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BIG READ WICHITA.

Read & discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God at Watermark this October:

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JEANNETTE WALLS, SARA GRUEN, IAN FRAZIER, DAVID SEDARIS: and much more besides in our upcoming author events. Check out the brief listings to the right--and visit our Event page for details.

 

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Watermark's HUCK FINN CHALLENGE: This fall, we'll be reading and discussing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. It's the Great American Novel and one of the most banned books in the land. Come join in the conversation:

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Our Book of the Week is A Stranger Like You: A Novel by Elizabeth Brundage (Viking, 9780670022007, $25.95) Hugh Waters's big break has finally arrived. A big Hollywood studio has bought the rights to his screenplay and Hugh's dead-end life at an insurance company is about to become his past. But the executive who bought his story dies suddenly, and his replacement is an Ivy League hotshot named Hedda Chase, whose ambitions stretch beyond mere box-office sales. In her mind, Hugh's script is an example of everything that's wrong with Hollywood--a violent premise and an implausible ending full of gangster clichés--and she persuades the studio to pull the plug.
 
When Hugh gets on a plane bound for Los Angeles, he's thinking that perhaps he'll just have a talk with Hedda, and try to change her mind. Or perhaps... he'll find a way to convince her that his script isn't so implausible after all.
 
"A Stranger Like You" unfolds at a blistering pace, taking us from palatial homes in Los Angeles to a tense film set in Dubai,, and into the lives of a vivid cast of characters: Daisy, the South Dakota runaway trying to survive on the mean streets of L.A.; Fatima Kassim, an Iraqi exchange student desperate to tell the truth about her country at any cost; Denny Rios, a veteran of the Iraq war working as an attendant at an LAX parking booth. It's Denny who notices the vintage BMW in his lot--its keys left behind, hanging in the ignition.
 
Smart, scary, provocative, topical, and full of surprises, "A Stranger Like You" is a taut and terrifying thriller about the lengths to which we will go to make our dreams come true. We have a special publisher offer, and this week "A Stranger Like You is" 50% off.
 

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First line(s)...
 
"The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally--he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now--but the urban gentry of Ramsey Hill were not so loyal to their city as not to read the New York Times."
 
...from Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 9780374158460, $28.00)
 

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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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