of Alexander, Plutarch
Histoire de la France: de 1914 a nos jours, Pierre Bezbakh
Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich
After Deschooling, What?, Ivan Illich (out of print)
The End of Education: Neil Postman
Jung's Typology: The Inferior Function, Marie-Louise von Franz
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Hypocrite in a Puffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless, Susan Jane Gilman
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, A.S. Hornby
White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard, Daniel Johnson (October 2008)
Paris, John Russell
The English Country Room, Michael Pick
Decorative Arts of the Amish of Lancaster County, Daniel/Kathryn McCauley (out of print)
The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet, Brian Murphy
How Prints Look: Photographs with a Commentary, William Ivins
Life with the Painters of LaRuche, Marevna (out of print)
Ken Danby: The New Decade, Paul Duval
Amazon Extreme: The True Story of the First Team to Raft the Entire Length of the Amazon, Colin Angus
The Grasshopper Trap, Patrick McManus
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, Kim Barnes
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children, Melissa Fay Greene
Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, Roger Fisher/Alan Sharp
Writing to Heal the Soul: Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing, Susan Zimmerman
Top Tips for Girls, Kate Reardon
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Drums, Michael Miller
Videohound's Horror Show: 999 Hair-Raising, Hellish, and Humorous Movies, Mike Mayo
Encyclopedia of Comedians, Joe Franklin
The Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams/John Lloyd
The Penguin Book of Ultimate Kakuro, Michael Mepham
Knots: A Pocket Companion
Finally It Fits: The Home Patternmaking System for Every Size, Ruth Amiel/Happy Gerhard
More-with-Less Cookbook, Doris Janzen Longacre
Kripalu Kitchen: A Natural Foods Cookbook and Nutritional Guide, Levitt/Smith/Warren (out of print)
The Complete Book of Sauces, Sallie Williams
French Cheeses: The Visual Guide to More than 350 Cheeses
Royal Caribbean International Cookbook, Rudi Sodamin
Royal Caribbean Holiday and Entertainment Cookbook, Rudi Sodamin
Roald Dahl's Cookbook, Felicity/Roald Dahl (out of print)
The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore, Harold McGee (out of print)
Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices, Elizabeth David (out of print)
The Art of Eating, M.F.K. Fisher
How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher
An Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher
The Herbal Drugstore, White/Foster
Wildflowers Across the Prairies, F.R. Vance (out of print)
The Canada Trip, Charles Gordon
Tarnished Brass: Crime and Corruption in the Canadian Military, Scott Taylor/Brian Nolan (out of print)
Dancing Backwards: A Social History of Canadian Women in Politics, Sharon Carstairs/Tim Higgins (former Aqua Writer-in-Residence)
Next-Year Country: Voices of Prairie People, Barry Broadfoot (out of print)
and
Naturescape Manitoba, Manitoba Naturalists Society

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"Stand erect with your cat draped across your shoulders..."

Catflexing: A Catlover's Guide to Weight Training, Aerobics and Stretching, Stephanie Jackson (thanks to Anne-Shirley)


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