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Bestselling books the week of 8/14/14, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

2. HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  • By IndieBound

1. A Spy Among Friends, by Ben Macintyre, Crown
2. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book, by Diane Muldrow, Golden Books
3. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides, Doubleday
4. David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
5. Hard Choices, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S
6. Think Like a Freak, by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Morrow
7. The Mockingbird Next Door, by Marja Mills, Penguin Press
8. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press
9. Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis, Norton
10. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein, S&S
11. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, by Roz Chast, Bloomsbury
12. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Random House
13. One Nation, by Ben Carson, M.D., Candy Carson, Sentinel
14. How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination, by Sally Hogshead, HarperBusiness
15. The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, by Ronald Kessler, Crown Forum

On the Rise:
22. The Nixon Defense, by John W. Dean, Viking
Dean's account of one of America's worst political scandals shows how the disastrous mistakes of Watergate could have been avoided and offers a cautionary tale for our own time.

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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”:

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