NYT - Paperback Nonfiction | Falmouth Public Library

1) 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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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 287 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) Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

Author

Grann, David

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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 164 week(s).

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The Reign of Terror against the Osage people was one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes. As the Wild West was dying, someone was killing members of the Osage nation who had gotten rich off the oil under their land. Investigators who tried to uncover the truth were disappearing, but still J. Edgar Hoover asked a former Texas Ranger to work with the Osage to unravel the mystery.

3) The light we carry: overcoming in uncertain times

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Obama, Michelle

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...

4) Think again: the power of knowing what you don't know

Author

Grant, Adam

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 17 week(s).

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"The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old...

5) Thinking, fast and slow

Author

Kahneman, Daniel

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 401 week(s).

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A psychologist draws on years of research to introduce his "machinery of the mind" model on human decision making to reveal the faults and capabilities of intuitive versus logical thinking.

6) Braiding sweetgrass

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 210 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,...

7) The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Author

Brown, Daniel James

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 163 week(s).

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This book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. It traces the story of the team that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.

8) Poverty, by America

Author

Desmond, Matthew

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...

9) Masters of the air: America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany

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Miller, Donald L

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 12 week(s).

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A history recounting the events and experiences of the World War II bomber pilots of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, the armed forces group that conducted daytime bombing of Germany in advance of the Allied soldiers' arrival on the ground.

10) A book of days

Author

Smith, Patti

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"With more than 365 photographs that take you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful-and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process -A Book of Days is a deeply generous and inspirational map of an artist's life" --

11) Cinema speculation

Author

Tarantino, Quentin

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#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...

12) Everything I know about love: a memoir

Author

Alderton, Dolly

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 44 week(s).

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When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In this book, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding...

13) All about love: new visions

Author

Hooks, Bell

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 124 week(s).

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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.

14) The hundred years' war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017

Author

Khalidi, Rashid

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.

15) Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know

Author

Gladwell, Malcolm

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. It has been on the list for 109 week(s).

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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...