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What We're Reading:
Current Picks from the Watermark Staff
Favorite Staff Picks:
Our Best Reads of
2007
This week's special: 30%
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Welcome to Watermark
Books
& Cafe!
Now Hiring: Full Time Cafe
Staff. Watermark
Books & Cafe is seeking a friendly, hardworking individual to join our cafe
staff. Position includes daytime, evening, and weekend hours. Duties in the cafe include food prep, clean-up, & customer assistance.
Please apply in person at Watermark Books & Café, 4701 E. Douglas, Wichita, KS.
The Book of the Week is
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam, ISBN 9780399154751, $24.95.)
Set in contemporary Santa Cruz, "Wit's End" opens as Rima Lanisell arrives
at her godmother's old Victorian mansion, weary from her recent losses--an
inventive if at times irritating father, a beloved brother. (Indeed, Rima
seems to lose people and things habitually--sunglasses and keys, lovers and
family members.) At loose ends, she has come to coastal California to
regroup and to meet that legendary godmother. She soon finds herself
enmeshed in a household of eccentrics: a formerly alcoholic cook and her
irksome son, two quirky dog-walkers, a mysterious stalker, and of course,
godmother Addison Early, a secretive and feisty bestselling mystery writer
who once knew Rima's father well. Perhaps too well. Rima is on a mission to
discover just what their relationship was all about.
This won't be easy. Over the years, Addison has fought fiercely to protect
her work and her privacy, even as her passionate fans have become ever more
intrusive. In this age of the Internet, with its blogs, chat rooms, and
websites, its Wikipedia, false personas, and hidden identities, those fans
have begun to take over her plotlines and the life of her famous fictional
detective. For many of those fans, Maxwell Lane is more real than Addison
herself. So, "Wit's End" is also a highly original take on the way dedicated
readers appropriate their favorite books, perhaps the one act of theft
applauded the world over--except by authors. Word has it that Addison is so
beleaguered, so distracted by her fans' Web postings, that she has writer's
block.
Traveling back into the past, firmly rooted in the present, "Wit's End" is
storytelling at its best. It is also Karen Joy Fowler at her most subversive
and witty, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is
utterly and memorably her own. And this week it's 30% off.
The Footnote of the Week: Magic. Astounding magic tricks that you can
do in a flash! Save 30% this week.
First line...
"We think we know the ones we
love."
... from
The Story of a Marriage: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, ISBN 9780374108663, $22.00)
Cafe specials
Our featured cookbooks for April & May are
Martha Stewart's Cookies by Martha Stewart and
Bake Until Bubbly by Clifford Wright: One boasts delectable
desserts, the other tempting casseroles for every occasion.
Look in the pastry case this month for Coconut Macaroons, Cranberry Apple
Walnut Crisp, Turtle Brownies, Chunky Peanut, Chocolate & Cinnamon Cookies,
Iced Oatmeal Applesauce Cookies, Double Chocolate Brownies, Key Lime Bars,
New Orleans Baked French Toast, Pear Crisp, Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies,
Banana Nut Chocolate Chunk Cookies, White Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Truffle
Brownies, Pecan Bars, Stuffed French Toast Casserole, Rocky Ledge Bars,
Chocolate Thumbprints, Fresh Peach Drop Cookies, Chocolate Cookie Cutouts,
Chocolate Crackles, Peach Crumble, and Double Chocolate Coconut Cookies.
Order
online by 10:30 a.m., and we'll have your lunch waiting for
you.
You're in MySpace. Many great
authors come to Watermark. Too often we concentrate on spreading the word to
you about who's coming, and we forget to tell you how the events went. No
longer. We recently launched Watermark's MySpace page, complete with
event photos and whatnot. We've even accumulated a great number of
literati who have subscribed to be our MySpace friends, including Paulo
Coehlo, Matt Haig, Elizabeth Gilbert, and David Levithan. We hope you do,
too. Check out our MySpace page.

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:
Elizabeth Berg
Bestselling novelist
Wed., May 21. 7:00 p.m.
Tony Horwitz
Pulitzer-winning
journalist
Tues., May 27. 7:00 p.m.
C.J. Box
Bestselling thriller
novelist
Wed., June 4.
7:00 p.m.
Find details and more
upcoming events on our Events Page
Join us for
Watermark's
Summer
War & Peace
Challenge!


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