NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Salina Public Library

1) Abundance

Author

Klein, Ezra

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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This book discusses the history of the twenty-first century as a story of unaffordability and shortage in America. It highlights the national housing crisis, labor shortages due to limited immigration, insufficient clean-energy infrastructure, and delayed, over-budget public projects. The author argues that the root cause of these problems is a lack of sufficient building and proactive planning over the decades. Many of today's issues stem from past...

2) Everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

Author

Green, John

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#2 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 5 week(s).

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"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first...

3) 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 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 56 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 The Anxious Generation, 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...

4) Fight: inside the wildest battle for the White House

Author

Allen, Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.)

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"It was the election America dreaded, a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning contest in American history. The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be assassin's bullet, and a vice president, unexpectedly...

5) Careless people: a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism

Author

Wynn-Williams, Sarah

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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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An insider account charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

6) John & Paul: a love story in songs

Author

Leslie, Ian

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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"John Lennon and Paul McCartney knew each other for twenty-three years, from 1957 to 1980. This book is the myth-shattering biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world. The Beatles shook the world to its core in the 1960's and, to this day, new generations continue to fall in love with their songs and their story. At the heart of this phenomenon lies the dynamic between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Few other musical...

7) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 98 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,...

8) I am Maria: my reflections and poems on heartbreak, healing, and finding your way home

Author

Shriver, Maria

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 11. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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"A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver's hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days"-- Provided by publisher.

9) Uncharted: how Trump beat Biden, Harris, and the odds in the wildest campaign in history

Author

Whipple, Chris

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#12 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"A disastrous debate, a would-be assassin's bullet, an electrifying eleventh hour candidate swap, dramatic & surprising VP selections, betrayals behind closed doors, charges of a stolen election, game-changing blunders - the 2024 presidential election is a political saga of Shakespearean proportions. In minute-by-minute detail, esteemed White House historian & political analyst Chris Whipple chronicles the unprecedented drama as it unfolds, documenting...

10) The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 14. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. It has been on the list for 20 week(s).

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"As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively...

12) One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).