Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Aug. 24, 2008

Four major books by three great authors are on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain is now second on the list. Also on the list: The Other by David Guterson, Snuff by chuck Palahiak and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Week ending August 24, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
3. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
5. The Other, David Guterson
6. The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
7. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
8. The Little Book, Selden Edwards
9. Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
3. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
4. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux
5. My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor
6. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
7. Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt
8. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
9. The Wrecking Crew, Thomas Frank
10. Waiter Rant, Waiter, Ecco

MASS MARKET

1. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
2. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
3. You've Been Warned, James Patterson
4. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
5. The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
6. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
7. Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
8. Killer Weekend, Ridley Pearson
9. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
10. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
5. The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6), Eoin Colfer
6. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
7. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
8. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and PNBA, is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and IndieBound. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest.

Cézanne's Quarry by Barbara Pope

In this richly atmospheric novel, a mysterious young woman named Solange Vernet arrives in Aix-en-Provence with her lover, a Darwinian scholar named Charles Westbury, and a year later is found strangled in a quarry outside the city. The young and inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, finds his investigation caught in the crossfires of a raging cultural debate. Many of the more conservative residents of Aix, including Martin's own police investigator, believe that Solange reaped what she sowed for entertaining such radical scientific theories

Initially assuming that Solange's murder was a simple crime de passion by either a spurned Cézanne or a betrayed Westbury, Bernard soon finds himself on a mission to unravel the secrets of Solange and Cezanne's hidden past -- the key to which may be a series of his paintings which depict the strangulation and violation of a woman with golden-red hair.

Exploring questions of science and religion -- and the role of women in these realms -- that persist even today, Cézanne's Quarry is an impressive debut mystery about life, death, love, and art.

About the Author

Barbara Pope is a historian, an award-winning teacher, and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. Barbara has lived and worked in Provence, where Cézanne's Quarry is set, and currently resides in Eugene, Oregon. This is her first novel.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Aug. 17, 2008

Four major books by three great authors are on on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. Again, Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain leads off the list. Also in the top ten: Damage Control and Justice Denied by J.A. Jance, and The Other by David Guterson. Week ending August 17, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
3. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
4. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
5. The Other, David Guterson
6. The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff
7. Damage Control, J.A. Jance
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
9. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
3. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
4. The Way of the World, Ron Suskind
5. The Wrecking Crew, Thomas Frank
6. The Dark Side, Jane Mayer
7. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
8. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
9. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
10. Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt

MASS MARKET

1. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
2. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
3. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
4. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
5. The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
6. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
7. Cry Wolf, Patricia Briggs
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
10. Justice Denied, J.A. Jance

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
5. The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6), Eoin Colfer
6. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
7. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and PNBA, is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and IndieBound. 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 Aug. 3, 2008

Again there are five Northwest books are on this week's Northwest Bestseller's list. Two novels by J.A. Jance, a part-time Seattle resident, are on the list. Damage Control, her latest book set in Arizona and Justice Denied, her latest J.P. Beaumont book are on the list. Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain tops the list. David Guterson's The Other and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian are on the list. Week ending August 3, 2008.

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
2. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
3. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
5. Moscow Rules, Daniel Silva
6. Damage Control, J.A. Jance
7. The Other, David Guterson
8. The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
9. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
10. Swan Peak, James Lee Burke

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
3. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
4. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
5. The Dark Side, Jane Mayer
6. The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Vincent Bugliosi
7. My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor
8. Just Who Will You Be?, Maria Shriver
9. The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria
10. What Happened, Scott McClellan

Mass Market

1. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
2. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
3. The Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
4. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon
5. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
6. Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
7. The Navigator, Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos
8. Justice Denied, J.A. Jance
9. One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
10. Little Tiny Teeth, Aaron Elkin

Children's Titles

1. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
5. The Time Paradox , Artemis Fowl, Book 6, Eoin Colfer
6. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
7. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
9. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and PNBA, is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and IndieBound. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest.