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I took in Idea Exchange a week ago with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. It was my first Aqua Books event ever, and it was a blast. The room is beautiful, the mood inviting, the ideas rich. Thanks. - Kurt

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 8/24/09


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

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Kingdom Come - J.G. Ballard

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The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall

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Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman

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A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds - Michael Farquhar

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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die - Michael Largo

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Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy - Nils Ch. Rauhut (out of print)

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Caesar - Adrian Goldsworthy

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Civilizations - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (out of print)

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The World of Herodotus - Aubrey de Selincourt (out of print)

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London: The Biography - Peter Ackroyd

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Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe

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Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals - ed. Niall Ferguson

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Deputy Mum - Dennis Boreham

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Understanding Amateur Radio - George Grammer

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A Busy Time for Sally Ann - Ambrose Haynes

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Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda - Margaret Atwood

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Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes - Margaret Atwood

Also new this week

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Fiction

The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst, Armin Wiebe
Summer of My Amazing Luck, Miriam Toews
Freddy Dimwhistle's Northcountry Sketchbook, A.W. Plumstead (out of print)
The Jailing of Cecilia Capture, Janet Campbell Hale
Truth and Bright Water, Thomas King
Steppe, John Weier (out of print)
Friends Coming Back as Animals, John Weier (out of print)
Gone Indian, Robert Kroetsch (signed)
But We Are Exiles, Robert Kroetsch
The Puppeteer, Robert Kroetsch
Badlands, Robert Kroetsch
A Discovery of Strangers, Rudy Wiebe
Standing on Richards, George Bowering (out of print)
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
Mackerel Sky, Natalee Caple
Good Harbor, Anita Diamant
The Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction, ed. Carolyn Choa/David Su Li-qun
The Girl Who Played Go, Shan Sa (China, trans.)
Woman in Bronze, Antanas Sileika
Gargoyles, Bill Gaston
The Wave Theory of Angels, Alison MacLeod
Ladykiller, Charlotte Gill
Freddy and Fredericka, Mark Helprin
The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
The Inner Side of the Wind or The Novel of Hero and Leander, Milorad Pavic (Serbia, trans.)
The Misadventures of Maria O'Mara, Deborah Skelly
Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
Please Don't Kill the Freshman, Zoe Trope
The Butterfly Revolution, William Butler
La Chamade, Francoise Sagan
Nights in the City of the Dead, Edward Nixon (poetry, very scarce)
Cool Gardens, Serj Tankian (poetry from System of a Down frontman)
Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person, Eirin Moure (poetry)
Ending with Music, Maurice Mierau (poetry)
Traffick, Rob Budde (poetry)
This Only Home, Dennis Cooley (poetry)
Alarum Within, Kimmy Beach (poetry)
Agnes in the Sky, Di Brandt (poetry, signed)
Transitions, Lise Gaboury-Diallo (poésie)
Mes états de toi, Benoit Doyon-Gosselin (poésie)
Genève, George Bowering (poetry)
Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1970, George Bowering
Curious, George Bowering (poetry)
A Tenured Professor, John Kenneth Galbraith
Dr. Bloodmoney, Philip K. Dick
A Maze of Death, Philip K. Dick
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (hardcover)
four new A-List Novels, Zoey Dean
eight new Gossip Girl novels, Cecily von Ziegesar
Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray?, Randy Powell
So Cool, Dennis Lee (poetry, illus. by Maryann Kovalski)
King Matt the First, Janusz Korczak
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850, ed. Demers/Moyles
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African Folktales, ed. Paul Radin

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Non-Fiction

Paul and the New Perspective: Second Thoughts on the Origin of Paul's Gospel, Seyoon Kim
Christ and the Fine Arts: An Anthology, Cynthia Pearl Maus
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from BCE to the 14th Century, John Boswell
Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion, Auguste Sabatier
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 lines and Its Verse Summary (Buddhism)
Gardening the Soul: A Spiritual Daybook through the Seasons, Sister Stanislaus Kennedy
Master Cheng's New Method of Taichi Ch'uan Self-Cultivation, Cheng Man-ch'ing
One Taste: The Journals of Ken Wilber
Integral Spirituality, Ken Wilber
A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely
The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks
A Leg to Stand On, Oliver Sacks
Gandhi's Truth, Erik Erikson
Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins
Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries, John Gribbin
Time: From Micro-Seconds to Millennia, a Search for the Right Time, Alexander Waugh
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, Bernd Heinrich
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, Jeremy Rifkin
Culture Jam, Kalle Lasn
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes
A Natural Way of Business: How Frank Rainieri, Theodore Kheel, Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias Helped Transform an Island Economy, Kathleen/Udayan Gupta
From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, eBooks, and Information Products, Stephanie Chandler
Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Richard Rodriguez
Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center, William Upski Wimsatt
The Dignity of the Nation, Fujiwara Masahiko/Giles Murray (2006 Japanese bestseller, impossible to find in English)
Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial, Lifton/Mitchell
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Robert Jay Lifton
Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology, ed. Jean Brown
Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer
Guerrilla Warfare, Ernesto Che Guevara
Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of the French at Blenheim, Charles Spencer (out of print)
The Wars of the Roses: The Bloody Rivalry for the Throne of England, Desmond Seward (out of print)
The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature, Sharon Butala
John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement, Stephen Fox (out of print)
Night Spirits: The Story of the Relocation of the Sayisi Dene, Bussidor/Bilgen-Reinart
Eskimo Carvers of Keewatin NWT (WAG, 1964, $25 at Burton Lysecki, $10 at Aqua)
Alexander Archipenko Exhibition (WAG, 1962, very scarce)
Arnold Saper: Recent Works, U of M School of Art (1987, scarce)
The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Hope
Minnesota Impressionists, Rena Neumann Coen
Screen Printing: Contemporary Methods and Materials, Frances/Norman Lassiter
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katharine Harmon
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History, Norman Mailer
A Little Order: Selected Journalism, Evelyn Waugh
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
A Pen Warmed Up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest, ed. Frederick Anderson
Impure: The Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal, Victoria Stanton/Vincent Tinguely (out of print)
The Biography of Julia Child, Noel Riley Fitch
Mon Premier Larousse: Le dictionnaire des 4-7 ans (out of print)
Cavendish Encyclopedia of Bonsai, Harry Tomlinson (out of print)
The Occult, Colin Wilson
Coronation Street: Around the Houses, Daran Little (out of print)
How to Do Magic Tricks, Nicholas Einhorn
Clear the Track: The Eddie Shack Story, Ross Brewitt (signed by Shack)
Lead Guitar: Improvising for Blues and Country
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Slide Guitar: A Guide to Electric Lead and Traditional Styles

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"Inside all of us, there is a fantasy waiting to get out."

(Maybe you should resist the feeling a bit, Larry.)

Fantasy Rooms, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen


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