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2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf
2. I Could Pee on This, by Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle
3. My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor, Knopf
4. Help, Thanks, Wow, by Anne Lamott, Riverhead
5. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Knopf
6. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo, Random House
7. Detroit: An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff, Penguin Press
8. Salt Sugar Fat, by Michael Moss, Random House
9. Life Code, by Phillip C. McGraw, Bird Street Books
10. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
11. The Future, by Al Gore, Random House
12. The Drunken Botanist, by Amy Stewart, Algonquin
13. Whitey Bulger, by Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy, Norton
14. Out of Order, by Sandra Day O'Connor, Random House
15. Wheat Belly, by William Davis, Rodale

On the Rise:
20. Vegetable Literacy, by Deborah Madison, Ten Speed Press
Madison reveals the relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs, and how understanding these connections can help home cooks see everyday vegetables in new light.

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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.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

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