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#1 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).
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[2016] | First edition. | William Morrow | xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2016 | OverDrive | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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#2 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 25 week(s).
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[2016]. | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 264 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge has 2 305.562 Van |
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[2016] | Blackstone Audio | 6 audio discs (6 hrs., 45 min.) : CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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2016 | OverDrive | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
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2018 | OverDrive | Harper Paperbacks | English | Available Online
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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...
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#3 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).
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2013. | William Morrow | 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"The definitive, tell-all memoir by film legend Debbie Reynolds, UNSINKABLE is a story of heartbreak, hope, and survival"--
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#4 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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2017. | First edition. | Grand Central Publishing | viii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 10 audio discs (630 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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2017. | First edition. | Grand Central Publishing Large Print | 440 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940, journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City -- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012, Preston joined a team of scientists using classified...
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#6 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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[2017] | First edition. | William Morrow | xviii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower delivered a speech three days before President-elect Kennedy's inauguration: three days that were the culmination of a lifetime of service that took Eisenhower from rural Kansas to West Point, to the battlefields of World War II, and finally to the Oval Office. As president, Eisenhower -- former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II -- guided the U.S. out of war in Korea, through the threat of...
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#7 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).
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[2016] | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2016 | OverDrive | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...
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#8 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 48 week(s).
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[2016]. | First edition. | Random House | xix, 228 pages : 1 illustration ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
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[2016]. | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 5 audio discs (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 241 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the...
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#9 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).
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[2017]. | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | 362 pages ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation,...
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#10 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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BIO FISHER, C
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[2016]. | Blue Rider Press | 257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio | 4 audio discs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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"When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved -- plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1976, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar. With...
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#11 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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[2004]. | Penguin Press | 818 pages ; 25 cm. | English |
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[2016]. | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 29 audio discs (35 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2004 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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Publisher's description: In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures...
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#12 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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[2016] | W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, Inc | xvii, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Sometimes the messiest stuff and the biggest mistakes can take you someplace wonderful. With the help of their hit TV show, Fixer Upper, the husband and wife team of Chip and Joanna Gaines have transformed the seemingly everyday work of renovating homes and flipping houses in Waco, Texas, into something much more. With their fun personalities, good humor, strong love of family, and unique design style, they've managed to capture the hearts of Americans...
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#13 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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2016. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | x, 288 pages ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
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[2019]. | Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition. | Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House | xiv, 288 pages ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio, Inc | 7 audio discs (528 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2016 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
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#14 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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[2015] | First edition. | Ballantine Books | xiv, 234 pages, 24 unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2015 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an ... insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology"--Dust jacket flap.
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#15 on the E-Book Nonfiction list for 2017-01-29.
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2016. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2017. | Thorndike Press Large Print | 821 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Large Type 303.483 Fri |
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Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loos) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...