Bestselling books the week of 12/8/16, according to IndieBound

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance, Harper
2. Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau
3. The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books
4. Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen, S&S
5. Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas L. Friedman, FSG
6. Our Revolution, by Bernie Sanders, Thomas Dunne Books
7. Settle for More, by Megyn Kelly, Harper
8. Atlas Obscura, by Joshua Foer, et al., Workman
9. Killing the Rising Sun, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
10. The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History, by Chris Smith, Grand Central
11. Upstream, by Mary Oliver, Penguin Press
12. Scrappy Little Nobody, by Anna Kendrick, Touchstone
13. Cooking for Jeffrey, by Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter
14. A Life Well Played, by Arnold Palmer, St. Martin's
15. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau
On the Rise:
24. Talking as Fast as I Can, by Lauren Graham, Ballantine
In this collection of personal essays the star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood.

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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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