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

Watermark Books & Cafe

Best-sellers

1. “I Will Send Rain” by Rae Meadows

2. “All the Ugly and Wonderful Things” by Bryn Greenwood

3. “Your Leadership Edge” by Ed O’Malley and Amanda Cebula

4. “American Heiress” by Jeffrey Toobin

5. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

6. “Eileen” by Ottessa Moshfegh

7. “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead

8. “My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry” by Fredrik Backman

9. “The Woman in Cabin 10” by Ruth Ware

10. “Make This Town Big” by Tim O’Bryhim and Michael Romalis

New and notable

“Great Reckoning” by Louise Penny (Minotaur, $28.99) – The newest novel in the New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series features a dead professor and a strange map that lead Gamache to horrific secrets. Penny will be at Abode Venue at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $33 for one and $38 for two.

“Temple Grandin: Voice for the Voiceless” by Annette Wood (Skyhorse Publishing, $24.99) – In this biography, Wood delves into Grandin’s life from childhood to adulthood, focusing on how Grandin overcame difficulties and the differences she has made. Wood will be in conversation with Ann Parr at Watermark at 2 p.m. Sept. 10.

Eighth Day Books

Best-sellers

1. “The Meaning of Vocation” by Pope St. John Paul II

2. “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” by C.S. Lewis

3. “The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to the Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien

4. “Praying and Believing in Early Christianity: The Interplay between Christian Worship and Doctrine” by Maxwell Johnson

5. “The Way of a Pilgrim” translated by Olga Savin

6. “Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education” by James Taylor

7. “The Givenness of Things: Essays” by Marilynne Robinson

8. “Demons” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

9. “Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry” by Hans Boersma

10. “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems” by Paul Celan

New and notable

“Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution” by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, $30) – A complex portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity, unfolding in the relationship of Washington and Arnold, an impulsive but sympathetic hero. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led, Washington’s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war.

“Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance (HarperCollins, $27.99) – A passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis: that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about so searingly from the inside. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck.

This story was originally published August 25, 2016 at 8:39 PM with the headline "Best-sellers from Watermark Books and Eighth Day Books (Aug. 28)."