Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Oct. 5)
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett
2. “Full Dark No Stars” by Stephen King
3. “A Changing Wind” by Wendy Hamand Venet
4. “Sons of Wichita” by Daniel Schulman
5. “Edge of Eternity” by Ken Follett
6. “The Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell
7. “Killing Patton” by Bill O’Reilly
8. “Under the Wide and Starry Sky” by Nancy Horan
9. “Fantasy League” by Mike Lupica
10. “Rebel Yell” by S. C. Gwynne
New and notable
“How We Got to Now” by Steven Johnson (Riverhead Books, $30) – An in-depth look at six key technologies (refrigeration, clocks, lenses, water purification, recorded sound, and artificial light) that changed the world.
“A Sudden Light” by Garth Stein (Simon & Schuster, $26.95) – From the author of “The Art of Racing in the Rain” comes a new novel that combines a dark family ghost story and the struggles of a family willing to trade its history for cash.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “An Inner Step Towards God: Writings and Teachings on Prayer” by Fr. Alexander Men
2. “St. John of Damascus: Writings” translated by Frederic Chase
3. “On the Incarnation” by St. Athanasius
4. “Through a Screen Darkly (Reflections on Film)” by Jeffrey Overstreet
5. “The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain” by Scott Cairns
6. “The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks” translated by Benedicta Ward
7. “The Fabricated Luther: Refuting Nazi Connections and Other Modern Myths” by Uwe Siemon-Netto
8. “Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image” by John Behr
9. “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies” by David Bentley Hart
10. “The World of Silence” by Max Picard
New and notable
“Gratitude: An Intellectual History” by Peter Leithart (Baylor University Press, $49.95) – For most of us, gratitude is etiquette rather than ethics, politeness rather than politics. It was not always so. From Seneca through Thomas Aquinas to Shakespeare, gratitude was a public virtue; the circle of benefaction and return service cemented society. At the beginning of the modern era, European thinkers began to imagine a political economy freed from the burdens of gratitude. This book examines changing conceptions of gratitude from Homer to the present, highlighting the profound cultural impact of early Christian “ingratitude.”
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. “Bones Never Lie” by Kathy Reichs
6. “The Eye of Heaven” by Cussler/Blake
7. “Mean Streak” by Sandra Brown
8. “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
9. “The Bone Clocks” by David Mitchell
10. “The Paying Guests” by Sarah Waters
Nonfiction
1. “Killing Patton” by O'Reilly/Dugard
2. “Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success” by Steve Harvey
3. “Jesus on Trial” by David Limbaugh
4. “13 Hours” by Mitchell Zuckoff
5. “The All-Day Energy Diet” by Yuri Elkaim
6. “Guinness World Records 2015”
7. “What If?” by Randall Munroe
8. “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel
9. “What I Know for Sure” by Oprah Winfrey
10. “Unphiltered” by Phil Robertson
Publishers Weekly
This story was originally published October 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Oct. 5)."