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What We're Reading: Current Picks from the Watermark Staff

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Welcome to Watermark Books & Cafe!

 


 

Watermark Book Clubs are perfect for reading great books and meeting new friends. We host nine book clubs in our store. To find our when they meet and what they're reading, just follow the links from our book clubs page.

 

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Our book of the week is The Ascent of George Washington by John Ferling (Bloomsbury Press, ISBN 9781596914650, $30.00) Our first president has long been painted as a stoic figure who rose above the rough-and-tumble politics of his era. "The Ascent of George Washington" peers behind that image--one carefully burnished by Washington himself--to reveal a leader who was not only not above politics, but a master manipulator adept in the arts of persuasion, leverage, and deniability.
 
Washing deftly screened burning ambition behind an image of republican virtue--but that image made him just the leader that an overmatched army, and a shaky young nation, desperately needed. As Ferling reveals, the proof of Washington's political genius lies in the fact that he is no longer thought of as a politician at all. "The Ascent of George Washington" gives us Washington as we have never seen him before. And this week it is 30% off.
 
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First line(s)...
 
"None of the other shopkeepers near the railway station would hire a Muslim, but Ramanna Shety, who ran the Ideal Store, a tea-and-samosa place, had told Ziauddin it was okay for him to stay."
 
... from Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga (Free Press, ISBN 9781439152928, $24.00)

 

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Cafe specials

Go to our cafe page and order lunch online by 10:30 a.m., and we'll have it waiting for you.

 

4701 East Douglas/Wichita, Kansas 67218/(316) 682-1181

Hours:

Monday - Friday:  8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Cafe opens at 7:00 a.m.)

Saturday - Sunday:  8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  (Cafe opens at 7:00 a.m.)

 

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Watermark's Visiting Author Series:

 

Dr. Mark Fesen.

Oncologist, patient advocate and author of the new book Surviving the Cancer System

Thursday, July 9. 7:00 p.m.

 

Streeter McClure.

Wichita-born cook and author of The Single Man's Guide to Cooking with Beer.

Saturday, August 15.

2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

 

Click here for details & additional events

 

 

Watermark's Summer Book Challenge:

It's a Jane Austen Summer!

The Complete Novels

of Jane Austen

with an introduction by

Karen Joy Fowler.