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Cool Summer Reads
for Kids and Teens:
New Picks
Each Week!
What We're Reading:
Current Picks from the Watermark Staff
This week's special: 30%
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Welcome to Watermark
Books
& Cafe!
SAVE THE NIGHT: August 1 - Watermark's book-release party for Stephenie
Meyer's Breaking Dawn, book four of the Twilight Saga.
Find event
details, how to pre-order, what to read while you wait, and how to get
involved in Watermark's Twilight Circle reading group at:
Save the Night
Construction Updates: What's the
best way to visit Watermark during the ongoing
road work at Douglas & Oliver?
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updates
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easier--just a few clicks of the mouse!
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The Book of the Week is
The Story of Forgetting: A Novel by Stefan Merrill Block (Random
House, ISBN 9781400066797, $25.00). In Stefan Merrill Block's extraordinary
debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny,
smart, introspective, and revelatory.
Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's
farm in the encroaching shadow of the Dallas suburbs, adrift in
recollections of those he loved and lost long ago. As a young man he
believed himself to be "the one person too many"; and now he is all that
remains. Hundreds of miles to the south, in Austin, Seth Waller is a teenage
"Master of Nothingness"--a prime specimen of that gangly, pimple-rashed,
too-smart breed of adolescent that vanishes in a puff of sarcasm at the
slightest threat of human contact. When his mother is diagnosed with a rare
form of early-onset Alzheimer's, Seth sets out on a quest to find her lost
relatives and to conduct an "empirical investigation" that will uncover the
truth of her genetic history.
Though neither knows of the other's existence, Abel and Seth are linked by a
dual legacy: the disease that destroys the memories of those they love, and
the story of Isidora--an edenic fantasy world free from the sorrows of
remembrance, a land without memory where nothing is ever possessed, so
nothing can be lost.
Through the fusion of myth, science, and storytelling, this novel offers a
dazzling illumination of the hard-learned truth that only through the loss
of what we consider precious can we understand the value of what remains.
Shop online or in the store, this week "The Story of Forgetting" is 30% off.
The Footnote of the Week: Backseat Bingo... includes two bingo cards
& bonus games on the back! Save 30% this week.
First lines...
"When you've been involved in something like this, no matter how long ago it
happened, no matter how long it's been absent from the news, you're fated,
nonetheless, to always search it out."
... from
America America by Ethan Canin (Random House, ISBN 9780679456803,
$27.00)
Cafe specials
Our featured cookbook for July is
The Only Bake Sale Cookbook You'll Ever Need by Laurie Goldrich Wolf
and Pam Abrams (HarperCollins, ISBN 9780061233838, $14.95). The Only Bake
Sale Cookbook You'll Ever Need includes everything necessary to turn any
fundraising effort into a smashing success—from school bake sales to church
potlucks to charity get-togethers. With 23 varieties of rice krispie treats,
delicious breakfast concoctions like pear spice muffins and five-grain
cinnamon bread, holiday-themed desserts such as St. Patrick's mini soda
breads, and candy and confections like toffee marshmallow delights, these
recipes stand head and shoulders above bake-sale standards like chocolate
chip cookies and brownies from a box. Laurie Goldrich Wolf and Pam Abrams
give clear, easy-to-follow instructions about how to solicit donations and
how to increase fundraising potential, in addition to the best set-up and
publicity tips. Take 201 fun, inventive recipes, add a dash of business
savvy, and you'll find yourself with your most successful bake sale ever!
Look in the pastry case this month for Oreo Treats,
Everything Peanut Squares, Oatmeal Blondies, Pear Spice Muffins, Lime
Coolers, Traditional Peanut Butter Cookies, Chocolate-Glazed Orange Nut
Bars, Outrageous Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Raspberry Muffins, PB &
Butterscotch, Frosted Chocolate Cookies, Blueberry-Spice Bread, Frosted
Banana Cake, and Strawberry-Cream Cheese Brownies. And in
anticipation of the Breaking Dawn Release Party on Friday,
August 1, look in the pastry case throughout July for Bella's First Kiss,
Werewolf Cliffs, Vampire Skin, and Forks' Lawn!
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.

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Watermark's Visiting Author Series:
Billie Letts.
Award-winning novelist, author of Where the Heart Is and Made in the U.S.A.
Thursday, July 10. 7:00 p.m.
J.
A. Jance.
Award-winning author of the Sheriff Joanna Brady novels.
Monday,
August 4. 7:00 p.m.
Eoin
Colfer broadcast.
A
one-man show by the author of the Artemis Fowl book, live from Chicago!
Tuesday,
July 15. 7:00 p.m.
Click here for details & additional events
This summer, take the
War & Peace
Challenge!


Pre-order Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn:

SAVE THE NIGHT: Aug. 1
Friday night release party
for the novel Breaking Dawn

Pre-order Christopher Paolini's Brisingr
now:

Release date: Sept. 20.

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