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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:

I can't say enough about how much I love this store and restaurant. They have a great selection in a beautiful building with such an open and organic environment. Oh and the food at EAT Bistro is amazingly good. Thanks Kelly for all your work in the community. - Mellaina, Winnipeg

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 8/31/09


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

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I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle

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My Life With Corpses - Wylene Dunbar (out of print)

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Q - Luther Blissett

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The Black Death: A Personal History - John Hatcher

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Port - Neil Mathieson

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Brazil Red - Jean-Christophe Rufin (France, trans., out of print)

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Bachelor Girl: 100 Years of Breaking the Rules, A Social History of Living Single - Betsy Israel

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Open Wide: How Hollywood Box Office Became a National Obsession - Dade Hayes/Jonathan Bing

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Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back - Karyn Bosnak

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Visual Factfinder: Bugs

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The Legend of the Lady's Slipper - Kathy-jo Wargin

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Visual Factfinder: Natural World

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Walter the Farting Dog - William Kotzwinkle/Glenn Murray

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Farley Farts - Birte Müller

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Baby Einstein Animal Match

Also new this week

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Fiction

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, Julian Rubinstein
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!, Jonathan Goldstein
The Stupidest Angel, Christopher Moore
The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster
Beijing Doll, Chun Sue (China, trans.)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (Japan, trans.)
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Japan, trans.)
All She Was Worth, Miyuki Miyabe (Japan, trans.)
Awake in the Dark, Shira Nayman
Delta of Venus, Anaďs Nin
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Emma Donoghue
The Outlander, Gil Adamson
Wacousta, John Richardson
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
Phantom, Susan Kay
The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
About Schmidt, Louis Begley
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
Consumption, Kevin Patterson
The Fearsome Particles, Trevor Cole
Barnacle Love, Anthony De Sa
The Secret River, Kate Grenville
Turtle Valley, Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?, Anita Rau Badami
The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
Passing, Nella Larsen
Helpless, Barbara Gowdy
One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson
Talk Talk, T.C. Boyle
The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
Fury, Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
This Blinding Absence of Light, Tahar Ben Jelloun (France, trans.)
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk (Turkey, trans.)
The Geographer's Library, Jon Fasman
Fires in an Autumn Garden: Short Stories from Urdu and the Regional Languages of Pakistan, ed. Asif Farrukhi
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Ann-Marie MacDonald (play)
Exiles: A Play in Three Acts, James Joyce
Fargo, Ethan/Joel Coen (screenplay, out of print)
Woke Up this Mornin': The Poetry of the Blues, ed. A.X. Nicholas
The Oxford Book of Christian Verse: 1300-1900, Lord David Cecil
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Farmer Giles of Ham, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Non-Fiction

The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, John Dominic Crossan
Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI
Reconciliation: Preparing for Confession in the Episcopal Church, Martin Smith
What Paul Meant, Garry Wills
No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton
The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus, The Dalai Lama
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön
The Life of Milarepa, trans. by Lobsang Lhalungpa
Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugene Herrigel
The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, Philip Marchand
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (CD audiobook)
Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert
The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, K.C. Cole
Theory of Equations, J.V. Uspensky (scarce)
Introduction to Mathematical Probability, J.V. Uspensky (scarce)
A First Course in Numerical Analysis, Anthony Ralston
Discrete Variable Methods in Ordinary Differential Equations, Peter Henrici (out of print)
Introduction to the Theory of Fourier's Series and Integrals, H.S. Carslaw
Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Erwin Kreyszig
A Tour of the Calculus, David Berlinski
The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, ed. Gill Kirkup
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, Bell Hooks
Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
Bloomsbury Ballerina, Judith Mackrell
Stolen Lives in a Desert Jail, Malika Oufkir
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia, Carmen Bin Ladin
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism, Sherene Razack
Thy Will Be Done - The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, Gerard Colby
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art, Griselda Pollock (out of print)
The Art of Writing about Art, Suzanne Hudson/Nancy Noonan-Morrissey ($60 at Chapters, $10 at Aqua)
Writing the Natural Way Using Right-Brain Techniques, Gabriele Lusser Rico
The Screenwriter's Workbook, Syd Field
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, Syd Field
The Actor at Work, Robert Benedetti ($104 at Chapters, $10 at Aqua)
Restless Pilgrim: The Spiritual Journey of Bob Dylan, Scott Marshall
Voluntary Simplicity, Duane Elgin
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, William Cronon
Wilderness Survival, Bernard Shanks
Weathering the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Practical Meteorology, William Reifsnyder (out of print)
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies, Richard Hamblyn
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, John Kelly
Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass, Natalie MacLean
A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal, Anthony Bourdain
The Nasty Bits, Anthony Bourdain
Moose: A Memoir, Stephanie Klein
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading, Sara Nelson
Teach Your Child How to Think, Edward de Bono
Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono
The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research, Marc Abrahams
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Will Ferguson
It Happened in Manitoba: Stories of the Red River Province, Don Aiken
Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires, Egerton Young (reprint of 1893 ed.)
Half-Breed, Maria Campbell
Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a Métis Childhood, Gregory Scofield
Voices of the Plains Cree, Edward Ahenakew
The Men of the Last Frontier, Grey Owl
The Boy from Winnipeg, James Gray (out of print)
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Shoestring Glory: Semi-Pro Ball on the Prairies 1886-1994, Lewis St. George Stubbs (out of print)

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle. He played upon a ladle and his name was Aikendrum."

The Raffi Singable Songbook, Raffi


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