NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction

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

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

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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...

3) 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, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....

4) Lovely one: a memoir

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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....

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

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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.

6) 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...

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

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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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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...