Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Mar. 22,2009

Four Northwest authors are on this week's Northwest Bestsellers list. Earl Emerson's new mystery, Cape Disappointment; Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain and Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet are on the list. And, Sherman Alexie's hit The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Week ending March 22, 2009.

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. Fool, Christopher Moore
4. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
5. Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
6. Cape Disappointment, Earl Emerson
7. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
8. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
9. Little Bee, Chris Cleave
10. The Women, T.C. Boyle

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
3. Food Matters, Mark Bittman
4. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
5. Dewey, Vicki Myron
6. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman
7. How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer
8. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
9. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
10. The Inaugural Address, 2009, Barack Obama

MASS MARKET

1. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
2. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
3. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
4. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
5. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
6. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris
7. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster
8. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
9. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
10. Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais

CHILDREN?S TITLES

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney
5. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4),Stephenie Meyer
6. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
7. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.)
8. Max (Maximum Ride, #5), James Patterson
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.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Mar. 15, 2009

Earl Emerson's new mystery, Cape Disappointment, is on this week's Northwest Bestsellers List. Also, Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain is on the list. Week ending March 15, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. Fool, Christopher Moore
3. Bicycles, Nikki Giovanni
4. Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear
5. Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
6. Cape Disappointment, Earl Emerson
7. The Associate, John Grisham
8. The Women, T.C. Boyle
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
10. Little Bee, Chris Cleave

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer
3. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
4. The Inaugural Address, 2009, Barack Obama
5. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
6. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
7. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
8. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman
9. Food Matters, Mark Bittman
10. The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent

MASS MARKET

1. The Whole Truth, David Baldacci
2. Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais
3. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
4. Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
5. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
6. Small Favor, Jim Butcher
7. Moon Called, Patricia Briggs
8. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
9. Plague Ship, Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
10. Wicked, Gregory Maguire

CHILDREN?S TITLES

1. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney
4. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
5. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
6. Hunted (House of Night, Book 5), P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
7. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.)
8. The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues, #3), Peter Lerangis
9. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
10. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

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 Mar. 8, 2009

Earl Emerson's new mystery, Cape Disappointment, is on this week's Northwest Bestsellers List. Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain are also on the list. Week ending March 9, 2009.

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. Cape Disappointment, Earl Emerson
4. The Women, T.C. Boyle
5. Fool, Christopher Moore
6. Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
7. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
8. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
9. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
10. The Associate, John Grisham

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
3. Dewey, Vicki Myron
4. The Inaugural Address, 2009, Barack Obama
5. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
6. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman
7. A Homemade Life, Molly Wizenberg
8. In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
9. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman
10. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch

MASS MARKET

1. Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais
2. Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster
4. The Appeal, John Grisham
5. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
6. The Whole Truth, David Baldacci
7. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
8. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
9. Bones, Jonathan Kellerman
10. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

CHILDREN?S TITLES

1. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
5. The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues, #3), Peter Lerangis
6. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
7. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
8. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
9. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.)
10. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (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.

Cape Disappointment by Earl Emerson

The bomb that nearly killed Thomas Black went off in a school gymnasium after a Senate candidate had spoken. Amid the carnage, Black nearly bled to death. But he survives-and enters a tunnel of dreams and hallucinations, oblivion and unconnected memories. People come and go from his hospital room. A beautiful woman kisses him. A madman's rant echoes in his mind. Then, when Black-widower, hero, and private investigator-is released from the hospital, he faces the twin tragedies that have devastated his life, and the fact that his lovely wife Kathy is really gone for good.

Or is she? Thomas believes he sees Kathy-as a passenger in a passing truck. Her cell phone, which should be on the bottom of the sea, calls his in the middle of the night. And the explanations investigators give for the plane crash just don't make sense.

Now, step by step, Black is beginning to understand what a paranoid, alcoholic former CIA hit man has been trying to tell him about the plane crash, about the death of a reporter's husband, about suspicious things that nobody ever gets around to questioning. Suddenly, Black is on the run, chased by mysterious people, caught in a web of personal and political lies and something even worse: a plot that is killing everyone it touches.

Brilliantly told and emotionally galvanizing, Cape Disappointment is a political thriller and a gut-wrenching tale of conspiracies-the kind that are too crazy to believe and too deadly to ignore.

Order now through northwest-books.com.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending Mar. 1, 2009

Earl Emerson's new mystery, Cape Disappointment, is on this week's Northwest Bestsellers List. Seattle author Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is also on the list. Week ending March 1, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
2. Fool, Christopher Moore
3. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
4. Cape Disappointment, Earl Emerson
5. White Witch, Black Curse, Kim Harrison
6. Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear
7. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
8. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
9. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
10. The Associate, John Grisham

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. The Inaugural Address, 2009, Barack Obama
3. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman
4. The Lost City of Z, David Grann
5. Food Matters, Mark Bittman
6. The Yankee Years, Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
7. Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
8. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
9. Dewey, Vicki Myron
10. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, Jeff Hertzberg, Zoe Francois

MASS MARKET

1. Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais
2. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, Merriam-Webster
3. The Whole Truth, David Baldacci
4. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
5. Stranger in Paradise, Robert B. Parker
6. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
7. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
8. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
9. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
10. 1984, George Orwell

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney
5. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.)
6. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
7. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
8. Great Bear Lake (Seekers, #2), Erin Hunter
9. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, 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.