Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of December 13, 2021

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 December 13, 2021:

1.) "Trump 45: America's Greatest President" by L.D. Hicks (Post Hill Press) This pictorial history of the Trump Presidency, includes photos of the former commander in chief negotiating trade deals, speaking to Congress, working for every day Americans, making peace with foreign leaders, and bringing troops home from overseas. Hicks, who also authored "Melania Trump: Elegance in the White House,’’ argues that Trump was the nation’s greatest leader who “sacrificed so much for so many people.’’ (Nonfiction)

2.) "The Stranger in the Lifeboat" by Mitch Albom (Harper) Albom asks what would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In his latest novel, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be "the Lord" — and he says he can only save them if they all believe in him. Albom’s previous bestsellers include “The Five People You Meet in Heaven’’ and “Tuesdays with Morrie.’’ (Fiction)

3.) "When Christmas Comes" by Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press) The noted conservative commentator and bestselling mystery author is back with a holiday-themed thriller. As the festive Christmas season envelops the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven, a sleuthing English teacher races against time to prove a condemned man innocent of savagely murdering school librarian. But how is that possible when man has already confessed and there are witnesses to the crime? (Fiction).

5.) "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future"by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher (Little, Brown and Company) The former secretary of state, the former CEO of Google and the inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing explore how Artificial Intelligence will change our relationships with knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live. (Nonfiction)

6.) "Up and Down: Victories and Struggles in the Course of Life" by Bubba Watson with Don Yaeger (Thomas Nelson) The Florida-born golf champion, who’s won two Masters Tournaments and competed in the Olympics, opens up about his struggles with debilitating anxiety attacks, the death of his father and namesake, adopting his children, and how reaching a breaking point professionally and personally drew him closer to his family and God. (Nonfiction)