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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2021 • THE BULLETIN
national bestsellers
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended
Saturday, Feb. 6, compiled from data from independent
and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and
independent distributors nationwide.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Four Winds. Kristin Hannah. St. Martin’s
2. The Russian. Patterson/Born. Little, Brown
3. The Sanatorium. Sarah Pearse. Viking/Dorman
4. In Love & Pajamas. Catana Chetwynd. Andrews
McMeel
5. The Vanishing Half. Brit Bennett. Riverhead
6. The Midnight Library. Matt Haig. Viking
7. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. V.E. Schwab. Tor
8. Send for Me. Lauren Fox. Knopf
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Garden. Each essay captures powerful
reflections and personal connections
during a year of uncertainty. This is
the perfect book club pick to discuss
via Zoom.
”White Ivy,”
by Susie Yang
“Ivy Lin was a thief but you would
never know it to look at her.” Who
9. Serpentine. Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine
10. Neighbors. Danielle Steel. Delacorte
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Unmasked. Andy Ngo. Center Street
2. Four Hundred Souls. Kendi/Blain. One World
3. Keep Sharp. Sanjay Gupta. Simon & Schuster
4. A Promised Land. Barack Obama. Crown
5. Just as I Am. Cicely Tyson. HarperCollins
7. Caste. Isabel Wilkerson. Random House
8. That Sounds Fun. Annie F. Downs. Revell
9. Untamed. Glennon Doyle. Dial
10. One Day You’ll Thank Me. Cameran Eubanks
Wimberly. Gallery
is Ivy Lin, and how far will she go
for love? It all comes down to Gideon
Speyer, a privileged senator’s son and
the one person she’s always wanted
to be with. When another man from
her past appears, will Ivy change her
mind? Written in five parts, from as-
similating into America as an immi-
grant when she’s 5 to visiting China at
age 14 and falling in love as an adult,
Yang’s debut novel is filled with emo-
MASS MARKET
1. Highland Treasure. Lynsay Sands. Avon
2. Long Range. C.J. Box. Putnam
3. The Lost and Found Bookshop. Susan Wiggs. Avon
4. The Sea Glass Cottage. RaeAnne Thayne. HQN
5. A Minute to Midnight. David Baldacci. Grand Central
6. Revenge. Patterson/Holmes. Grand Central
7. Perfect Partners. Debbie Macomber. Mira
8. Wicked Game. Jackson/Bush. Zebra
9. The Wicked Die Twice. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle
10. Bridgerton: The Duke and I (TV tie-in). Julia Quinn. Avon
TRADE PAPERBACK
1. Burn After Writing (pink). Sharon Jones.
tions, race, personal family connec-
tions and love. As the novel follows
Ivy’s struggles with her family life,
fitting in at school, navigating differ-
ent cultures and her adult career, we
wonder who the “real” Ivy is. As Ivy
grows, we learn more about her fam-
ily’s immigrant stories. She begins to
understand where she’s from, the im-
portance of race, class and navigat-
ing different cultures. Yang weaves
TarcherPerigee
2. Bridgerton: The Duke and I (TV tie-in). Julia Quinn.
Avon
3. Fair Warning. Michael Connelly.
Grand Central
4. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 20. Koyoharu
Gotouge. Viz
5. Home Body. Rupi Kaur. Andrews McMeel
6. The Girl from the Channel Islands. Jenny Lecoat.
Graydon House
7. The Perfect Marriage. Jeneva Rose. Bloodhound
8. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. Harper Perennial
9. The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook. Jeffrey Eisner.
Voracious
10. Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 8. Gege Akutami. Viz
together a coming-of-
age novel with a side of
thriller. The twists and
turns are surprising and
filled with an amazing
combination of mystery,
uncertainty and under-
standing.
—Paige Bentley-Flannery,
Deschutes Public Library
community librarian
BEND COMPOSER CHRIS THOMAS
WINS MAJOR MUSIC AWARD
BY DAVID JASPER • The Bulletin
B
end composer and Central Oregon Symphony member Chris Thomas has won the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Outstanding Original Score for
the live action short film ”Imagine Symphony Live.” Set in Oregon, the film was produced and directed by Evan Sigvaldsen, also a cellist in the Symphony,
and tells the story of a child who finds himself in a natural wonderland while watching an orchestra performance. It features Central Oregon Symphony
musicians, including Thomas, conducted by Michael Gesme.
While it wasn’t the
typical award show
scenario, Bend
composer Chris
Thomas reacts to
winning the Holly-
wood Music in Me-
dia Award for Out-
standing Original
Score for the short
film “Imagine Sym-
phony Live.”
Submitted photo
According to hmmawards.com, it’s “the
first award organization to honor original
music (Song and Score) in all visual media
from around the globe including film, TV,
video games, trailers, commercial adver-
tisements, documentaries and special pro-
grams.”
Nominees in Thomas’ category included
Dave Catalano (“A Bathroom on Drake”),
J. M. Quintana Cámara (“Defenseless),
Zhiyi Wang (“My People, My Country”)
and Annie Rosevear (“The First Color”).
Thomas had been a guest at the HM-
MAs previously, but this year’s ceremony,
held Jan. 27, was livestreamed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
“They have this great party. It’s not like
the Oscars, where everyone’s kind of cor-
ralled and you can’t reach the celebrities or
talk to them. This one, it’s like a room full
of Oscar and Grammy winners, and it’s a
big, fun party, and everyone’s just running
around having a good time,” he said. “I was
really disappointed that the year I win, and
I could’ve gone and sat with the winners, I
was like, ‘Here I am on my couch, watch-
ing this on TV.’ … My wife took a picture
of me when I won. I’m in my pajamas with
a big blanket over me, with my arms in the
air.”
Nonetheless, his reaction upon see-
ing that he’d won was one of “Surprise,”
Thomas said.
“I’ve won some stuff, but you just never
expect it,” he said. “For shows like this,
you’re just lucky to be in the mix for a
minute. But then when my name kind of
scrolled out, I was like, ‘No way.’”
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David Jasper: 541-383-0349, djasper@bendbulletin.com