Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Dec. 7)
Watermark Books & Cafe
Best-sellers
1. “Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend” by Christopher Brand
2. “Waiting Is Not Easy” by Mo Willems
3. “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel Brown
4. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” by Jeff Kinney
5. “Santa Is Coming to Kansas” by Robert Dunn
6. “The Book With No Pictures” by B. J. Novak
7. “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry” by Gabrielle Zevin
8. “Pete the Cat Saves Christmas” by James Dean
9. “Food: A Love Story” by Jim Gaffigan
10. “Small Victories” by Anne Lamott
New and notable
“Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend” by Christopher Brand (Thomas Dunne Books, $26.99) – A memoir of the unique friendship Brand had with Mandela, from the time Brand served as Mandela’s prison guard through Mandela’s death in 2013. Brand will be at the WSU Hughes Metroplex at 7 p.m. Monday.
“Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life” by Sophia Loren (Atria Books, $28) – Loren reflects upon her childhood in war-torn Italy as well as her first acting jobs in Hollywood. Watermark has a limited number of signed copies available.
Eighth Day Books
Best-sellers
1. “Missing Person” by Patrick Modiano
2. “Clinging: The Experience of Prayer” by Emilie Griffin
3. “Memoirs of an Elf” by Devin Scillian
4. “Lego Crazy Action Contraptions” by Doug Stillinger
5. “Air Power: Rocket Science Made Simple” by Pat Murphy
6. “Song of the Stars: A Christmas Story” by Sally Lloyd-Jones
7. “Wichita’s Legacy of Flight” by Jay Price
8. “For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy” by Alexander Schmemann
9. “Poetry Speaks to Children [With CD]” by Elise Paschen, et. al.
10. “The Kingdom Conspiracy: Recovering the Radical Mission of the Local Church” by Scot McKnight
New and notable
“Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry” by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, $25) – Tom Pohrt spent years in dialogue with Wendell Berry to compile poems of Berry’s he imagined children might read and appreciate. The resulting volume includes dozens of the sketches and watercolors in what amounts to a visual meditation on the poem they work to illustrate.
“Missing Person” by Patrick Modiano (David Godine, $16.95) – Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs a tale of a man trying to find his identity, which he lost after a mysterious accident 15 years earlier left him an amnesiac whose memory seems to stop during his experience in Nazi-occupied Paris.
National best-sellers
Fiction
1. “Hope to Die” by James Patterson
2. “Gray Mountain” by John Grisham
3. “The Escape” by David Baldacci
4. “Revival” by Stephen King
5. “The World of Ice & Fire” by George R.R. Martin
6. “Leaving Time” by Jodi Picoult
7. “Flesh and Blood” by Patricia Cornwell
8. “The Burning Room” by Michael Connelly
9. “The Cinderella Murder” by Clark/Burke
10. “The Job” by Evanovich/Goldberg
Nonfiction
1. “Killing Patton” by O’Reilly/Dugard
2. “41: Portrait of My Father” by George W. Bush
3. “Make It Ahead” by Ina Garten
4. “Money: Master the Game” by Tony Robbins
5. “Guinness World Records 2015”
6. “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler
7. “Dreamers and Deceivers” by Glenn Beck
8. “The Andy Cohen Diaries” by Andy Cohen
9. “What If?” by Randall Munroe
10. “You Can’t Make This Up” by Al Michaels
Publishers Weekly
This story was originally published December 6, 2014 at 6:15 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Dec. 7)."