Best selling books in Wichita for week of Oct. 14.
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “What’s Right With Kansas” by Ed O’Malley
2. “Wicked Wichita” by Joe Stumpe
3. “November Road” by Lou Berney
4. “Heartland” by Sarah Smarsh
5. “Killing Commendatore” by Haru Murakami
New and notable
“On Desperate Ground” by Hampton Sides (Doubleday, $30) – From the New York Times bestselling author of “Ghost Soldiers” and “In the Kingdom of Ice”, a chronicle of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. Sides will be at Grace Presbyterian at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25.
“Unsheltered” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, $29.99) – In her first novel in six years, Kingsolver returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “The Magnificent Journey: Living Deep in the Kingdom” by James Bryan Smith
2. “Revelation: A Liturgical Prophecy” by Patrick Henry Reardon
3. “Room of Marvels” by James Bryan Smith
4. “How to Behave and Why” by Munro Leaf
5 “The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life According to St. Maximus the Confessor” Aimilianos of Simonopetra
New and notable
“He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art” by Christian Wiman (FSG, $23.00). What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion.
“Virgil Wander: A Novel by Leif Enger” (Atlantic Monthly, $27.00). Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him.
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom
2. “Holy Ghost” by John Sanford
3. “Ambush” by Patterson/Born
4. “The Witch Elm” by Tana French
5. “A Spark of Light” by Jodi Picoult
Nonfiction
1. “Dare to Lead” by Brene Brown
2. “Ship of Fools” by Tucker Carlson
3. “Killing the SS” by O'Reilly/Dugard
4. “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel Hollis
5. “Skinnytaste One and Done” by Gina Homolka
Publishers Weekly