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

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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 324 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.

2) The backyard bird chronicles

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Tan, Amy

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 31 week(s).

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In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater -- an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...

3) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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Audiobook, eAudiobook

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now with exclusive new content from the paperback edition, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA...

4) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

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Snyder, Timothy

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 103 week(s).

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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...

5) Braiding sweetgrass: indigineous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 247 week(s).

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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,...

6) Thinking, fast and slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. It has been on the list for 412 week(s).

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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,...

7) A full life: reflections at ninety

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Carter, Jimmy

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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In this autobiography, President "Carter tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world"--Amazon.com....

8) Sapiens: a brief history of humankind

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Harari, Yuval Noah

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#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 224 week(s).

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One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one -- homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events...

9) The art thief: a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession

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Finkel, Michael

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 28 week(s).

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For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years -- in museums and cathedrals all over Europe -- Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art...

10) Ghosts of Honolulu: a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor

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Harmon, Mark

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 19 week(s).

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The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.

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

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Vance, J. D

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-01-19. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 91 week(s).

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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.