NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir"--

2) The serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the practice of harvesting serviceberries and the concept of reciprocity central to Indigenous wisdom. She contrasts this with the dominant economic system rooted in scarcity, competition, and resource hoarding. Kimmerer highlights how the serviceberry tree, by sharing its abundance with its ecosystem, embodies a model of interdependence and mutual support. This ethic of reciprocity, she argues,...

3) Melania: A Memoir

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Trump, Melania

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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Melania is a compelling and inspirational memoir that offers a glimpse into the life of a remarkable woman who has navigated challenges with grace and determination. In her memoir, Melania reflects on her Slovenian childhood, the pivotal moments that led her to the world of high fashion in Europe and New York, and the serendipitous meeting with Donald Trump, a chance encounter that forever changed the course of her life. Melania opens up about...

4) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Snyder, Timothy

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 30 week(s).

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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...

5) Framed: astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions

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Grisham, John

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is...

6) The backyard bird chronicles

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Tan, Amy

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater -- an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...

7) 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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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 35 week(s).

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"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 Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children...

8) Be ready when the luck happens: a memoir

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Garten, Ina

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 8 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"--

9) Revenge of the tipping point: overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#11 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"Revisits the world of social epidemics first explored in Gladwell's 2000 book "The tipping point," this time taking a closer look at the dark side of social engineering. Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. Why is Miami... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell...

10) The war on warriors: behind the betrayal of the men who keep us free

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Hegseth, Pete

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy of our military, we're definitely going to lose everywhere...

11) Citizen: my life after the White House

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Clinton, Bill

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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The 42nd President of the United States writes about his life since leaving the White House.

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

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Vance, J. D

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 108 week(s).

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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 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. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...