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(^1113) Room on the Broom/Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler Children: A witch in search of her hat welcomes myriad creatures onto her broom (F) (P) Puffin
12 1 Bloody Genius/John Sandford Virgil Flowers investigates the murder of a scholar at a local university; 12th in series (F) (E) G.P. Putnam’s Sons
(^13) —Movies (And Other Things)/Shea Serrano; art by Arturo
Torres
Subtitle: “A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated” (NF) (H) Twelve
(^146) The Dutch House/Ann Patchett A doomed house, distant father and wicked stepmother forge an unbreakable bond between two siblings (F) (H) Harper
15 —Witch Hunt/Gregg Jarrett Subtitle: “The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History” (NF) (H) Broadside Books
(^1610) Guts/Raina Telgemeier Youth: Author explores how worries about her friends and school affect her physical health (NF) (P) Graphix
1711 Talking to Strangers/Malcolm Gladwell Subtitle: “What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know” (NF) (H) Little, Brown
(^189) Lethal Agent/Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills Mitch Rapp and Irene Kennedy investigate an ISIS terrorist threat; 16th in series (F) (E) Atria/Emily Bestler Books
19 5 The Water Dancer/Ta-Nehisi Coates Hiram Walker is born with the gift, and a near drowning floods him with images of his ancestors — and a yearning to escape slavery (F)
(H) One World
2014 The Testaments/Margaret Atwood The Republic of Gilead is still in control, but its power may be weakening; sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” (F) (H) Nan A. Talese
(^2112) The United States of Trump/Bill O’Reilly Subtitle: “How the President Really Sees America” (NF) (H) Henry Holt and Co.
2219 Educated/Tara Westover Memoir by a Cambridge Ph.D. who was raised by Idaho survivalists and did not enter a classroom until she was 17 (NF) (H) Random
House
2316 Inside Out/Demi Moore Memoir: Actress discusses struggles with her career and personal life (NF) (H) Harper
(^2417) The Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant’s Tomb/Rick Riordan Youth: Apollo has to face an evil trio of Roman emperors; fourth in series (F) (H) Disney-Hyperion
2522 The Great Alone/Kristin Hannah In 1970s Alaska, a teenage girl — the daughter of a disturbed Vietnam War POW — has to grow up in a hurry (F) (P) St. Martin’s Griffin
26 8 The Book of Gutsy Women/Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea
Clinton
Subtitle: “Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience” (NF) (H) Simon & Schuster
(^27) —Deep State/James B. Stewart Subtitle: “Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law” (NF) (H) Penguin
2827 Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete/James Dean Children: Pete the Cat goes trick-or-treating from house to house (F) (P) HarperFestival
2930 The Tattooist of Auschwitz/Heather Morris A fictionalized account of the true story of Lale Sokolov, an Auschwitz inmate forced to tattoo numbers on fellow prisoners (F) (P) Har-
per Paperbacks
(^30122) Super Attractor/Gabrielle Bernstein Subtitle: “Methods for Manifesting a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams” (NF) (E) Hay House
31 —A Bitter Feast/Deborah Crombie Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James investigate a series of deaths at a British estate; 18th in series (F) (E) William Morrow
3251 The Four Agreements/Don Miguel Ruiz Subtitle: “A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom” (NF) (P) Amber-Allen
3341 Doctor Sleep/Stephen King In this sequel to 1977’s “The Shining,” King focuses on little Danny Torrance, now all grown up and called Dan (F) (P) Pocket
34 —The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 4/Robert Kirkman;
art by Charlie Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano, Cliff Rathburn
Collection of “The Walking Dead” issues 145-193 (F) (P) Image Comics
35 —Redemption/David Baldacci Amos Decker reexamines a case he solved as a rookie detective; fifth in series (F) (P) Grand Central Publishing
3626 On Tyranny/Timothy Snyder Subtitle: “Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” (NF) (P) Tim Duggan Books
37 33 The 18th Abduction/James Patterson, Maxine Paetro Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the kidnapping of three teachers; 18th in series (F) (P) Grand Central Publishing
(^3823) Cilka’s Journey/Heather Morris Cilka is condemned to a Siberian prison camp where she is mentored by a doctor; second in series (F) (H) St. Martin’s Press
39 —Super Human/Dave Asprey Subtitle: “The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever” (NF) (H) HarperWave
(^4039) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck/Mark Manson Subtitle: “A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life” (NF) (H) HarperOne
41 —Sinners Are Winners/Lani Lynn Vale Lock meets Saylor at a baseball game when she’s on a bad blind date; fifth in series (F) (E) Lani Lynn Vale
(^42) —Letters From an Astrophysicist/Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist answers letters sent to him about science, faith and the planets (NF) (H) W.W. Norton
4336 The Handmaid’s Tale/Margaret Atwood The story of a handmaid named Offred who lives in the repressive Republic of Gilead (F) (P) Anchor
(^4449) The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book/Eric Carle Classic children’s story of a caterpillar that eats all the time and turns into a butterfly (F) (H) Philomel
45 —Tough Love/Susan Rice Subtitle: “My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For” (NF) (H) Simon & Schuster
(^4648) Goodnight Moon Board Book/Margaret Wise Brown; art by
Clement Hurd
Children’s: The old lady is still whispering hush in 1947 children’s book (F) (H) HarperCollins
(^4752) Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?/Bill Martin Jr.,
Eric Carle
Children: Animals take turns catching glimpses of each other (F) (H) Henry Holt and Co.
