Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending June 22, 2008

Five Northwest authors are on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein is back, along with The Other by David Guterson, Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk, and The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss. And, in the children's category, Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian is on the list, too.

All these books are available through northwest-books.com.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
2. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
3. The Other, David Guterson
4. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
5. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
6. The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss
7. Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
8. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
9. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
10. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
2. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
3. What Happened, Scott McClellan
4. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
5. The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria
6. The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Vincent Bugliosi
7. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
8. 1434, Gavin Menzies
9. Quantum Wellness, Kathy Freston
10. Bigfoot: I Not Dead, Graham Roumieu

MASS MARKET

1. Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
2. The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
3. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
4. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
5. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon
6. 1984, George Orwell
7. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
8. Bones to Ashes, Kathy Reichs
9. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal, Eric Van Lustbader
10. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
4. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4), Rick Riordan
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
7. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
8. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
9. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
10. Seekers: The Quest Begins, Erin Hunter

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List is 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.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending June 15, 2008

Three Northwest authors are on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, is at the top of the list. David Guterson's The Other and Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff are also in the top ten. Week ending June 15, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
2. The Other, David Guterson
3. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
4. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
5. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child
6. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
8. Plague Ship, Clive Cussler
9. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
2. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
3. What Happened, Scott McClellan
4. The Downhill Lie, Carl Hiaasen
5. The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria
6. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
7. Moyers on Democracy, Bill Moyers
8. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
9. Just Who Will You Be?, Maria Shriver
10. The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
3. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon
4. 1984, George Orwell
5. New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary, Edy Garcia Schaffer (Ed.)
6. Simple Genius, David Baldacci
7. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
8. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster (Eds.)
9. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
10. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal, Eric Van Lustbader

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
4. Eclipse , Stephenie Meyer
5. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
6. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4), Rick Riordan
7. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1), Rick Riordan
9. Seekers: The Quest Begins, Erin Hunter
10. Raven Rise (Pendragon #9), D.J. MacHale

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List is 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.

The Other by David Guterson

From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.

John William Barry has inherited the pedigree?and wealth?of two of Seattle?s elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish. Nevertheless, when the two boys meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they?re brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington?s remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits?and each other?to survive.

Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher and family man. But John William makes a radically different choice, dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods, convinced that it is the only way to live without hypocrisy. When John William enlists Neil to help him disappear completely, Neil finds himself drawn into a web of secrets and often agonizing responsibility, deceit, and tragedy?one that will finally break open with a wholly unexpected, life-altering revelation.
Riveting, deeply humane, The Other is David Guterson?s most brilliant and provocative novel to date.

About the Author

David Guterson is the author of the novels Snow Falling on Cedars, East of the Mountains, and Our Lady of the Forest, as well as a story collection, The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind. A PEN/Faulkner Award winner, he is a cofounder of Field?s End, an organization for writers in Washington State.

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Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending June 8, 2008

Four Northwest authors on this week's bestsellers list. Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff, The Other by David Guterson and a mass market paperback, Always Dakota by Debbie Macomber. Week ending June 8, 2008.

These books are available through northwest-books.com.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
2. The Other, David Guterson
3. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
4. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child
5. The Spies of Warsaw, Alan Furst
6. Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
7. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
8. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
9. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
10. The Garden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
2. What Happened, Scott McClellan
3. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
4. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
5. Just Who Will You Be?, Maria Shriver
6. The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria
7. The Downhill Lie, Carl Hiaasen
8. What Now?, Ann Patchett
9. A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz
10. JFK and the Unspeakable, James W. Douglass

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon
3. Always Dakota, Debbie Macomber
4. Up in Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard
5. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
6. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal, Eric Van Lustbader
7. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
8. The Judas Strain, James Rollins
9. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
10. Index to Murder, Jo Dereske

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon , Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
4. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
5. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4), Rick Riordan
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
7. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
8. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
9. Seekers: The Quest Begins, Erin Hunter
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List is 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.

House rules by Mike Lawson

House Rules
by Mike Lawson

Mike Lawson?s Joe DeMarco thrillers have drawn praise for their fine-tuned suspense, off-kilter characters, intricate plots, and revealing portrait of Washington, DC behind closed doors. In House Rules, a terrorist bombing of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel is narrowly avoided. Then a private plane headed straight for the White House ignores warnings and is shot down. An atmosphere of fear and panic overruns the country, and when the junior senator from Virginia proposes to deport all noncitizen Muslims and run extensive background checks on all Muslim Americans, his bill gains surprising traction.

Speaker of the House John Mahoney is not pleased. He knows it is the kind of knee-jerk response people will come to regret, like Japanese internment camps, and he needs to find a way to kill the bill before it exposes a secret he wants to keep. So Mahoney calls his man DeMarco. An average guy who struggles with debt, divorce, and an unreasonable boss, DeMarco is an unlikely hero, in over his head, relying on old friends as he attempts to get to the bottom of the attacks in this riveting read, full of suspense, fascinating characters, humor, and timely political intrigue.

About the Author

Mike Lawson served for years as a senior civilian executive for the United States Navy. He is the author of the highly regarded political thriller The Inside Ring. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending June 1, 2008

This week's bestsellers list includes: Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain, Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
2. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
3. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
4. Blood Noir, Laurell K. Hamilton
5. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
7. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
8. The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Alexander McCall Smith
9. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
10. Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
2. The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria
3. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
4. What Happened, Scott McClellan
5. Just Who Will You Be?, Maria Shriver
6. Bonk, Mary Roach
7. Moyers on Democracy, Bill Moyers
8. The Downhill Lie, Carl Hiaasen
9. Don'ts for Wives, Blanche Ebbutt
10. My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor

MASS MARKET

1. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon
2. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
3. High Noon, Nora Roberts
4. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
5. The Sleeping Doll, Jeffery Deaver
6. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
8. The Judas Strain, James Rollins
9. The Lost Duke of Wyndham, Julia Quinn
10. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. Oh, the Places You'll Go!, Dr. Seuss
3. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4), Rick Riordan
4. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
5. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
6. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
7. Seekers: The Quest Begins, Erin Hunter
8. Raven Rise (Pendragon #9), D. J. MacHale
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
10. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List is 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.