NYT - Audio Nonfiction | Cook Memorial Library

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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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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) 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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#2 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....

3) Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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Wynn-Williams, Sarah

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#5 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

"When one of the world's most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it's

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

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Green, John

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#6 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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Publisher Annotation: Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy...

5) Matriarch: A Memoir

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Knowles, Tina

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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A revealing personal life story like no other—enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering—and a testament to the world-making power of Black motherhood
“A fascinating memoir of Tina Knowles’s journey to become the global figure she is today.”—Oprah Winfrey
“You are Celestine,” she said. She squatted...

6) 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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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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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--

7) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-05-18.

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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.