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1	Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win Peter Schweizer, Author Harper, $29.99 (352) 978-0-06-306114-9 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 02/07/2022 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 02/07/2022 Average Rank 5.41 [details] Sales history for Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win date, rank 02/07/2022, 1 03/14/2022, 1 04/11/2022, 3 05/16/2022, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2022 UNITS SOLD: 89,534 YTD:	Jan 2022	89,534
2	The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism Glenn Beck, Author, Justin Trask Haskins, With Forefront Books, $28.00 (320) 978-1-63763-059-4 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 2 Initial Date 01/24/2022 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 03/28/2022 Average Rank 5.00 [details] Sales history for The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism date, rank 02/07/2022, 2 04/11/2022, 1 05/16/2022, 5 06/06/2022, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2022 UNITS SOLD: 70,536 YTD:	Jan 2022	70,536
3	The 1619 Project: a New Origin Story Random House, Editor One World, $30.00 (400) 978-0-593-23057-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 11/29/2021 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 11/29/2021 Average Rank 8.55 [details] Sales history for The 1619 Project: a New Origin Story date, rank 12/13/2021, 1 01/10/2022, 1 02/07/2022, 3 03/14/2022, 3 04/11/2022, 5 05/16/2022, 3 06/06/2022, 6 07/18/2022, 6 08/08/2022, 7 09/12/2022, 7 03/13/2023, 6 04/10/2023, 7 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Nov 2021 UNITS SOLD: 39,090 YTD:	Nov 2021	39,090
4	American Marxism Mark R. Levin, Author Threshold Editions, $28.00 (304) 978-1-5011-3597-2 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 07/26/2021 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 07/26/2021 Average Rank 6.21 [details] Sales history for American Marxism date, rank 08/09/2021, 1 09/06/2021, 1 10/18/2021, 1 11/08/2021, 2 12/13/2021, 5 01/10/2022, 4 02/07/2022, 4 03/14/2022, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jul 2021 UNITS SOLD: 27,683 YTD:	Jul 2021	27,683
5	The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation Rosemary Sullivan, Author Harper, $29.99 (400) 978-0-06-289235-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 01/31/2022 Highest Rank 4 Highest Rank Date 01/31/2022 Average Rank 9.38 [details] Sales history for The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation date, rank 02/07/2022, 5 03/14/2022, 4 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Jan 2022 UNITS SOLD: 17,870 YTD:	Jan 2022	17,870
6	The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul Brian Kilmeade, Author Sentinel, $28.00 (288) 978-0-525-54057-1 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 5 Initial Date 11/15/2021 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 12/13/2021 Average Rank 9.20 [details] Sales history for The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul date, rank 12/13/2021, 2 01/10/2022, 3 02/07/2022, 6 03/14/2022, 9 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Nov 2021 UNITS SOLD: 14,313 YTD:	Nov 2021	14,313
7	Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide Miranda Devine, Author Post Hill Press, $28.00 (224) 978-1-63758-105-6 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 24 Initial Date 12/13/2021 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 05/16/2022 Average Rank 13.13 [details] Sales history for Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide date, rank 01/10/2022, 5 02/07/2022, 7 03/14/2022, 7 04/11/2022, 4 05/16/2022, 2 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Nov 2021 UNITS SOLD: 14,119 YTD:	Nov 2021	14,119
8	Peril Bob Woodward, Author, Robert Costa, Author Simon & Schuster, $30.00 (512) 978-1-9821-8291-5 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 1 Initial Date 10/04/2021 Highest Rank 1 Highest Rank Date 10/04/2021 Average Rank 7.12 [details] Sales history for Peril date, rank 12/13/2021, 9 01/10/2022, 8 02/07/2022, 8 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Sep 2021 UNITS SOLD: 10,777 YTD:	Sep 2021	10,777
9	The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber, Author, David Wengrow, Author Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35.00 (608) 978-0-374-15735-7 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 10 Initial Date 11/22/2021 Highest Rank 3 Highest Rank Date 12/13/2021 Average Rank 11.00 [details] Sales history for The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity date, rank 12/13/2021, 3 01/10/2022, 6 02/07/2022, 9 03/14/2022, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Nov 2021 UNITS SOLD: 10,318 YTD:	Nov 2021	10,318
10	For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey Through the White House and Beyond Kayleigh McEnany, Author Post Hill Press, $28.00 (256) 978-1-63758-235-0 Last rank 0 Initial Rank 4 Initial Date 12/20/2021 Highest Rank 2 Highest Rank Date 01/10/2022 Average Rank 10.71 [details] Sales history for For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey Through the White House and Beyond date, rank 01/10/2022, 2 02/07/2022, 10 LAST WEEK: - WEEKS ON LIST: PUB DATE: Dec 2021 UNITS SOLD: 10,007 YTD:	Dec 2021	10,007

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For the 4-week period ended 12-30-23

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