Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Nov. 30)
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “Small Victories” by Anne Lamott
2. “Peek-A-Who?” by Nina Laden
3. “Waiting Is Not Easy” by Mo Willems
4. “Stitches” by Anne Lamott
5. “Help, Thanks, Wow” by Anne Lamott
6. “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand
7. “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson
8. “People of the Flint Hills” by John Brown
9. “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler
10. “Sons of Wichita” by Daniel Schulman
New and notable
“Windows on the World: 50 Writers, 50 Views” edited by Matteo Pericoli (Penguin Press, $ 27.95) – An exploration and reflection on the views we see outside our windows by 50 writers from around the world.
“Victoria” by A.N. Wilson (Penguin Press, $36) – A new biography of the English monarch that includes new material from previously unseen sources.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “The Practice of the Presence of God” by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
2. “The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter” by Susan Pinker
3. “A Prayer Journal” by Flannery O’Connor
4. “Three to Get Married” by Fulton Sheen
5. “Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology” by Miranda Lunday, et al
6. “The Donkey’s Dream” by Barbara Helen Berger
7. “Moon Over Manifest” by Clare Vanderpool
8. “The Grasshopper Trap” by Patrick McManus
9. “Interior Freedom” by Jacques Phillipe
10. “I Saw Three Ships” by Elizabeth Goudge
New and notable
“Word & Image: Art, Books, and Design from the National Art Library” ed. by Rowan Watson (V & A Publishing, $40) – Celebrates Britain’s National Art Library, the first of what was a new kind of museum library, formed in the 19th century. Here are more than 100 objects that have helped to define the scope of the history of the fine and decorative arts.
“The Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson” by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner, $35) – Jackson embodied the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause and is considered, without argument, one of our country’s greatest military figures. His strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged and would be studied generations into the future.
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “The Escape” by David Baldacci
2. “Revival” by Stephen King
3. “Gray Mountain” by John Grisham
4. “The Mistletoe Promise” by Richard Paul Evans
5. “Flesh and Blood” by Patricia Cornwell
6. “The Cinderella Murder” by Clark/Burke
7. “The Burning Room” by Michael Connelly
8. “The Job” by Evanovich/Goldberg
9. “Leaving Time” by Jodi Picoult
10. “Prince Lestat” by Anne Rice
Nonfiction
1. “Money: Master the Game” by Tony Robbins
2. “41: Portrait of My Father” by George W. Bush
3. “Killing Patton” by O’Reilly/Dugard
4. “Make It Ahead” by Ina Garten
5. “Guinness World Records 2015”
6. “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler
7. “Dreamers and Deceivers” by Glenn Beck
8. “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande
9. “No Hero” by Mark Owen
10. “The Andy Cohen Diaries” by Andy Cohen
Publishers Weekly
This story was originally published November 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Nov. 30)."