CURRENT EVENTS

  • Aqua Books (1999-2012) is now permanently closed. This site is for posterity only. Thank you for everything.
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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:

And Aqua Books, on Garry St., is one of the craziest, most amusing and well-ordered second-hand bookstores I have ever frequented. Upstairs, in what had been a Chinese restaurant (the panelling and the décor and the kitchen still there) the owner, Kelly Hughes, maintains three studios for writers-in-residence, and the old dining room, complete with stage and fainting couches, is reserved for readings. Walking tours are popular (and a good idea) in the city, and readers can pick up a brochure here for Hughes' BookWalk too. - Noah Richler, Toronto Star

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS FOR THE WEEK OF 12/21/09


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

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Why We Suck - Denis Leary

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We Got Fired! And It's the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us - Harvey Mackay

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Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black - Jacquie McNish/Sinclair Stewart

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human - Harold Bloom

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Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times 1980-1993 - Frank Rich (out of print)

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The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera - Joseph Volpe

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Canada's National Aviation Museum: Its History and Collections - K.M. Molson (out of print)

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Messerschmitt BF 109: The Operational Record - Jerry Scutts

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Luftwaffe Victorious: An Alternate History - Mike Spick

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Word Nerd - Susin Nielsen

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Looneyspoons - Janet/Greta Podleski

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Les Liaisons Culinaires - Andreas Staikos (English)

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The Canadian Hymnal (1912)

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The Oseberg Find and the Other Viking Ship Finds - Thorleif Sjovold

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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England - Sellar/Yeatman (Folio Society)

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Dancing Through Time: The First Fifty Years of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet - Christopher Dafoe

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Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies - Charles Lindsay

Also new this week

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Fiction

House of Meetings, Martin Amis
Black Bird, Michel Basilières
The Time and the Place, Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt, trans.)
The Book of Salt, Monique Truong
A Blade of Grass, Lewis DeSoto
The Essence of the Thing, Madeleine St. John
Short Novels of Colette: Six Complete Novels
Night's Lies, Gesualdo Bufalino (Italy, trans.)
Raise the Red Lantern, Su Tong (China, trans.)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, Suketu Mehta
The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers
All Families are Psychotic, Douglas Coupland
Horse's Neck, Pete Townshend
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
We the Living, Ayn Rand
La condition humaine, André Malraux
The Dying Earth, Jack Vance
The Killing of Major Denis Mahon, Peter Duffy
Venus in Copper, Lindsey Davis
The Other Side of the Dark: Four Plays, Judith Thompson
Asthmatica, Jon Paul Fiorentino
Coyote Columbus Cafe, Marie Annharte Baker (Winnipeg, 1994, scarce)
Sunrise Over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers
In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, Ambrose Bierce
The Life of Our Lord, Charles Dickens
The Real Mother Goose
Beatrix Potter's Nursery Rhyme Book
and
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter

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Non-Fiction

Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Je marche avec Jesus, Jean Vanier
Contemplative Prayer, Thomas Merton
The Present Age, Søren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling/Repitition, Søren Kierkegaard
Synopsis Theologiae Dogmaticae Fundamentalis: De Religione, De Christo Legato, De Ecclesia, De Fontibus Revelations, AD Tanquerey
Between God and History: The Human Situation Exemplified in Quaker Thought and Practice, Richard Ullmann
The Pacifism of Karl Barth, John Yoder (scarce)
On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, Margaret Atwood (CBC Massey Lectures)
Living in Truth, Vaclav Havel
The Way We Are, Margaret Visser
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that Way, Bill Bryson
Race: A Study of Superstition, Jacques Barzun
Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, James Baldwin
It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil, and the Fight for the Planet, Linda McQuaig
How Chance and Stupidity have Changed History, Erik Durschmied
For Love and Glory: A Pictorial History of Canada's Air Forces, J.A. Foster
Touching the Earth, Roberta Bondar
Out of the Everywhere: Thoughts on Science from the Master, Isaac Asimov
Vacccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases, Paul Offit
Shadows of the Mind, Roger Penrose
Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans, Eric Johnson
The Europeans, Luigi Barzini
The Ancient Maya, Robert Sharer
The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul, Phil Jackson
Choke Hold: Pro Wrestling's Real Mayhem Outside the Ring, Jim Wilson/Weldon Johnson (out of print)
Abriss der mittelägyptischen Grammatik: Zum Gebrauch in akademischen Vorlesungen, Hellmut Brunner
750 German Verbs and Their Uses
Don Giovanni, Mozart (libretto)
Passion (St. Matthew), J.S. Bach
Editing the Small Magazine, Rowena Ferguson
The Needleworker's Dictionary, Pamela Clabburn
The Complete International Book of Embroidery, Mary Gostelow
How to Make a Drypoint Print in a Studio or Your Home, Cliff Packer
The Complete Book of Screen Printing Production, J.I. Biegeleisen
Screen Printing on Fabric, Searle/Clayson
Graphics for Architecture, Kevin Forseth
Black and White Photography: A Basic Manual, Henry Horenstein
The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels
Edvard Munch, J.P. Hodin
D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, Anaïs Nin
Christopher Wren, Kerry Downes
Elizabeth I, Patrick Collinson
Memoirs, Trudeau
Against the Current, Trudeau
Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton
Daughter of Destiny, Benazir Bhutto
An Italian Education, Tim Parks
Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle, Dervla Murphy
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes: Notes from Nepal, Barbara Scot
Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School, Bruce Feiler
Forever and Ever, Amen: Becoming a Nun in the Sixties, Sister Karol Jackowski
The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L.M. Montgomery, Mollie Gillen
James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet, Graham Lord
Joy Adamson: Behind the Mask, Caroline Cass
The House by the Sea, May Sarton
Against All Odds: My Story, Chuck Norris
Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
Heath Ledger: A Family's Tale, Janet Fife-Yeomans
Common Rocks in Manitoba, K.A. Phillips
Native Manitoba Plants in Bog, Bush and Prairie, Hector Macdonald
Canadian Nature Guides: Herbs, Anna Kruger
Live Food Juices, H.E. Kirschner
The Book of Home Remedies and Herbal Cures, Carol Bishop
The Dakota Sioux in Canada, Gontran Laviolette (very scarce, $50)
An Arctic Man, Ernie Lyall
Red Coats on the Prairies: The North-West Mounted Police 1886-1900, William Beahan/Stan Horrall (scarce)
Not as the Scribes, Paul Hiebert (author of Sarah Binks, signed)
Hope Springs Eternal: A Legacy of Service and Love in Russia During Difficult Times, Johann J. Nickel (very scarce)
Journeys: Mennonite Stories of Faith and Survival in Stalin's Russia, John Toews (out of print)
and
The Rusyn-Ukrainians of Czechoslovakia, Paul Magocsi (very scarce)

plus hundreds more every week....

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What's Gumby Reading?

While this book sold a million copies in its day, sales plumetted after the electro-shock therapy kit that it came with was finally banned.

Toilet Training in Less than a Day, Nathan Azrin/Richard Foxx


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