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Bestsellers and new in books: Ballerinas, Tony Danza and Noah’s Flood
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles, plus our most recent book reviews
Our latest book reviews at Maclean’s:
- I’d Like To Apologize To Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High, by Tony Danza, review by Joanne Latimer.
- The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, by David R. Montgomery, review by Brian Bethune.
- This is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz, review by Andrew Stobo Sniderman.
- Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor, by Hali Felt, review by Kate Lunau.
- The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude, by Andrew Nikiforuk, review by Brian Bethune.
- Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection, by Deirdre Kelly, review by Joanne Latimer.
Bestsellers last week:
| 1 | SWEET TOOTH by Ian McEwan | 1 (2) |
| 2 | THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny | 3 (2) |
| 3 | THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce | 2 (7) |
| 4 | THE KINGMAKER’S DAUGHTER by Philippa Gregory | 7 (3) |
| 5 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 4 (62) |
| 6 | Y by Marjorie Celona | (1) |
| 7 | THE EMPEROR OF PARIS by C.S. Richardson | 8 (3) |
| 8 | GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn | 5 (6) |
| 9 | LIONEL ASBO by Martin Amis | 9 (3) |
| 10 | BLONDES by Emily Schultz | (1) |
| 1 | NO EASY DAY by Mark Owen | (1) |
| 2 | MORTALITY by Christopher Hitchens | (1) |
| 3 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR Antony Beevor | 1 (14) |
| 4 | 28 SECONDS by Michael Bryant | 10 (3) |
| 5 | QUIET by Susan Cain | 2 (5) |
| 6 | DEARIE by Bob Spitz | 3 (4) |
| 7 | A DAUGHTER’S TALE by Mary Soames | 6 (6) |
| 8 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 5 (33) |
| 9 | THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY by Robert Kaplan | (1) |
| 10 | PARIS: A LOVE STORY by Kati Marton | 9 (2) |
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Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
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