NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Huntsville Madison County

1) An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s

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

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"Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for...

2) 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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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 4 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. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In [this book], social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need...

3) Knife: meditations after an attempted murder

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Rushdie, Salman

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

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"Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable."--

4) Somehow: thoughts on love

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Lamott, Anne

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...

5) I'm glad my mom died

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McCurdy, Jennette

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 80 week(s).

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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?"...

6) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

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Grann, David

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 52 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

7) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 56 week(s).

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...

8) Age of revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present

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Zakaria, Fareed

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

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"Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk--the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world?"--

9) There's always this year: on basketball and ascension

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Abdurraqib, Hanif

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make...

10) Nuclear war: a scenario

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Jacobsen, Annie

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

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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. [This...