Battles, great and small, are a major subject in this week’s Newsmax Rising Bestsellers. There is the history of battles that everyone has engaged in: board games, and then there is the more serious description of how the country spent more than 40 years battling for equality in higher education using the wrong strategy. Moreover, there is the story of one woman’s battle to dominate the competition on the basketball court, and the still another about the United States’ struggle to achieve independence from British rule. The fiction offering is set 80 years ago, in wartime London.
“Strangers in Time: A World War II Novel,” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
No. 1 New York Times bestselling novelist David Baldacci’s latest tale is set in London during the Blitz of 1944, and centers on three characters: Charlie and Molly, two orphaned teens who find solace in a bookstore, and a sense of direction from Ignatius, its owner. Ignatius is recently widowed, and the three form a family of sorts, taking comfort in each other during uncertain times. “Baldacci weaves the trio’s lives together seamlessly, even though each comes from a different stratum of society,” wrote Kirkus Reviews. “Hope, excitement, and tragedy will keep rapt readers reaching for their tissues.” [Nonfiction]
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