Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Sept. 21)
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “Little Red Riding Hood” by Lisa Campbell Ernst
2. “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett
3. “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan
4. “Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good” by Jan Karon
5. “The Doll Graveyard” by Lois Ruby
6. “Dear Committee Members” by Julie Schumacher
7. “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories” by Dr. Seuss
8. “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry” by Gabrielle Zevin
9. “Gus & Me” by Keith Richards
10. “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
New and notable
“The Paying Guests” by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books, $28.95) – In 1922 London, a widowed woman and her daughter take in tenants with interesting, and sometimes dire, results.
“Stone Mattress” by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday, $25.95) – In nine short stories, her first in 10 years, Atwood explores relationships that are sometimes dark and fantastical.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “The Cartoon History of the United States” by Larry Gonick
2. “The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses” by C.S. Lewis
3. “The Blessing: A Memoir” by Gregory Orr
4. “The Soul of the World” by Roger Scruton
5. “The World of Silence” by Max Picard
6. “The Last Monk of Tibhirine: A True Story of Martyrdom, Faith, and Survival” by Freddy Derwahl
7. “Wichita: 1930-2000” by Jay Price
8. “An Introduction to the Desert Fathers” by Jason Byassee
9. “Reading Can Be Fun” by Munro Leaf
10. “The Madonnas of Leningrad” by Debra Dean
New and notable
“A Beautiful Disaster: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness” by Marlena Graves (Brazos Press, $15.99) –Interweaving biblical insights, personal narratives, and motifs from the spirituality of the desert fathers and mothers, the author shows how suffering and experiences of desolation can form us into Christ’s image, beautiful people in the midst of brokenness.
“Once in the West: Poems” by Christian Wiman (Farrar Straus Giroux, $23) – Wiman, for 10 years editor of Poetry magazine and now a professor at Yale Divinity School, here explores the “hard horizonless country” of his West Texas roots, his religion, his family and the joy of being alive.
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “Personal” by Lee Child
2. “Festive in Death” by J.D. Robb
3. “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good” by Jan Karon
4. “The Eye of Heaven” by Cussler/Blake
5. “The Witch with No Name” by Kim Harrison
6. “Mean Streak” by Sandra Brown
7. “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan
8. “The King’s Curse” by Philippa Gregory
9. “Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot” by Reed Farrel Coleman
10. “The Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell
Nonfiction
1. “Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success” by Steve Harvey
2. “13 Hours” by Mitchell Zuckoff
3. “What If?” by Randall Munroe
4. “Unphiltered” by Phil Robertson
5. “What I Know for Sure” by Oprah Winfrey
6. “Guinness World Records 2015”
7. “The Happiness of Pursuit” by Chris Guillebeau
8. “Jesus on Trial” by David Limbaugh
9. “Malice Toward None” by Jack E. Levin
10. “Be the Message” by Kerry Shook
Publishers Weekly
This story was originally published September 21, 2014 at 7:33 AM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Sept. 21)."