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1) The backyard bird chronicles

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Tan, Amy

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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 26 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...

2) 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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#2 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 319 week(s).

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

Author

Vance, J. D

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 86 week(s).

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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...

4) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--

5) Braiding sweetgrass

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#6 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 242 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...

6) Holidays on Ice

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Sedaris, David

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 27 week(s).

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David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the...

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

Author

Harmon, Mark

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#9 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 14 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.

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

Author

Finkel, Michael

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#11 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 12. It has been on the list for 23 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 Thief,...

9) Say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland

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Keefe, Patrick Radden

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#12 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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""Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation." --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, astunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged...

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

Author

Gladwell, Malcolm

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 124 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...

11) Democracy awakening: notes on the state of America

Author

Richardson, Heather Cox

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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters From An American, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...

12) Spare

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Harry

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#15 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling, and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Prince Harry shares a landmark publication...