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Current Picks from the Watermark Staff
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Dates, Times, &
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Book of the Week:
Get ready for the Spring
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Take the Proust
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Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
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Welcome to Watermark
Books
& Cafe!
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Best of the Year!
Watermark's
Top Staff Picks of 2009
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Our book of the week is Unfinished Desires: A Novel by Gail Godwin
(Random House, 9780345483201, $26.00) From Gail Godwin, three-time
National Book Award finalist and acclaimed bestselling author of "Evensong"
and "The Finishing School," comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.
It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel's, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls' young teacher and the school's matriarch, Mother Suzanne Revenel.
Fifty years on, the headmistress relives one pivotal night, trying to reconcile past and present, reaching back even further to her own senior year at the school, where the roots of a tragedy are buried.
In "Unfinished Desires," a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in
which thwarted desires are passed on for generations--and captures the
rare moment when a soul breaks free. And this week it's 30% off.
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First line(s)...
"Felicia Miller was crying in the bathroom. Again."
... from Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins (Hyperion, 9781423121305,
$16.99)
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Watermark's Visiting Author Series
Bonnie Tharp.
Author of a new novel set in Wichita's Riverside area: Feisty Family
Values.
Thurs., March 18. 7:00 p.m.
Katie Funke Wiebe.
Genealogy talk & book signing for How
to Write Your Personal & Family History. Sunday,
March 28. 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Andrew Clements.
Acclaimed children's writer, author of Frindle, with his new Benjamin
Pratt series.
Tuesday, April 6. 7:00 p.m.
Michelle Mercer.
NPR producer and author of the Joni Mitchell biography Will You Take Me
As I Am.
Wed.,
April 14.
7:00 p.m.
Joe Drape.
Journalist & author of the book Our Boys, the story of the Redmen
football team of Smith Center, Kansas.
Thurs., April 15. 7:00 p.m.
Jennifer
Chiaverini.
Bestselling novelist of the Elm Creek Quilters series and the new The
Aloha Quilt.
Tuesday, April 20. 7:00 p.m.
Anchee Min.
Author of the novels Becoming Madame Mao, Empress Orchid, and the
new book Pearl of China.
Tuesday, May 4. 7:00 p.m.
Mike Smith.
Weather expert, former Wichita TV
weatherman, & author of Warnings:
The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather.
Wed., May 5. 7:00 p.m.
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