NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction | Lincoln County Library System

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#1 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"Hayden Panettiere's career in entertainment began before she could talk. From her first gig as a Michelin baby to roles in cult classics like Remember the Titans and Raising Helen, as well as popular soap operas Guiding Light and One Life to Live, Hayden built an impressive resume by the time she entered middle school. Throughout the early 2000s, she starred in millennial favorites like Racing Stripes, Heroes, and Scream 4 & VI and earned two Golden...

2) American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

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Bird, Kai

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#2 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the box office sensation Oppenheimer, a biography of super-lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, whose shocking exploits over four decades have shaped the modern political era, most prominently the ascent of Donald Trump. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the many dramas of American political life had one common denominator: Roy Cohn. In his twenties, the infamous young prosecutor...

3) Crossing the wine-dark sea: journeys through ancient literature

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Wilson, Emily R., 1971-

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#3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." --Salman Rushdie"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." --Madeline Miller 'From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world.'

4) Regime change: inside the imperial presidency of Donald Trump

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Haberman, Maggie

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#4 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time. From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump's second presidency--a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him "no" are gone,...

5) Going further: the incomparable Clarence Thomas

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Cruz, Ted, 1970-

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#5 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"From Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas's life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law"-- Provided by publisher.

6) Strangers: a memoir of marriage

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Burden, Belle

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#6 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 34 week(s).

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"It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, he wanted me. And then he didn't. In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha's Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together--building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whiskey sours, making roast chicken. Then,...

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

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Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943-

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#8 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 311 week(s).

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Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent...

8) London falling: a mysterious death in a gilded city and a family's search for truth

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Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-

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#9 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).

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"From the bestselling, prize-winning author of SAY NOTHING, a powerfully compelling account of a family devastated by the apparent suicide of their nineteen year-old son, only to discover he had created a separate identity which drew him into the dangerous international criminal underworld underlying London's glittering surface. In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain's spy agency, captured...

9) Let us do good: my brother Stephen, 9/11, and the mission to honor America's heroes

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Siller, Frank (Chairman of Tunnel to Towers Foundation)

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#10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller had just finished his shift and was heading home when he heard the call. Turning his truck around, he drove toward lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center. With the roads closed, Stephen ran through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel carrying sixty pounds of gear on his back, determined to save as many people as he could from the Twin Towers. He never made it home. How does a family...

10) The nerd reich: Silicon Valley fascism and the war on democracy

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Duran, Gil

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#11 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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When Silicon Valley says it is 'moving fast and breaking things,' the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule. Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, Durán traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg....

11) All about love: new visions

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hooks, bell, 1952-2021

Series

Bell Hooks Love Trilogy
Love Song to the Nation

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#12 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 68 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.

12) Star of the show: my life on stage

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Parton, Dolly

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#13 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"A stunning celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic career as a performer, featuring entertaining personal stories alongside 350 full-color photographs, including exclusive images and ephemera from her archive, and an 8-page gatefold listing her performances"-- Provided by publisher.

13) Braiding sweetgrass

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 1953-

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#14 on the Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 106 week(s).

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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, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...

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