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Bestselling books the week of 4/14/16, according to IndieBound*

What's getting readers hooked at independent bookstores across America?

2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  • By IndieBound*

1. When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi, Random House
2. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press
3. The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss, by Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt, Harper - Debut
4. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead
5. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau
6. Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren, Knopf - Debut
7. Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan
8. Girls & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein, Harper
9. Spain in Our Hearts, by Adam Hochschild, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
10. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson, Doubleday
11. Dark Money, by Jane Mayer, Doubleday
12. The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future, by Steve Case, S&S - Debut
13. Lust & Wonder, by Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin's
14. The Immortal Irishman, by Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
15. Irrational Persistence: Seven Secrets That Turned a Bankrupt Startup Into a $231,000,000 Business, by Dave Zilko, Wiley - Debut

On the Rise:
19. Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting, by Lesley Stahl, Blue Rider
From one of the country's most recognizable journalists, Becoming Grandma is a timely and affecting read that redefines a cherished relationship.

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Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

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