Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Nov. 23, 2008

There are seven books by Northwest authors on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. The Eleventh Man, by Seattle author Ivan Doig, tops the bestsellers list. Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain is also on the hardcover list. Earl Emerson's Primal Threat, J.A. Jance's Hand of Evil and Chlesea Cain's Heartsick, all thrillers, are on the paperback list. And, on the children's list are: Brisingr, by Christopher Paolini and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-TIme Indian. Week ending November 23, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. The Eleventh Man, Ivan Doig
3. The Private Patient, P.D. James
4. The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
5. A Mercy, Toni Morrison
6. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
7. Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card
8. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
10. A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Dewey, Vicki Myron
2. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
3. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
4. American Lion, Jon Meacham
5. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
6. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
7. Annie Leibovitz at Work, Annie Leibovitz
8. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina Garten
9. Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
10. Dog Blessings, June Cotner (Ed.)

MASS MARKET

1. The Appeal, John Grisham
2. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
3. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
4. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
5. Hand of Evil, J.A. Jance
6. Heartsick, Chelsea Cain
7. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
8. Marley & Me, John Grogan
9. Duma Key, Stephen King
10. Primal Threat, Earl Emerson

CHILDRENíS TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
5. Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3), Christopher Paolini
6. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
7. Swing!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book, Jeff Kinney

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by northwest-books.com, 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 Nov. 16, 2008

Wow! There are six Northwest authors on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. The Eleventh Man, by Seattle author Ivan Doig, tops the bestsellers list. Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain is also on the hardcover list. J.A. Jance's Hand of Evil and Chlesea Cain's Heartsick, both thrillers, are on the paperback list. And, on the children's list are: Brisingr, by Christopher Paolini and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-TIme Indian. Week ending Nov. 16, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Eleventh Man, Ivan Doig
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
3. A Mercy, Toni Morrison
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
5. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
6. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
7. Just After Sunset, Stephen King
8. A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire
9. The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
10. Home, Marilynne Robinson

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Dewey, Vicki Myron
2. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
3. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
4. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
5. American Lion, Jon Meacham
6. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
7. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina Garten
8. The Limits of Power, Andrew J. Bacevich
9. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
10. Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou

MASS MARKET

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. Marley & Me, John Grogan
3. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
4. Making Money, Terry Pratchett
5. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
6. Hand of Evil, J.A. Jance
7. Now and Then, Robert B. Parker
8. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
9. Heartsick, Chelsea Cain
10. Down River, John Hart

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
5. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
6. Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3), Christopher Paolini
7. Swing!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. The Sorcerer of the North (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 5), John Flanagan
9. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie.

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by northwest-books.com, 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.

Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris by Bonnie Henderson

In Strand, travel writer and amateur naturalist Bonnie Henderson traces the stories of wrack washed up on the mile-long stretch of Oregon beach she has walked regularly for more than a decade. Henderson?s writing conveys both a keen attention to the specifics of place and an expansive field of vision. The burned hull of a long-abandoned fishing boat, a glass fishing float, the egg case of a skate, a beached minke whale, an unusual number of dead murres, and an athletic shoe are the starting points for essays that reach across the globe. Henderson takes readers from Coos Bay, Oregon, to Vancouver, B.C.; from the currents circulating through the North Pacific to the ?Eastern Garbage Patch? between Hawaii and California; from China?s Shenzhen Special Economic Zone to fishing villages on the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.As Henderson uncovers these odysseys, she meditates on current issues, events, and phenomena?oil spills, the proliferation of ocean debris, international trade, the evolution of sharks, and the survival prospects of whales. The characters that emerge range from the world?s leading minke whale researchers to the crew of a Coast Guard airbase to a small-town salvager of wrecked fishing boats, glued to the radio and praying for disaster. Strand offers a thoughtful look at the surprisingly far-ranging journeys of what washes up on our Pacific shores.

