Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Feb. 19, 2006

Bestsellers in the Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest. Week ending February 19, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2. In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
3. Cell, Stephen King
4. 5th Horseman, James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
5. Sea Change, Robert B. Parker
6. Company, Max Barry
7. Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
8. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
9. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
10. The Blight Way, Patrick F. McManus

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
4. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
5. You're Wearing That?, Deborah Tannen
6. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
7. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
8. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
9. The Colony, John Tayman
10. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

MASS MARKET

1. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
2. The Closers, Michael Connelly
3. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
4. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
5. The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais
6. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
7. The Broker, John Grisham
8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
9. The Third Secret, Steve Berry
10. Where There's a Will, Aaron Elkins

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
2. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
3. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
4. Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
6. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
7. Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book, Simon Spotlight (Eds.)
8. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
9. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, Sheila McGraw (Illus.)
10. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Feb. 12

Bestsellers in the Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest. Week ending February 12, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
2. Cell, Stephen King
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
5. S Is for Silence, Sue Grafton
6. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
7. Sea Change, Robert B. Parker
8. The Good Life, Jay McInerney
9. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
10. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
4. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
5. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
6. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
7. State of War, James Risen
8. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
9. The Silver Spoon, Phaidon Domus (Eds.)
10. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

MASS MARKET

1. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
2. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
3. The Closers, Michael Connelly
4. The Broker, John Grisham
5. Where There's a Will, Aaron Elkins
6. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
7. Night, Elie Wiesel
8. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
9. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
10. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
2. Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
4. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
5. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
6. Dragonology, Ernest Drake, Helen Ward (Illus.), Douglas Carrel (Illus.)
7. The Hello, Goodbye Window, Norton Juster, Chris Raschka (Illus.)
8. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
9. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
10. Dawn (Warriors: The New Prophecy #3), Erin W. Hunter

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Feb. 5, 2006

Bestsellers in the Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest. Week ending February 5, 2006

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Cell, Stephen King
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
5. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch (Order it here)
6. Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris
7. The Sea, John Banville
8. Purity of Blood, Arturo Perez-Reverte
9. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell, Lilian Jackson Braun
10. The Accidental, Ali Smith

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
4. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
5. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6. Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
7. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
8. State of War, James Risen
9. Dave Barry's Money Secrets, Dave Barry
10. The Colony, John Tayman

MASS MARKET

1. The Closers, Michael Connelly
2. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
3. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
4. Edge of Evil, J.A. Jance (Order it here)
5. Night, Elie Wiesel
6. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
7. The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais
8. The Broker, John Grisham
9. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
10. Fleshmarket Alley, Ian Rankin

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
2. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
4. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
6. Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book, Simon Spotlight (Eds.)
7. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
8. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
9. Snuggle Puppy, Sandra Boynton
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)

Salmon by Cynthia Nims

Salmon (Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series)
by Cynthia Nims, Don Barnett (Illustrator)

First she brought you CRAB-succulent and fresh. Then it was sweet STONE FRUIT, followed by WILD MUSHROOMS and now SALMON. What better way to continue the wildly popular Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series by award-winning chef and author, Cynthia Nims? Perhaps you'd like to start your day with the Salmon, Potato and Sweet Onion Breakfast Bake, or get your party going with a Deviled Salmon Skewers appetizer, or really wow your guests with a main course of Sesame-Crusted Salmon Steaks with Wasabi Butter.

As with her first three books, Cynthia tells the story of Northwest cuisine-in this case salmon-includes a long list of recipes to choose from and, as always, offers plenty of tips for buying, storing, and cooking salmon. A "calendar of events" appears as bonus material. Simple or challenging, fast or project-style, these recipes, helpful hints, and colorful illustrations will have beginner and expert chefs alike experimenting with Cynthia's inventive ideas. Featuring sumptuous watercolor illustrations by Don Barnett, the latest book in the Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series is a reference that lovers of the Northwest cuisine should not-cannot-be without.

From the Publisher

WINNER OF THE GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2005 Category: Best Cookbook Illustrations

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Her Mother's Daughter by Linda Carroll

Her Mother's Daughter : A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love
by Linda Carroll

The daughter of esteemed writer Paula Fox and the mother of Courtney Love relates ?the curse of the first-born daughter? that has haunted four generations of her family.

As an adopted child, Linda Carroll created a magical world of her own, made up of dramatic adventures and the abiding fantasy that her real mother would come and take her away. When she finds herself pregnant at the age of eighteen, she is determined to have the perfect understanding with her child that she lacked with her adoptive mother. But readers will know better, for that baby grows up to be Courtney Love, desperately attention-seeking, deeply troubled, and one of the most talented women in rock.

Even as a baby, Courtney is beset by mood swings that no doctor can explain or cure. Her dark moods and paranoia escalate as she grows up, driving mother and daughter apart. When Courtney has a daughter of her own, Linda finally decides to find her own biological mother, and end the estrangement of generations of first-born daughters.

Her Mother?s Daughter is Linda Carroll?s story of self-discovery as an adopted daughter, a childlike hippie mother and a woman determined to find herself before finding her roots. Set apart from the typical celebrity memoir by Carroll?s gifted storytelling, Her Mother?s Daughter gives a fresh perspective on the elusive yet enduring connections between mothers and daughters, and reveals the true history of the wildly confabulatory Courtney Love.

LINDA CARROLL was adopted at birth, raised in San Francisco and only later discovered that her biological mother is the writer Paula Fox. Married at eighteen, and twice more before she was thirty, she is now the mother of five grown children, including singer/songwriter Courtney Love. She is a therapist and writer and lives in Corvallis, Oregon with her husband of seventeen years.

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Northwest Bestsellers - week ending Jan. 29, 2006

Bestsellers in the Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense. Most of these books aren?t books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest. Week ending January 29, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Cell, Stephen King
2. Memory in Death, J.D. Robb
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. The Lighthouse, P.D. James
5. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
6. Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris
7. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell, Lilian Jackson Braun
8. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan
9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
3. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
4. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
5. State of War, James Risen
6. Self-Made Man, Norah Vincent
7. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
8. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
9. You're Wearing That?, Deborah Tannen
10. The Elements of Style Illustrated, William Strunk, et al.

MASS MARKET

1. Night, Elie Wiesel
2. The Broker, John Grisham
3. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
4. Edge of Evil, J.A. Jance (Order it here)
5. The Cat Who Went Bananas, Lilian Jackson Braun
6. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
8. Chainfire, Terry Goodkind
9. By Order of the President, W.E.B. Griffin
10. The Motive, John Lescroart

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
3. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
4. Eldest, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini (Order it here)
6. The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau
7. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
8. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
9. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
10. Napoleon Dynamite, Roger Price, Leonard Stern