Maybe for this year’s Secret Santa, you pulled the name of the guy at work who always eats lunch with his nose buried in a book. Or maybe your best friend is constantly quoting Shakespeare. Either way, you’ve come to the right place. Here are 12 literary-themed gift ideas, all available at Watermark Books & Cafe (4701 E. Douglas):
1. Edgar Allen Poe finger puppet/refrigerator magnet – $6.50: This one is fun for adults and children alike. Entertain your toddler with “The Raven” puppet show! “Once upon a midnight dreary, while …

There was a time in this nation when, for African-Americans, racial barriers existed for everything from marriage to bathrooms. When it was less deadly to be seen and not heard – a time when friendships between women of two races simply didn’t happen, especially if one of those women was your maid.
First-time author Kathryn Stockett writes about the struggles of African-American maids in the 1960s and the women they worked for in the novel The Help. Set in the segregated and volatile town of Jackson, Mississippi, The Help …

You may be thinking “Why does my diet need any revolutionizing?” and rightly so. I mean, you’re a carefully selective consumer, right? You buy the most ethical foods you can find, and make sure this food is grown by producers that not only make the most humane decisions, but care less for profit than your health and the welfare of the delicate Earth upon which our livelihoods depend…
Yeah, right. You are more likely the buy-as-you-go, hunger, convenience, and economically minded consumer, bent on getting in and getting out …

Malena Lott is a woman with a vision. Her goal? Bringing book clubs back with some sass. “Girlfriends don’t get together as much as we would like. A book club makes reading a priority and provides a nice structure for a girls’ night out,” Lott said.
As an author, Lott has written and published two novels, The Stork Reality in 2006 and Dating DaVinci in 2008. Encouraging literacy isn’t just job security, it’s a passion for this mother of two in Oklahoma. “Studies have shown …

You’ve heard the saying, “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”  Every person and every family has a glass house they would rather no one know about, but former MSNBC.com columnist Jeannette Walls has given an open invitation to view hers in The Glass Castle: A Memoir, a story about her life as a child.
The story of Walls’ life begins when she is only three-years-old and ends up in a hospital after being severely burned while cooking hot dogs in a frilly and not flame-resistant costume.   She doesn’t understand why …