FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 09/06/10

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

Also new this week

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Fiction

When War Came to Kleindarp, Al Reimer
The Right Man for the Job, Mike Magnuson
Vox, Nicholson Baker
Jew, D.O. Dodd
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text, William S. Burroughs
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby, jr.
God Jr., Dennis Cooper
The Dreamers, Gilbert Adair
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
Moses Ascending, Sam Selvon (Trinidad)
World Light, Halldor Laxness (Iceland, trans.)
The Ark Sakura, Kobo Abe (Japan, trans.)
Secrets of the Sea, Nicholas Shakespeare
Mary Called Magdalene, Margaret George
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
Mangos, Bananas and Coconuts: A Cuban Love Story, Himilce Novas
Shopgirl, Steve Martin
Anpao, Jamake Highwater
Quiet in the Land, Anne Chislett (play, scarce)
Haute fidélité, Nick Hornby
La peste, Albert Camus
Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition
The Masnavi: Book One, Rumi
The Mabinogion
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (hardcover)
Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl
The Penguin Book of More New Zealand Jokes
and
The Nursery Rhyme Book, ed. Andrew Lang

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Non-Fiction

When Women Were Priests, Karen Jo Torjeson
God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
The Meaning of Marxism, Paul D'Amato
Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements, George Woodcock
How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, Gary Zukav
The Jewel in the Lotus: Creative Meditation, Grace Cooke
Sacred Contracts, Caroline Myss
Taming Chaos: Harnessing the Power of Kabbalah, Rav Berg
What is Sufism?, Martin Lings
The Art of Happiness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
How to Practice, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Awakening the Buddha Within, Lama Surya Das
The Book of Embraces, Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay, trans.)
Night, Elie Wiesel
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, Nujood Ali
Crimes of Passion: An Unblinking Look at Murderous Love, Howard Engel
Me of Little Faith, Lewis Black
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story, Frances Kiernan
Lost Star: The Search for Amelia Earheart, Randall Brink
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Charlotte Mosley
Muriel Foster's Fishing Diary
The English Pub: A Unique Social Phenomenon, Michael Jackson
Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace, Suzanne Massie (out of print)
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation, Andri Snær Magnason
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky
Light: The Complete Handbook of Lighting Design, Susan Szenasy
Oriental Rugs and the Stories They Tell, Arthur Gregorian
Better Homes and Gardens Complete Guide to Quilting
The Impressionists in Context, Robert Katz/Celestine Dars (out of print)
Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume I, Ryusaku Tsunoda
A Dictionary of the Yoruba Language
Beginner's Icelandic with 2 Audio CDs, Helga Hilmisdottir/Jacek Kozlowski
The Oxford A to Z of Word Games: 250 Word Games and How to Play Them, Tony Augarde (out of print)
The Bluegrass Songbook, Dennis Cyporyn (scarce)
Western Swing Fiddle, Stacy Phillips
Pinkerton, Weezer (guitar, music)
Introducing Beginner Rhythm Guitar, Brett Duncan
FastTrack Music Instruction: Bass 1, Blake Neely/Jeff Schroedl
The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise!, Craig O'Hara
The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book, Thomas Svarney
The Human Machine: The Anatomical Structure and Mechanism of the Human Body, George Bridgman
Slow Yoga, Brian Payne
Jeanne Rose's Herbal Body Book: The Herbal Way to Natural Beauty and Health for Men and Women
The Citrus Seed Grower's Indoor How-to Book, Hazel Perper (out of print)
The Great Big Cookie Book, Hilaire Walden
The Art of South American Cooking, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi
Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: Techniques of French Cuisine, Louis Dat (out of print)
Gourmet Meals in Crappy Little Kitchens, Jennifer Schaertl
Rose Elliot's Oxfam Vegetarian Cooking for Chidren
Le guide de la cuisine traditionnelle québécoise, Lorraine Boisvenue (scarce)
The Illustrated Confederate Reader, ed. Rod Gragg (out of print)
The Civil War Battlefield Guide, ed. Frances Kennedy
The French Foreign Legion: The Inside Story of the World-Famous Fighting Force, John Robert Young
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, Vikram Seth (out of print)
Plenty-coups: Chief of the Crows, Frank Linderman
The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture, Daniel Francis
American Indian Myths and Legends, ed. Erdoes/Ortiz
Spirits of the Earth: A Guide to Native American Nature Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies, Bobby Lake-Thom
Manitoba Picnic Perfect (Prairie Pathfinders)
Backhouses of the North, Muriel Newton-White
Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction
Stand the Sacred Tree: Journeys in Place and Memory, John Weier
Natural Heritage of Manitoba: Legacy of the Ice Age, ed. James Teller (out of print)
What Is Done In Love: Spirit Messages for Tom (Winnipeg, 1997, very scarce)
and
John H. Epp: A Biography, John Mark Epp (scarce)

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

"Correct your thinking. Get a grip on yourself. Colonel Hunter tells you how."

Think: A Book for To-Day, Col. Wm. C Hunter (1920)

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