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Rank	Bibliographical Information (Click title for review)	Pub Date	Units
1	Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink Sean Hannity, Author Threshold Editions, $30.00 (352) 978-1-9821-4997-0 Last rank 5 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 08/17/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 08/17/2020 Average Rank 3.23 [details] Sales history for Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink date, rank 09/07/2020, 1 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2020 UNITS SOLD: 386,478 YTD:	Aug 2020	386,478
2	How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X Kendi, Author One World, $25.00 (160) 978-0-525-50928-8 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 08/26/2019 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 08/26/2019 Average Rank 4.53 [details] Sales history for How to Be an Antiracist date, rank 09/09/2019, 1 10/07/2019, 6 02/10/2020, 9 06/08/2020, 8 07/06/2020, 1 08/10/2020, 1 09/07/2020, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2019 UNITS SOLD: 73,227 YTD:	Aug 2019	73,227
3	Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win David Horowitz, Author Humanix Books, $27.99 (272) 978-1-63006-138-8 Last rank 13 Initial Rank 15 Initial Date 06/22/2020 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 09/07/2020 Average Rank 10.94 [details] Sales history for Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win date, rank 07/06/2020, 8 08/10/2020, 6 09/07/2020, 3 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jun 2020 UNITS SOLD: 35,920 YTD:	Jun 2020	35,920
4	The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein, Author Liveright Publishing Corporation, $17.95 (368) 978-1-63149-453-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 06/11/2018 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 07/06/2020 Average Rank 5.25 [details] Sales history for The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America date, rank 06/11/2018, 9 07/06/2020, 4 08/10/2020, 4 09/07/2020, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: May 2018 UNITS SOLD: 27,975 YTD:	May 2018	27,975
5	How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Ben Shapiro, Author Broadside Books, $28.99 (288) 978-0-06-300187-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 08/03/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 08/03/2020 Average Rank 10.11 [details] Sales history for How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps date, rank 08/10/2020, 3 09/07/2020, 5 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jul 2020 UNITS SOLD: 25,787 YTD:	Jul 2020	25,787
6	It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump Stuart Stevens, Author Knopf Publishing Group, $26.95 (256) 978-0-525-65845-0 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 12 Initial Date 08/17/2020 Highest Rank 6 Highest Rank Date 09/07/2020 Average Rank 15.75 [details] Sales history for It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump date, rank 09/07/2020, 6 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2020 UNITS SOLD: 23,091 YTD:	Aug 2020	23,091
7	On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder, Author Tim Duggan Books, $7.99 (128) 978-0-8041-9011-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 20 Initial Date 03/20/2017 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 04/10/2017 Average Rank 11.87 [details] Sales history for On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century date, rank 04/03/2017, 8 05/08/2017, 5 06/05/2017, 2 07/10/2017, 3 08/07/2017, 7 09/04/2017, 6 10/09/2017, 4 11/06/2017, 6 04/02/2018, 8 04/09/2018, 8 05/07/2018, 8 11/11/2019, 5 03/09/2020, 6 08/10/2020, 5 09/07/2020, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2017 UNITS SOLD: 23,026 YTD:	Feb 2017	23,026
8	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X Kendi, Author Bold Type Books, $19.99 (608) 978-1-56858-598-7 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 06/22/2020 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 08/10/2020 Average Rank 4.50 [details] Sales history for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America date, rank 07/06/2020, 3 08/10/2020, 2 09/07/2020, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2017 UNITS SOLD: 22,615 YTD:	Aug 2017	22,615
9	The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY), $30.00 (592) 978-0-385-34871-3 Last rank 18 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 03/09/2020 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 03/09/2020 Average Rank 7.22 [details] Sales history for The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz date, rank 03/09/2020, 1 06/08/2020, 1 07/06/2020, 5 08/10/2020, 7 09/07/2020, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Feb 2020 UNITS SOLD: 21,211 YTD:	Feb 2020	21,211
10	Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth Brian Stelter, Author Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.00 (368) 978-1-9821-4244-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 9 Initial Date 09/07/2020 Highest Rank 6 Highest Rank Date 09/07/2020 Average Rank 10.40 [details] Sales history for Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth date, rank 09/07/2020, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Aug 2020 UNITS SOLD: 20,947 YTD:	Aug 2020	20,947

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For the four-week period ending 8-29-20.