Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Nov 26, 2006

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 November 26, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Shape Shifter, Tony Hillerman
2. Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen
3. Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
4. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
5. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog, Dave Barry
6. Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
7. Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende
8. What Is the What, Dave Eggers
9. The View From Castle Rock, Alice Munro
10. For One More Day, Mitch Albom

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
3. Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
4. I Like You, Amy Sedaris
5. I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
6. Marley & Me, John Grogan
7. Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
8. You: On a Diet, Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
9. Joy of Cooking (75th Anniversary Ed.), Irma S. Rombauer, et al.
10. Among Wild Horses, Lynne Pomeranz

MASS MARKET

1. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
2. No Regrets and Other True Cases, Ann Rule
3. The Cell, Stephen King
4. Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley
5. Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
6. School Days, Robert B. Parker
7. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
8. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
9. Death and Judgment, Donna Leon
10. Thanksgiving, Janet Evanovich

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
2. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
3. The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5), Eoin Colfer
4. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.)
6. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
7. Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Dave Barry
8. Terrier, Tamora Pierce
9. Pirateology, Captain William Lubber
10. Into the Wild (Warriors #1), Erin W. Hunter

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Nocturnal America

Nocturnal America

by John Keeble

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this collection of loosely connected tales returns readers to the American Northwest so finely observed and powerfully evoked in John Keeble?s previous, celebrated works. Nocturnal America occupies a terrain at once familiar and strange, where homecoming and dislocation can coincide, and families can break apart or hone themselves on the hard edges of daily life. In these stories, Keeble populates what journalist Joel Garreau once called the ?Empty Quarter? of North America with complex humanity. Life ranges vibrantly through these airy spaces, at times finding itself thrown up against the shifty terrors of political change and the antic scrim of culture.

Keeble?s stories hinge on love?its difficulty, its loss and pangs, but also its discovery of good fortune and even illumination in steadiness through travail. As his characters come and go, unexpectedly converging, vanishing, or reappearing, their stories reach beyond the ordinariness of life and the particularities of place to create something akin to community.

About the Author

John Keeble is the author of Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound and four novels, including Broken Ground and Yellowfish. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Village Voice, American Short Fiction, Outside, and Best American Short Stories. Keeble is also the writer for the prize-winning PBS documentary on the life of Raymond Carver, To Write and Keep Kind. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and received a Washington State Governor?s Award.

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Incognito Street

Incognito Street : How Travel Made Me a Writer

by Barbara Sjoholm

Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe. Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada, finding odd jobs to make ends meet. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice.

Incognito Street is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her. As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer?s maturing eyes.

About the Author

Barbara Sjoholm is a writer of memoir, personal essays and travel narratives. Before changing her name in 2001, she published a number of books of fiction, mystery and non-fiction as Barbara Wilson.

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Springer's Journey

Springer's Journey

by Naomi Black, Illustrated by Virginia Heaven

The endearing story of Springer, an orphaned baby orca who befriended Puget Sound ferry boats in 2002, gets a sentimental, fictional retelling in "Springer's Journey," a new book by a Seattle author, illustrator and publisher.

Springer's Journey is a childen's book that will be treasured by the young and not-so-young alike.

Springer has the perfect Orca Whale life, living and playing with the rest of her family in the Kelp Forests of Northern British Columbia until her idyllic life is suddenly shattered. Based on a true story, this is the account of a brave young whale, a surprising journey, and the discovery that the road home doesn't begin on any map: it begins in your heart.

About the Author

The text is written by Naomi Black, Computer Geek and Orator. A native Seattleite, Naomi grew up in the Pacific Northwest, often finding herself in the wilderness and on the sea. This is her first book.

The illustrations are the work of Virginia Heaven, an artist and former art teacher at Seattle Preparatory School. Virginia has traveled the Northwest coast by kayak as far north as the Queen Charlotte Islands. Johnstone Strait and the surrounding area are familiar territory to her, and her love of the wilderness and its creatures are apparent in the spirit of the illustrations.

