Bestselling books the week of 10/10/13, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Killing Jesus, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
2. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
3. One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson, Doubleday
4. Zealot, by Reza Aslan, Random House
5. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism, by Naoki Higashida, Random House
6. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Viking
7. Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book, by Grumpy Cat, Chronicle
8. I Could Pee on This, by Francesco Marciuliano, Chronicle
9. Still Foolin' 'Em, by Billy Crystal, Holt
10. Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked, by Chris Matthews, S&S
11. William Shakespeare's Star Wars, by Ian Doescher, Quirk
12. Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg, Knopf
13. Levels of Life, by Julian Barnes, Knopf
14. Empty Mansions, by Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., Ballantine
15. Guinness World Records 2014, by Guinness World Records

On the Rise:
19. The Story of the Human Body, by Daniel Lieberman, Pantheon
Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years.

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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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