Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of April 11, 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 11, 2022:

1. “Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick’’ by J. David McSwane (Atria/One Signal Publishers) McSwane, an investigative reporter at ProPublica, reveals how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history, the COVID-19 pandemic, to fill their pockets. Among the scammers he uncovered: a fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE — and yet never came up with a single mask. (Nonfiction)

2. “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism’’ by Matthew Continetti (Basic Books) Continetti, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, gives a sweeping account of the last century of American conservatism from the Progressive Era to present. He tells how conservatism began as networks of intellectuals, developing and institutionalizing a vision that grew over time until they began to buckle under new pressures, resembling national populist movements. Drawing out the tensions between the desire for mainstream acceptance and the pull of extremism, Continetti argues the more one studies conservatism’s past, the more one becomes convinced of its future. (Nonfiction)

3. “Dream Town’’ by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) Private eye and World War II vet Aloysius Archer tries to help troubled screenwriter Eleanor Lamb after a dead body turns up in her house, but then disappears. The case that leads him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood. As he prowls the darkest corners of Los Angeles, Archer discovers cops more corrupt than criminals and powerful people responsible for his client’s disappearance who’ll kill without a moment’s hesitation if they catch him on their trail. (Fiction)

4. “Brighter by the Day: Waking Up to New Hopes and Dreams’’ by Robin Roberts with Michelle Burford (Grand Central Publishing) The veteran host of “Good Morning America’’ shares her guide to instilling hope and optimism into one’s life — even on the darkest days. Drawing on advice and knowledge she gleaned from conversations with loved ones, spiritual practices, and life experiences, Robin offers a window into how she feeds her own mind, spirit, and soul and invites readers to do the same. (Nonfiction)