NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Central Skagit Library District

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir."--Provided by publisher.

2) Melania: a memoir

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Trump, Melania

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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"In her memoir, Melania reflects on her Slovenian childhood, the pivotal moments that led her to the world of high fashion in Europe and New York, and the serendipitous meeting with Donald Trump, a chance encounter that forever changed the course of her life. Melania opens up about their courtship, life in the spotlight, and experiencing the joy of motherhood. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from her time in the White House, shedding light on...

3) Be ready when the luck happens: a memoir

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Garten, Ina

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#3 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--

4) Framed: astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions

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Grisham, John

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#4 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there...

5) Confronting the presidents: no spin assessments from Washington to Biden

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O'Reilly, Bill

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Thorndike Press large print top shelf

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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"From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United States presidents have left lasting impacts on our nation. Some of their legacies continue today, some are justly forgotten, and some have changed as America has changed. ... The authors' ... research has uncovered never before seen historical facts based on private correspondence and newly discovered documentation, such...

6) The serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world"--Provided by publisher.

7) 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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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 37 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...

8) Revenge of the tipping point: overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"Why is Miami--Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this ... work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through...

9) The demon of unrest: a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War

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Larson, Erik

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 23 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. Master storyteller Erik Larson...

10) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 81 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,...

11) From here to the great unknown: a memoir

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Presley, Lisa Marie

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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"Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this ... one-of-a-kind memoir, faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough"--

12) The third Gilmore girl: a memoir

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Bishop, Kelly

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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A "memoir from award-winning ... actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more"--

13) Brothers

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Van Halen, Alex

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers' childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother--the kind of mom who admonished her boys to "always wear a suit" no matter how famous they became--a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical...

14) The small and the mighty: twelve unsung Americans who changed the course of history, from the founding to the civil rights movement

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McMahon, Sharon

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-12-22. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history's...