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Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Sept. 28)

Watermark Books & Cafe

Best-sellers

1. “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett

2. “The Edge of Eternity” by Ken Follett

3. “Empire of the Summer Moon” by S. C. Gwynne

4. “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Daywalt

5. “Sons of Wichita” by Daniel Schulman

6. “Logo Creed” by Bill Gardner

7. “The Heart of Everything That Is” by Bob Drury

8. “Ordinary Grace” by William Krueger

9. “The Good Lord Bird” by James McBride

10. “Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell

New and notable

“The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace” by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner, $27) – The true story of Robert Pearce, and under-privileged young man who went to Yale, became a high school teacher, slid into the drug trade, and was murdered at age 30.

“The Remedy of Love” by Bill Roorbach (Algonquin Books, $24.95) – In the middle of a huge snowstorm, a lawyer and a homeless woman strike up a bond as they ride the storm out together. Roorbach will be at Watermark Books on Oct. 30 at 6 p.m.

Eighth Day Books

Best-sellers

1. “When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature” by Thomas Merton

2. “Chesterton: The Nightmare Goodness of God” by Ralph Wood

3. “Hands of the Saddlemaker (Yale Series of Younger Poets)” by Nicholas Samaras

4. “Evagrius of Pontus: Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons” trans. by David Brakke

5. “Daily Readings with the Desert Fathers” ed. by Benedicta Ward

6. “Orthodoxy: The Cosmos Transfigured” by Paul Evdokimov

7. “Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth” by Richard Foster

8. “Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home” by Richard Foster

9. “Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology” by Miranda Lundy, et al.

10. “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose” by Flannery O’Connor

New and notable

“Emily Dickinson: The Gorgeous Nothings” ed. by ed. Marta Werner (New Directions, $39.95) – The first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts ever to appear is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes.

“The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos” by Patrick Leigh Fermor (New York Review of Book Press, $30) – Following two other books in a trilogy, including the first, A Time of Gifts, the author narrates the final leg of his on-foot journey from Holland to Constantinople, a trip that took him the better part of a year.

National best-sellers

Fiction

1. “Edge of Eternity” by Ken Follett

2. “Personal” by Lee Child

3. “Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good” by Jan Karon

4. “Festive in Death” by J.D. Robb

5. “The Eye of Heaven” by Clive Cussler and Russell Blake

6. “Raging Heat” by Richard Castle

7. “Mean Streak” by Sandra Brown

8. “The Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell

9. “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan

10. “The Golem of Hollywood” by Jonathan Kellerman

Nonfiction

1. “Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success” by Steve Harvey

2. “13 Hours” by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team

3. “Jesus on Trial” by David Limbaugh

4. “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

5. “What If?” by Randall Munroe

6. “Unphiltered” by Phil Robertson

7. “Guinness World Records 2015” by Guinness World Records

8. “What I Know for Sure” by Oprah Winfrey

9. “The Forks over Knives Plan” by Matt Lederman

10. “World Order” by Henry Kissinger

Publishers Weekly

This story was originally published September 28, 2014 at 8:33 AM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Sept. 28)."

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