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What We're Reading:
Current Picks from the Watermark Staff
Book of the Week:
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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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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.
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