Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Sept. 14)
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett
2. “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good” by Jan Karon
3. “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Daywalt
4. “Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell
5. “Under Magnolia” by Frances Mayes
6. “Empire of the Summer Moon” by S.C. Gwynne
7. “The Secret Place” by Tana French
8. “Sons of Wichita” by Daniel Schulman
9. “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” by Haruki Murakami
10. “Personal” by Lee Child
New and notable
“Edge of Eternity” by Ken Follett (Dutton, $36) – The third in the Century Trilogy covers the 1960s through the 1980s.
“The Roosevelts” by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns (Knopf, $60) – A new coffee-table biography of the Roosevelt family that serves as a companion to the PBS series.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss” by David Bentley Hart
2. “Six Days or Forever? Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes” by Ray Ginger
3. “The Blessing: A Memoir” by Gregory Orr
4. “The Divine Comedy,” translated by John Ciardi
5. “Desperadoes: A Novel” by Ron Hansen
6. “Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer” by Rowan Williams
7. “The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community” by Diana Glyer
8. “The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks” by Amy Stewart
9. “The Guns of August” by Barbara Tuchman
10. “The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality” by Belden Lane
New and notable
“Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart” by Opal Whiteley (Three Rivers Press, $11) – A rendering of the journal of an extraordinary six-year-old orphaned girl, who grew up in a turn of the century Oregon lumber camp.
“Visions of Amen: The Early Life and Music of Olivier Messiaen” by Stephen Schloesser (William B. Eerdmans, $50) –The life of Olivier Messiaen, best known for his composition of the “Quartet for the End of Time” as an inmate in a World War II concentration camp. The author includes an analysis of Messiaen’s later, climactic work, “Visions of Amen.”
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “Personal” by Lee Child
2. “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good” by Jan Karon
3. “The Eye of Heaven” by Cussler/Blake
4. “The Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell
5. “Dark Blood” by Christine Feehan
6. “The Secret Place” by Tana French
7. “Angels Walking” by Karen Kingsbury
8. “Mean Streak” by Sandra Brown
9. “Son of No One” by Sherrilyn Kenyon
10. “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” by Haruki Murakami
Nonfiction
1. “What If?” by Randall Munroe
2. “Unphiltered” by Phil Robertson
3. “What I Know for Sure” by Oprah Winfrey
4. “Chasers of the Light” by Tyler Knott Gregson
5. “One Nation” by Ben Carson. Penguin/Sentinel
6. “America” by Dinesh D'Souza. Regnery
7. “100 Days of Real Food” by Lisa Leake
8. “Diary of a Mad Diva” by Joan Rivers
9. “Dungeons & Dragons: Player’s Handbook, 5th Ed.” by Wizards RPG Team
10. “Indulge” by Kathy Wakile
Publishers Weekly
This story was originally published September 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Sept. 14)."