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Watermark's Book of the Week is Beginners Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life by Kate Braestrup (Free Press, 9781439184264, $25.00) Chaplain and author of the moving faith memoir Here If You Need Me, Braestrup offers diverse prayers and her own commentaries on the everyday practice of prayer; some samples include: prayers for dark and quiet times, praying with enemies, agnostic prayers, and lovers prayers. She offers moving biblical texts alongside current events, insights from her experience raising six teenagers (at once!), and newly penned prayers, like:
"Prayer for a Glass Heart
Blessed is the breath of the glassblower, who
With skillful hand and steady exhalation
Heats the gritty solid of the heart
And with his breath expands
My heart until a wider vessel is created,
Until my heart's capacity is such
The whole world can be embraced in love."
For this week of thanksgiving, Beginner's Grace is 30% off.

First line(s)...
"It was fortunate that the man who had designed and built the ten houses along Hampden Lane in 1788 had built them to the same scale... Lenox's and Lady Jane's houses both had twelve-foot deep basements where the staff could work and live, eight-step front stairs that led to the broad front doors (his was red, hers white), four floors of rooms, and a narrow back garden. It meant they fit together."
...from A Stranger in Mayfair by Charles Finch (Minotaur, 9780312625061 $24.99)

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Signing with the author of Hallowed Hardwood, a book commemorating the historic basketball courts of Kansas.
Sunday, Nov. 28. 6:30 p.m.

Author of the internationally bestselling memoir Three Cups of Tea and the new book Stones into Schools.
Wednesday, Dec. 1. 7:00 p.m.
At the Hughes Metroplex at 29th Street & Oliver.
Call Watermark for ticket information: (316) 682-1181.

Author of the bestselling novel Memory-Keeper's Daughter and the new novel The Lake of Dreams, coming Jan. 4, 2011. Call to reserve books: (316) 682-1181.
Thurs., Jan. 13. 7:00 p.m.

Author of the beloved bestselling memoirs Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.
Thursday, Feb. 17. 7:00 p.m.

Author of Do the Right Thing, A Simple Christmas, and the new book A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (And a Trillion That We Don't!), which will be available Feb. 22, 2011.
Call Watermark to reserve books: (316) 682-1181.
Tue., March 1. 7:30-8:30 p.m.