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national bestsellers
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended
Saturday, March 13, compiled from data from
independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers
and independent distributors nationwide.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Life After Death. Sister Souljah. Atria
2. The Four Winds. Kristin Hannah. St. Martin’s
3. 2034. Ackerman/Stavridis. Penguin Press
4. The Midnight Library. Matt Haig. Viking
5. Dark Sky. C.J. Box. Putnam
6. Fast Ice. Cussler/Brown. Putnam
7. Klara and the Sun. Kazuo Ishiguro. Knopf
8. The Affair. Danielle Steel. Delacorte
9. We Begin at the End. Chris Whitaker. Holt
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“A lot of writers say, ‘Don’t do this,’ but I
have two protagonists,” Latimer said. “I’ve
got Martha, and I’ve got Anna.”
Latimer began writing books after the
2007 death of her first husband, Doug La-
timer, but she’s written throughout her life,
filling journal after journal, as well as in her
education career, “but they were more schol-
arly kinds of things,” she said.
In 2012, she did a small run of her first
book, a memoir titled “Will You Be Sitting
Beside Me?” In 2018, she self-published her
first novel, “Those We Left Behind,” which
could almost be cast as a fictional autobiog-
raphy, she said, as it was informed from her
own life and background as an educator.
“I pulled so much from my own past —
as a professor, as a woman basically on her
own,” Latimer said. “When I finished that, I
knew I was going to write another one.”
Latimer, who loves to do research, said
that the origins of “Out of Place” can be
traced back to the day she was looking at
Ancestry.com, specifically the father of her
late husband, whom she never met.
“I knew that he was an Irish orphan …
what’s called a ‘Home Child,’ Latimer said.
“Home children came from Ireland, Brit-
10. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. V.E. Schwab. Tor
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. How to Do the Work. Nicole LePera. Harper Wave.
2. Everything Will Be Okay. Dana Perino. Twelve.
3. The Code Breaker. Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster
4. Beyond Order. Jordan B. Peterson. Portfolio
5. The Sum of Us. Heather McGhee. One World
6. Believe It. Jamie Kern Lima. Gallery
7. Floret Farm’s Discovering Dahlias. Erin Benzakein.
Chronicle
8. Greenlights. Matthew McConaughey. Crown
9. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Bill Gates. Knopf
10. Caste. Isabel Wilkerson. Random House
ain and they were
sent to Common-
wealth countries
— to Canada, to
New Zealand, to
Australia, to South
Africa — to work
on farms,” she said.
“Some of them were
6 years old.”
The program
started in the 19th
century and began
winding down in the
mid 20th century.
Though her father-
in-law was adopted by
the family he landed
with and fared well,
that was not true of all
Home Children. (For
further reading, she rec-
ommends “Bleating of the Lambs: Canada’s
Home Children,” by Lori Oschefski.)
But instead of modeling the character she
had in mind after her father-in-law, Latimer
invented Martha.
“I had this other Irish orphan girl hero in
my imagination,” Latimer said.
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MASS MARKET
1. Camino Winds. John Grisham. Dell
2. The Numbers Game. Danielle Steel. Dell
3. Hush. Patterson/Fox. Grand Central
4. Journey of the Pharaohs. Cussler/Brown. Putnam
5. Mountain Survival. Christy Barritt. Love Inspired
Suspense
6. By the Neck. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle
7. Fairy-Tale Forever. Debbie Macomber. Mira
8. A Quiet, Little Town. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle
9. Bridgerton: The Duke and I (TV tie-in). Julia Quinn.
Avon
10. Abducted in Alaska. Darlene L. Turner. Love Inspired
Suspense
Once she had decided that
Martha would be sent to live
with her aunt in Kingston, On-
tario, she “no longer qualified
as a home child, because home
children had nobody to go to.
They went to complete strang-
ers,” Latimer said. “When I
got into telling her story, the
real world of the Home Chil-
dren, which sparked the
idea, then became my imag-
ination: What was it like for
that young girl to travel on
that ship?”
In the story, though her
aunt is cold to her, Mar-
tha grows close to her un-
cle and her older cousin
Anna.
But when Canada en-
ters World War I in August 1914, Anna, a
trained nurse, wants to help and joins the
Canadian Army Medical Corps and be-
comes a Canadian Nursing Sister. Once
again, when Anna leaves, Martha feels she’s
losing a sense of place.
“For Martha, it’s this trajectory of finding
place, losing. Finding place, losing,” Latimer
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TRADE PAPERBACK
1. Later. Stephen King. Hard Case Crime
2. The Rose Code. Kate Quinn. Morrow
3. Split Second. David Baldacci. Grand Central
4. In Five Years. Rebecca Serle. Atria
5. Bridgerton: The Duke and I (TV tie-in). Julia Quinn.
Avon
6. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown
7. Home Body. Rupi Kaur. Andrews McMeel
8. The 20th Victim. Patterson/Paetro. Grand Central
9. Burn After Writing (pink). Sharon Jones.
TarcherPerigee
10. Camino Winds. John Grisham. Bantam
said. “Which in some senses creates a kind
of strength in her. She’s a pretty independent
spirit.”
Shell shock and other torments of war
that impact both their lives, and later, in
1938, Martha and Anna, already well-versed
in the harsh realities of war, return to Eu-
rope in order to help a Jewish professor res-
cue his daughters.
“Out of Place” was published in early Feb-
ruary, and Latimer has already begun hear-
ing from people wanting to share how it’s
affected them, including a former education
colleague in Canada who quoted Latimer’s
words back to her and shared how each trig-
gered memories, including one about his
uncles who served in World War II. He also
said he plans to read the book to a relative
who is 93 and blind but will no doubt find it
of interest.
That’s enough to make all of the work
worthwhile, Latimer said.
“The reader took this time to take this
quote and then tell me about how it touched
experiences and memories that he had,” she
said. “I don’t ever expect to, but if I didn’t sell
a whole lot of books, some reader out there
has been touched.”
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