Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (March 8)
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “Sun and Moon” by Lindsey Yankey
2. “Bluebird” by Lindsey Yankey
3. “Eisenhower 1956” by David A. Nichols
4. “A Matter of Justice” by David A. Nichols
5. “The Afterlives of Trees” by Wyatt Townley
6. “The Littlest Bunny in Kansas” by Lily Jacobs
7. “The Breathing Field” by Wyatt Townley
8. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins
9. “A Man Called Ove” by Frederick Backman
10. “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo
New and notable
“China Dolls” by Lisa See (Random House, $16) – The latest from bestselling author Lisa See chronicles the friendship and secrets of three very different Asian women against the backdrop of World War II. See will be at Grace Presbyterian church at 6:30 p.m. on March 24. Tickets are $19.28 and can be purchased at Watermark Books.
“Epitaph” by Mary Doria Russell (Ecco, $27.99) – In this followup to “Doc,” Russell chronicles the events leading up to and the aftermath of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “To Open One’s Heart: A Spiritual Path” by Michel Evdokimov, translated by Anthony P. Gythiel
2. “Tales of St. Francis: Ancient Stories for Contemporary Living” by Murray Bodo
3. “People of the Flint Hills: Bluestem Pasture Portraits” by John E. Brown
4. “Everyday Saints” by Archimandrite Tikhon Shuvkanov
5 “The Way of a Pilgrim/The Pilgrim Continues His Way,” translated by Olga Savin
6. “Despondency: The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius of Pontus” by Gabriel Bunge
7. “The World of Silence” by Max Picard
8. “All the Light We Cannot See” by Lawrence Doerr
9. “The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music” by Elisabeth-Paule Labat
10. “The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor” by Flannery O’Connor
New and notable
“Gwynne’s Grammar: The Ultimate Introduction to Grammar and the Writing of Good English” by N.M. Gwynne (Knopf, $19.95) – In the 1980s, on retirement from a successful career as a businessman in London and Australia, N.M. Gwynne gradually took up teaching. He soon discovered a real demand for his traditional methods, universal up to the 1960s but since displaced by novel theories of learning. With an authoritative yet humorous approach, this book rehabilitates traditional forms of style and grammar.
“Art from the Trenches: America’s Uniformed Artists in World War I” by Alfred Emile Cornebise (Texas A & M Press, $35) – Cornebise presents the first comprehensive account of the U.S. Army art program in World War I. The Army artists saw their role as one of preserving images of the entire aspect of American involvement in a way that photography could not.
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins
2. “Prodigal Son” by Danielle Steel
3. “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
4. “Mightier than the Sword” by Jeffrey Archer
5. “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah
6. “A Spool of Blue Thread” by Anne Tyler
7. “Obsession in Death” by J.D. Robb
8. “Private Vegas” by Patterson/Paetro
9. “Double Fudge Brownie Murder” by Joanne Fluke
10. “Gray Mountain” by John Grisham
Nonfiction
1. “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo
2. “The 20/20 Diet” by Phil McGraw
3. “Future Crimes” by Marc Goodman
4. “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande
5. “Killing Patton” by O’Reilly/Dugard
6. “Girl in a Band” by Kim Gordon
7. “Effortless Healing” by Joseph Mercola
8. “Bold” by Diamandis/Kotler
9. “The Food Babe Way” by Vani Hari
10. “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler
Publishers Weekly
This story was originally published March 7, 2015 at 6:10 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (March 8)."