Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of April 4, 2022

The Newsmax Rising Bestsellers list will do more than stimulate your mind. These reads may challenge your beliefs, broaden your perspectives, excite your curiosities, or widen your imagination.

These books may not necessarily appear on the official New York Times list of bestsellers, but they're the ones our Newsmax audience is reading, talking about, sharing with friends, and buying.

Here are the Newsmax Rising Bestsellers for the week of April 4, 2022:

1. “Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia’’ by Dave Rubin (Sentinel) The political news talk show host offers a “guide for anyone who wants to revive the American dream while the woke mob tries to burn down the country.’’ He lays out tactics he says one can use for protection against “today’s authoritarian rule – from resisting the grip of Big Tech to staying sane in a post-truth world.’’ (Nonfiction)

2. “True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson’’ by Kostya Kennedy (St. Martin’s Press) A new biography of the baseball legend who broke the Major League Baseball color barrier. Kennedy, a former Sports Illustrated reporter, focuses on four transformative years in Robinson's life: 1946, his first year playing in the all-white minor leagues; 1949, when he won the Most Valuable Player Award as a Brooklyn Dodger; 1956, his final season when he played despite increasing health struggles; and 1972, the year of his death. He sees Robinson as a player, a father and husband, and a civil rights hero. (Nonfiction)

3. “To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship – and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War’’ by (Hanover Square Press) Historians Phil Keith and Tom Clavin chronicle what is considered the greatest Civil War battle at sea. In 1864, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to the finish, the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas. In a chase that lasted 14 months, Kearsarge Capt. John Winslow pursued Alabama Capt. Raphael Semmes, captain of the CSS, with simple orders from the secretary of the navy – “Travel to the uttermost ends of the earth, if necessary, to find and destroy the Alabama.” (Nonfiction)

4. “Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey’’ by Fred Haise with Bill Moore (Smithsonian Books) Haise, lunar module pilot for Apollo 13, offers a new account of the disaster that struck three days into this NASA mission to the moon. An oxygen tank exploded, a crew mate uttered the now-famous line, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and the world anxiously watched one of history’s most incredible rescue missions unfold. (Nonfiction)

5. “Kingdom of Bones’’ by James Rollins (William Morrow) The 22nd adventure of Sigma Force finds Commander Gray Pierce and his team investigating a small village in the Congo where an unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field around the world. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state, and the environment surrounding them — plants and animals — has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. As it races to find answers, the Sigma team realizes it has become the prey. (Fiction)