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Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Nov. 19, 2006

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen
2. Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
3. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog, Dave Barry
4. The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
5. For One More Day, Mitch Albom
6. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
7. Lisey's Story, Stephen King
8. Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende
9. The View From Castle Rock, Alice Munro
10. Cross, James Patterson

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. You: On a Diet, Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
3. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
4. Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
5. I Like You, Amy Sedaris
6. Marley & Me, John Grogan
7. Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
8. No Shortcuts to the Top, Ed Viesturs
9. Culture Warrior, Bill O'Reilly
10. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

MASS MARKET

1. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
2. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy Garcia Schaffer (Ed.)
3. Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
4. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
5. Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley
6. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
7. Valley of Silence, Nora Roberts
8. No Regrets and Other True Cases, Ann Rule
9. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
10. Forever Odd, Dean R. Koontz

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
2. The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5), Eoin Colfer
3. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
4. Pirateology, Captain William Lubber
5. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
6. Terrier, Tamora Pierce
7. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
8. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kate DiCamillo
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
10. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner

Northwest author wins National Book Award

Seattle author Timothy Egan has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for his harrowing account of America's Dust Bowl catastrophe, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl."

The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize?winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones.

Spokane author Jess Walter was a finalist in the fiction category for his post-9/11 novel, "The Zero"; Richard Powers' "The Echo Maker" won in that category.

From its opening pages-when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head-novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. From a novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an extraordinary story of how our trials become our transgressions, of how we forgive ourselves and whether or not we should.

Both books are available at northwest-books.com.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Nov 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 November 12, 2006.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
2. For One More Day, Mitch Albom
3. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
4. Wild Fire, Nelson DeMille
5. What Came Before He Shot Her, Elizabeth George
6. Lisey's Story, Stephen King
7. Ines of My Soul, Isabel Allende
8. What Is the What, Dave Eggers
9. Echo Park, Michael Connelly
10. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen,

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. You: On a Diet, Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
3. I Like You, Amy Sedarisrner
4. State of Denial, Bob Woodward
5. Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
6. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
7. I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
8. Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
9. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
10. Marley & Me, John Grogan

MASS MARKET

1. Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
2. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
3. School Days, Robert B. Parker
4. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
5. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
6. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
7. Thanksgiving, Janet Evanovich
8. No Regrets and Other True Cases, Ann Rule
9. The Camel Club, David Baldacci
10. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
2. The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5), Eoin Colfer
3. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
4. Pirateology, Captain William Lubber
5. Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree House #36), Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.)
6. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
7. Terrier, Tamora Pierce
8. Into the Wild (Warriors #1), Erin W. Hunter
9. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
10. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Nov. 5, 2006

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List, as brought to you by Book Sense and PNBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 5, 2006. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and Book Sense.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
2. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
3. The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford
4. Lisey's Story, Stephen King
5. Echo Park, Michael Connelly
6. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
7. Dear John, Nicholas Sparks
8. Hundred-Dollar Baby, Robert B. Parker
9. The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
10. For One More Day, Mitch Albom

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. You: On a Diet, Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
3. Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
4. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
5. State of Denial, Bob Woodward
6. Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
7. I Like You, Amy Sedaris
8. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
9. The Innocent Man, John Grisham
10. Culture Warrior, Bill O'Reilly

MASS MARKET

1. Valley of Silence, Nora Roberts
2. Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
3. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
4. Death and Judgment, Donna Leon
5. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
6. Ordinary Heroes, Scott Turow
7. Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley
8. The Camel Club, David Baldacci
9. Predator, Patricia D. Cornwell
10. Forever Odd, Dean R. Koontz

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13), Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illus.)
2. Eragon, Christopher Paolini, Laurel-Leaf, $6.99, 044023848X
3. The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5), Eoin Colfer
4. Terrier, Tamora Pierce
5. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
7. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
8. Skippyjon Jones, Judith Schachner
9. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
10. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer