Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending March 26, 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 March 26, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore
2. The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean
3. Intuition, Allegra Goodman
4. In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
5. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
6. Labyrinth, Kate Mosse
7. The Blight Way: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery, Patrick F. McManus
8. The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier
9. The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
10. Cell, Stephen King

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
2. Marley & Me, John Grogan
3. French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
4. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
5. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
6. The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery
7. Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert
8. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
9. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
10. PostSecret, Frank Warren (Ed.)

MASS MARKET

1. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
2. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
3. The Closers, Michael Connelly
4. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
5. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
6. The Sign of the Book, John Dunning
7. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
8. Cold Service, Robert B. Parker
9. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
10. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Night of the New Magicians (Magic Tree House #35), Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.)
2. Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book One), Angie Sage
3. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
4. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
5. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
7. Flyte (Septimus Heap, Book Two), Angie Sage
8. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
9. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
10. Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Northwest Bestsellers - wk of March 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 March 19, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Labyrinth, Kate Mosse
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
3. In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
4. The Blight Way: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery, Patrick F. McManus
5. The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
6. Cell, Stephen King
7. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
8. Intuition, Allegra Goodman
9. The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier
10. And She Was, Cindy Dyson

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. Cobra II, Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor
3. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
4. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
5. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
7. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
8. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
9. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
10. You're Wearing That?, Deborah Tannen

MASS MARKET

1. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
2. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
3. Cold Service, Robert B. Parker
4. Murder at Five Finger Light, Sue Henry
5. Cat's Eyewitness, Rita Mae Brown
6. Shadow of the Giant, Orson Scott Card
7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
8. Ireland, Frank DeLaney
9. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
10. State of Fear, Michael Crichton

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. Night of the New Magicians (Magic Tree House #35), Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.)
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
3. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
4. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
5. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
6. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
7. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
8. Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
9. A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy, Jon J. Muth (Illus.)
10. The Wright 3, Blue Balliett, Brett Helquist (Illus.)

Orbit by John J. Nance

Orbit
by John J. Nance

The New York Times bestselling author and "king of the modern-day aviation thriller" (Publishers Weekly) boldly goes where the imagination fears to tread . . .

The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on one of American Space Adventure's commercial spaceflights is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. It's a bittersweet moment of triumph, however, muted by his wife's terror over his accepting the prize. The day of the launch, Kip tries to reconcile his wife's and daughters' fears and even tries calling his estranged son, to no avail. He sets off, vowing to make amends upon his return. But a successful launch quickly morphs into chaos when a micrometeor punches through the wall of the spacecraft, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot.

In the blink of an eye, Kip Dawson is truly alone and has no way of navigating the ship home. With nothing to do but wait for death, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has discovered it and is tracking his every word on the Internet. As a massive struggle gets under way to rescue him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries -- or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival.

Murder at Five Finger Light by Sue Henry

Murder at Five Finger Light
by Sue Henry

Sled dog racer Jessie Arnold's friends have acquired their dream-a lighthouse on the Alaskan Inside Passage-and invited everyone to a party where guests earn their keep by restoring the old building. With the company of old friends and a view to die for, this is one weekend Jessie won't soon forget-especially when guests start dying. The deaths seem like accidents, but soon Jessie realizes there's a killer loose on the island. Worse yet, the killing spree might not be over-even though the party certainly is.

About the Author

Sue Henry's first Jessie Arnold mystery, Murder on the Iditarod Trail, won both the Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel. She also writes the Maxie McNabb mysteries. Henry is a former college administrator and has lived in Alaska for 30 years. She spends much of her spare time RVing around the Lower Forty-Eight or researching Alaska.

Northwest Bestsellers - week ending March 12, 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 Sunday, March 12, 2006

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
3. The Old Wine Shades, Martha Grimes
4. The Blight Way: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery, Patrick F. McManus
5. The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
6. The March, E.L. Doctorow
7. Labyrinth, Kate Mosse
8. The Templar Legacy, Steve Berry
9. Intuition, Allegra Goodman
10. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
3. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
4. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
5. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
6. The Left Hand of God, Michael Lerner
7. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
8. The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery
9. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
10. Bad Childhood--Good Life, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

MASS MARKET

1. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
2. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
3. The Closers, Michael Connelly
4. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
5. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
6. Micah, Laurell Hamilton
7. Murder at Five Finger Light, Sue Henry
8. Night, Elie Wiesel
9. Cold Service, Robert B. Parker
10. Cat's Eyewitness, Rita Mae Brown

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
3. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
4. Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
6. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
7. Fancy Nancy, Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.)
8. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
9. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
10. Dragonology, Ernest Drake, Helen Ward (Illus.), Douglas Carrel (Illus.)

Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer

Being Caribou: Five Months On Foot With An Arctic Herd
by Karsten Heuer

What begins as a wildlife research project becomes much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.

In April 2003 newlyweds Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison embarked on a five-month research journey to migrate more than 2,000 miles with a herd of 120,000 Porcupine Caribou. From Old Crow, Yukon, to the calving grounds in Alaska, and back again, the Heuers followed the ancient paths and primordial rhythms of the herd from its winter range through Canada and across the border to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the United States. The couple traveled by foot and by skis through unforgiving landscapes?fording swift, deadly cold rivers, as well as encountering ravenous grizzlies who tracked them as prey.

