Bestselling books the week of 11/27/14, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Yes Please, by Amy Poehler, Dey Street
2. 41: A Portrait of My Father, by George W. Bush, Crown
3. Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan
4. Small Victories, by Anne Lamott, Riverhead
5. Killing Patton, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
6. Make It Ahead, by Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter
7. Money Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom, by Tony Robbins, S&S
8. Not That Kind of Girl, by Lena Dunham, Random House
9. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book, by Diane Muldrow, Golden Books
10. What If?, by Randall Munroe, Houghton Mifflin
11. Everything I Need to Know About Christmas I Learned From a Little Golden Book, by Diane Muldrow, Golden Books
12. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press
13. The Andy Cohen Diaries, by Andy Cohen, Holt
14. Plenty More, by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press
15. This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, S&S

On the Rise:
16. One Nation Under Taught, by Dr. Vince M. Bertram, Beaufort
Bertram challenges our whole way of thinking about education and encourages educators and policy-makers to work together to make our schools places that promote curiosity and inspire a love of learning.

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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.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

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