NYT - Audio Nonfiction | Cook Memorial Library

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#4 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13.

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"With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America's highest court within the span of one generation. Named 'Ketanji Onyika,' meaning 'Lovely One,' based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth....

2) Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

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Elizondo, Luis

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#6 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13.

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.

Luis

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3) 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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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13.

4) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#10 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13.

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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,...

5) Greenlights

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McConaughey, Matthew

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#11 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13.

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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.

6) Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

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Carr, Jack

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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13.

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The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.
1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck...

7) Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI

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Harari, Yuval N

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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2024-10-13.

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"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI-a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the...

8) 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 2024-10-13.

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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....