NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | Williamstown - David & Joyce Milne Public Library

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

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Clinton, Hillary Rodham

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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A former senator and presidential candidate offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face and the future within our reach.

2) The third Gilmore girl: a memoir

Author

Bishop, Kelly

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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A candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more.--

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

Author

O'Reilly, Bill

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 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...

4) Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

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Buettner, Russ/ Craig, Susanne

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life 'has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.' Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country....

5) On freedom

Author

Snyder, Timothy

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Timothy Snyder has been called "the leading interpreter of our dark times." As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarianism here and abroad. His book On Tyranny has inspired millions around the world to fight for freedom. Now, in this tour de force of political philosophy, he helps...

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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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 26 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...

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

Author

Harari, Yuval N

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#7 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 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) Want

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational, and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?"--Dust jacket flap.

9) Blind spots: when medicine gets it wrong, and what it means for our health

Author

Makary, Marty

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary examines erroneous health recommendations that the medical establishment in the past, and how these beliefs have harmed patients and negatively impacted research. He explores current research on promient topics, pointing out medical professionals' "blind spots" so that consumers can learn how to think critically about medical advice and protect their health.

10) Lovely one: a memoir

Author

Jackson, Ketanji Brown

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America's highest court within the span of one generation. Named 'Ketanji Onyika,' meaning 'Lovely One,' based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth....

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

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#11 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 212 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. --Publisher's description.

12) Who could ever love you: a family memoir

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Trump, Mary L

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family's exile. Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy's humiliation at the hands of...

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

Author

Vance, J. D

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 99 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. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you...

14) A return to common sense: how to fix America before we really blow it

Author

McGowan, Leigh

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"A political book for non-political people from viral TikTok sensation PoliticsGirl. Something's gone wrong in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We can all feel it, but if we're being honest, most of us don't understand it. At the end of the day, we don't have all the facts, and if you don't know how something works, how do you fix it? A Return to Common Sense is a concise, no-nonsense, dare we say fun, guide to how America works and...

15) Connie: A Memoir

Author

Chung, Connie

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#15 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list for 2024-10-06. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).