Having begun their expedition with the practiced pragmatism of two seasoned outdoor adventurers, Karsten and Leanne soon learned that they would only be able to find and discern the intent of the herd by adopting the ancient ways of the area's indigenous people. Given advice by a Gwich'in native in Old Crow at the start of their trip to "listen to dreams", Karsten and Leanne find they must shed the many insulating layers of pragmatism that distance them from the natural world. They discover that there is a truth that is transformational in listening to the music of the earth, paying attention to the urgings within dreams, and in truly, beyond their expectations, being caribou.

From the Publisher

Winner 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize Phyllis and Don Munday Award.

About the Author

KARSTEN HEUER is a wildlife biologist, park warden and author of Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail. He has worked in Banff National Park in the Rockies, in Inuvik in Canada's far north, and in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa. He is a recipient of the Wilburforce Foundation Conservation Leadership Award.

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Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending March 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 March 5, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
2. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
3. The March, E.L. Doctorow
4. Cell, Stephen King
5. Judas Unchained, Peter F. Hamilton
6. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
7. The Old Wine Shades, Martha Grimes
8. Sea Change, Robert B. Parker
9. The Blight Way, Patrick F. McManus
10. Sour Puss, Rita Mae Brown

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
3. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
4. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
5. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
6. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
7. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
8. Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
9. You're Wearing That?, Deborah Tannen
10. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

MASS MARKET

1. With No One as Witness, Elizabeth A. George
2. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
3. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
4. The Closers, Michael Connelly
5. Micah, Laurell Hamilton
6. Cat's Eyewitness, Rita Mae Brown
7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
8. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
9. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
10. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)

CHILDREN'S (FICTION AND ILLUSTRATED)

1. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
2. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
3. The Giver, Lois Lowry
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie tie-in, children's), C.S. Lewis
5. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3), Jonathan Stroud
6. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
7. The Hello, Goodbye Window, Norton Juster, Chris Raschka (Illus.)
8. Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
9. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
10. The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)

Serial Killers by Thomas Guillen

Serial Killers : Issues Explored Through the Green River Murders
by Tomas Guillen

Serial Killers is intended to fill a void in the serial killer literature. Little has been written about the plethora of challenging issues that permeate the serial killer cases or massive murder investigations. This book provides a collection of essays that focus on some of those rich issues. Taken as a whole, the essays take the perspective of the Green River Murders and the turbulent relationship of the many people it touched over two decades. Although the essays revolve around the Green River Murders, the issues identified and explored in the essays are relevant to any in-depth discussion of such controversial topics as murder investigations, justice, victimology, interrogation techniques, media coverage of crime, and grief. Serial Killers is written in a style that would appeal to true crime readers.

ALSO INCLUDED: In the back of the book is a CD-ROM that includes actual video coverage of the Green River killer's confession. It includes and unmitigated view of the killer's raw, deviant mind.

Murder on Naked Beach by J.J. Henderson

Murder on Naked Beach: A Lucy Ripken Mystery
by J. J. Henderson

30-something, single, and struggling to make it as a photographer in New York City, she's smart, tough, and fiercely protective of her friends and her privacy. Lucy wants to meet the right guy, but she's got to be free for a life of travel and adventure, and she finds both in Murder on Naked Beach, the first novel of this sizzling new mystery series.

It's the ugly side of winter in Manhattan and Lucy is itching to escape to a warmer climate. She manages to talk her way onto a press junket to Jamaica to photograph a posh new resort. Once her photo shoot is done, she'll have plenty of time left for windsurfing and catching up with her traveling companions. Instead, Lucy finds one of them dead in the hot tub on the resort's little island, known as Naked Beach. Although everyone claims the writer died of a heart attack, Lucy smells mischief and is determined to find out what really happened. But her curiosity leads her way off Jamaica's beaten tourist path, and straight into danger, drug smuggling, and the bed of an undercover DEA agent.

With Murder on Naked Beach, author J.J. Henderson introduces us to a sassy and sexy new sleuth in this suspenseful and sharply funny novel.

About the Author

J.J. Henderson was born and grew up by the beach on L.A.'s west side. After graduating college Henderson moved to New York and worked as an architectural and design journalist, a travel guidebook writer and editor. J.J. has written and produced over half a dozen volumes of architectural writing, and worked as an editor and writer on guidebooks to the Caribbean, Costa Rica and Los Angeles, California. J.J. currently lives in Seattle.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending February 26, 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 26, 2006.

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Old Wine Shades, Martha Grimes
2. In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant
3. The Two Minute Rule, Robert Crais
4. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
5. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
6. Cell, Stephen King
7. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
8. The Blight Way, Patrick F. McManus
9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Marley & Me, John Grogan
2. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
3. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
4. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
5. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
6. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
7. You're Wearing That?, Deborah Tannen
8. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
9. The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan
10. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter

MASS MARKET

1. Skeleton Man, Tony Hillerman
2. The Closers, Michael Connelly
3. Hard Truth, Nevada Barr
4. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, M.D.
5. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
6. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
7. The Broker, John Grisham
8. The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais
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, C.S. Lewis
2. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
3. Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
4. Small Steps, Louis Sachar
5. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
6. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
7. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
8. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
9. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
10. Into the Wild (Warriors #1), Erin W. Hunter