NYT - Paperback Nonfiction | Anne Arundel County

1) The backyard bird chronicles

Author

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

Author

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).

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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."

3) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

Author

Snyder, Timothy

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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 98 week(s).

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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn...

4) 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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"Part memoir, part historical and social analysis, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is a fascinating consideration of class, culture, and the American dream. Vance's grandparents were "dirt poor and in love." They got married and moved north from Kentucky to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. Their grandchild (the author) graduated from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving upward mobility for...

5) 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"--

6) Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants

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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, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--

7) Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Author

Stillwell, Kevin

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2024-12-15. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 23 week(s).

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A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's...

8) Holidays on ice: with six new stories

Author

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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A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.

9) 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.

10) 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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"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. 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,...

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

Author

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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"From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, 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 from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known...

12) 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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The popular podcast host and author explores how people interact with strangers and why these exchanges often go wrong, offering strategic tips for more accurate and productive interactions.

13) Democracy awakening: notes on the state of America

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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...

14) 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, Spare is a landmark publication full...