NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Santa Fe Public Library

1) A promised land

Author

Obama, Barack

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency -- a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young...

2) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"-- "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...

3) Becoming

Author

Obama, Michelle

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 96 week(s).

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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...

4) Caste: the origins of our discontents

Author

Wilkerson, Isabel

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power -- which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...

5) Untamed

Author

Doyle, Glennon

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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 40 week(s).

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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...

6) The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz

Author

Larson, Erik

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).

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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...

7) Is this anything?

Author

Seinfeld, Jerry

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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Collecting material from half a century in comedy, a chronologically arranged selection of favorite skits and memories by the iconic funnyman includes selections from his original "Catch a Rising Star" performance. "Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub "Catch a Rising Star" as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. "Whenever I came up with...

8) Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America

Author

O'Reilly, Bill

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...

9) Humans

Author

Stanton, Brandon

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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"Brandon Stanton's new book, Humans ... shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents,...

10) The answer is: reflections on my life

Author

Trebek, Alex

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career"--Dust jacket. "Since debuting as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek has been something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing entertainment and education into their homes five nights a week. Last year, he made the stunning announcement that he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. What followed was an incredible...

11) Dolly Parton: songteller, my life in lyrics

Author

Parton, Dolly

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2020-12-27. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...