(^4856) The 5 Love Languages/Gary Chapman Subtitle: “The Secret to Love That Lasts” (NF) (P) Northfield Publishing, $15.99
4955 Love You Forever/Robert Munsch; art by Sheila McGraw Children: A mother NEVER stops loving her child; popular Mother’s Day book (F) (P) Firefly Books
(^5047) Before We Were Yours/Lisa Wingate Rill Foss fights to keep her siblings together after they’re forced into an orphanage (F) (P) Ballantine
The book list appears
every Thursday.
For each title, the format
and publisher listed are for
the best-selling version of
that title this week.
Reporting outlets include
Amazon.com, Amazon
Kindle, Apple Books,
Barnes & Noble.com,
Barnes & Noble Inc., Barnes
& Noble e-books,
BooksAMillion.com,
Books-A-Million, Costco,
Hudson Booksellers,
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
(Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati,
Charlotte, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh), Kobo, Inc.,
Powell's Books (Portland,
Ore.), Powells.com, R.J.
Julia Booksellers, Schuler
Books & Music (Grand
Rapids, Okemos, Eastwood,
Alpine, Mich.), Target,
Tattered Cover Book Store
(Denver).
THE TOP 10
(^1) — Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire: Illustrated Edition
J.K. Rowling; Art by Jim Kay
Youth: The fourth book in the series about the boy
wizard comes in a new illustrated edition (F) (H)
Scholastic.
(^2) — The 19th Christmas
James Patterson, Maxine
Paetro
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder
Club try to stop a deadly crime on Christmas (F) (H)
Little, Brown
(^3) — What Happens in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand
Irene Steele and her sons return to St. John, where
her deceased husband was leading a double life (F)
(E) Little, Brown
(^43) Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
The reclusive Kya Clark is suspected in the death of
Chase Andrews (F) (H) G.P. Putnam’s Sons
(^52) Blowout
Rachel Maddow
Subtitle: “Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Rus-
sia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on
Earth” (NF) (H) Crown
6 — Child’s Play
Danielle Steel
Kate Morgan learns shocking secrets about her
children (F) (E) Dell
7 — Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
Galaxy “Alex” Stern has been offered a free ride to
Yale due to her magical ability to see ghosts (F) (E)
Flatiron Books
8 — The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
Women deliver books to people as part of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s traveling library in Depres-
sion-era Kentucky (F) (E) Pamela Dorman Books
9 4 The Institute
Stephen King
Luke Ellis is whisked away to the Institute, where
psychic kids are being held captive to save the world
(F) (H) Scribner
10 7 Dog Man: For Whom the Ball
Rolls
Dav Pilkey
Youth: Dog Man discovers he’s the target of a new
villain; seventh in series (F) (H) Scholastic
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Bronze medal-winning Olympian
Adam Rippon had many options to sift
through when choosing a title for his
memoir. That’s because he went to his
Twitter account for inspiration.
“I was in a (expletive) zone on Twitter
then,” Adam Rippon tells USA TODAY,
referring to his social media presence
during the 2018 Olympic Games in Pye-
ongchang. Rippon’s account became
the source of much fascination follow-
ing an interview with USA TODAY’s
Christine Brennan, where he criticized
the selection of Vice President Mike
Pence to lead the U.S. Olympic delega-
tion to South Korea. Pence later tweeted
at him not to “let fake news distract
you.”
