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1) On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

Author

Snyder, Timothy

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Thorndike Nonfiction

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#1 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 118 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...

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 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 339 week(s).

3) The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

Author

Grann, David

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#3 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...

4) The backyard bird chronicles

Author

Tan, Amy

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#4 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 46 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...

5) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#7 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 23 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"-- Provided by publisher. "I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot,...

6) Thinking, fast and slow

Author

Kahneman, Daniel

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#8 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. It has been on the list for 423 week(s).

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In this work the author, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, has brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. He explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. He exposes the extraordinary capabilities,...

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

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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#10 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 262 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.""-- Provided by...

8) Sociopath: a memoir

Author

Gagne, Patric

Series

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs

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

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"'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost anything.' Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law, a redemptive love story and a moving account of one woman's battle to create a place for herself and the 5% of the population who are also, like...

9) All about love: new visions

Author

hooks, bell

Series

Love Song to the Nation

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#13 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 149 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.

10) 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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#14 on the Paperback Nonfiction list for 2025-05-04. Last week it was ranked 15. It has been on the list for 29 week(s).

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Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu...

11) Eve: how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution

Author

Bohannon, Cat

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

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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...