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Three memoirs recount past harm — consensual and not.

Four Sacramentans wrote the new Pickleball for Dummies book. It covers various techniques for the sport that has taken the nation by storm.

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And in fiction, new series novels from Elizabeth Strout (on Lucy Barton), Richard Osman (on the Thursday Murder Club) and Andrew Sean Greer (on Arthur Less). Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 24.

New books consider today's political scene, of course, but there are works by Ben Macintyre, Nina Totenberg (on Justice Ginsburg), Buzz Bissinger and Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner — and, as always, Jim Patterson and Stephen King. These hardcover rankings reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 17.

We round up the big titles U.S. agencies will be selling at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.

Several books are new on the list, which reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 10. Among them in nonfiction: a look at how wealth shifted between 1870 and 2010, and what resulted: "Slouching Towards Utopia."

In nonfiction, an account by a retired Green Beret of a rescue during the last U.S. days in Afghanistan. Also new in fiction, a Taylor Jenkins Reid tale. Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Sept. 3.

In hardcover fiction, R.F. Kuang's "Babel," plus Karin Slaughter — and the debut by true-crime podcaster Ashley Flowers.

The $100,000 award annually recognizes the best in Canadian fiction.