Rippon ultimately chose this Feb. 14,
2018 tweetas inspiration: “With every-
thing going on in the media about me
this Valentine’s Day I don’t want people
to get distracted and forget how beauti-
ful I am (on the outside).” His memoir,
“Beautiful on the Outside” (Grand Cen-
tral Publishing, 245 pp.), is out Tuesday.
He loves the title because it goes
tongue-in-cheek with skating: Drama
can be going on behind closed rinks, but
when you go out and compete, you have
to pretend everything’s perfect. “You
don’t want to seem weak in front of your
competitors and, it’s this really ‘beauti-
ful on the outside’ sort of mentality,” he
says.
What you may not know
about Adam Rippon
Rippon’s life may indeed have looked
beautiful on the outside – but readers
will quickly learn at times it wasn’t
beautiful at all.
Failing to make the 2014 Sochi Olym-
pics, struggling with his diet, dealing
with romantic and familial relationship
issues, navigating his coming-out expe-
rience – Rippon’s sleek, stunning skat-
ing doesn’t tell his whole story.
For example, one of his coaches told
Rippon that he would stop accepting
money from his mother and wanted him
to pay for everything on his own. Rippon
agreed – but to save money, ended up
eating free green apples and drinking
TAZO tea from a resort gym where he
worked out. The problem? Rippon is al-
lergic to apples. He had an itchy throat
during that time (that’s where the tea
came in to help).
As for coming out: Once he came out
publicly in a Skating Magazine article in
2015 , his mother was his no. 1 fan. She
was worried for him previously, as she
had many LGBTQ friends growing up
who died during the AIDS crisis and
wanted to save him from the things they
had gone through. She was worried it
would hold back his skating career. He
said it was important for him to do, and
his mom trusted him.
Rippon had girlfriends in the past
and felt like he liked them. “If I’m being
100 percent honest, the reason I wasn’t
having sex with the girls that I had dated
was because I thought I was being a
good guy,” he writes.
It wasn’t until he was with a man that
something clicked. “These are the feel-
ings that everybody talks about,” he
tells USA TODAY.
Rippon’s book, however, isn’t all seri-
ous or depressing. Much like his Twitter
account, the book is full of pithy one-
liners, jokes and pop-culture referenc-
es. Wait until you get to the part about
an incident between a hawk and two
birds he was pet-sitting (we won’t spoil
the ending).
Also, remember that his birthday is
Nov. 11. Trust us. “That was my Taylor
Swift Easter egg, that at least someone
would remember my birthday,” he says.
Would Adam Rippon have a
chat with Mike Pence now?
Rippon would be open to talking to
Pence, though he’d want to bring people
with him to share their stories.
“Mike Pence hasn’t affected my life.
He’s affected the lives of a lot of other
people,” Rippon says. He adds that they
deserve to have the time in front of him
to tell him what they’ve gone through
because of legislation he’s pushed, but
that it’s not hisconversation.
Rippon claims, however, he knows
Pence’s outreach in the first place was
no more than a “stunt.”
“I knew it was a stunt when I was get-
ting tweeted at by the vice president di-
rectly at the Olympics,” he says.
‘The Masked Singer’ egg, and
‘Dancing With the Stars’
Rippon came home to trending topics
on Twitter recently, and saw his name,
“impeachment” and “Nancy Pelosi.”
Naturally, he was confused. He realized
that this had to do with speculation that
he was the egg on Fox’s reality show
“The Masked Singer.” The egg turned
out to be another ice-skating Olympian:
Johnny Weir! Rippon says he loves the
show.
Speaking of reality television: Rip-
pon also spoke out about the current
“Dancing With the Stars” cast. He didn’t
have kind words for “Dancing” contes-
tant Sean Spicer.
“I had Tonya Harding on my cast ...
but this cast is a little bit more extreme,”
Rippon says.
Rippon says he isn’t a Spicer fan,
suggesting that the former press secre-
tary and White House communications
director “lied” during his tenure. “I know
he was just doing his job, but he lied ev-
ery single day,” Rippon says. “Sean Spic-
er’s a (expletive) liar.”
Rippon’s candid nature is evident in
the book, in conversation and on his
Twitter account. The best part? It
doesn’t seem like a calculation: He says
he only posts items on social media he
thinks his friends will find funny.
“Because of that the people who have
followed me can feel like I’m already
friends with them,” he says.
Noted.
Looking inside Rippon’s ‘Outside’
David Oliver
USA TODAY
Adam Rippon competes in the men’s figure skating short program during the
Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. ROBERT DEUTSCH/USA TODAY