NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction | Cook Memorial Library

1) An unfinished love story: a personal history of the 1960s

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#1 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.

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 Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 4 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, 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) Somehow: thoughts on love

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Lamott, Anne

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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...

4) The wide wide sea: imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

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Sides, Hampton

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#6 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach...

5) I'm glad my mom died

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McCurdy, Jennette

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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 80 week(s).

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"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life."--Amazon.

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

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Grann, David

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#10 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 52 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...

7) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

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Attia, Peter

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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 56 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) There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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Abdurraqib, Hanif

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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-05-05. Last week it was ranked 13. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America
“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams
Growing...