About the Author

A journalist and an avid outdoorswoman, Bonnie Henderson lives in Eugene. She is the author of Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon and Day Hiking: Oregon Coast and has published articles in Backpacker, Women?s Sports and Fitness, Coastal Living, and Sunset, among others. In 1995, she began volunteering for CoastWatch, a program of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition that monitors changes, natural and unnatural, on every inch of Oregon?s shoreline. Strand arose from the experience of routinely walking Mile 157 on the central Oregon coast, puzzling over what she found.

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A Community of Collectors: 75 Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum

This volume celebrates an unprecedented series of gifts to the Seattle Art Museum on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. The gifts - nearly 1,000 works from more than forty collections - have significantly enhanced the museum's holdings and reinforced the museum's dedication to artistic excellence. A Community of Collectors includes essays by nine curators who have selected some of the most significant works of art given, pledged, and promised to the museum to be featured. The book offers a sense of the collection's depth and future direction and highlights this gem shinning in the Emerald City.

From seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes to Roy Lichtenstein's Still Life with Silver Pitcher; paintings by Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper and a sculpture of Gwendolyn Knight by Augusta Savage to Asmat war shields from New Guinea; the works considered here touch on the extraordinary richness and variety of the Seattle Art Museum's collections.

The book includes essays by Barbara Brotherton, Michael Darling, Julie Emerson, Chiyo Ishikawa, Patricia Junker, Pam McClusky, Marisa Sanchez, Yukuko Shirahara, and Josh Yiu.

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Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Nov. 9, 2008

This week our Northwest Bestsellers list includes only two northwest authors. Ivan Doig's The Eleventh Man and Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain are the only northwest-related books on the list this week. Week ending Nov. 9, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. The Eleventh Man, Ivan Doig
3. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
4. Swallowing Darkness, Laurell K. Hamilton
5. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
6. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
7. A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire
8. The Brass Verdict, Michael Connelly
9. The Gate House, Nelson DeMille
10. The English Major, Jim Harrison

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Dewey, Vicki Myron
2. Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
3. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
4. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
5. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
6. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
7. The Snowball, Alice Schroeder
8. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
9. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina Garten
10. The Limits of Power, Andrew J. Bacevich

MASS MARKET

1. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
2. Now and Then, Robert B. Parker
3. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
4. Cauldron, Jack McDevitt
5. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
6. Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
7. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
8. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
9. Making Money, Terry Pratchett
10. Sweet Revenge, Diane Mott Davidson

CHILDREN?S TITLES

1. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3), Christopher Paolini
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. Swing!, Rufus Butler Seder
7. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. The Sorcerer of the North (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 5), John Flanagan
9. Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book, Jeff Kinney

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by northwest-books.com, 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 Nov. 2, 2008

Five Northwest authors are on this week's Northwest Bestsellers List. The mass market paperback reprint of Chelsea Cain's Heartsick popped up on the list this week. Her sequel is Sweetheart. Ivan Doig's The Eleventh Man and Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain are in the top four. Two young adult books are also on the list: Brisingr, by Christopher Paolini, and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Week ending November 2, 2008.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
2. The Eleventh Man, Ivan Doig
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
5. The Brass Verdict, Michael Connelly
6. The English Major, Jim Harrison
7. The Gate House, Nelson DeMille
8. A Most Wanted Man, John le Carre
9. Anathem, Neal Stephenson
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Dewey, Vicki Myron
2. My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor
3. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
4. Goodnight Bush, Erich Origen, Gan Golan
5. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
6. The Limits of Power, Andrew J. Bacevich
7. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
8. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
9. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina Garten
10. Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou

MASS MARKET

1. Now and Then, Robert B. Parker
2. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
3. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
5. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
6. Foul Play, Janet Evanovich
7. Heartsick, Chelsea Cain
8. Dark of the Moon, John Sandford
9. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
10. Duma Key, Stephen King

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3), Christopher Paolini
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
6. Swing!, Rufus Butler Seder
7. Gallop!, Rufus Butler Seder
8. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
10. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.)

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by northwest-books.com, 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.