NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

1) Be ready when the luck happens: a memoir

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--

2) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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3) The message

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories-our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking-expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist--and named for Nubian pharaoh--Coates...

4) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 101 week(s).

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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.

5) Confronting the presidents: no spin assessments from Washington to Biden

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O'Reilly, Bill

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Thorndike Press large print top shelf

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents. From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United...

6) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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Haidt, Jonathan

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist...

7) Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI

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Harari, Yuval N

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds.And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI-a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the...

8) The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 214 week(s).

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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure-- Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged...

9) Something lost, something gained: reflections on life, love, and liberty

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Clinton, Hillary Rodham

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she’s been married to President Bill Clinton—all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes. She takes us along as she returns to the classroom as a college professor, enjoys the bonds inside the exclusive club of former First Ladies, moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism...

10) America's deadliest election: the cautionary tale of the most violent election in American history

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Bash, Dana

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1872 was the most contentious in American history. After both parties complained of corruption, neither candidate would concede, two governors claimed office and chaos erupted. Rival newspapers engaged in a bitter war of words, politicians plotted to overthrow the government, and their supporters fought in the streets and attempted assassinations. The entire country watched in grim fascination as the wounds...