NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Wiggin Memorial Library

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...

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

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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eAudiobook, New Book

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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....

3) You Never Know: A Memoir

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Selleck, Tom

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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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eBook, Kindle

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***INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way.

Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate memoir from one of the most beloved

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4) I'm glad my mom died

Author

McCurdy, Jennette

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 84 week(s).

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"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life."--Amazon.

5) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 60 week(s).

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert

“One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D. Levitt,...

6) Challenger : a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space

Author

Higginbotham, Adam

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-06-02. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--