NYT - Audio Nonfiction

1) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

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#2 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood 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...

2) Everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

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Green, John

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#6 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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Publisher Annotation: Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy...

3) 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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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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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.

4) The tell: a memoir

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Griffin, Amy (Businesswoman)

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#11 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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"For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from something--a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from herself. ......

5) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"-- Provided by publisher. "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot,...