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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).
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"This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil that was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances, and anyone who tried to investigate met the same...
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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 240 week(s).
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616.85 Van der Kolk
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616.85 Van der Kolk
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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.
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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).
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First large print edition.
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).
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"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the...
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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 163 week(s).
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Second hardcover edition.
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First paperback edition
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Unabridged.
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Unabridged.
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 77 week(s).
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First William Morrow paperback edition
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Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies
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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to...
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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 470 week(s).
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1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
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Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...
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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 364 week(s).
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1st edition
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1st pbk. ed.
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In this work the author, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, has brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. He explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. He exposes the extraordinary capabilities,...
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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 66 week(s).
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Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
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#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 87 week(s).
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302 Gladwell
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First edition.
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302 Gladwell
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Large print edition ; First edition.
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Unabridged.
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Playaway, unabridged.
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Malcolm Gladwell offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? A challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals...
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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 51 week(s).
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
13) My love story
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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between. My Love Story is an explosive and inspiring story of a woman who dared to break any barriers put in her way. Emphatically showcasing Tina's signature blend of strength, energy, heart, and soul, this...
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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. It has been on the list for 32 week(s).
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First edition.
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940.54 Gladwell
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940.54 Gladwell
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First Back Bay books trade paperback edition
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Large print edition.
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"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...
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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2023-06-11. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 149 week(s).
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158.1 Duckworth
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158.1 Duckworth
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158.1 Duckworth
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Unabridged.
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"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people--both seasoned and new--that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit." Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly...