Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Oct. 19)

Watermark Books & Cafe

Best-sellers

1. “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande

2. “Motivation Breakthrough” Richard Lavoie

3. “Some Luck” by Jane Smiley

4. “The Blood of Olympus“ by Rick Riordan

5. “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett

6. “Rebel Yell” by S.C. Gwynne

7. “Willows” by Mary Langley Wacker

8. “My Olympic Story: Rome 1960” by Jeff Farrell

9. “A Quilt for Christmas” by Sandra Dallas

10. “Determined Soul” by Kimberly Schmidt

New and notable

“Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars” by Neil Young (Blue Rider Press, $32) In this second memoir, Young tells the story of his life through his passion for cars.

Blue Horses” by Mary Oliver (Penguin Press, $24.95) In a new collection of poems, Oliver uses nature’s imagery to ask what it means to belong to this world.

Eighth Day Books

Best-sellers

1. “The Making of an Ordinary Saint: My Journey from Frustration to Joy with the Spiritual Disciplines” by Nathan Foster

2. “Room of Marvels: A Novel” by James Bryan Smith

3. “Common Prayer, Pocket Edition: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals” ed. by Shane Claiborne

4. “God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas” ed. by Greg Pennoyer

5. “The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks” trans. by Benedicta Ward

6. “On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom” ed. by Robert Van de Weyer

7. “Existence (Kiln series)” by David Brinn

8. “Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Bk. 1) by David Brinn

9. “The Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Ancient Church” by Scot McKnight

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

New and notable

“Lila: A Novel” by Marilynne Robinson (FSG, $26.00). Robinson returns to Gilead to narrate the story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society. Lila, homeless and alone, steps inside a small-town Iowa church, eventually becoming the wife of its minister and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security.

“Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word and Image” by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Stephen Locke (Ice Cube Books, $25.00). Former Kansas Poet Laureate Mirriam-Goldberg and photographer Locke combine verse and skyscape in a colorful panorama of prairie horizons.

National best-sellers

Fiction

1. “Deadline” by John Sandford

2. “Burn” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

3. “Edge of Eternity” by Ken Follett

4. “Mr. Miracle” by Debbie Macomber

5. “Paris Match” by Stuart Woods (Putnam)

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

7. “Personal” by Lee Child

8. “Lila” by Marilynne Robinson

9. “The Lost Key” by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison

10. “The Christmas Bouquet” by Sherryl Woods

Nonfiction

1. “Killing Patton” by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

2. “Thug Kitchen” by Thug Kitchen

3. “Not That Kind of Girl” by Lena Dunham

4. “Stop the Coming Civil War” by Michael Savage

5. “Agents of the Apocalypse” by David Jeremiah

6. “The Innovators” by Walter Isaacson

7. “Worthy Fights” by Leon Panetta

8. “You Can, You Will” by Joel Osteen

9. “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande

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

This story was originally published October 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Oct. 19)."